A collective of powerfully enthusiastic New York City musicians serves as the latest guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series, with the gifted touring sensations of the High & Mighty Brass playing performing concerts sets at the DeWitt Community Library on March 22 and Rock Island's Stern Center on March 24.

Appearing virtually in a March 24 Moline Public Library presentation, the critically acclaimed, bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf will be on hand to discuss her most recent suspense novel The Overnight Guest, the January publication that the New York Times praised as "fully realized, wholly absorbing, and almost painfully suspenseful," adding that "the journey is mesmerizing."

The fascinating life of a longtime Iowa resident, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, and close friend to Walt Disney will be explored in a March 27 presentation hosted by the German American Heritage Center, with the Davenport venue hosting the special live event Cartoons & Conversation: A Visit with Ding Darling, a solo performance piece written by and starring Midwestern stage talent Tom Milligan.

With Blues Blast praising their recording Daddy Told Me as “an excellent album by any standards,” the electrifying musicians of Shawn Holt & the Teardrops – led by the son of late blues legend Magic Slim – play a March 19 fundraising concert at Bettendorf's Crawford Brew Works, the musicians' raves including That Devil Music's praise for Daddy Told Me as "a wonderful collection of inspired versions of songs written or popularized by Magic Slim alongside Holt’s own well-written originals."