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Chris Vallillo regularly performs at festivals, concerts, libraries, school assemblies and residencies throughout the Midwest. Performance length and material can be customized and geared towards adult, kids, or family audiences. Chris also performs at historic sites and living history museums throughout the Midwest including Conner Prairie Living History Museum in Fishers, IN, Blackberry Farm in Aurora, IL, the Abraham Lincoln National Historic site, Springfield, IL, the Mark Twain Birthplace Historic Site in Florida, MO and Chris is a regular performer in the Mississippi excursion riverboat "Twilight".

Chris also hosts and produces the Hickory Ridge Concert Series. This is an acoustic music concert series held in a 140 seat auditorium at the Dickson Mounds Museum near Lewistown, IL.

"Vallillo is an exceptional guitarist on six string, flat or finger-picked and bottleneck slide and has a rich deep voice."
– Anarillo, TX

"Edgar Lee Masters would be proud."
– River To River

"He brings to his music (an) eye for detail and a sense of history...Vivid, original story songs... delivered in his crisp expressive tenor."
– Dirty Linen Magazine

"Fine performances featuring... unadorned music that speaks volumes about the reality of living in the rural Midwest"
– Arts Alive!

"Vallillo's music is infectious. His tunes and melodies are haunting and restrained, uncluttered by studio gimmickry, subtle without a pretense to cleverness."
– Illinois Times