Atlanta GA • Spring tour 2024

Folk singer songwriter Mark Dvorak, Blackfoot Daisy perform May 18 at Fiddler’s Green Coffee House

ATLANTA GA - The Atlanta Area Friends of Folk Music welcome folk singer songwriter Mark Dvorak and the acoustic trio Blackfoot Daisy to the Fiddler’s Green Coffee House Concert Series on Saturday, May 18 at 7:00 pm. The event takes place at the First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta, 470 Candler Park Drive NE.

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Dvorak is celebrating the launch of his 20th recorded release, Live & Alone, recorded during the great pandemic in an empty concert hall and the publication of 31 Winters: Finding the Folk Way, a collection of essays and stories reflecting on his long journey through teaching and music.

“Mark has been on the road a lot of years it seems,” said Chris Moser of the Atlanta Area Friends of Folk Music. He’s been a friend of Frank Hamilton for almost three decades and a friend of the Frank Hamilton School since its inception. We’re thrilled that he’ll joining us this May."

“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 called him “masterful,” and the Fox Valley Folk Festival describes him as “a living archive of song and style.” In 2012 WFMT 98.7 fm Midnight Special host Rich Warren named him Chicago’s “official troubadour.”

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Mark has given concerts in almost all of the United States and has made visits to Finland, Canada and Ireland. He has won awards for children’s music, journalism 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.

Blackfoot Daisy is Dan Sechelski, Wendy DuMond and Jim Kirkland. The trio performs original and Americana style music throughout the Atlanta metro area.

For information phone 770.482.1209 or 404.378.5570. Visit www.aaffm.org. Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com. Find Blackfoot Daisy at www.blackfootdaisymusic.com.

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