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Trinity Lutheran Church, Macomb, IL
Sunday June 1st, 3:00 PM
Free Gospel Concert
Benefit for Mosiac Social Services
Free will offering requested
Chris Vallillo will help celebrate Trinity Lutheran Church’s 150th Anniversary with a concert of Gospel Music on Sunday afternoon, June 1st at 3:00 pm in the Trinity Church.
Not your usual Lutheran selection of hymns, Chris will use his background in folk and roots music to draw from the folk and southern Gospel traditions and will include performances of both well-known songs like I’ll Fly Away and Amazing Grace as well as more obscure tunes like Softy and Tenderly and The Good Ole’ Way. Chris will explore the various ways we use music as a form of praise and contemplation.
The performance is free to the public, however, a free will offering will be taken up and with the proceeds going to support Mosiac.
On July the 20th, I premiered the Theatrical show Forgottonia at the Hainline Theater in Macomb, IL. It was a great success! Here is the opening narrative and the title song.
On Sunday, May 21st, 2023 I had the pleasure of visiting with WGN's Rick Kogan on his After Hours show to discuss Forgottonia and play a couple tracks. Lsten to the conversation here.
WILL TV Prairie Fire
On July 20th, 2023 WILL-TV, the PBS station from the University of Illinois at Urbana, aired a segment of their new flagship show, Prairie Fire featuring an in-studio performance of me performing the title cut of the new CD, Forgottonia.
Here it is!
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