27 May 2025

Clayton Ryan, June 12

By Reader Staff

With Grammy-winning songwriter Marcus Hummun lauding the Minnesota talent for mastering "the lost art of the story song," rising country- and roots-music talent Clayton Ryan headlines a June 12 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist also praised by B Sides & Badlands for being "the kind of singer/songwriter Americana and roots music needs right now. He’s that good."

27 May 2025

BYOBrass, June 6

By Reader Staff

A collective of Iowa-based musicians and educators founded in 2017 by a group of friends at the University of Northern Iowa, the high-energy ensemble BYObrass headlines a June 6 concert in the Rock the Wood summer-concert series at Bettendorf venue The Tangled Wood.

27 May 2025

The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, June 12

By Reader Staff

Revered as the most popular and sought-after big band in the world today for both concert and swing-dance engagements, The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra brings their tour to the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts on June 12, the present iteration of this assemblage of gifted jazz musicians featuring Erik Stabnau as musical director and returning female vocalist Jenny Swoish.

21 May 2025

Morry Sochat & the Special 20s, June 1

By Reader Staff

Influenced by blues legends including Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Louis Jordan, and Junior Wells, the Chicago-honed talents of Morry Sochat & the Special 20s perform a June 1 set at Pour Bros. Craft Taproom Moline, this exhilarating afternoon of blues, swing, and 1950s rock-and-roll co-presented by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society.

21 May 2025

“Arthur & Friends Make a Musical!”, June 3 through June 21

By Reader Staff

Hailed by Broadway World as a "topnotch" entertainment boasting "fun, spirited musical numbers," the family-friendly stage entertainment Arthur & Friends Make a Musical! makes its Quad Cities debut at Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse, the show's June 3 through 21 run treating kids of all ages to beloved figures from the Arthur PBS series and author/illustrator Marc Brown's books.

20 May 2025

2025 Quad Cities Chalk Art Fest, May 31 and June 1

By Reader Staff

With the eagerly anticipated weekend event hosted by Rock Island's Quad City Arts and taking place for the ninth time, glorious colors and imaginative designs will be gracing the pavement of Rock Island's Schwiebert Riverfront Park in the Quad Cities Chalk Art Fest, a May 31 and June 1 pre-summertime fixture boasting free admission, beautiful artistic creations, live music, children's activities, food and drink vendors, and more than $2,000 in cash prizes.

20 May 2025

“Fun Home,” May 30 through June 14

By Reader Staff

A finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama that also received five 2015 Tony Awards including Best Musical, the critically lauded Broadway hit Fun Home makes its Quad Cities debut at Moline's Black Box Theatre May 30 through June 14, this triumph for composer Jeanine Tesori and book writer and lyricist Lisa Kron hailed by the New York Daily News as an "achingly beautiful" musical that "speaks to one family and all families torn by secrets and lies."

20 May 2025

“Saturday Night Fever,” May 30 through June 15

By Reader Staff

With Broadway World calling the show “a fast and fun night of musical theatre” that's “brimming with so many 'wow' moments,” the disco sensation Saturday Night Fever opens the 2024-2025 mainstage season at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse, this exhilarating musical – running May 30 through June 15 – adapted from the Oscar-nominated 1977 smash that catapulted the Bee Gees to international fame and made a household name of star John Travolta.

20 May 2025

Dino Days, May 31 and June 1

By Reader Staff

Those who love dinosaurs and all things Mesozoic will be in Putnam Museum & Science Center paradise when the venue welcomes families to the May 31 and June 1 celebration Dino Days – a family-friendly, specialty-ticketed weekend event boasting crafts, activities, a fossil dig, and screenings of a Jurassic “animated short” double feature.

20 May 2025

“Handsome Devil,” June 5

By Reader Staff

A charming coming-of-age dramedy also designed to expose hypocrisy and snobbery in the Irish private-school system, writer/director John Butler's 2016 release Handsome Devil enjoys a June 5 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, this presentation in the Free Film at the Figge series held in celebration of Gay Pride Month, and lauded by Filmink as "a warm blanket of a film that manages to tackle sexuality and homophobia with a surprisingly light, but not ineffectual, tone."

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