As part of the Doodle Folk Music Festival on Saturday, May 31, 2025, Macomb’s Chris Vallillo will be performing at 1:30 p.m. in the village park in Bishop Hill, IL. Please bring a lawn chair and enjoy the free concert!
Chris Vallillo is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with a natural affinity for American roots music. A master of bottleneck slide guitar, he weaves original, contemporary, and traditional songs and theatrical narratives into a compelling and entertaining portrait of the history and lifestyle of the Midwest. His 2016 project, Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement was released on Martin Luther King Day and charted at #6 on the National Folk charts. His one man show Abraham Lincoln in Song, received the endorsement of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the CD of reached #10 on Billboard’s Bluegrass Album Chart.
This free event is funded in part by the Illinois Arts Council, Illinois Humanities Council, Galesburg Community Foundation, and the Geneseo Foundation. For more details, you can call 309 927-3899 or email bhha@mymctc.net.
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