Designed for all ages interested in health, fitness, and athletic performance, the 2022 Quad City Fit Fest will be held at East Moline's Bend XPO on February 27 and 27, the eagerly anticipated two-day event boasting vendors, activities, demonstrations, speakers, and a number of special guest visitors, among them Billy Blanks Jr. of the worldwide phenomenon Dance It Out.

Performing locally in support of their self-titled 2021 debut album, a recording Atwood magazine praised as “an album of many tastes all bundled into an impressively cohesive and consistently engaging set,” the artists of Wilderado play Davenport's Raccoon Motel on February 28, with The Guardian raving of their first LP that "each and every one of these 10 songs brings on an otherworldly sensation that is a surprising combination of danceable, heartfelt, laid back, and goosebump-raising.”

Lauded by Rolling Stone as an artist who delivers “hardscrabble honkytonk at its best, nodding to Johnny Cash and Buck Owens in equal measure,” country-music singer/songwriter Jeremy Pinnell headlines a February 17 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the musician's 2017 album Ties of Blood & Affection, Rolling Stone continued, “a stellar collection that could earn Pinnell comparisons to Sturgill Simpson.”

Boasting performances from Augustana College faculty members, students, and guest artists, the college's Shockingly Modern Saxophone Festival will, on February 26, treat music lovers to a day's worth of solo and chamber music in an event exploring new compositions, improvisation, extended performance techniques, micro-tonality, electronic music, multi-media, and other experimental elements.

Described by Glide magazine as “one of the most unflappably earnest musicians on the planet” and by Grammy-winning icon John Mayer as “the best live performer I've ever seen,” rock and Americana singer/songwriter/guitarist Martin Sexton headlines a March 2 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room, demonstrating why Billboard magazine calls him “a star with potential to permanently affect the musical landscape and keep us entertained for years to come.”

With Music Taster's Choice labeling the musician “one of the top 10 guitarists in the world,” the acclaimed blues rocker Anthony Gomes plays Davenport's Redstone Room on February 25 in support of his most recent release Containment Blues, demonstrating the talents that led Blues Music Magazine to rave that the artist's "authentic voice and the formidable guitar chops place him in the forefront of modern blues.”

Appearing locally with familiar traveling companions such as Peanut, José Jalapeño, Bubba J., Sweet Daddy Dee, and Achmed the Dead Terrorist, comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham brings his national “Seriously?!” tour to Moline's TaxSlayer Center on February 26, the performer's comic talent and audience rapport establishing why he holds the Guinness World Record for “Most Tickets Sold for a Stand-Up Comedy Tour.”

Lauded by the San Diego Reader for delivering “a heightened sense of reality, folk tales, and folk dances transmogrified into sinuous spectacle,” the internationally esteemed dance troupe Russian Ballet Theatre brings its production of Swan Lake to Davenport's Adler Theatre on March 1, this innovative presentation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's classic ballet described by the Times-Advocate as “probably as good as it gets.”

With his most recent album Change in Me described by Rootstime as “an enticing journey of jazz, blues, and rock” resulting in a “melting pot of sounds,” blues-guitar legend Eddie Turner headlines a special February 27 concert event at Davenport's Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, with Blues Blast magazine saying that the artist “shines like a diamond” and Guitar Player magazine lauding Turner's “otherworldly, atmospheric guitar style.”

Returning to live performances in the University of Iowa's Space/Place Theatre for the first time in two years, UI Dance Company delivers four presentations of its annual Home Concert February 23 through 26, evenings that promise to be packed with curiosity, humor, and empathy in a diverse exploration of the human experience through movement and metaphor.

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