{"id":25630,"date":"2023-12-18T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=25630"},"modified":"2023-12-19T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T04:33:08","slug":"club-reports-the-arena-art-bar-elixir-bar-taco-kat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=25630","title":{"rendered":"Club Reports: The Arena Art Bar, Elixir Bar, Taco Kat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We don’t often get out on a Sunday night but with a storm moving through town on Saturday night, we needed to get out of the house! We began our evening at Knock Knock<\/s>, Suite B Lounge<\/s>, Peek Downtown<\/s><\/em>, Celine Sports Bar<\/s><\/em>, Ann Teague’s Lamp Supply<\/s><\/em> only to find the windows covered and a new name on the door: The Arena Art Bar<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When we were still able to peek inside one week earlier, we could see the ceiling had been removed which could mean we might see a return to a second floor overlooking the area below. We don’t know but we’ll keep you updated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When the Techno-focused “Sundown Sundays” at The Patio<\/em> across the street ended several months ago, the House-focused “Sunset Sessions” at Elixir Bar<\/em> continued so we needed to check that out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We walked into this on their famous outdoor patio. But with temps in the upper 50’s following Saturday night’s cold front, it never got crowded.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ Flashdrive (USA) on the decks playing some non-vocal House when we first arrived.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But he would play some songs with a Disco vibe, one with a Gospel vibe and lots of vocal House selections too! Flashdrive is one of the best!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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While it never got jammed as we often see here, it was hardly empty either.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And he had those here bouncing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And then, there he was, the headliner…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ Prunk (NL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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First time playing Orlando!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Prunk plays all over the world so it was great to finally get to see\/hear him play. This Saturday night he plays in Rotterdam and on NYE he’s playing in London.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Next over to Court Street where Taco Kat<\/em> actually sells tacos and a Sonora Tacos<\/em> sign hangs over curiously blacked-out windows. What’s up with that?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When you go inside turn left for the tacos. Or in the alternative, an employee will open up that soda machine to reveal a secret portal to…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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THIS!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Upon arrival, DJ duo Volkmann & Engels (D\/USA) were playing Minimal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Made up of DJ Steffen Volkmann…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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…..and DJ Dominic Engels. Both are transplants to Orlando from Germany.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We were celebrating Dominick’s birthday too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ Chester Aleman (USA) would take over shortly after our arrival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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He would continue with the evening’s theme of Minimal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Are you all having a good time!?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted by the booth: DJ Carlos Mendoza (USA) with Corinn. He is the mastermind behind Sunday nights at Taco Kat<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We last saw Carlos Mendoza last month when he played the kineticFIELD <\/em>main stage at EDC-Orlando<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Taco Kat<\/em> was bouncing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Taking over late, DJ Chad Andrew (USA\/D\/CZ).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Originally from Orlando, he had relocated to Berlin more than a decade ago but he tells us he just moved to Prague a few months ago. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chad Andrew at the short-lived Washington Hi-Fi<\/em> back in the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plenty of great music downtown on Sunday nights so there’s no reason to stay home!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A good time was had by all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1899],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/DSCN0729-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OlZE-6Fo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25630"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25670,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25630\/revisions\/25670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}