With their eponymous 2018 release the winner of the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, the Nashville-based The Travelin' McCourys brings their two to two area venues this month, the lauded artists headlining the "Codfish Halloween w/ the Travelin' McCourys" at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn on October 30, and an actual Halloween show at Davenport's Redstone Room on October 31.

On October 30, Davenport's Raccoon Motel will host one of the most singular artists yet to headline this downtown venue, with outsider artist, musician, painter, puppeteer, and actor David Liebe Hart, the entertainer best-known for appearances on Adult Swim's Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, performing bizarre puppetry and singing in a variety of voice characterizations.

With its songs by theatre legend Stephen Schwartz and its original life-size puppets created by West Liberty's Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre Company, Disney's My Son Pinocchio Jr. serves as the 2024-25 season opening for the students talents of Young Footliters Youth Theatre, the one-act show's October 18 through 20 run at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts treating audiences to a brand-new take on the beloved cartoon masterpiece.

An elegant evening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum and one of the most annually popular fundraising events in the Quad Cities, this year's Soirée: A Night in Italy will, on October 19, find Quad City Symphony Orchestra musicians Emily Nash, Madelin Capistran, Bruno Vaz Da Sila, and Laura Shaw performing in a special event boasting a cocktail hour, dinner, and live auction with Maestro Mark Russell Smith as auctioneer to benefit the QCSO’s education programs.