A beloved holiday tradition featuring a wide variety of musical performances will be held in St. Ambrose University's Galvin Fine Arts Center in the annual seasonal presentation An Ambrosian Christmas Concert, an afternoon event boasting the talented SAU chamber singers, jazz band, STAMVOJA, symphonic band, university chorale, and student soloists.

In a special Illinois Libraries Present event designed for the holiday season, acclaimed cookbook author and television and radio personality Shauna Sever will be sharing her love of food and baking - as well as providing tips to make your holiday gatherings delicious - in the virtual program Midwest Baking with Shauna Sever, hosted by the Rock Island and Moline Public Libraries on December 13.

A celebrated seasonal event described by DC Metro Theater Arts as “an exhilarating must-see” and “a pulse-pounding pageant full of talent and praise,” Langston Hughes' iconic Black Nativity enjoys a December 9 through 11 run at Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre, its presentation by Creative Resources sure to prove why the Maryland Theatre Guide deemed it “a celebration of life and spirit that is at once essential and timely.”

An assemblage of arresting works by a former teacher at the Davenport Museum of Art (now the Figge Art Museum) and Davenport's St. Ambrose University will be on display at the Figge through June 18, with the exhibition Mother, Goddess, Crone: The Art of Maria Cusumano boasting 11 prints that were recently gifted to the venue by Cusumano’s husband and fellow artist Mark Towner.

With Country Standard Time calling the group “one of the most talented and unique acts in modern country music,” the a cappella quintet Home Free brings its seasonal "Family Christmas" tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on December 14, performing holiday classics and modern compositions with the vocal fire and stage presence that led to the singers winning the fourth season of NBC's competition series The Sing Off.

The winner of season 16 of American Idol and a People's Choice Award recipient for “Competition Contestant of 2018,” indie-pop and folk singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Maddie Poppe enjoys a headlining concert at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on December 11, with the artist performing songs from her acclaimed repertoire and seasonal numbers from her holiday EP Christmas from Home, just released on November 20.

Described by Little Voice magazine as an artist who “is both a throwback to '60s folk-pop and very much in the moment,” singer/songwriter and Iowa native Elizabeth Moen headlines a December 8 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, her 2020 EP Creature of Habit having amassed raves from Hot Press for the musician's “innate ability to craft tongue-in-cheek lyrics and pair them with arresting melodies.”

Boasting 40 million video views online and 350,000 followers, country/pop singer/songwriter Casi Joy headlines a December 9 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist's highly-touted run on NBC's The Voice leading Rolling Stone to state that she had "one of the top 10 best blind auditions of all time," adding, "Between her distinct yodel and booming lower register, Casi Joy is a fan favorite."

On December 11, East Moline venue the Rust Belt and I-Rock 93.5 will ensure a Not So Silent Night for hard-rock fans, delivering a quartet of exhilarating sets by the up-and-coming and well-established talents of Eva Under Fire, Alborn, Crobot, and Discrepancies.

A rock sensation hugely admired by his peers, with Peter Frampton describing him as “the next guitar hero” and Steve Miller calling him an artist “in the Stevie Ray Vaughan area of virtuosity and originality,” Matthew Curry headlines a December 10 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room at Common Chord, the native of Bloomington, Illinois, lauded for songs that, according to American Artists, "reflect his style and sound, yet no two sound exactly the same."

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