Opening their eagerly anticipated 2023-24 Masterworks season with performances at Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 7 and Augustana College's Centennial Hall on October 8, the sublime musicians of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra welcome, for their concert event Masterworks I: From Conflict to Courage, Cuban-American cellist Dr. Tommy Mesa, the artist having inspired New York Concert Review to rave, "Mr. Mesa’s playing had a musical intensity that was commanding in every detail.”

With their album Passage hailed by SonicAbuse as "deeply evocative and perfectly executed," the women-led world-fusion ensemble ADAAWE opens Quad City Arts' 2023-24 Visiting Artists Series with an October 7 concert event in Augustana College's Centennial Hall, their previous engagements including a performance at the California World Music Festival, a concert is Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and a booking at the Alex Theater with Emmy nominee Jasmine Guy and Oscar nominee Angela Bassett.

His extraordinary professional career including the release of more than two dozen albums over the span of more than half a century, legendary Mexican singer, accordion player, composer, and songwriter Ramón Ayala and his ensemble Sus Bravos Del Norte land at Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 8, the international talents noted for their thrilling renditions of traditional norteño music and for Ayala's fame as "King of the Accordion."

Renowned for her Americana and alternative-country ensemble Leslie & the Badgers, the group's headliner Leslie Stevens enjoys an October 9 headlining engagement at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the chanteuse and multi-instrumentalist's recording Sinner lauded by The Guardian as "an album that should establish her credentials as a singer/songwriter of skill and passion."