Arts & Entertainment
Morning Coffee House debuts in Brookfield August 16
Loca Mocha, 8858 Burlington Avenue, Brookfield.. welcomes Chicago's official troubadour Mark Dvorak for songs and story Tuesday Aug 16 10am
BROOKFIELD IL - Loca Mocha, 8858 Burlington Avenue, welcomes Chicago’s official troubadour, Mark Dvorak, to the Morning Coffee House series on Tuesday, August 16 at 10:00 am.
“I am so thrilled Mark will be joining us for music once per month,” said Loca Mocha owner Maria. “He is very popular in the area and we’re looking forward to a successful show.”
“I’ve been living back here in Brookfield again for the last few years,” said Dvorak in a recent interview."And it’s been hard to find a good hot dog and folk music. I thought I might be able to change one of those, so I approached Maria at Loca Mocha and she we was very receptive."
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Brookfield has a long tradition of folk music venues. The Old Quarter Coffee House opened in 1981 at St. Barbara’sand then moved to a more permanent location in the Hollywood neighborhood. In 1987 the Plank Road Folk Music Society also began presenting concerts, workshops, potluck dinners and acoustic jam sessions at Sokol Hall, the historic train station and Kiwanis Park.
Dvorak is busy at work on his 20th CD release Live & Alone, recorded in an empty concert hall
during the height of the pandemic lock down. He is also planning to publish his
fourth book of essays, 31 Winters, which reflects on his long journey through music and teaching.
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“At this stage of the game,” said the singer from his home outside Chicago, Illinois, “I feel like I’m doing my best work.”
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.”
There is no admission to Morning Coffee House at Loca Mocha. Donations will be accepted and CDs and books will be available for purchase
For information phone (708) 485-7990 or find Loca Mocha on FaceBook.
Learn more about Mark Dvorak at www.markdvorak.com
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