Midwest troubadours Dvorak and Bedford in Maplewood November 7
MAPLEWOOD MO - The Focal Point,2720 Sutton Blvd., will feature Chicago’s “official troubadour” Mark Dvorak and singer songwriter Ben Bedford for an evening of song and story on Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 pm.
“At this stage of the game,” said the singer from his home outside Chicago, Illinois, “I feel like I’m doing my best work.”
Dvorak who accompanies himself on guitar, 5-string banjo and 12-string guitar is celebrating the release of his 20th CD, Live & Alone, recorded in an empty concert hall during the height of the pandemic lock down, and his fourth book of essays, 31 Winters, which reflects on his long journey through music and teaching.
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.”
Springfield, Illinois native Ben Bedford was named one of the “50 most significant folk singer songwriters of the past fifty years. He has toured extensively in North America and Western Europe and earlier this year released Mirroring the Wilderness with his partner Vanessa Lively.
Tickets are available at www.thefocalpoint.org. For more information on Bed Bedford visit www.benbedford.com
Find Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.