Returning to downtown Davenport for the 48th time, the Quad-City Times Bix 7 will find runners and walkers taking on a seven-mile foot race alongside live bands and cheering crowds, with the July 29 and 30 weekend also featuring numerous block parties – hosted by dozens of downtown-Davenport businesses – between the Rock Island Arsenal Bridge on the east to the Centennial Bridge on the west.

A 2016 Tony Award nominee and a tune-filled farce that the New York Daily News named one of its year's top-10 must-see musicals, the heady and hysterical Disaster! enjoys a July 20 through September 10 run at Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse, this jukebox delight inspiring Time Out New York's Adam Feldman to rave, "I can’t remember the last time I laughed out loud at the theatre as often as I did at Disaster!"

One of the Quad Cities most eagerly anticipated day-long festivals returns on July 23 in the seventh iteration of the Dawn & On Music Festival, with the area musicians of The Dawn hosting bluegrass, funk, roots, reggae, and plenty of rock in nine exhilarating concert sets – from nine much-admired local and regional acts – held in Rock Island's Schwiebert Riverfront Park.

Performing locally in support of her latest EP in which, according to Atwood magazine, "the Nashville singer/songwriter stuns with stirring alternative and indie-pop gold," Savannah Conley brings her tour to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on July 23, the artist's new EP Surprise, Surprise, in Atwood's words, "an intimate, elegant, and charming set of coming-of-age songs reckoning with the throes of young adulthood."