Folk singer songwriter performs in Grand Rapids May 14
GRAND RAPIDS MI - Cascade Township welcomes Chicago folksinger songwriter Mark Dvorak “Concerts In Cascade" May 14 at 7:00 pm. The event takes place at Friendship Park, 2870 Jacksmith Avenue SE.
“Mark has been on the road for a lot of years,” said Dan Zwick of Cascade Township. “Like fine wine, he keeps getting better with age. We're thrilled to present him as part of our 2026 season.
“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.”
Tickets are $25 and available at www.concertsatthecastle.org or at the door.
Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.