Folk singer songwriter to perform in Woodruff June 20
WOODRUFF WI - The Northwoods Unitarian Fellowship, 8625 Peggys Lane, welcomes folk troubadour Mark Dvorak to its summer concert series on Sunday, July 20 at 2:00 pm.
“Mark has been on the road for a lot of years,” said Music Director Keith Tookey. “His show was an annual highlight at the Piney Ridge series in Minocqua.”
Piney Ridge Concerts at the Scott Reed Theater operated at the home Jerry and Tara Woolpy for over twenty-five years. When they moved out of the country, Northwoods Unitarian Fellowship decided to pick up and keep the music coming to the area.
“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.”
A free will donation to the aritst will be suggested. For more information phone 715.356.4123 or visit www.nuuf.com. Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.