{"id":201528,"date":"2026-04-18T03:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201528\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:19:07","slug":"gavin-degraw-turns-to-instagram-to-reconnect-with-nyc-bartender-after-piano-bar-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201528\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin DeGraw turns to Instagram to reconnect with NYC bartender after piano bar performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw turned to social media for help reconnecting with a New York City bartender after a memorable performance this week.<\/p>\n<p>Bartender Zach Nolan said he&#8217;s been singing at The Duplex, a historic piano bar in Greenwich Village, for the last five years. Almost every week, he strikes a chord performing DeGraw&#8217;s song &#8220;Not Over You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This Wednesday was far from a regular night, though; DeGraw himself showed up at the bar. Nolan said he approached the singer-songwriter to thank him for writing the song.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then moments later, he was like, &#8216;Hey, do you want to sing it?&#8217; And I was like, &#8216;Yeah, let&#8217;s do it,'&#8221; Nolan said.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows DeGraw playing piano while Nolan sings.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan said they lost contact after hitting the stage, but Friday morning, he woke up to messages and notifications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXPHcN4EcVL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DeGraw had posted a video of their performance on his Instagram account<\/a> with a caption reading, &#8220;Ok Instagram, do your thing. Help me find this guy. He crushed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initial state of shock, honestly. It was kinda surreal. Surreal moment,&#8221; Nolan said. &#8220;Initially just kind of got nerves a little bit, too. I didn&#8217;t really know what to do. I didn&#8217;t know if I should reach out or whatnot. I just kinda reposted the post and  just said, &#8216;Thanks for an incredible night,&#8217; and just retagged him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DeGraw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXPHcN4EcVL\/c\/18133536499547829\/r\/18520140700073363\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">replied to Nolan&#8217;s comment on the video<\/a>, saying, &#8220;You rock my brother. Keep giving that love to the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, DeGraw told CBS News New York: &#8220;You never know what will happen in NYC and I&#8217;m a sucker for a piano bar\u2026 Zach&#8217;s got something real and I loved what I heard! \u00a0I&#8217;m glad the post found its way back to him &#8211; Looking forward to crossing paths and making some noise together again soon!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nolan&#8217;s response?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Listen, I&#8217;m here every Wednesday and Friday, Gavin. Come see me. I&#8217;m here for it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw turned to social media for help reconnecting with a New York City bartender after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2519,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-201528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-greenwich-village","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-ny","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nyc-headlines","13":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}