The Traveling Folk Song comes to Skokie April 26
SKOKIE IL - The Skokie Public Library will present “The Traveling Folk Song with Mark Dvorak” on Sunday, April 26 at 3:00 pm. The library is located at 5215 Oakton Street.
Born and raised in the Chicago area, folk singer-songwriter Mark Dvorak has spent over three decades on the road performing and recording. For thirty-one years he was an integral mamber of the faculty at Chicago’s venerable Old Town School of Folk Music.
Through song and story, “The Traveling Folk Song” recounts Dvorak’s long journey through music and teaching, which began with learning songs from his family, to taking guitar lessons at the Old Town School to embarking on a career which would take him across the country and overseas, learning and writing new songs all the while.
“Mark has been on the road for a lot of years,” said Christtie Robinson of the Skokie Library. “He’s become a favorite of our Sunday music series."
“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.”
There is no admission to the concert. For information phone 847.673.7774 or visit www.skokielibrary.info.
Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.