A Billboard-charting indie-rock and folk ensemble that has released more than a dozen albums and EPs since 2000, the multi-instrumental and vocal outfit DeVotchKa headlines an August 11 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the musicians' recording How It Ends hailed by the BBC as a work that "offers a potent, heady, hypnotic cocktail of Romany, Greek, Slavic, and South American-influenced sounds stirred by the distractingly mordant voice of frontman Nick Urata."

With the Houston Press promising that "an entertaining evening awaits" in the debut of the Richmond Hill Barn Theatre's new comedy, playwright Pat Cook's farce The Money in Uncle George's Suitcase enjoys a Geneseo run from August 15 through 25, the comedy additionally hailed by the Houston Press as "a humorous look at the dysfunction of family life, especially when money gets involved."

With the first day of the exhibition and its August 15 opening reception held in conjunction with this year's Alternating Currents festival, Rock Island's Quad City Arts Center will be housing, through October 4, a two-fer of evocative works by a pair of disparate artists, the Crawford & Sage exhibit showcasing woodcut prints by Cathie Crawford and ink and watercolor drawings by Whitney Sage.

A longtime Saturday Night Live veteran and one of the country's most popular comedians brings his national tour to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on August 11 when the venue hosts an evening with Pete Davidson, the 30-year-old multi-hyphenate talent whose credits beyond SNL range from the feature films Fast X and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to the comedy specials Alive from New York and this year's Turbo Fonzarelli.