By Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer Published Jul 01, 2019 at 9:53 AM

Actor Kiefer Sutherland – who is also a musician – is in Milwaukee to perform at Shank Hall, 1434 N. Farwell Ave., tonight at 8 p.m. and, based on a series of tweets, he seems to be pretty happy about it.

You know him as Jack Bauer in television's "24," but of course, Sutherland – son of Donald Sutherland – has also been in a ton of movies, including "Stand By Me," "The Lost Boys," "A Few Good Men" and "Young Guns," among others.

In this tweet, Sutherland either implies he's got family here, or that his band and crew are like family:

Go to Shank Hall tonight – tickets are $40 – and ask him yourself!

The show itself is something of a homecoming for Kiefer, who played the first gig of his first tour in 2016 at the lower East Side venue. OnMilwaukee was there.

Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.

He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.

With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.

He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.

In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.

He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.