Performing a lovely afternoon of works by composers Astor Piazzolla, Eugène Ysaÿe, Gabriela Lena Frank, Pablo de Sarasate, and Johann Sebastian Bach, Quad City Symphony Orchestra concertmaster and violinist Naha Greenholtz and pianist Marian Lee will fill Davenport's Figge Art Museum with classical delights on May 1, the artists combing their talents for the special QCSO presentation Up Close with Naha & Marian.

A special viewing of one of the cinematic works in this year's Rock Island Art Guild Fine Arts Exhibition, the 20-minute performance piece Impermanence will be screened in the Figge Art Museum's John Deere Auditorium on April 28, Daniel Fine's and Dana Keeton's work a combination of live mandala creation, video projection, real-time video, and music by percussion ensemble Loop 2.4.3.

Performing in an April 23 art-song recital sponsored by Opera Quad Cities and Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Music, baritone Nicholas Fahrenkrug and pianist Eleonora Apostolidi, appearing as the Apollo Duo, pay a visit to Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral with the moving and musical Reality & Escape, a program designed to address our current frustrations, losses, and challenges of life, as well as the various ways in which we cope.

Touring in support of their 2021 album Namesake that Folking calls "a wonderful dream of a record," the Midwestern artists of Them Coulee Boys headline a season-opening concert event at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, their April 23 set also boasting performances by fellow Midwestern outfits the Wildwoods and Flash in a Pan.

Appearing virtually in a special event made possible by Illinois Libraries Present, a lauded actor and comedian and world-class musician join forces for the April 27 conversation An Evening with Nick Offerman & Jeff Tweedy, an insightful and hilarious online one-and-one that will find the friends and Parks & Recreation and Wilco talents discussing Offerman's 2021 book Where the Deer & the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside.

Lauded by All About Jazz as musicians who possess "a seemingly effortless ability to put a song across with a bursting-with-life elan," the genre-hopping quartet LP & the Vinyl serves as the latest guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artists series, their April 25 through 29 area tenure demonstrating why The Jazz Owl raved, "If there is a group worthy of special attention and reintroduction in jazz, it is LP & the Vinyl."

A legendary vocal team that earned massively renewed popularity when two of duo's biggest hits were featured in the movie smashes Top Gun and Ghost, the Righteous Brothers – now composed of co-founder Bill Medley and Bucky Heard – play a special April 27 concert event at Davenport's Adler Theatre, the 50-years-strong outfit beloved for such iconic tunes as “You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'” and “Unchained Melody.”

A sonic master of progressive rock brings his long-awaited Davenport tour stop to the Adler Theatre on April 22, with the Alan Parsons Live Project performing from a repertoire dating back nearly 50 years and boasting such hits as "Sirius," which was famously employed used as entrance music for the Chicago Bulls during their 1990s NBA heyday.

Chart-topping blues musicians making their Crawford Brew Works debuts as part of the Bettendorf venue's and the Mississippi Valley Blues Society's fundraising Brews 'n' Blues Concert Series, the incendiary musicians of Mississippi Heat perform from their 12-album repertoire on April 22, delivering a night with musical talents who inspired Jazz Weekly to succinctly state, "Mississippi Heat will make you sweat."

With the Crossroads Blues Society deeming her "one of the up and coming stars in the blues world" whose album Harvesting My Roots "needs to be in your collection ... because you will get years and years of listening pleasure from it," Chicago-based artist Ivy Ford performs an April 21 concert at Bettendorf's Crawford Brew Works, her set the latest event in the fundraising Brews ’n’ Blues Concert Series hosted by Crawford and the Mississippi Valley Blues Society.

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