The University of Dubuque's 2021-22 Performing Arts Series continues in magical style on March 11 with the Heritage Center arrival of internationally touring illusionist Mike Super, the gifted performer from Penn & Teller: Fool Us who remains the only magician in U.S. history to win a live magic competition on prime-time network television.

Chart-topping Scottish musicians whom Broadway Baby praised for producing “music that upholds heritage while still sounding unmistakably current,” the Celtic rockers of Skerryvore play a special University of Dubuque Heritage Center concert perfectly timed for St. Patrick's Day, their March 17 performance delivering an eclectic fusion of rock, pop, and folk music with an emphatic thundering of drums and bagpipes.

Lauded by Holler magazine as an outfit that is "starting to make the most lifelike music of their career," the dark-country trio Lost Dog Street Band headlines a March 6 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel in support of their newest recording Glory, a work that American Songwriter called "an album that loops the listener in, courtesy of a decidedly down-home sound which gives these homespun homilies the humility and humanity they demand."

Having completed more than 30 full-length performances in North America between 2019 and 2020, and selling out venues in states including Illinois, Florida, Texas, and Washington, the exhilarating dance talents of Chicago's Hiplet Ballet appear as the latest guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series, their March 3 and 5 performances potentially incorporating the rhythms of African drums with Tchaikovsky, or arabesques and beat-boxing en pointe, all while showcasing the group's trademark sass.

After an incredible 72-year wait, the 1950 Federal Census will finally be released on April 1. And three weeks earlier, on March 10, the Davenport Public Library and presenters Anne Thomas and Karen O'Connor will explore the significance of its release in the presentation Making Sense of the Census: 1950, providing a historical overview and detailing what information the 1950 census could potentially provide for your family's history.

A consistently popular and lauded presence on the Midwestern touring circuit, beloved folk singer/songwriter Cody Diekhoff – better known by his recording alias Chicago Farmer – plays a March 3 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room with his ensemble The Field Notes, the artist a soulful crooner and guitarist who inspired No Depression to rave, “If the Midwest is looking for a voice, the search is over.”

Classical-music lovers, on March 5 and 6, will be invited to take a trip around the world without ever leaving the Quad Cities (or their own living rooms), as the Quad City Symphony Orchestra continues its 2021-22 Masterworks series with From East to West, a thrilling ensemble performance and showcase for QCSO concertmaster and violinist Naha Greenholz.

Adored by audiences for the show's signature reworking of popular modern music into different vintage genres, especially early-20th-century forms such as swing and jazz, the touring sensation Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox lands at Davenport's Adler Theatre on March 8, this rotating musical collective having thus far amassed roughly 1.4 billion YouTube views and five million subscribers.

Vibrantly colorful works by a Long Grove native and the retired chair of the art department of Northwest Missouri State University will be showcased at the Beréskin Gallery & Art Academy through April 27, with the Bettendorf venue housing 17 ravishing acrylic paintings of varying sizes in the exhibition Philip Laber: Dialogues Within.

Touring in support of his most recent album American Soul, a work that Lyric magazine called “one that you will listen to and get a whole load of fun from,” chart-topping country-music singer/songwriter Aaron Watson headlines a March 5 concert at East Moline's The Rust Belt, the artist lauded by Rolling Stone as "Texas country's reigning indie underdog."

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