To celebrate the kick-off of the artist's eagerly anticipated “Eras Tour,” a pair of gifted local singer/songwriters will pay tribute to both the performer and her nationwide event at the Raccoon Motel on March 16, with the Davenport venue hosting Angela Meyer with two hours of Taylor Swift hits, and Ariel McReynolds performing songs made famous by the tour's esteemed opening acts.

Praised by The American Organist magazine for his "dazzling virtuosity" and by Cleveland Classical for his "topnotch, mature playing," esteemed organist Daryl Robinson headlines a March 19 event in the second-annual John and Alice Butler Pipe Organ Recital Series, his engagement at the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center treating patrons to what Choir & Organ magazine deemed "driving muscular poetry underpinned by nimble technique and nuanced sense of style."

Performing hits from a repertoire that boasts "Ooby Dooby," "Blue Angel," "Only The Lonely," "Lana," and iconic songs such as through his songs such as "In Dreams," "Oh, Pretty Woman," and "Blue Bayou," touring musician David K. and his band bring The Ultimate Roy Orbison Tribute to Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center on March 18, a celebration of the rockabilly legend covering everything from Orbison's '60's classics to his resurgence in the '80s with his 22nd album Mystery Girl.

The beauties of trio of artistic mediums are current being showcased by a pair of Midwestern artists exhibiting at the Quad City International Airport, with the airport gallery, through April 25, presently housing ceramics by Bo Bedilion of Columbia, Missouri, and acrylic paintings and mixed-media sculpture by Jay Reed of Ottawa, Illinois.

Winner of the coveted Caméra d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, writer/director Miranda July's Me & You & Everyone We Know will enjoy a special Figge Art Museum screening on March 9 in conjunction with the exhibition Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960, the Davenport venue's latest movie series highlighting award-winning, groundbreaking feature films that celebrate the cinematic achievements of women.

Perhaps the most fanous mural in the history of world art will be examined in a special exhibition at the University of Dubuque's Bisignano Art Gallery through March 26 when the venue hosts Anatomy of a Painting: Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, a showcase about which gallery director Alan Garfield says, "“For those who wondered why Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is so famous, I hope this show will begin to answer that question in a number of ways.”

In celebration of National Quilters Week, the Figge Art Museum will showcase a number of colorful and hand-crafted functional artworks in the March 14 through 19 Mississippi Valley Quilter's Guild Exhibition, with a special Appreciation Night for the exhibit's gifted artisans scheduled for March 16.

Currently touring in support of his most recent album Ytilaer that Mojo magazine awarded five stars and deemed an "outright classic," singer/songwriter and guitarist Bill Callahan headlines a March 8 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the apocalyptic-folk and gothic county artist's latest also leading AllMusic.com to rave, "This is how an expert singer/songwriter captures the tenor of the moment: with songs of timeless quality."

Touring in support of their latest album that, according to Rock at Night, boasts "head-bobbing music with sing-along choruses and one toe-tapping song after another," married punk rockers Kelly Ogden and Luis Cabezas bring their outfit The Dollyrots to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on March 12, the duo's most recent recording Down the Rabbit Hole also deemed by Rock at Night as "definitely the music you need to have playing in order to amp up a lackluster party."

A celebrated Virginia string outfit currently enjoying its 24th year of professional performance, the country, folk, and Americana musicians of the Hackensaw Boys play Davenport's Raccoon Motel on March 3, the group's talents having inspired Pitchfork to rave, "The band infuses their grassy tornado with brazen punk attitude and catchy pop structure, while simultaneously remaining vehemently sincere."

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