Praised by Marquee magazine for their “dynamic presence” and for “continuously pushing the genre of bluegrass and their legacy within the genre,” the gifted musicians of Yonder Mountain String Band headline an August 21 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the musicians' most recent album, 2022's Get Yourself Outside, hailed by Glide magazine as “an antidote for feeling down. These 11 songs just make you feel good, like putting on your favorite sweater to ward off the cold.”

Appearing together in the Vibrant Arena at the MARK's eagerly awaited Summer Jam '24 event, a trio of supremely gifted hip-hip acts will combine their talent in Moline on August 10, with the amphitheater housing the Grammy-winning musicians of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Billboard sensation Xzibit, and Georgia's Yung Loc, featured on T-Pain's chart-topping "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')."

With the Emmy-nominated singer/songwriter and composer having created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with his ensemble, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records, Ben Folds headlines an August 13 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, his varied credits including serving as a judge on the NBC's The Sing-Off and, in 2019, publishing his memoir A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons.

Delivering an exploison of electro-jam fun on the first night of this year's Alternating Currents festival, the Bloomington, Indiana talents of Dizgo are set to rock Davenport's Redstone Room on August 15, the musicians praised by Space Tapes for "evoking a transcendence of genre: a dizzier disco, filled with a hodge-podge of genres, styles, and technical influences [that's] still, at it’s core, a dance party."