An eagerly awaited springtime event taking place over Mother's Day weekend in Davenport's spacious Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds, the Beaux Arts 2026 Spring Fair will treat visitors to an outdoor celebration of visual arts and fine crafts on May 9 and 10,, with the annual event featuring food, live music, children's activities, and works for sale by dozens of artists and Midwestern vendors.

With the May 14 event led by Co-Senior Curator Joshua Johnson, the Figge Art Museum's latest Music and Maker's Night will boast an art-making activity and live music in the Davenport venue's Quad City Bank & Trust Grand Lobby, as well as Johnson guiding museum guests on a tour of the fascinating exhibition Get Surreal ( A Surreal Lens).

A Boston-born hip-hop artist and entrepreneur widely celebrated for his hit single "Word to the Wise," Matt Corman headlines a May 3 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the 31-year-old thus far amassing more than 200 million streams for his repertoire that boasts more than 200 songs to date.

Touring in support of their most recent studio album Servitude, which TheRazorsEdge.rocks deemed "a conveyor belt of unbridled badassery," the death-metal artists of The Black Dahlia Murder headline a May 1 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, Yardbarker's Jeff Mezyido having included the band in 2025's list of "the greatest metal acts that formed in the 2000s."