As the New England Music Awards' 2014 Live Act of the Year, Frank Viele may very well be the "everyman" of singer-songwriters. A bourbon-drinking, cartoon-watching, blue-collar entrepreneur, his musical roots started on his grandmother's piano as a young child, developed as a teen tailgating with an acoustic guitar in the parking lots of Dave Matthews Band concerts, and blossomed on the road as a young adult performing as the quintessential "weekend warrior" in the East Coast jam and singer/songwriter scenes.
