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Karaoke inPhiladelphia
Philadelphia karaoke stretches across three states and never takes a night off. The private-room houses hold the week — rooms from 4pm in Chinatown — while a circuit of pubs, a good share of them Irish, gives every night its own bar. And Fat Moon sings free, nightly, after 9:30.
23written up in this guide66tracked in and around Philadelphia
This guide walks the standouts. The full Philadelphia map lives in the KaraokeList app — free, kept current by the singers who use it.
The rooms carry the week here. Access Karaoke on Race Street runs 4pm to 2am every day, Fuji Mountain on Chestnut keeps rooms seven days from 5pm, Musictown on North Front Street does six, and Duba, just over the county line in Elkins Park, is open all seven. Fat Moon on Callowhill matches that schedule at the open mic — karaoke every night after 9:30pm, free.
Everything else runs to a pleasing rhythm: one bar, one night, a striking share of them Irish pubs — Tuesdays at Brownies, Fridays at Daly's, Sundays at Paddy Whacks. The metro does not stop at the river, either. The deepest bank of rooms is over the bridge in Collingswood, New Jersey, and Wilmington, Delaware holds down Monday.
4 confirmed venues
The rooms that hold the week
Chinatown, Rittenhouse, North Front Street — and the biggest suite count is over the bridge in New Jersey.
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Access Karaoke
1016-18 Race St · ChinatownOpen every day, 4pm to 2am. The Chinatown standby, and the earliest-opening room house in the city.
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Fuji Mountain
2030 Chestnut St · RittenhouseKaraoke rooms at a Japanese restaurant, available seven days a week from 5pm to 2am.
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Musictown
5501 N Front St · North PhiladelphiaSix days: Tuesday to Saturday 5pm to 2am, Sundays to midnight, Mondays off.
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Songbird Karaoke
790 Haddon Ave · Collingswood, NJNine private suites sized for groups of four up to fifty-plus, with a songbook past 38,000 titles. Thursday through Sunday, from noon on Saturday and Sunday.
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The one-night bar circuit
Pick the night and the neighbourhood; somewhere on the circuit has it.
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Fat Moon
1440 Callowhill St · CallowhillThe exception to everything else on this page: open-mic karaoke every night after 9:30pm, and it's free.
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O'Neals
611 S 3rd St · Queen VillageFridays and Saturdays at 9pm, upstairs.
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Ray's Happy Birthday Bar
1200 E Passyunk Ave · East PassyunkFriday nights from 9pm, under the best bar name in the city.
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Breen's
704 Huntingdon Pike · RockledgeSaturday karaoke hosted by Bob Kubala — a tradition of at least twenty years.
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43 more where these came from.
We keep tabs on 66 karaoke spots in and around Philadelphia — this guide writes up 23. The rest are on the map in the app, next to the part that matters: what you’ll sing when the book comes around.
1440 Callowhill, twice
1440 Callowhill Street appears twice in the confirmed list. Fat Moon runs its free nightly karaoke there after 9:30pm, and Thursday Karaoke at West Tavern — same address, its own listing — takes Thursdays at 10. Whatever else that block is doing, it is not skipping a night.
Free is a small Philadelphia genre of its own. Besides Fat Moon, VOIX Karaoke on Cottman Avenue runs free karaoke at the bar Monday through Thursday, 5pm to midnight — the quiet half of the week, covered for nothing.
Three states deep
The metro's edges sing too. In New Jersey, beyond Songbird's suites in Collingswood, the 45th Street Pub in Edgewater Park runs Wednesdays from 7pm and The Cool Cricket in Fieldsboro takes Fridays. In Delaware, Bar XIII on Philadelphia Pike does Mondays, 9pm to 1am — the only confirmed venue in the metro whose one night is a Monday.
North of the city line, Duba in Elkins Park keeps its rooms open every day from 5pm, and Salt Korean BBQ on Welsh Road opens rooms Friday through Sunday, until midnight.
A pub for every night
Line the single nights up and they cover the calendar. Tuesday is Brownies on 2nd Street in Old City, 7pm to 12:30am. Wednesday is GSH — karaoke at Bulletin Bar inside the Gather food hall, 6 to 9pm. Thursday is Luna Lounge on Front Street.
Friday splits between Daly's on Comly Street and Murphy's Tavern on Henry Avenue, with Ray's on Passyunk besides. Saturday is Tavern 17 near Rittenhouse Square, or Breen's out in Rockledge. And Sunday is Paddy Whacks on South Street, kept sensibly early — 7 to 10pm.
Questions
Where can I do karaoke in Philadelphia tonight?
Access Karaoke in Chinatown, Fuji Mountain on Chestnut Street, Duba in Elkins Park and Fat Moon on Callowhill all run seven nights a week, and Musictown on North Front Street runs every night but Monday.
Where are the private karaoke rooms in Philadelphia?
Access Karaoke in Chinatown, Fuji Mountain in Rittenhouse, Musictown on North Front Street, Duba in Elkins Park, and Salt Korean BBQ on Welsh Road at the weekend. The biggest bank of them is Songbird Karaoke in Collingswood, NJ — nine suites for groups of four to fifty-plus.
Is there free karaoke in Philadelphia?
Yes. Fat Moon on Callowhill Street is free every night after 9:30pm, and VOIX Karaoke on Cottman Avenue runs free karaoke at the bar Monday through Thursday.
How late does karaoke go in Philadelphia?
2am is the ceiling. Access Karaoke and Fuji Mountain run to it every night, Musictown reaches it Tuesday through Saturday, and Duba gets there at the weekend. On the bar side, Dean Casmirri's Colonial Inn runs its Tuesday and Saturday karaoke to around 2am.
Is there karaoke on the New Jersey side?
Yes. Songbird Karaoke in Collingswood has nine private suites and a songbook past 38,000 titles, the 45th Street Pub in Edgewater Park sings Wednesdays from 7pm, and The Cool Cricket in Fieldsboro takes Fridays.
Is this every karaoke bar in Philadelphia?
No. This page covers the districts and the venues worth knowing first. The full verified list for Philadelphia lives in the KaraokeList app, with the nights each one runs.
You found the bar.
Now what are you singing?
KaraokeList keeps every karaoke song you can actually pull off — and when the list runs dry, it finds you new ones, each with a reason. The full verified list of Philadelphia venues is in there too.