An eagerly awaited day of outdoor fun culminating in an attempt to break a pair of Guinness World Records is set for August 17, when River Action hosts the 15th-annual celebration of paddle sports Floatzilla, with participants and spectators gathering at Rock Island's Sunset Park to see if the Quad Cities can boast the world's “Largest Raft of Canoes and Kayaks” and “Largest Simultaneous Kayak Launch.”

With Holler Country praising his 2020 studio recording Good Time as a “delightful debut album” boasting “bouncing trap beats and crispy country funk basslines,” country-pop singer/songwriter Niko Moon headlines an August 17 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, the artist's Alternating Currents engagement treating fans to the talents of the man who has written songs for the likes of Dierks Bentley, Zac Brown Band, Rascal Flatts, and Morgan Wallen.

With this year's weekend event held in conjunction with Rock Island's annual Family Fun Day and the area-wide Alternating Currents Festival, Polyrhythms is proud to host the 10th-annual Bill Bell Jazz & Heritage Festival, an August 16 through 18 celebration of cultural heritage in the Quad Cities named after the late musician, educator, and East Moline native lovingly known as “The Jazz Professor.”

With Living Blues hailing their self-titled 2022 debut recording as a work that "hums with vitality, spontaneity, and spice," the gifted Chicago-blues musicians of The Dig 3 perform an August 18 Mississippi Valley Blues Society concert at Davenport's Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, their 2023 album Damn the Rent leading the Chicago Blues Guide to rave, "There is no letdown whatsoever in song variety, inventiveness, and individual and collective capabilities."