Celebrating its return from a two-year hiatus, Opera Quad Cities rings in 2022 with a special presentation of Franz Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin, a January 9 recital being held at Davenport's Great Hall at Trinity Cathedral, and a song cycle performed by Davenport native Nicholas Fahrenkrug and Greek pianist Eleonora Apostoldi.

Visually resplendent works by a Quad Cities native and current Kansas resident will decorate the walls of the Berėskin Gallery & Art Academy through February 24, with the Bettendorf venue celebrating the great outdoors and some of its great mammals in painter Troy Swangstu's new exhibition A Bullish New Year.

They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway, and Bettendorf's The Tangled Wood is inviting bright fans of the Great White Way to the venue's Broadway Trivia Night on December 28, a celebration of all things theatrical in which patrons can share their stage knowledge and compete for house-cash prizes.

Held in memory of Chamber Music Quad Cities founder Connie Sauer-Adams, the mother of the ensemble's artistic directors Gregory and Thomas Sauer, CMQC's January 2 winter concert at Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral will feature Sauer-Adams' sons performing alongside their gifted musician wives Serena Canin and Lee Taylor, and will deliver a thrilling program of Mozart (“Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, K 493), Schubert (“Strong Trio in B-flat Major, D. 471), and Chopin (“Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58).

A beloved venue regular at Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse will take on the repertoire of one of history's most admired singer/songwriters in the December 31 concert event Solitary Man: A Tribute to Neil Diamond, a New Year's Eve party in which Hauskins and a team of gifted musicians treat audiences to adored smash hits including “America,” “Forever in Blue Jeans,” and “Sweet Caroline.”

Classic-rock fans seeking New Year's Eve satisfaction will be able to find it, literally, at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center when the venue hosts the tribute artists of Satisfaction: The International Rolling Stones Show, a December 31 party celebrating the legendary talents behind “Gimme Shelter,” “Jumpin' Jack Flash,” “You Can't Always Get What You Want,” and dozens of other timeless hits.

Court-ing fans in their eagerly anticipated return to Moline, the electrifying athletes of the Harlem Globetrotters bring their spectacular "Spread Game Tour" to the TaxSlayer Center on January 1, thrilling the New Year's Day crowd with phenomenal basketball action, comic high jinks, ankle-breaking moves, jaw-dropping swag, and rim-rattling dunks in a fully-modernized amphitheater production.

For fans of the iconic pop-rock group Fleetwood Mac, dreams – and “Dreams” – will come true on New Year's Eve when Davenport's Redstone Room and All Sweat Productions host the All Sweat series' tribute to Rumours, the game-changing Fleetwood Mac album that's considered by many to be one of the most artistically successful and influential recordings of all time.

A beautiful exhibition of four large-scale paintings depicting the four seasons, along with a collection of smaller canvases, Elaine Miller: Uncommon Ground will be on display at Rock Island's Quad City Arts Center through January 29, the Chicago-based saying of her work, ”I paint to try to engage the spiritual qualities of nature that overwhelms our everyday existence whenever we can stop and notice.”

Performing a delightful repertoire of jazz standards, iconic pop hits, and seasonal favorites, a 2005 graduate of Rock Island High School returns to the Quad Cities in the Matt Barber Experience Christmas Show, a December 23 concert at Davenport's Grape Life Wine Store & Lounge that will find Barber and his longtime touring musicians performing classics from the six albums he has recorded since 2007.

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