A chart-topping country-rap star and a grandson of country-music icon Waylon Jennings, touring sensation Struggle Jennings plays a special concert event at East Moline venue The Rust Belt on March 24, the artist currently touring in support of his 2021 album Outlaw Shit recorded with fellow rapper and singer/songwriter Adam Calhoun.

Touring in support of the 15th anniversary of their seminal album The Fall of Ideals, a recording that The New Fury labeled the group's "crowning achievement," the heavy-metal and hard-rock musicians of All That Remains perform a March 26 engagement at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, playing hits from their extensive repertoire and the 2006 album that Pop Matters deemed "the kind of stylistic leap that most bands can only wish they could pull off."

Appearing locally in their “Country Cadillac Tour Part 2,” the critically acclaimed, award-winning duo of Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser play a special concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt on March 27, the artist's significant supply of hits songs including such beloved tunes as “Give It Away,” “In Color,” “Like a Cowboy,” and “What Whiskey Does.”

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 locally to discuss his acclaimed non-fiction that the New York Post called an "essential work of sports reporting" and that the Library Journal deemed a "tragic, moving story that will linger with readers," author and sportscaster Reid Forgrave visits the Davenport Public Library's Fairmount Street Branch on March 28 to discuss matters of sports, health, and children's safety in his presentation Love, Zac: Football, Concussions, & Raising Boys in 21st-Century America.

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."

With her 2021 book Broken (in the Best Possible Way) debuting at the number-three spot on the New York Times Bestseller list, lauded author Jenny Lawson participates in a virtual March 30 program hosted by the Moline Public Library, the critically acclaimed writer's most recent publication also named Best Humor Book of the Year at the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards.

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.

Tool, March 17

Chart-topping progressive rockers and the recipients of four Grammy Awards, the metal musicians of Tool bring their national tour to Moline's TaxSlayer Center on March 17, with the band's most recent album Fear Inoculum earning the group a Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Album and an AMFT Award for Best Metal Performance.

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."

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