Folk singer songwriter Dvorak joins blues legend Cohen in Evanston November 4
EVANSTON IL - Evanston SPACE, 1245 Chicago Avenue, welcomes Mark Dvorak and Andy Cohen for an acoustic evening of song and story Tuesday, November 4 at 7:30 pm.
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.
Cohen, the virtuoso finger-style guitarist, has devoted his life to studying, performing and teaching traditional blues and folk music of the pre-WWII era.
“What I do,” said Cohen from his home in Memphis, Tennessee, “is mostly a sort of country blues 101. But it’s broader than that of course.”
Cohen grew up in Massachusetts during the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s. “But I am a Southern boy at heart,” he said.
“Andy is one of the greatest living finger-style guitarists,” said Ken Perlman, Director of the Midwest Banjo Camp. “He is an authority on the playing styles of the Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Blake and other giants of early blues and ragtime guitar."
“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.”
Tickets are available at www.evanstonspace.com. Visit Andy Cohen at www.andycohenmusic.com.
Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.