Frank Martin Busch & the Names, Zach Pietrini

Doors 7PM / Show 8PM

$10ADV / $15DOS

Seated show

Frank Martin Busch grew up on a farm outside the rural community of Cuba City, Wisconsin. He is the youngest of seven children in a musical family. Frank started playing music in grade school on saxophone and drums, he even playing a few shows with his fathers Big Band Orchestra.  It wasn't until he left the small town for The University of Wisconsin and commandeered his college roommates Stratocaster, that he truly fell in love with music.  Teaching himself to play, sing and write songs, Frank's journey has been slow, painful and deliberate.

Upon graduating he founded his first band The Mighty Short Bus, and is a founding member of Midwest troubadours WheelHouse.  The two bands have released 8 records and played over 3,000 shows over the past 16 years

The Names is Frank's first foray as a true solo artist.  He has brought back the Stratocaster and is living and dying by his ability to play it,  He marries the storytelling of a country songwriter with the musicality of a bluesman and a sense of humor that rivals your grade school best friends dad. Often telling jokes and citing references you don't get till the next day.  

The music is Americana, which is a polite way of saying it is country music without bedazzled jeans. Drawing its roots from Red Dirt Country rather than Nashville, it features solid rhythms, jangly guitars, honky tonk piano, harmonicas and even some steel guitars.  Frank Martin Busch has won Isthmus Madison's Fave Singer/Songwriter for 2018 and 2019 and is WMMM Project M Songwriter competition season 3 winner. The Names is his dynamic backing band.

One needs only drop the needle on Zach Pietrini's new release, Rock & Roll is Dead, to see why he is so lauded in Milwaukee and beyond. Best Live Act in Milwaukee (Milwaukee Magazine) Artist of the Year (Wisconsin Area Music Awards) Best Song in a Feature Film (Mark Awards LA). Having opened for the likes of Walker Hayes, Huey Lewis, and Ray Wylie Hubbard, Pietrini has proven his ability as someone who can run with the best. He has also toured extensively, carving out audiences as far north as the twin cities and as far south as Tampa. Be it his skillful writing and dynamic production, his endearing and energetic stage presence or his everyman's approach to his music, it's clear that this new album and this band, meets people where they are and holds them for the entire 43 min and 31 sec.