Lauded by All About Jazz as musicians who possess "a seemingly effortless ability to put a song across with a bursting-with-life elan," the genre-hopping quartet LP & the Vinyl serves as the latest guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artists series, their April 25 through 29 area tenure demonstrating why The Jazz Owl raved, "If there is a group worthy of special attention and reintroduction in jazz, it is LP & the Vinyl."

A sonic master of progressive rock brings his long-awaited Davenport tour stop to the Adler Theatre on April 22, with the Alan Parsons Live Project performing from a repertoire dating back nearly 50 years and boasting such hits as "Sirius," which was famously employed used as entrance music for the Chicago Bulls during their 1990s NBA heyday.

With the Crossroads Blues Society deeming her "one of the up and coming stars in the blues world" whose album Harvesting My Roots "needs to be in your collection ... because you will get years and years of listening pleasure from it," Chicago-based artist Ivy Ford performs an April 21 concert at Bettendorf's Crawford Brew Works, her set the latest event in the fundraising Brews ’n’ Blues Concert Series hosted by Crawford and the Mississippi Valley Blues Society.

On April 21, Utah-based author and university professor Branden Little will detail the programs and people that Herbert Hoover set up to feed millions in the online presentation Hoover: A 50-Year Humanitarian Odyssey, the latest informative and fascinating program in the Davenport Public Library's virtual 3rd Thursday at Hoover's Presidential Library & Museum series.