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Sing goodbye to The Tavernacle: It’s closing time for Salt Lake City’s iconic piano bar

The Tavernacle Social Club, a dueling piano bar that opened just before the 2002 Winter Olympics, is closing for good on July 31.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Troy Baldwin, co-owner of The Tavernacle Social Club, May 9, 2019.

  | July 29, 2021, 4:03 p.m.
| Updated: 4:18 p.m.

It’s closing time for Salt Lake City’s Tavernacle Social Club.

July 31 is the last day of business for the popular dueling piano bar — which opened two weeks before the start of the 2002 Winter Olympics.

The owners are having a farewell party that night that will feature one last piano show and an auction of memorabilia — including the famous gong and framed photos of Tony Danza. Tickets are $100 at Eventbrite.

Located on the corner of 200 East and 300 South, The Tavernacle is being shuttered to make way for 31-story apartment building.