A wildly popular comedy show filled with stage shenanigans, songs, contests, and prizes designed to lift the spirits, the touring hit Randy's Cheeseburger Picnic lands at Davenport's Raccoon Motel on October 26, treating patrons to a night with Canadian actor Patrick Roach and his alter ego: lovable Randy of Trailer Park Boys fame.

An associate professor of religion and highly decorated professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Augustana College, Dr. M. Wolff will be at the Davenport Public Library's Eastern Avenue Branch on October 30, discussing and signing her new book Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging.

On October 18, Rock Island's Dan Vinar Furniture Company (and current Rock Island Haunted Roadhouse), will host the 2025 Quad Cities Archives Fair, allowing the public to experience Quad Cities history by visiting with regional cultural and historical organizations, learning about unique collections and services, listening to talks on historical topics, and discovering some of the area's hidden gems.

Hosted by River Action and themed "“A Piece of a Larger Puzzle," the 19th-Annual Upper Mississippi River Conference will be held at Moline's Stoney Creek Inn & Convention Center on October 15 and 16, the event designed to bring together conservationists, policymakers, scientists, students, and community leaders to collaborate on holistic solutions for the Mississippi River and its watershed.

Praised by Funkatopia for his “amazingly fluid guitar and great piano work” and “vocal work which he has nailed down to a science,” singer and multi-instrumentalist Marshall Charloff brings his ensemble the Purple xPeRIeNCE to Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 17, the ensemble performing the signature stylings of Prince & the Revolution, and emerging as what the El Paso Times deemed the nation's “top Prince tribute act.”

Delivering a high-energy, sing-along night of hits sure to include "Beautiful Crazy," "Hurricane," "Beer Never Broke My Heart," "Kick the Dust Up," "Strip It Down," and "Home Alone Tonight," frontmen Adam Lee and Brandon Todd bring the touring sensation Battle of the Lukes: Hits from Luke Combs & Luke Bryan to East Moline venue The Rust Belt, their October 18 engagement a celebration of two of country music's biggest stars - and biggest Lukes.

A combined celebration of two of the most revered and iconic rock bands in American history, the Redstone Room's October 17 concert with Southbound and Winterland will find their artists paying respective tribute to the Allman Brothers Band and the Grateful Dead, both ensembles Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees included among Rolling Stone's ranking of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time."

With their 2023 album Vacationland hailed by Motif magazine as a recording that "rocks like it’s opening a portal to another dimension," guitarist/songwriter and Quad Cities native Ryan Flaherty and drummer/vocalist Erika Stahl bring their outfit Muddy Ruckus to Players in the Village of East Davenport, their October 16 engagement treating fans to what The Sound hailed as "infectious, foot-stomping Americana tunes."

Their latest program boasting an astounding variety of composing talents, Galesburg's professional vocal ensemble the Nova Singers opens their 40th-anniversary season with thrilling presentations of In Our Voices, a showcase of rare beauty, charm, sincerity, and emotional power being performed at Galesburg's First Lutheran Church on October 18 and Davenport's First Presbyterian Church on October 19.

Performing locally in support of their 2025 release Land's End Eternal, which The Quietus hailed as "an album of fluttering ambience and uncanny cyborg systems," the Oakland, California-based electroacoustic saxophonist, improviser, and composer Cole Pulice headlines an October 18 concert at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox, Treblezine calling the artist's latest a work in which "dissonant fragments and jagged edges settle in your ears with a sense of decay that is simultaneously unsettling and mesmerizing."

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