Folk singer songwriter Mark Dvorak salutes folk legend Woody Guthrie in Evanston February 10
EVANSTON IL - Folk singer-songwriter Mark Dvorak will bring his one man show “The Land Is Your Land,” to The Mather Evanston on Monday, February 10 at 4:00 pm. The event takes place at 425 Davis Street.

The program celebrates the 85th anniversary Guthrie’s most well-known composition, “This Land Is Your Land."
Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma July 14, 1912 and was America’s great folk ballad maker. Originally titled, “God Blessed America For Me,” Guthrie completed the song after hitch-hiking across the country, recalling some of the sweeping images he encountered.

Guthrie also included verses remarking on the America he witnessedon his trip: Migrant workers being locked out and the long lines at a soup kitchen.
Guthire head Kate Smith singing Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” on the car radio of a fellow who stopped to offer him a lift.
“Guthrie hated that song,” said Dvorak. “ ‘God Bless America’ represented nothing of what Woody had experienced in his travels and in his personal life."
“Mark has quickly become a favorite at The Friendly Community,” said Music Director Rob Pierce. "We’re thrilled to have him as part of our growing musical programming."
Dvorak has spent a lifetime following in the musical footsteps of Guthrie and is celebrating the release of his 20th CD, Live & Alone and 4th book of essays, 31 Winters: Finding the Folk Way, 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.”
For information phone The Mather Evanston at 847.492.7400. Visit Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com.