Performing in support of their split EP with The Rumjacks that spawned the hit singles "Mud" and "Sorry," the Chicago-based Celtic-punk musicians of Flatfoot 56 return to the Quad Cities on July 11, their engagement at Davenport's Raccoon Motel sure to fill the Davenport venue with what IndieVision Music called “their rambunctious style that their fans have come to love.”

With their 2024 debut LP Miss Missed Connection the winner of the South Arts Jazz Roads Award and, according to The Grateful Web, boasting "infectiously fun songs that invite crowd participation," the touring pop, soul, and New Orleans brass talents of Sweet Magnolia headline a July 13 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, their songs hailed by Glide magazine as "unapologetically sassy, infectiously fun, and bold."

Performing a special co-headlining engagement on July 11, the Americana and classic-rock outfits Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers and Miles Nielsen & the Rusted Hearts bring their combined talents to Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the former's discography ranging from 1999's Honky Tonk Union to 2017's Live at the Belly Up, and the latter's OHBAHOY hailed by Maximum Volume Music as “such a staggeringly diverse 11 songs that you can only marvel at it.”

An Elizabethan classic that spans numerous genres and offers its actors a wide variety of complex and thrilling roles, William Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra enjoys a July 12 through 20 run in the great outdoors of Rock Island's Lincoln Park, this meaty and juicy entertainment having previously lured to the stage the legendary likes of Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Hopkins, and Judi Dench.