Ever since the 2018 musical bio-pic Bohemian Rhapsody won four Academy Awards and grossed more than $215 million domestic and $875 million worldwide, Freddie Mercury and Queen have been hotter than ever – which is sure to be proven by the raucous crowd response on March 19 when Moline's TaxSlayer Center pays tribute to the iconic British rockers in the stage spectacle One Night of Queen performed by Gary Mullen & the Works.

Touring in support of his 2021 album First Agnostic Church of Wonder, a recording that Rolling Stone called "a raw portrait of a world-class songwriter processing calamity and chaos in real time, the iconic, genre-hopping singer/songwriter Todd Snider returns to Davenport's Redstone Room on March 21, demonstrating why Rolling Stone also raved, “His lyrics are razor sharp, unsparing, hilarious, and surprisingly tender.”

Praised by Chicago Theatre Review as an "enthralling" play "that audiences who like their entertainment spiced with controversy and seasoned with today’s headlines will absolutely enjoy," author Eleanor Burgess' The Niceties runs at Iowa City's Riverside Theatre March 11 through 27, the work lauded by the New York Times as “a bristling, provocative debate play about race and privilege in the United States, and it begs to be argued with.”

Disparate yet equally arresting works by a pair of Midwestern artists will be on display at the Quad City Arts International Airport Gallery through April 26, with visitors invited to marvel as the paper mosaics of Granite City, Illinois' Alex Paradowski and the papier-mâché sculptures of St. Charles, Missouri's Deanne Row.

Lauded by Pitchfork magazine as "an audacious ringleader for new music," percussionist and composer Jon Mueller headlines a solo March 12 concert at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox, the artist's esteemed list of collaborators having included James Plotkin, Rhys Chatham, Asmus Tietchens, Z'EV, Jason Kahn, and Marcus Schmickler.

With support for the concert provided by the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts, the exuberant musicians of the NOLA Jazz Band will play a special Redstone Room concert on March 12, its members dedicated to exposing audiences to traditional jazz music, its history, and its emotion.

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.

With more than 60 years of professional performance to their credit, the Grammy-winning country-music superstars the Gatlin Brothers - Larry, Steve, and Rudy – bring their national tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on March 13, the beloved trio having accumulated seven chart-topping singles, 32 top-40 records, 22 studio albums, and five BMI "Million-Air" Awards.

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.

Described by Jazz Times as an artist who “cooks up a brilliant marriage of blues, jazz, gospel, and soul,” New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee Bruce Katz and his Bruce Katz Band play a March 15 set at Bettendorf's Crawford Brew Works as the debut performers in the Brews ’n’ Blues Concert Series, a new part of the Mississippi Valley Blues Society's fundraising efforts for its education-outreach program Blues in the Schools.

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