Delivering the charm that only a light comic opera can bring, Moline's Black Box Theatre will host a special, two-night engagement of Opera Quad Cities' La serva padrona, composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's hour-long operatic entertainment known as a model for the opera buffa genre and a quintessential piece bridging the Baroque and the Classical periods.

Boasting more than 25 years of experience dazzling audiences across the Midwest, a homegrown talent will amaze guests of Moline's Sound Conservatory with two presentations of David Casas: An Evening of Magic & Wonder, the November 23 and 24 events filled with mind-bending illusions, masterful sleight-of-hand, and plenty of interactive fun.

On November 24, Dave Meier, curator for the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum in Walcott, Iowa, will share local history, industry connections, innovation, and engineering feats of the last century in Trucking: A Lifeline Across America, a program in the German American Heritage Center's popular "Kaffee und Kuchen" series boasting discussion on trucking in America through the years and the impact of the Interstate Highway System.

Created in partnership with the Smithsonian Institute’s Traveling Exhibit team, the illuminating and engaging immersive exhibition Hubble Telescope: New Views of the Universe will be on display at Davenport's Putnam Museum & Science Center through January 26, this fascinating, family-themed exhibit designed to be constantly updated with the newest imagery and technology coming from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes.

Teaming up once again for an unforgettable concert event boasting chart-topping hits and passionate lyrics, the combined contemporary-Christian talents TobyMac, MercyMe, and Zach Williams bring their national tour to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK on November 17, performing dozens of fan favorites and delivering an uplifting, inspirational experience designed to get fans singing and dancing.

Two chart-topping country and pop acts will combine for one exceptional evening of music on November 16 when the combined talents of Little Big Town and Sugarland bring their national "Take Me Home Tour" to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK, the former group's number-one singles including "Pontoon" and "Better Man," and the latter's boasting "Want To" and "All I Want to Do."

Their shows consisting of hits and deep cuts sure to have fans leaping out of their seats and singing along, the tribute musicians of Steely Dane headline a November 16 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, the group playing in the same configuration as the Steely Dan touring band, and their sets including a four-piece horn section, two guitars, two keyboards, and female background singers.

Armed with a Grammy Award nomination (for 2021's “The In-Between"), platinum and gold record sales, and multiple Top 25 entries on the Billboard Top 200, the alternative-metal and hard-rock outfit In This Moments brings their "The Godmore Tour" to East Moline venue The Rust Belt on November 20, the group also noted for smash songs including “Whore,” “Blood,” and ”Adrenalize” and career streams of more than 1.3 billion to date.

With Music Taster's Choice labeling the musician “one of the top 10 guitarists in the world,” the acclaimed blues rocker Anthony Gomes plays Davenport's Redstone Room on November 16 in support of his most recent release High Voltage Blues, a recording that stayed on the Billboard Blues Chart for a staggering 22 consecutive weeks, and that inspired Blues Rock Review to rave, "Whether you’re a long-time Gomes fan or you’re just discovering him, there’s plenty to dig into," adding that "the overall production might be the best of any Gomes album to date."

A night of thrilling electronic dance music is guaranteed at Davenport's Redstone Room on November 21, with Snakes and Stars – the new musical project of Michael Travis (The String Cheese Incident, EOTO) and Aaron Johnston (Brazilian Girls, David Byrne's American Utopia) – headlining a pulsating night of EDM with an opening set by the Midwestern sensations of The Tripp Brothers.

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