Bio

Prolific songwriter Francesca played the Milwaukee area for years solo and as leader of the well-loved “Francesca and the 440 Hum”.

Francesca and guitarist Tom Plutshack were casually acquainted from the local music scene and when she booked a one-off show at Milwaukee’s long-running The Coffee House, she asked Tom for help in putting a set together.

Despite a difference in background (and maybe personality) the pieces fit together awfully well.  The one-off turned into the duo Francesca & Tom playing around town for couple years.

Francesca started wanting to bring up the energy and sound of their project and make it noisy and rude enough to fit comfortably into the rowdy bars where she felt most at home.  

[Ed.: Just kidding Frannie]

Tom turned to a couple skilled players he knew from earlier adventures in the cover band scene, drummer Mike Farrow and bassist/multi-instrumentalist Larry Koehn.

Again, the pieces just fit.  At our first get-together Francesca was floored by the new combination and how effortlessly it seemed to work with her songs.

We settled on a name from a lyric in Francesca’s song “Your Girl”: 
    
    “I’ll always be your girl
    Shining in your night sky”

(Tom tells people it’s a pun on “nice guys”, but he’s full of baloney.)

We currently play around Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin and we hope you’ll come out to see us and catch Francesca living her dream.