Presented on November 17 as part of the Davenport Public Library's 3rd Thursday at Hoover's Presidential Library & Museum series, the virtual program Herbert Hoover & Christmas will find Park Ranger Hoehnle covering the subject from the simple holiday celebrations of Hoover's Quaker youth to his globetrotting years as a mining engineer in many lands to his years in the White House and a memorable Christmas Eve fire in 1929.

With the chart-topping, platinum-selling artist's 2020 album Country Roads, Vol. I praised by Sounds Like Nashville as "offering a something-for-everyone approach that’s just as potent as his superstar peers," singer/songwriter Granger Smith headlines a November 20 concert at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, the Nashville musician beloved for songs including his top-five hit "If The Boot Fits" and his number-one smash "Backroad Song."

Following their hugely successful presentation of Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, as well as the franchise hits Sorcerer's Stone in 2017, Chamber of Secrets in 2018, and Prisoner of Azkaban in 2019, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra returns to Davenport's Adler Theatre on November 19 to perform live accompaniment for Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth movie smash adapted from J.K. Rowling's iconic fantasy/adventure novels.

Praised by Classic Rock Revisited for their “funky rhythm section” and their “freedom to take their dynamic guitar interplay to new heights,” the Chicago-based singer/songwriters and instrumentalists of the Steepwater Band headline a November 18 concert at Daveport's Raccoon Motel, their most recent album Turn of the Wheel lauded by Blues Rock Review as " a rocking set of Stones-inspired rock and roll."

With Blues Rock Review calling her “a captivating artist with a new take on a familiar genre” and Rock and Blues Muse labeling the musician “a gutsy and emotionally charged singer with a vocal range to die for,” award-winning blues rocker Danielle Nicole brings her Kansas City outfit to Common Chord's Redstone Room on November 20, when the Davenport crowd will be treated to the talents that made 2018's Cry No More a number-one smash on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart.

Continuing the organization's run of exhilarating Third Sunday Jazz Workshop & Matinée Series concert events held in Bettendorf's Rivermont Collegiate, Polyrhythms presents a November 20 engagement with the talents of Frankie Fontagne & the Polyrhythmic Extravaganza, with the gifted headliner and Monmouth native joined onstage by Daniel Leahy, Corey Kendrick, Steve Grismore, Ronald Wilson, Jamie Hopkins, and Manuel Lopez III.

On November 18, a revered group of chart-topping, Grammy-winning rockers will be celebrated when Rock Island's Bally's Quad Cities presents the four piece ensemble Hotel California: The Original Eagles Tribute, an evening of beloved, iconic hits sure to include such chart-toppers as "Hotel California," "Peaceful Easy Feeling," "Best of My Love," "One of These Nights," and, of course, "Heartache Tonight."

With the concert event boasting six dazzling costume changes, exquisite musicianship, powerful vocals, and a spectacular and immersive multimedia backdrop, the touring artists of BritBeat: A Tribute to the Beatles take the stage at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse on November 19, allowing patrons to step into a time machine and experience a remarkable recreation of the Fab Four in concert during the fabulous 1960s.

With The Cabaret Way raving that "her voice is stunning" and the Bistro Awards' Gerry Geddes calling her breakout performance "one of the most stylish, assured, intelligent, entertaining New York cabaret debuts I have had the pleasure to witness," the gifted, versatile singer Amy Friedl Stoner headlines a November 19 concert at Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center, blending traditional Christmas songs with contemporary seasonal favorites in her touring show Home for the Holidays.

In the Figge Art Museum's current Film at the Figge series, the Davenport venue is screening international, award-winning works that deal with death, loss, and grief in unexpected ways, and the affecting and arresting lineup continues on December 15 with It's Only the End of the World, Xavier Dolan's award-winning French-Canadian drama lauded by The Guardian as a "brilliant, stylized, and hallucinatory evocation of family dysfunction."

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