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Written by Mike Schulz
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012 06:00 |
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Big Bill Morganfield
The Muddy Waters
Friday, April 20, 9 p.m.
Legendary blues musician McKinley Morganfield, better known by his nickname Muddy Waters, was born on April 4, 1913. Some 99 years and two weeks after his birth, the late great’s son Big Bill Morganfield will not only headline a local blues concert on April 20, but a concert taking place at the Bettendorf venue called The Muddy Waters. Man, that’s some kind of birthday acknowledgment. For my dad’s last birthday, I got him socks.
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012 06:00 |
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Local H
Rock Island Brewing Company
Friday, April 6, 9p.m.
Before embarking on an East Coast tour that takes the duo to New York, Massachusetts, and Delaware, the alternative rockers of Local H will, on April 6, play a concert at the Rock Island Brewing Company.
Rock Island? Hey, that’s where I live! “Rock Island! Woo-hoo! Ye-e-e-e-ea-a-ah-h!!!”
Sorry. Just thought it’d be fun to act like one of those concertgoers who does that sort of thing.
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Lifestyle -
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012 06:00 |
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Mr. Marmalade
Village Theatre
Thursday, March 22, through Sunday, April 1
Mr. Marmalade, which Davenport’s New Ground Theatre will stage from March 22 through April 1, is a comedy about a four-year-old girl named Lucy and her imaginary playmate of the show’s title. A businessman with bipolar disorder, a porn addiction, and a considerable cocaine problem, Mr. Marmalade tends to ignore Lucy as much as her one-night-stand-seeking single mother does, frequently leaving Lucy alone to contend with her suicidal five-year-old friend and ... .
A-a-a-and I’ve just lost at least half of you, haven’t I?
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 06:00 |
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VOCES8
Galvin Fine Arts Center
Saturday, March 3, 7:30 p.m.
For the final performers in its 2011-12 Visiting Artists Series, Quad City Arts has booked an area residency with the renowned a cappella singers of VOCES8, and a glance at the group’s three most recent CDs shows its tracks to include “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square,” “Kyrie from the Mass for Four Voices,” “Shenandoah,” “Me & My Shadow,” “Wir glauben an ainen Gott,” and “Jailhouse Rock.” Because apparently, it would’ve killed Quad City Arts to find performers with range.
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Lifestyle -
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012 06:00 |
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Maggie Brown
River Music Experience
Sunday, February 19, and Monday, February 20
The late, great Duke Ellington was quoted as saying, “By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.” Let’s be thankful, then, that this sentiment wasn’t adopted by legendary composer Oscar Brown Jr., or the modern jazz scene – as River Music Experience patrons will soon realize – would’ve been deprived of one awfully gifted daughter.
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