Bumbo’s Bar
3001 Holbrook
Hamtramck
Febr. 17, 2026
The art of the singing telegram is not dead!
At Bumbo’s Bar, a birthday party took over the busiest part of the bar Tuesday night. You wouldn’t know it except for the loud women celebrating each other over cocktails and cold beers.
It was made abundantly clear when Kyle 313 came crooning into the bar, guitar in hand.
Normally, when I see a man enter a bar with an acoustic guitar, I’m terrified. Is he here to play at the bar, like your buddy who refuses to not perform around a campfire on a camping trip? I could feel the cold sweat drip down my forehead…
But Kyle 313 (full name Kyle Mikolajczyk) was there to deliver a singing telegram. I had only seen these in movies. I thought it was a dead art!
Not when Kyle starts plucking those strings. What else would you expect from a musician ballsy enough to bill himself as “Detroit’s rock n’ roll messiah” on his website? Sometimes, a claim like that is repulsive. When he does it, I’ve got no problem with it.
I also learned that Kyle is a hard-working musician, with a bounty of tour dates as himself and as a member of Ride The Wind, billed as “America’s #1 Poison Tribute,” alongside Saints of Cure, which isn’t apparently ranked but is a Motley Crue tribute act.
Kyle marched into the bar and quickly rattled off two songs for the birthday girl, including Smash Mouth’s “All Star,” which was everyone’s favorite song in 1999.
Unlike with the normal and logical response to a dude coming into a bar with an acoustic guitar, everyone absolutely loved it. Major kudos to friends of the birthday girl for even coming up with the concept.
If you’re looking for a birthday telegram, don’t hesitate to reach out to Kyle 313. Because this guy might be the only one in metro Detroit keeping this sweet and lost art alive. Glad I was there to catch this serendipitous serenade.
