An acclaimed standup who recently enjoyed a sold-out national tour, and whose Correct Opinions places in the top 100 for comedy podcasts in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain, Trey Kennedy brings his "Grow Up Comedy Tour" to Davenport's Adler Theatre on July 16, the funnyman currently boasting in excess of 3.5 million followers on TikTok, 240.7 million total views on YouTube, and more than 4.7 million Facebook followers.

An acclaimed New York City comedian lauded for her darkly hilarious material based on personal, often satirical stories, current Saturday Night Live writer Rosebud Baker brings her national standup tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room on July 16, with Rolling Stone raving that her humor "ranges from merciless self-excavation to slashing social satire graced by intelligence and nuance."

Five days of outdoor fun will be on hand when East Moline's Rock Island Country Fairgrounds hosts the annual Rock Island County Fair July 18 through 22, offering patrons mornings, afternoons, and evenings filled with carnival rides, games, food vendors, animal shows, racing tournaments, 4-H events, a concert with rock and country artist Tyler Schulte, and exciting happenings scheduled for the nights' grandstand entertainment.

Delivered as part of the Davenport Public Library's virtual 3rd Thursday at Hoover's Presidential Library & Museum programming, the July 20 "best of" webinar The Lafayette Escadrille tells the heroic tale of how 38 Americans volunteered to fly, and pay the ultimate price, in the First World War – fighting in the skies to aid France long before our country officially entered the war.

Presented by Dr. Debbie Weissman, the fascinating live program A Tale of Two Ladies: Achievements and Challenges in the Christian-Jewish Relationship will be hosted by the Moline Public Library on July 10, its focus devoted to Ecclesia and Synagoga, the embodied representations of Christianity and Judaism in medieval and early modern church architecture and artwork.

With free admission and programs for the venue's Thursdays at the Figge sponsored by Chris and Mary Rayburn, Davenport's Figge Art Museum will host the special July 20 event The Katz Gallery: Celebrate the Exhibitions of Ansel Adams & Johnny Brian, an arresting exploration into the current exhibits Ansel Adams, the Sierra Club, & the Making of a Landscape Icon and Iowa Night Skies, featuring special guest and the latter exhibit's photographer Johnny Brian of Iowa City.

Touring in support of their most recent album Chicamacomico – a recording that, according to Holler Country, finds the band "in superb, insightful form" – the alt-country and Americana musicians of American Aquarium headline a July 18 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, their latest also inspiring Paste magazine to rave that the band "has offered up a new batch of songs to cling to — a life-saving station still very much at work.”

With their national “Dark Horizon Tour” landing in East Moline on July 17, the Grammy winning alternative-metal musicians of In This Moment and the Billboard hard-rock sensations of Motionless in White will take over the Rust Belt stage in a co-headlining concert, the former performing tracks from a seven-album repertoire that includes 2020's Mother, and the latter delivering hits from a six-album discography ranging from 2010's Creatures to last year's Scoring the End of the World.

Their most recent recording Homecoming lauded by Saving Country Music as a work "with striking appeal in every track, never letting you down, and exemplifying everything that Texas country is supposed to be," the gifted musicians of the Randy Rogers band headline a July 14 concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, American Songwriter adding that the 2022 album "holds tight to the spirit of the band's early work, but also shines a light on where they've been and how far they've come."

A 2020 recipient of the Austin Chronicle's Songwriter of the Year Award, and lauded for personal songs containing themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, love, and redemption, Americana and indie-folk singer/songwriter David Ramirez headlines a July 15 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist's 2020 album My Love Is a Hurricane lauded by No Depression as "a now painful and damaged, now warm and sweet exploration of the heartbroken spirit."

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