With his recent appearances including concert sets for the Chicago Blues Festival, the Big Blues Bender, and the October Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise, noted blues guitarist Héctor Anchondo performs a special March 13 concert at Davenport's Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, with the acclaimed artist the 2020 winner of the solo/duo category in the 2020 International Blues Challenge.

On March 15, literary history will come alive through a Moline Public Library presentation when historian and performer Laura Keyes delivers her virtual one-woman show on Charlotte Brontë, whose classic Jane Eyre remains a beloved staple of English literature 175 years after its first publication.

A fascinating program held in conjunction with the Figge Art Museum's current exhibition Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee, the March 10 virtual presentation Explore the Archives: Doris Lee will find Emily Moore – former archival assistant at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) – exploring the gifted Midwestern artist's career and works in the Doris Lee Archive housed in the NMWA Library and Research Center.

Winner of two 2008 Tony Awards and the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy of 2007, author Patrick Barlow's slapstick thriller The 39 Steps enjoys a March 10 through 13 run at Rock Island's Augustana College, the show's creative team and its four-person cast sure to demonstrate why the New York Times called this Alfred Hitchcock celebration/spoof an “indomitably funny” comedy of “virtuosic clowning.”