On April 2 and 3, the long-awaited return of live music at the Rock Island Brewing Company will be celebrated with concert sets by venue favorites The Schwag, who, in the band's 30th year as professional Grateful Dead tribute artists, will perform from a repertoire that includes such classics as “Uncle John's Band,” “Truckin,” “Alabama Getaway,” and the chart-topping “Touch of Grey.”

Presented on April 1 in conjunction with the Figge Art Museum's current exhibition For America: 200 Years of Painting from the National Academy of Design, the virtual Scholar Talk with Margie Cain finds the co-director of Rock Island's Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum sharing information on the venue, its collections, and its exhibits in connection with artist and inventor Samuel F.B. Morse, whose painting Self-Portrait is showcased in the popular Figge attraction.

The history of one of America's most notable public-work-relief efforts will be explored on April 5 when Iowa author Linda McCann discusses The Civil Conservation Corps, a virtual program co-presented by the Scott County Iowa Genealogical Society and the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center of the Davenport Public Library.

On March 26, Figge Art Museum members are invited to hop on a computer and travel to Washington D.C. in the virtual tour Across America: The Smithsonianan online visit to the Experience America exhibition focusing on artists in the 1930s and the exciting opportunities available to them during that period.

Performing under the direction of George de la Peña and Alex Bush, and featuring a company of 13 graduate and undergraduate dancers, the University of Iowa's UI Dance Company will deliver diverse and exciting performances in their April 3 home concert – a virtual celebration of the innovation, athleticism, and perseverance of the university's dance community featuring a quintet of thrilling, debuting vignettes.

Described by The New Yorker as “legendary,” and hailed as “gospel titans” by Rolling Stone, the internationally touring musicians known as The Blind Boys of Alabama will deliver a special, virtual Easter-weekend concert on April 2, the Englert Theatre presentation giving viewers an at-home audience with a group that, according to the New York Times, performs “a livelier breed of gospel music” they made “zestier still by adding jazz and blues idioms and turning up the volume, creating a sound like the rock 'n' roll that grew out of it.”

A special event held in honor of the former First Lady's March 29 birthday, the Davenport Public Library's virtual presentation Lou Henry Hoover: A Life of Adventure will find Leslie Hoover-Lauble – President Hoover’s great-granddaughter – and Hoover Library Archives Technician Spencer Howard sharing stories and photos illustrating the amazing life of Lou from independent girl to scientist to world traveler to First Lady.

Lauded by the Hollywood Reporter as “a smart, hilarious, and provocative drama” and by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as “shockingly insightful and outrageously hilarious,” playwright Joshua Harmon's Admissions will enjoy live performances in St. Ambrose University's Studio Theatre March 24 through 28, this timely and enthralling tale described by the Miami Herald as “an absorbing drama and a prod to self-examination.”

An opera legend will celebrated on-stage when Shelley Cooper, Augustana College's Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, performs her one-woman show La Divina: The Last Interview of Maria Callas at Moline's Black Box Theatre March 28 through 28, the production a loving tribute to an iconic figure that legendary composer Leonard Bernstein called “the Bible of opera.”

Classical-music fans can enjoy a little bit of “A ittle Night Music” when area composer Jacob Bancks, on March 28, delivers the virtual presentation Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, a German American Heritage Center program that uses this much-loved composition to explore how listeners can develop particular habits of listening to music.

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