With their national tour landing locally just five days ahead of St. Patrick's Day, the internationally beloved Shamrock Tenors play Davenport's Adler Theatre on March 12, this acclaimed quintet hailed by The Irish News for delivering "songs we all know ... gilded with beautiful harmonies and a typically Irish sense of fun!”

After 25 years, 12 albums, five Grammy Award nominations, and sold-out shows across the country, the blues and Southern-rock talents of the North Mississippi Allstars headline a March 8 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room, their recent recording Set Sail lauded by AllMusic as "easily the band's most mature, far-reaching, affirmative statement."

Held as part of the unique concert series held in Davenport's intimate and cozy Redstone Room, the March 7 7 Songwriter Sessions event will find guests treat to a seated evening of tunes hosted by David G. Smith, with additionally winning performances delivered by Mark Ridolfi and Carol Montag.

A special musical presentation in the Davenport venue's popular "Kaffee und Kuchen" series, the German American Heritage Center's Friendship: Connections in New Lands will, on March 9, find gifted soprano Lily Arbisser and esteemed French pianist Dimitri Malignan performing a special recital inspired by Oranit Ben Zimra’s photography exhibition Mit dir bin ich ich / With You, I Am Myself.

Lauded for his work as lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist in alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday, and currently active with outfits The Color Fred and Say Anything, Fred Mascherino headlines a March 10 concert event at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, The Color Fred's 2022 recording A Year & Change praised by I Am Tuned Up as a work that "sounds fresh and driven, and the stories here are sincere and slightly unnerving."

Current winners of the solo/duo category for the Iowa Blues Challenge who placed as semi-finalists at the 2025 International Blues Festival in Memphis, Cedar County Cobras headline a March 13 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the popular duo of Tom Spielbauer and April Dirks arriving with an upright bass, foot drum, and several guitars to play American roots and blues music from the last century.

Finom, March 8

Touring in support of their 2024 album Not God, hailed by Flood magazine as "a wonderful rumination on the perceived limitations of songcraft," the indie-folk duo Finom headline a March 8 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the Chicago-based outfit formed in 2014 by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist duo Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart.

On display in the Figge Art Museum's third-floor gallery from through June 8, the arresting exhibit Cara & Diego Romero: Tales of Futures Past brings together artwork by acclaimed contemporary artists Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) and Diego Romero (Cochiti). This nationally traveling exhibition boasts 18 of Diego's thought-provoking pottery pieces and lithographs, 20 of Cara's evocative photographs, including from her Indigenous Futurism series, and a new collaborative piece created exclusively for this exhibition.

A fascinating and absorbing collection of abstract art is currently on view in the Black Hawk College ArtSpace Gallery, as gifted Midwestern artist Kent Broadbent showcases recent works in New & Improved, the fascinating pieces on display through April 4.

With the event moderated by art therapist Dana Keeton, Figge Art Museum guests are invited, on March 13, to hear from a panel of healthcare professionals, family caretakers, and patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's as they discuss the impact of dementia on those who are directly impacted and their caretakers, the presentation held in conjunction with the Davenport venue's current exhibition Louise Kames: I Don't See Anything That's Not Beautiful.

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