Global issues of gender oppression, shifting roles, social justice, and more will be explored in the Bettendorf Public Library's latest presentation by the World Affairs Council of the Quad Cities, with the February 27 lecture “Between the Covers: Shaping Feminism in Bangladesh & India” delivered by Augustana College's Associate Professor of English Umme Al-Wazedi.

Performing in support of their self-titled, critically lauded 2017 album, the Canadian power-pop ensemble Sam Coffey & the Irons Lungs perform a February 26 Moeller Nights concert in downtown Davenport, demonstrating why Spill magazine wrote that the musicians “seamlessly sit in a spot that connects modern-indie and post-rock textures with the style of punk rock greats of yesterday and the flair of glam rockers from the early 1970s.”

A chart-topping country singer/songwriter, vocal coach on TV's The Voice, and, according to People magazine, 2017's “Sexiest Man Alive” hits Moline's TaxSlayer Center on February 23 in a concert with recording phenomenon Blake Shelton, who will treat fans to hits ranging from his self-titled 2001 debut to his Texoma Shore smash from this past November.

One of the nation's most admired storytellers serves as the latest Quad City Arts Visiting Artist when Moline's Buuterworth Center hosts a February 23 public performance with Charlotte Blake Alston, whose talents have been enjoyed worldwide at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Women of the World Festival in Cape Town, South Africa.

With his most recent release The Heart described by RenownedForSound.com as “a deeply personal, sentimental, and intimate album that shines through its musical simplicity and emotional perceptivenes,” acoustic surf rocker Donavon Frankenreiter plays Davenport's Redstone Room on February 27, treating audiences to tuneful, upbeat songs that MusicFarm.com calls “hard not to sing and dance along with.”

A St. Ambrose University professor whose works can be found in the art collections of Yale Art Library, Ringling College of Art & Design, and the University of Dallas, Joseph Lappie will find his talents showcased locally in the Figge Art Museum exhibit Personbal Mythologies, on display from February 24 through May 20.

The Quad City Hash House Harriers' Dirty Pirate Chapter – part of the loosely affiliated international organization and a self-described “Drinking Club with a Running Problem” – hosts its 8th Annual Red Dress Run on February 17, with all participants, female and make alike, donning red dresses to show their spirit and draw attention to this charity event.

A celebration of composers and songs from across the Atlantic Ocean, Music of the Deep North II, the wintertime concert by the professional vocal ensemble the Nova Singers, will treat audiences to moving and exciting arrangements of Baltic and Scandinavian works when performed February 17 at Galesburg's First Lutheran Church, and February 18 at Davenport's St. Paul Lutheran Church.

One of Amerian theatre's most acclaimed and awarded titles will enjoy an intimate yet emotionally grand staging when St. Ambrose University and director Sam Jones present the stage classic A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller's Tony-winning family drama that runs in the Studio Theatre February 15 through 18.

With album sales in excess of 10 million since the band's 1995 launch, the country superstars of Lonestar play the Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Center on February 16, treating fans to a repertoire that includes such chart-topping singles as “No News,” “Come Crying to Me,” and the crossover smash “Amazed.”

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