From Staff Reports
HUDSON Chicago singer-songwriter, storyteller and banjo player Mark Dvorak will perform next week at Celebrate Hudson Music in the Park.
The performance is at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June, 17, at Webster Park.
“Live music will be back in the park this summer,” Dave Sheely, director of the Music in the Park Series, said in a news release. “We had Mark scheduled last summer, but of course we had to shut everything down due to the pandemic. We’re thrilled Mark is able to join us. He is a masterful musician and a Midwest treasure.”
Dvorak has received awards for journalism and children’s music, including the FARM Lantern Bearer Award from Folk Alliance International in 2013 and the Woodstock Folk Festival Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. He has traveled to 38 states and parts of Europe and Canada for performances and was named “Chicago’s official troubadour” by Rich Warren, “The Midnight Special” radio host, in 2012.
The Barrington Area Library s Second Friday Concert series will present a livestream event, "Virtually Pete," at 7 p.m. Friday, June 11, featuring Midwest folk singer and songwriter Mark Dvorak.
Rolling Stone RS Country Music Picks for Week of May 10th
A collab by John Paul White and Rose Cousins, and a hypnotic rebuke of a manipulative lover by Joy Oladokun
By Nolan Knight
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names.
Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)
Donovan Woods and Aoife O’Donovan, “Iowa”
Donovan Woods collaborates with Aoife O’Donovan on the new song “Iowa,” the Canadian singer-songwriter’s first new music since the excellent 2020 album
Add to the list of my favorite open-hearted musicians: Michael Trotter, Jr., and Tanya Trotter-Blount, a.k.a
The War and Treaty. They lend their rich, gospel-tinged voices to the cause of empathy on Take Me In, which I ll play on today s Sunday Supper. (I ll also be interviewing them on Tuesday for Folk Alliance International as a member-exclusive benefit.)
New releases this week include
Liz Simmons, Grace Pettis, Ellen Bukstel, Rupert Wates,
Jesse Terry, and
Phoebe Snow, Lyle Lovett, Ella Fitzgerald, The Beatles, Nick Drake, and
Leon Russell. Finally, to celebrate
Justin Vernon s 40th birthday we ll hear his collaborations with