Having completed more than 30 full-length performances in North America between 2019 and 2020, and selling out venues in states including Illinois, Florida, Texas, and Washington, the exhilarating dance talents of Chicago's Hiplet Ballet appear as the latest guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series, their March 3 and 5 performances potentially incorporating the rhythms of African drums with Tchaikovsky, or arabesques and beat-boxing en pointe, all while showcasing the group's trademark sass.

After an incredible 72-year wait, the 1950 Federal Census will finally be released on April 1. And three weeks earlier, on March 10, the Davenport Public Library and presenters Anne Thomas and Karen O'Connor will explore the significance of its release in the presentation Making Sense of the Census: 1950, providing a historical overview and detailing what information the 1950 census could potentially provide for your family's history.

A consistently popular and lauded presence on the Midwestern touring circuit, beloved folk singer/songwriter Cody Diekhoff – better known by his recording alias Chicago Farmer – plays a March 3 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room with his ensemble The Field Notes, the artist a soulful crooner and guitarist who inspired No Depression to rave, “If the Midwest is looking for a voice, the search is over.”

Classical-music lovers, on March 5 and 6, will be invited to take a trip around the world without ever leaving the Quad Cities (or their own living rooms), as the Quad City Symphony Orchestra continues its 2021-22 Masterworks series with From East to West, a thrilling ensemble performance and showcase for QCSO concertmaster and violinist Naha Greenholz.

Adored by audiences for the show's signature reworking of popular modern music into different vintage genres, especially early-20th-century forms such as swing and jazz, the touring sensation Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox lands at Davenport's Adler Theatre on March 8, this rotating musical collective having thus far amassed roughly 1.4 billion YouTube views and five million subscribers.

Vibrantly colorful works by a Long Grove native and the retired chair of the art department of Northwest Missouri State University will be showcased at the Beréskin Gallery & Art Academy through April 27, with the Bettendorf venue housing 17 ravishing acrylic paintings of varying sizes in the exhibition Philip Laber: Dialogues Within.

Touring in support of his most recent album American Soul, a work that Lyric magazine called “one that you will listen to and get a whole load of fun from,” chart-topping country-music singer/songwriter Aaron Watson headlines a March 5 concert at East Moline's The Rust Belt, the artist lauded by Rolling Stone as "Texas country's reigning indie underdog."

Composed of bass player Bob Skeat, guitarist Mark Abrahams, drummer Mike Trescott, and guitarist Andy Powell, the latter of whom began recording with the group more than 50 years ago, a legendary rock outfit plays Davenport's Redstone Room in the venue's March 8 concert with Wishbone Ash, an ensemble so gifted and venerated that its past openers at concert events have included the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, and KISS.

Praised by the New York Times for its "accessible, informative, and optimistic look at solutions to the climate crisis," the Australian documentary 2040 serves as the latest presentation in River Action's QC Environmental Film Series, its March 6 premiere at Davenport's Figge Art Museum inviting audiences to look at the effects of climate change over the next 20 years and what technologies that exist today can reverse the effects.

One of the Quad Cities' most eagerly anticipated sales events returns to Rock Island's QCCA Expo Center March 4 through 6, as Melting Pot Productions presents the 2022 Spring Antique Spectacular Vintage Market, allowing hunters of vintage goods an all-weekend opportunity to shop for a wide range of quality antiques.

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