Inscape Collective is proud to bring Mark Dvorak to Rockford for a free April 1st concert. Dvorak is one of Chicago’s beloved ambassadors of folk music. In 2021, Rich Warren, host of “The Midnight Special,” named Dvorak “Chicago’s official troubadour,” a sobriquet previously given to Old Town School of Folk Music founder Win Stracke, and later to seminal folk singer and Dvorak mentor Fred Holstein.

A former member of the Old Town School’s faculty, Dvorak is a master of the acoustic guitar and five-string banjo who has traveled the country to burnish his skills. He has produced several CDs, including a collection of songs by the Weavers and an album especially for young listeners, “Old Songs & New People” which won the Parents’ Choice Gold Medal Award.  

When: 7 pm, Saturday, April 1, 2023

Where: Inscape Collective, 201 – 7^th Street (the former Just Goods location)

Concert-goers will have an opportunity to shop the unique wares of Inscape Collective beginning at 6:00 p.m. before the concert. The store will also be open until 9:00 p.m. after the concert. Normal Inscape store hours are 11 am-4 pm on Saturdays. The concert is held in cooperation with Rockford Urban Ministries. Future concerts and activities can be found at www.inscapecollective.org.

Free parking is available behind the store at 201 – 7^th Street.

For more information: Ruth Jackson 815-988-0713 or Mary Ann Presman 815-978-0202