Concert & folk jam to support New Hope Community Food Pantry
CHICAGO IL - Music & Potlucks a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization will partner with Ascension Living Resurrection Village for a special acoustic concert and community folk jam on Sunday, March 12 at 1:30 pm. The event takes place Ascension Living Resurrection Village, 7262 West Peterson Avenue. Proceeds will support the New Hope Community Food Pantry in Jefferson Park.
“Bringing our communities together to support our neighbors in need is at the core of our mission,” said Music & Potlucks co-director Stephanie Schrodt of River Forest.
“Mark has been our go-to artist since our organization launched six years ago. In that time we’ve present well over a hundred events and delivered thousands of dollars and a lot of food and toiletries to area food pantries, homeless shelters and other non-profits.”
Dvorak is busy at work on his 20th CD release Live & Alone, recorded in an empty concert hall during the height of the pandemic lock down. He is also planning to publish his fourth book of essays, 31 Winters, which reflects on his long journey through music and teaching.
“At this stage of the game,” said the singer from his home outside Chicago, Illinois, “I feel like I’m doing my best work.”
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.”
Those attending are invited to bring non-perisible food items and their acoustic instruments for the jam and sing along portion of the afternoon. General admission to the event is $5, available at the door or in advance at www.musicandpotlucks.org.
Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.