With the band's latest album described by Atwood magazine as "radiant and spirited, uplifting and inspired," the Missouri-based indie rockers of Hembree headline a June 15 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Atwood's rave for It's a Dream! continuing by stating, "Between the cinematic guitars and full-bodied harmonies, celebrations of the present and intimate reckonings deep down inside, Hembree have delivered a seductive release we'll surely be returning to for years to come."

Performing catchy, clap-along family favorites such as “Popcorn” and “Now I Go to School," the children's-music talents of Laura Doherty & the Heartbeats headline the Butterworth Center's first Music on the Lawn concert for 2022, with the Moline venue proud to host the singer/songwriter and guitarist named by Time Out Chicago as the Windy City's "Top Kids' Musician in Chicago."

For the venerated classical-theatre company's latest season of performances in Rock Island's Lincoln Park, Genesius Guild is opening its 2022 lineup with perhaps the most beloved – and certainly the most famous – tragic romance of all time, with William Shakespeare's timeless Romeo & Juliet being performed June 18 through 26 by a gifted cast almost wholly composed of actors who are also high-schoolers.

For the company's latest presentation of free verse theatre in Iowa City's City Park, Riverside Theatre, from June 17 through July 3, invites audiences “once more unto the breach” for one of the boldest and most exhilarating works in the classical canon: William Shakespeare's Henry V, with this glorious outdoor production boasting a tremendously gifted cast led by Riverside Theatre veteran Katy Hahn in the title role.

Lauded by the Los Angeles Times for "its transporting sense of place, its striking visual pleasures and its credible and moving performances," the 2018 drama Rafiki enjoys a June 12 Figge Art Museum Screening as part of the Davenport venue's celebration of Gay Pride Month, this acclaimed romance noted for being the first Kenyan film to ever be screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

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."

Boasting five recordings released before the musician has had a chance to turn 21, the 20-year-old New York-born, Nashville-based singer/songwriter McKinley James and his bandmates headline a June 11 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the up-and-coming artist praised by the Rochester City Newspaper as a talent who “digs deep into rock 'n' roll's blackness and blueness” and “plays downright nasty and mean.”

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.

One of the Quad Cities' best-loved rock ensembles, and musicians responsible for one of the area's best-loved outdoor festivals, headlines a Summer 2022 Music Lineup concert at the Tangled Wood, with the Bettendorf venue, on June 11, hosting an evening with the jam-band talents (and Dawn & On Music Festival originators) of The Dawn.

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.

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