This lecture will be held at the DeKalb County History Center in their new corn crib stage.

“Abraham Lincoln in Song” is a one man show created by award-winning folksinger and folklorist, Chris Vallillo to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and connects to the 250th Anniversary of the United States. Extensively researched and historically accurate, the program uses period music to look at our 16th President from a whole new angle.

The show covers Lincoln’s life from his birth on the Big South Fork of Nolan’s Creek in Kentucky in 1809 through his death in 1865 at the hand of John Wilkes Booth.

Vallillo himself is a performer with an affinity for American roots music and a gift for translating historic topics into modern day understanding. A former archaeologist turned folksinger/
songwriter, he is a skilled multi-instrumentalist whose love of the past evolved into a love for historic music. He is the Illinois State Scholar for the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibit on Roots Music New Harmonies.

Abraham Lincoln in Song has been performed at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, the Abraham Lincoln Home National Historic Site, the Gettysburg Battlefield National Museum, President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington DC and theaters and historic sites around the country to celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth.

This event will be held the DeKalb County History Center in their new corn crib stage, bring a chair or blanket to enjoy!

This event is made possible in part by the Illinois Arts Council and Farny Wurlitzer Foundation.