With their works deemed “fresh and innovative” by the Chicago Tribune and “so imaginative, so playfully revisionist, so superbly realized” by the Chicago Sun-Times, the Windy City hoofers of Chicago Dance Crash bring their new stage show LXIV (six.four) to Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on February 7, the company’s fusion-style moves creating intensely physical, authentic, and narrative-driven art.

Delivering the Spring 2026 Michael Lester Wendt Character Lecture for the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center, the institution's president Travis Frampton, PhD will speak on Heroes, Villains, & Leading Roles: How Stories Shape Character, this insightful program taking place in the John and Alice Butler Hall on February 9.

Touring in support of his new album Skyman set for release this April, veteran recording artist and touring musician Scott Kinnebrew brings his project Sounding Arrow to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on January 30, the indie-pop and -rock singer/songwriter/instrumentalist hailed by Glide as a talent who “combines an effortless storytelling approach akin to Jeff Tweedy, along with a playful and catchy knack for DIY indie reminiscent of Dr. Dog, My Morning Jacket, and Delta Spirit.”

Hailed by Saving Country Music as an artist who "might be the most distinctive singer of our era, and in any genre," rising country-rock star Myron Elkins makes his headlining debut at Davenport's Raccoon Motel on January 29, his debut album Factories, Farms, & Amphetamines lauded by Holler Country as "a gritty, no-holds-barred glimpse at life in America’s heartland."