Presenting many of the Corridor’s most talented performers in a Broadway event like no other, the City Circle Theatre Company will stage a concert version of the lauded revue Sondheim on Sondheim February 9 through 11, its engagement at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts delivering audience-favorite songs from Into the Woods, West Side Story, Company, A Little Night Music, and numerous other works by the legendary composer.

With the powerhouse talent delivering a captivating full-length performance followed by an intimate conversation revealing her background and collaborative ventures, Amirah Sackett showcases her gifts in a February 10 public event at Davenport's Putnam Museum & Science Center, the hip-hop dancer and choreographer the latest guest in Quad City Arts Visiting Artist Series.

An official selection at the SXSW Film & TV Festival, the Denver Film Festival, the Tallgrass Film Festival, and more than a dozen additional gatherings for fans of cinema, the acclaimed documentary Join or Die will enjoy a February 11 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, with audiences invited to follow the half-century story of America's civic unraveling through the journey of legendary social scientist Robert Putnam.

A pair of iconic titles from Hong Kong's legendary writer/director Wong Kar-wai will enjoy a special double-feature screening at Rozz-Tox on February 9, with the Rock Island venue hosting back-to-back showings of In the Mood for Love and Happy Together, both works included on Sight & Sound's esteemed list of the greatest motion pictures of all time.

Lauded by the Washington Blade as a "visceral yet lyrical film" and by The Movie Isle as "a strange ride, but in the best possible way," writer/director Jeremiah Zagar's coming-of-age drama We the Animals enjoys a February 15 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, this critically hailed work the recipient of the Sundance NEXT Innovator Award and a nominee for five 2019 Independent Spirit Awards.

Internationally acclaimed throat singers whose American credits include touring with Béla Fleck & the Flecktones to promote their Grammy-winning album Jingle All the Way that featured the Russian talents as guest artists, the musicians of Alash perform a special, two-set concert engagement at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on February 7, the trio noted for their subtle infusion of modern influences into traditional folk music.

With Americana Highways lauding the artist as "a captivating songwriter" who "knows how to take what he's written and perform it with power and exuberance," roots rocker Jeremie Albino headlines a February 12 concert at the Raccoon Motel, his debut at the Davenport sure to prove why Glide magazine calls him "the next in line of emotive bandleaders that project soul and directness atop a head-turning sound."

Currently touring in support of their 2023 release Ten Years Tall, an EP filled with re-recorded staples from the band’s first two albums as well as a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” the Midwestern bluegrass artists of Them Coulee Boys return to Davenport's Raccoon Motel in a February 15 headlining engagement, their previous album release Namesake described by Folking as "a wonderful dream of a record."

A high-energy ensemble boasting some of the sharpest musical talents the Quad Cities has to offer, 10 of Soul headlines a February 10 engagement at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, their performance in the Winter Jam Concert Series boasting classic tunes from the genres of soul, funk, and blues, as well as a few funky arrangements of their own.

Works from two Midwestern artists who have each built a cohesive body of work of bold color and strong composition will be on display at Rock Island's Quad City Arts Center through March 15, with the gallery's latest exhibition Bridge & Carlson showcasing colorfully expansive oil paintings by Nick Bridge of Oak Park, Illinois, and John Carlson of Burlington, Iowa.

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