Performing one of the final concerts in the 2025 summer-music series at Bettendorf venue The Tangled Wood, The Matt Fuller Band will deliver hypnotic grooves and powerful vocals and instrumentation on September 6, the evening featuring the lauded talents of Fuller on lead guitar, Joshua Kain on rhythm guitar, Dewey Lacefield on bass, Tyrone Phillips on lead vocals, and Jim VanHyfte on drums.

Currently touring in support of his 2024 album Little Sun, a work that Americana Highways deemed " a masterful record with stunning production and musicianship of the highest quality," Charlie Parr headlines a September 6 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the country and blues-rock singer/songwriter's most recent offering also leading PopMatters to rave that Parr "never betrays his own vision, one that continues to find new routes to explore even 18 albums in."

Popular touring artists and two-time winners of the Scottish Live Act of the Year Award, the Celtic rockers of Red Hot Chilli Pipers headline a September 8 concert at the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center, the group's hits including popular covers of Queen's "We Will Rock You," Coldplay's "Clocks," and Journey's "Don't Stop Believing."

His smash singles including "You've Got to Stand for Something," "My Blue Angel," "For You I Will," and the chart-toppers "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" and "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You," singer/songwrfiter Aaron Tippin brings his tour to Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on September 11, the country artist's repertoire boasting such hit albums as You've Got to Stand for Something, Call of the Wild, Lookin' Back at Myself, People Like Us, and the platinum-selling Read Between the Lines.

One of the nation’s most authentic and electrifying Guns N’ Roses tribute bands, the touring rockers of Sins N' Roses take the stage a Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse on September 6, performing both classic hits and deep cuts that hardcore fans know and love.

Lauded by the New York Times as a "big bearhug of a musical" in which "even the most stalwart cynics may have trouble staying dry-eyed," the Tony Award-winning Come from Away makes its debut at Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse with its September 10 through November 1 run, this deeply moving 2017 entertainment also hailed by Broadway World as "inspiring, funny, and kick-ass beautiful.”

A 1957 film classic currently ranked by Internet Movie Database voters as the fifth-greatest movie of all time, Sidney Lumet's riveting 12 Angry Men will, from September 5 through 14, be given a fresh spin via Circle's Edge, an offshoot of City Circle Theatre Company.

A trio of gifted artists, and a quartet of disparate artistic mediums, will be showcased in the latest exhibition at the Quad City Arts International Airport Gallery, the gallery's display cases, through October 29, housing new furniture and sculpture by John Schwartzkopf, fabric collages by Heather Steckler and paper collage by Lauren Pesta.

A 2011 inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry, the organization proclaiming it "one of the great post-war noir films," director Fritz Lang's 1953 classic The Big Heat continues the “From Hitler to Hollywood” film series hosted by the German American Heritage Center, its September 10 screening at Davenport venue The Last Picture House treating audiences to a work that, the Registry added, "manages to be both stylized and brutally realistic."

Lauded by the Chicago Tribune's Dave Kehr as "diabolically inventive and very, very funny," Robert Zemeckis' 1992 comedy Death Becomes Her enjoys an outdoor screening at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox, the September 6 event treating guests to an Oscar-winning cult classic that, just last year, inspired a Tony Award-winning stage musical.

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