With ther special concert presentation hosted by local favorites The Dawn and featuring performances by an additional five area ensembles, the Summer Camp: On the Road Tour stops at Davenport's Redstone Room on February 10, with the scheduled musicians competing for a spot on the annual music festival's 2022 lineup, and audience votes doubling as entries for pries, swag, and tickets to the three-day event.

Boasting multiple Billboard-charting singles, including a number-one smash hit with “Style and Elegance," lauded multi-instrumentalist JJ Sansaverino serves as the latest guest artist in the River Music Experience's Smooth Jazz Series, his February 12 concert in Davenport's Redstone Room demonstrating the talents that have resulted in collaborations with numerous jazz greats and an invitation to perform for Sir Paul McCartney's wedding in 2002.

With his discography currently composed of five studio albums, eight mixtapes, 13 singles, and an EP, the platinum-selling R&B and hip-hop musician Chingy headlines a February 12 concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, the platinum-selling artist's professional highlights including three albums that made the Billboard top five and three singles that topped the charts.

Performing locally on February 4, Taylor Goldsmith – one of the co-founders of the acclaimed indie outfit Dawes – will headline an acoustic set at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the singer/songwriter having also performed on albums by Jackson Browne, John Fogerty, Dave Rawlings, Sara Watkins, and his wife and This Is Us star Mandy Moore.

An exploration into the innovations that have resulted when the natural world is allowed to be our guide, the new Putnam Museum & Science Center exhibition Mother Nature: Modern Muse is currently on display at the Davenport venue, this celebration following the museum's mission of delivering to patrons "a sense of place, time, and purpose to ignite human potential and inspire our diverse community to learn about and care for our world and all its people."

Visually resplendent works by a Quad Cities native and current Kansas resident are currently decorating the walls of the Berėskin Gallery & Art Academy, and on February 4, the Bettendorf venue will celebrate the great outdoors and some of its great mammals in an Open House Reception for painter Troy Swangstu's exhibition A Bullish New Year and the opportunity for guests to meet its featured artist.

An intimate yet sprawling work selected as an official entry in the Mountain Film Festival and the Sheffield Docfest, directors Raj Patel's and Zek Piper's The Ants & the Grasshopper serves as the latest presentation in River Action's QC Environmental Film Series, its February 6 premiere at Davenport's Figge Art Museum set to explore how, according to The Guardian, power and privilege shape climate justice and food justice from Africa to America – and how we might move forward together."

A three-time Grammy Award nominee, Emmy Award winner, and the recipient of multiple Blues Music Awards and Living Blues Critics' Awards, Chicago-blues singer and harmonica maestro Billy Branch plays Davenport's Village Theatre on February 9 in a fundraising concert for the Mississippi Valley Blues Society (MVBS), the critically lauded music sensation also serving as the resident artist for the first 2022 MVBS Blues in the Schools program.

Touring in support of their new EP the flower, a recording that Under the Radar magazine praised for its “towering guitars and sharp melodies,” the Cincinnati-based pop/folk ensemble Motherfolk headlines a February 3 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, with the artists lauded by Divide & Conquest Music for their “vibe that is immediate, visceral, and even cathartic.”

Lauded by Rolling Stone as "one of country’s most fascinating young songwriters" and by Saving Country Music as "a big man with a high lonesome voice and heartfelt songs who is quickly rising up the independent country music depth charts," Joshua Ray Walker headlines a February 4 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, an evening with the artist who, according to Pop Matters, "sings with a tear in his beer-stained voice about our shared destiny."

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