Alternative-rock fans will find October a little less blue with the area arrival of Blue October, the musicians' October 25 concert at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center boasting performances from a 21-year repertoire that includes 11 top-40 singles and such chart-topping studio albums as Any Man in America, Sway, and Home.

Minneapolis-based singer/songwriter Greta Ruth brings her strain of lush, progressive folk to the Rozz-Tox stage on October 17.

With Blues Blast magazine calling his playing “speed-freak fast and clean and crisp” and Northwest Music Scene deeming him “a force to be reckoned with,” venerated rock guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Pat Travers brings his ensemble the Pat Travers Band to Davenport's Redstone Room on October 19, the high-energy trio playing from a repertoire of hits dating all the way back to Travers' self-titled 1976 debut.

Held in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Miles Davis' seminal Kind of Blue, widely cited as the best-selling jazz record of all time, the latest presentation in Polyrhythms' Third Sunday Jazz Workshop and Matinée Series finds the Kind of Blue Tribute Band playing Davenport's Redstone Room on October 20 – a concert set honoring Davis' album achievement certified quadruple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.