Brookfield Shops features folk singer songwriter Mark Dvorak October 3
BROOKFIELD IL - The Village of Brookfield welcomes Chicago’s “Official Troubadour” to the Brookfield Shops at Progress Park on Friday, October 3. Dvorak performs from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Progress Park is located at Veterans Memorial Circle, at the intersection of Maple, Grand, Washington and Broadway.
According to their web page, “The Village of Brookfield is committed to fostering local entrepreneurship and revitalizing our community. The Brookfield Shops is an innovative retail incubator program created for local entrepreneurs, business owners and artisans.”
“i’m thrilled to be part of this initiative,” said Brookfield resident Dvorak. “The music I’ve played for thirty-five years has always thrived in a community context. There are a lot of neat things going on in our town, and I’m happy to be involved.”
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 emptyconcert hallduring 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 timehost of The Midnight Special radio program named Dvorak “Chicago’s official troubadour.”
For information visit www.thebrookfieldshops.com. Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.