I have no idea how folksinger Dave Dondero travels from stop to stop on his tours. Usually, there’s no band — just Dave and a guitar — so I suppose he drives a car.

However, it’s my hope that he hops freight trains or hitchhikes because that’s the sort of old-school, lyrics-forward music he writes and performs: stuff meant to question and provoke about this aching world around us. Are Dondero’s songs pensive and melancholy? Angry? Well, frequently — because he’s an artist and a poet and he has a gift for expressing himself in reaction to The Way Things Are.

And things ain’t good.

In fact, Dondero’s latest album, “The Filter Bubble Blues,” was written and recorded “during the dark days of the terrible Trump years,” as his liner notes indicate.

What happens, though, with someone of Dondero’s skill is that, to see him in performance — as with his show Tuesday in New London’s Hygienic Art Park — something positive and energizing emerges from his mournful chronicles. Music CAN conquer.

Dave Dondero, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Hygienic Art Park, 79 Bank St., New London; gates 6:30 p.m.; $10; hygienic.org.