WDVX Blue Plate Special to feature Midwest singer songwriter Mark Dvorak May 14
KNOXVILLE TN - WDVX fm welcomes singer songwriter Mark Dvorak to the Blue Plate Special, 301 S. Gay Street, Tuesday, May 14 at 12:00 noon eastern time. Listeners can also catch the live broadcast on WDVX 89.9 fm.
Hosted by Red Hickey, The Blue Plate Special has hosted hundreds of performing artists including. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, The Avett Brothers, Old Crow Medicine Show, Rodney Crowell Tim O’Brien, Claire Lynch and many others.
The Chicago Tribune
has called Dvorak “masterful,” and the Fox Valley Folk Festival describes him as “a living 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 Rich Warren, long time host of The Midnight Special radio program named Dvorak “Chicago’s official troubadour.”
Dvorak’s will be making his second appearance on the show and is celebrating the release of his twenty-first CD, Live & Alone, and his fourth collection of essays, 31 Winters: Finding the Folk Way.
Live & Alone was recorded in an empty concert hall in 2020 during the height of the great pandemic. The performance was broadcast live on WFMT 98.7 fm in Chicago.
31 Winters: Finding the Folk Way is Dvorak’s reflection on his long journey through music and teaching. He spent thirty-one years as an integral member of the faculty at Chicago’s venerable Old Town School of Folk Music before leaving to concentrate on writing, recording and touring.
Admission to The Blue Plate Special is free. For information phone 865.544.1029 or visit www.wdvx.com.
Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.