Folk singer songwriter Mark Dvorak to perform a live stream concert for The Lake County Folk Club June 20
GRAYSLAKE IL - The Lake County Folk Club welcomes Chicago’s official troubadour back to their live stream concert stage on Sunday, June 20 at 7:00 pm.
“Mark is a Midwest treasure,” said concert director Scott Engstrom. “He’s been on the road for a lot of years it seems and like fine wine, he just get’s better with age. We’re thrilled to have him back at the club.”
Dvorak who is working on a new collection of essays and a new CD release is a charter member of the Lake County Folk Club.
“I feel like at this stage of the game,” said the singer, “I’m doing my best work.”
“Like every other musician, I’ve had some time on my hands,” he said. “I decided to use the time to go back through my notes and notebooks to see what was in there, and what I might be able to come up with. I’ve been writing and recording for the last nine months, and attending to projects I didn’t have time to dig into before the pandemic.”
Dvorak’s upcoming book, 31 Winters, reflects on his long teaching career at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music and is due out later this year. Live & Alone will be his 19th recorded release, and is a set recorded in an empty concert for a live WFMT 98.7 fm broadcast.
The Chicago Tribune has called Dvorak “masterful,” and the Fox Valley Folk Festival describes him as “an archive of song and style.” Dvorak has won awards for journalism and children’s music, and was honored in 2013 with the FARM Lantern Bearer Award from Folk Alliance International.
In 2008 he received the Woodstock Folk Festival Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2012 The Midnight Special radio program named him “Chicago’s official troubadour.”
General admission is $18, $15 for seniors and $13 for club members. Reservations can be made at www.thelakecountyfolkclub.org. For more information on Mark Dvorak visit his website at www.markdvorak.com.