Folk and blues come to Oshkosh December 6
OSHKOSH WI - The New Moon Cafe, 401 N. Main Street welcomes Sheboygan’s own Li’l Rev and Chicago’s Mark Dvorak for a 7:00 pm show on Saturday, December 6.
Multi-instrumentalist Marc Revenson, known to music fans as Li’l Rev, has traveled across the country telling stories and performing the songs he has collected from folk icons Bruce Phillips, Milwaukee’s Larry Penn and others. Rev plays the guitar, harmonica, 5-string banjo and the mountain dulcimer but is regarded as a ukulele master, having published instruction manuals and teaching workshops throughout the Midwest and in Florida and California.
“Mark has beenon the roadfor a lot of years,” said Revenson. “We’ve been crossing paths for years and I thought it was time for us to work a few shows together."
“At this stage of the game,” said Dvorak 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.”
Contact the New Moon Cafe at 920.232.0976 or online at www.newmooncafe.com.
Learn more about Li’l Rev at www.lilrev.com. Find Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.