10 Aug 2021

Quad City Bank & Trust Presents the Riverfront Pops' “The Music of the Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, 1969,” August 21

By Reader Staff

With the night's unforgettable songs including “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Midnight Rambler,” “You Can't Always Get What You Want,” and a host of classics from iconic albums Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed, Quad City Bank & Trust and the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, on August 21, present LeClaire Park's latest Riverfront Pops spectacle The Music of the Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, 1969, a rockin' park party boasting guest artist, lead singer, and international Mick Jagger tribute artist Mick Adams.

10 Aug 2021

Virtual Presentation: “The Lafayette Escadrille,” August 19

By Reader Staff

Delivered as part of the Davenport Public Library's virtual 3rd Thursday at Hoover's Presidential Library & Museum programming, the August 19 Zoom webinar The Lafayette Escadrille will tell the heroic tale of how 38 Americans volunteered to fly, and pay the ultimate price, in the First World War – fighting in the skies to aid France long before our country officially entered the war.

10 Aug 2021

2021 Bill Bell Jazz & Heritage Festival, August 21 and 22

By Reader Staff

Nearly two dozen gifted area musicians will be on hand – and in two Quad Cities locations – when Polyrhythms proudly presents the 2021 Bill Bell Jazz & Heritage Festival, an August 21 and 22 celebration of cultural heritage in the Quad Cities named after the late musician, educator, and East Moline native lovingly known as “The Jazz Professor.”

10 Aug 2021

“Murder in Green Meadows,” August 19 through 28

By Reader Staff

Described by the Windy City Times as “an archly manipulative psycho-thriller” that “holds your attention like a leash,” author Douglas Post's fiendishly witty thriller Murder in Green Meadows enjoys an August 19 through 28 run at Moline's Black Box Theatre, the show a recipient of six Emmy nominations when performed on television by Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

10 Aug 2021

Ani DiFranco, August 19

By Reader Staff

Appearing in the long-awaited grand re-opening show at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, folk- and alternative-rock icon Ani DiFranco, on August 19, headlines the first Barn concert in more than a year, the artist's most recent album Revolutionary Love described by The New Yorker as boasting “robust melodies, padded with streaks of soul and jazz, that represent some of DiFranco's fullest productions yet.”

10 Aug 2021

“The Music of Boston & Journey,” August 20

By Reader Staff

Legendary songs by two iconic rock acts will fill the Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on August 20, when The Music of Boston & Journey features the former band's Tommy DeCarlo – a touring Boston singer since 2007 – performing classic hits from the '70s and '80s, and former American Idol contestant Rudy Cardenas singing Journey smashes such as “Open Arms,” the song the performer made his TV debut with in 2007.

05 Aug 2021

“The Whistleblower's Dilemma,” August 13 through 22

By Reader Staff

From August 13 through 22, the Playcrafters Barn Theatre's 2021 Barn Owl Series that began with the venue's June debut of Princeton's Rage continues with another world premiere: The Whistleblower's Dilemma, a dramatic comedy of chicanery, guile, and yoga written by Bettendorf playwright Jim Sederquist.

03 Aug 2021

“Transit,” August 13

By Reader Staff

Winner of the Dublin International Film Festival's “Best Film” citation for 2019 and included among the National Board of Review's top-five foreign-language films for its year, writer/director Christian Petzoid's Transit, on August 13, serves as the latest presentation in the Kinogarten series of acclaimed, German-themed works hosted by Rock Island's Rozz-Tox and Davenport's German American Heritage Center,

03 Aug 2021

The Beach Boys, August 15

By Reader Staff

Led by lead singer Mike Love, who penned the lyrics to the band's very first hit in 1961's “Surfin',” the iconic surf-rock outfit The Beach Boys makes their long-awaited appearance at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on August 15, with Love performing alongside longtime member Bruce Johnston, musical director Scott Totten, and the gifted ensemble of Brian Eichenberger, Christian Love, Tim Bonhomme, John Cowsill, Keith Hubacher, and Randy Leago.

03 Aug 2021

2021 Iowa Arts Festival, August 13 through 15

By Reader Staff

A 39-year tradition that has attracted more than 25,000 people each summer to downtown Iowa City, the Iowa Arts Festival, from August 13 to 15, will host more than 90 visual artists, include an Emerging Artist Area geared toward elevating student work, and feature a beverage garden, a variety of culinary delights, children’s activities, and thrilling live-music performances on the Main and Ped Mall Stages.

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