On September 13 and 14, the Quad Cities' NormaLeah Ovarian Cancer Initiative will host a pair of special happenings at Bettendorf's Shive-Hattery/Geifman Pond in the organization's “Making Strides Together: Gynecologic Cancer Awareness” program: a Chalk the Walk event on Friday, and a quarter-mile walk around the pond on Saturday.

An evening of exhilarating rock, rap, and hip-hop awaits fans at the Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on September 13, with the Davenport venue hosting a special evening featuring two chart-topping headliners: the iconic Robert Van Winkle, better known as Vanilla Ice, and Rob Base, who, alongside DJ E-Z Rock, released the number-one smash "Get on the Dance Floor."

Appropriately embarking on a Midwestern tour in support of their August release We Made a Mess in Middle America, the Americana musicians of The Way Down Wanderers return to Davenport's Redstone Room on September 18, their concert sure to demonstrate why Rolling Stone Country raved about their “intricate, hypnotic rhythms,” and why Best New Bands wrote, “Their live show is full of energy and just a damn good time.”

Treating guests to a lovely afternoon of classical music in the Rock Island Public Library's Watts-Midtown Branch on September 15, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's Up Close with Naha Greenholtz will find the QCSO Concertmasters and pianist Marian Lee Naha Greenholtz and pianist Marian Lee leading music lovers on a journey through diverse emotional landscapes and cultural expressions, their repertoire boasting works by Sergei Prokofiev, George Gershwin, and Angel Lam.