Three Oaks' The Acorn presents folk singer Robbie Fulks in concert Aug. 24

THREE OAKS — Robbie Fulks performs at 7 p.m. Aug. 24 at The Acorn, 107 Generations Drive.

His most recent release, 2017’s “Upland Stories,” earned year’s-best recognition from NPR and Rolling Stone among many others, as well as two Grammy Award nominations, for folk album and American roots song (“Alabama at Night”).

Born in York, Pa., and raised in a half-dozen small towns in southeast Pennsylvania, the North Carolina Piedmont and the Blue Ridge area of Virginia, Fulks learned guitar from his father, banjo from Earl Scruggs and John Hartford records, and fiddle (long since laid down in disgrace) on his own.

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In 1983, he moved to Chicago and joined Greg Cahill’s Special Consensus Bluegrass Band. He taught music at Old Town School of Folk Music from 1984 to 1996 and worked as a staff songwriter on Music Row in Nashville from 1993 to 1998.

Fulks’ music from the last several years hews mainly to acoustic instrumentation and returns him in part to his earlier bluegrass days and extends the boundaries of that tradition with old-time rambles and sparsely orchestrated reflections on love, the slings of time and the troubles of common people.

Tickets are $55-$30 in advance and $60-$35 day of show.

For more information, call 269-756-3879 or visit acornlive.org.

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Folk singer Robbie Fulks plays The Acorn in Three Oaks