# @thekansascitystar on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CunONeApi9J
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18810389-thekansascitystar-instagram
- **Posted:** 2023-07-12T21:44:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kansas City Star (@thekansascitystar) — https://gondola.cc/thekansascitystar

## Caption

This corner lounge on Main Street is hardly the place her parents — fundamentalist Christians, certain of alcohol’s evils — ever hoped their home-schooled daughter would end up.

But 33-year-old Vonne Whitman, black hair with a black sleeveless top, tattooed with a musical treble clef on her right shoulder, a Taylor Swift lyric on her left arm, calls the place “my comfort zone.”

More than that, the area behind the bar at the uptownloungekc has become her stage. It’s the domain where, since the piano bar opened one year ago in June, Whitman (her Uptown stage name) has created a new life and mini-celebrity for herself as the venue’s singing bartender.

It’s where her backbar talent — belting out Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Broadway show tunes and more — has become key to creating a new life for a venue that in 2022 rose from the literal ashes of the legendary Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club.
Read more about Whitman’s dual career at the link in our bio.

📸: WagsPhoto

#KansasCity #Bartending #Broadway #PianoBar

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kansascity, bartending, pianobar, broadway

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