Folk singer songwriter Mark Dvorak salutes folk legend Woody Guthrie at City News Cafe July 14
CHICAGO IL - City News Cafe, 4018 N. Cicero Avenue welcomes folk singer songwriter Mark Dvorak on Sunday, July 14 at 1:30 am for coffee, songs, stories and a special “Bound For Glory Tribute to Woody Guthrie."
Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma July 14, 1912 and was America’s great folk ballad maker. Guthrie also wrote books, drew pictures, had a newspaper column and hosted a couple of radio shows. Guthrie’s best songs - “This Land is Your Land,” “Roll On Columbia,” “Pastures of Plenty” and countless others - endure as living documents of the times in which he lived and worked, and are still resonant in today’s world.
“Mark has become one of our favorites at the Cafe,” said Donna Kosiba of City News, “and we’re thrilled to welcome him back to our Sunday music series.”
Dvorak is rolling out his 21st CD release Live & Alone, recorded in an empty concert hall during the height of the pandemic lock down. He is publishing 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.”
City News opened as a corner newsstand in 1978. Forty-five years later City News has grown into one of of the largest newsstands in the country.
For information phone 773.545.7377 or visit www.citynewsstand.com.
Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.