​Folk artist, singer-songwriter Dvorak returns to Inscape Collective in Rockford September 28 at 3pm

ROCKFORD IL - Inscape Collective, 201 7th Street, welcomes folk singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Dvorak back to Midtown for a 3:00 pm matinee concert on Sunday, September 28.

The Inscape retail shop sells products from diverse female artists, artisans and entrepreneurs. Proceeds from our sales go towards subsidizing a wide-array of life-enhancing programming to ensure that it is accessible to women of all socio-economic backgrounds.

“We offer programs ranging from the creative arts, holistic health, exercise and entrepreneurial skills, to meditation and mindfulness,” said Ruth Jackson co-owner of Inscape. “Mark has become an absolute favorite here in the Rockford. We’re thrilled to carry on the tradition of presenting music in our beautiful Midtown space, and thrilled Mark will be joining us.”

“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.”

General admission seating to the concert is available by free will donation, $5 - $20 suggested. For more information on Inscape phone (815) 977-2823 or visit www.inscapecollective.org.

To learn more about Mark Dvorak go to www.markdvorak.com.