Boasting more than 35 uninterrupted years of professional performance in the Mexican regional genre scene, the gifted musicians of Banda Yurirense headline a June 10 concert at the Rust Belt, these talents from Santo Tomas Salvatierra Guanajuato traveling to East Moline to share with audiences the Guanajuato style known as "the queen of the bajio."

Describing her works as "immersive installations and drawings that tap a non-verbal physiological landscape of body and space, provoking emotional, visceral and perceptual responses," artist Anne Lindberg teams up with a noted writer for Anne Lindberg: think like the river with poet Ginny Threefoot, a fascinating collaborative exhibition – on display through September 4 – hosted by Davenport's Figge Art Museum.

While many cities and towns in Iowa are thriving, and have always been, a number of them since the state's inception have been all but completely forgotten, and it's these communities that the German American Heritage Center will acknowledge when the Davenport venue hosts the in-person program Off the Map: Stories of Abandoned & Disappearing Towns Around Iowa, a June 12 event presented by Iowa State University graduate Rosa Snyder.

On June 10 and 11, 30 talented and intelligent young women from across the state will compete for top honors in the preliminaries and finals for the Miss Iowa and Miss Iowa's Outstanding Teen Competitions, with guests at Davenport's Adler Theatre invited to share the excitement as this year's candidates compete in the categories of Talent, Red Carpet, On-Stage Interview/Social Impact Pitch, and Lifestyle & Fitness.