Zach Pietrini books Stockroom East for a Friday-before-Thanksgiving show

The Milwaukee Americana songwriter plays South Bend's East Bank on Nov. 20, with Daniel Deitrich on the bill.

The Friday before Thanksgiving is when people start drifting home, and South Bend tends to fill back up with folks looking for something to do that isn't sitting in a kitchen. Stockroom East has an answer for that night: a Midwestern songwriter who has spent years earning a reputation on stage, plus a familiar voice for this room.

Zach Pietrini plays Stockroom East on Friday, Nov. 20, with doors at 7:30 p.m. and the show at 8, according to the venue's Opendate listing. Daniel Deitrich is also on the bill. The show was announced Oct. 15, and tickets are available now through that link.

Pietrini is a Milwaukee-based Americana artist who leads The Zach Pietrini Band, and his own site leans hard on the live show. His catalog, all on zachpietrini.com, shows a songwriter who's been at it a while and under a few different names: *Highways & Heartache* under his own, *Holding Onto Ghosts* and *Denver Sessions (B-Sides)* with The Zach Pietrini Band, *Death and His Many Faces* with The Broken Bones, and *Rock & Roll Is Dead*, which he sells on vinyl. There's also *Live at Wire & Vice*, which the site describes as seven friends having wild fun in the studio. That's probably the best preview of what a full-band Pietrini night feels like.

If the pairing with Deitrich sounds familiar, it should. Pietrini's show history lists the two together as "Zach Pietrini & Daniel Deitrich" at The Livery in Benton Harbor, Michigan, on Oct. 4, 2025, so this is a bill that has already been road-tested an hour up the lake.

Deitrich isn't new to Stockroom East either. He was on the bill when Josh Garrels played the room on Aug. 17, 2024, along with Creekmore, a show the venue's Opendate page marked sold out. For a lot of South Bend listeners, that was the introduction.

This is a bill that has already been road-tested an hour up the lake.

Why this room? Stockroom East bills itself as a concert venue and event center in South Bend's East Bank District. A sit-and-listen Americana show with a regional draw is right in its wheelhouse: enough of a room to make it an event, small enough that the stories between songs still land.

When to get tickets: now. The Garrels show is a reminder that Stockroom East can sell out, and a Friday on a holiday week cuts both ways. Some regulars will be out of town, but plenty of people will be back home and looking for a night out with old friends.

Doors at 7:30, music at 8. Bring someone who's home for the holiday.

Sources: Zach Pietrini, November 20, 2026 — Stockroom East (Opendate) (app.opendate.io); Stockroom East (Opendate venue page) (app.opendate.io); Zach Pietrini — About (zachpietrini.com); Zach Pietrini — Listen (zachpietrini.com); Zach Pietrini — Shows (past) (zachpietrini.com); Live at Wire & Vice (zachpietrini.com); Rock & Roll is Dead: Vinyl (zachpietrini.com); Josh Garrels with Daniel Deitrich & Creekmore — SOLD OUT, Aug 17, 2024 (Opendate) (app.opendate.io)