news & buzz
Illinois Library Association
Mark Dvorak to showcase for the ILA Reaching Forward Conference in Rosemont May 5
ROSEMONT IL - The Illinois Library Association’s 28th annual Reaching Forward Conference will take place at the Donald E. Stevens Convention Center, 5555 North River Road, on May 5. The conference features a full day of programming including the popular Performer’s Showcase featuring performers for both children and adults.
Chicago’s “offiicial troubadour,” Mark Dvorak has been selected as a showcase artist for the conference. Dvorak has been a cultural arts resource for Illinois libraries for more than twenty-five years. …
We get letters...
Carol Cat Trochelman of Washington IL writes:
I got a little story for you. A little while back you played at the Washington Library. I talked my eighty-one year old mom into going even though she did not want to. Since Dad passed away a little over a year ago, she doesn’t want to do anything. In October she had a small stroke.
Well, she had so much fun at the concert, she was singing along and tapping her feet, and loved you so much, we got three of your CDs - "Every Step of the Way,” “The Streets of Old Chicago,” and her favorite, “Time Ain’t Got Nothin’ on Me.”
She listens to you sing many times a day. …