Folk singer songwriter Mark Dvorak to perform in Rockford August 16 ROCKFORD IL - Spring Creek UCC, 4500 Spring Creek Road will present “Concerts On the Creek” featuring Midwest troubadour Mark Dvorak on Saturday, August 16 at 7:00 pm.
Mark has been on the road for a lot of years,” said music director Ron Holm. “He has long been a Rockford favorite and like fine wine, he keeps getting better with age."
“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 recently released 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.”
Reserved general admission is just $5. A free will donation will be accepted. For information and reservations phone 815.979.1949 or log onto www.springcreekucc.org.
Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.
Earlier in the year Dvorak released his twentieth album, Live & Alone, which was recorded in an empty concert hall during the height of the pandemic. He also published his fourth book of essays, 31 Winters: Finding the Folk Way which reflects on his long journey through music and teaching.
“Mark has long been a Rockford favorite,” said Ron Holm, music director for Concerts On the Creek. “It should be a pretty special matinee concert.”
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 2012 Rich Warren, long time host of The Midnight Special radio program named Dvorak “Chicago’s official troubadour.”
General admission is just $5, but a free will donation will be accepted. Reservations are available by phoning 815.877.2576. For information visit www.springcreekucc.org.
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