Lauded by Rolling Stone as "one of country’s most fascinating young songwriters" and by Saving Country Music as "a big man with a high lonesome voice and heartfelt songs who is quickly rising up the independent country music depth charts," Joshua Ray Walker headlines a June 22concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel in support of his most recent release See You Next Time, which Americana Highways deemed "a fitting end to Walker's trilogy and its tribute to the fleeting, yet possibly life-changing, connection to be found at your nearest honky-tonk."

Touring in support of last year's release And Now Let's Turn to Page..., an album that Glide magazine called "warm and heartfelt" and that Americana Highways said "challenges the listener to jump from their pew and holler hallelujah," Brent Cobb headlines a June 18 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the southern-rock, country, and Americana singer/songwriter also praised by Americana UK as an artist who :"revives gospel classics with his distinctive voice and instrumentation."

Performing in Maquoketa in support of their self-titled 2021 debut album, a recording Atwood magazine praised as “an album of many tastes all bundled into an impressively cohesive and consistently engaging set,” the artists of Wilderado play the Codfish Hollow Barn on June 19, with The Guardian raving of their first LP that "each and every one of these 10 songs brings on an otherworldly sensation that is a surprising combination of danceable, heartfelt, laid back, and goosebump-raising.”

Based on extensive research in century-old German congregational manuscripts, period documents, and oral history gathered decades ago, the German American Heritage Center's June 11 virtual program The War Within: World War I & the Assault on German Identity in Iowa will detail a largely forgotten chapter in the history of Iowa and the life of a faithful congregation, one still capable of eliciting strong emotion and providing a sobering, thought-provoking lesson on which to reflect.