Headlining a two-day music festival at the Codfish Hollow Barn, the South Carolina-based ensemble SUSTO brings its Americana and alt-country stylings to Maquoketa on August 31 and September 1, the 2024 Fine Two-Day Fest demonstrating the skills that led Americana UK to call their 2023 release My Entire Life " a fantastic album" with "each song memorable and joyous "

Delivering everything from period-accurate equipment and costumes to spot-on characterizations and musical performances, the vocal and instrumental artists of Rumours bring The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show to Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on September 5, sharing memorable takes on “Big Love,” “Don't Stop,” “Go Your Own Way,” and other pop classics of their era.

A 2022 Grammy Award nominee for The Great Average American, a comedy set that Paste magazine called “full of sharp observations and hilarious insights into regular life,” standup sensation Nate Bargatze brings his national "The Be Funny Tour” to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK on August 23, the funnyman also noted for his Comedy Central Presents and Prime Video specials and multiple appearances on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

With more than 250 Corvettes from across the county expected to attend the eagerly awaited event, the city of LeClaire's annual Vettes on the River: Vettes Supporting Vets will be held at the LeClaire Levee on August 24, the day-long happening boasting raffle drawings, a color guard ceremony, an awards presentation, and much more.

With the event held in advance of the forthcoming German Expressionist Film Series at Davenport venue The Last Picture House, the German American Heritage Center's August 28 presentation The Cinema of Weimar Germany will find Bruce Walters offering fascinating insight into one of film history's most notable periods, its distinctive style characterized by stark contrasts, dramatic shadows, and fantastical sets that conveyed the emotional and psychological turmoil of post-World War I Germany.

Presented on August 25 as the latest presentation in the Davenport venue's popular "Kaffee und Kuchen" series, The Graf Zeppelin: 95th Anniversary Over Davenport will find the German American Heritage Center delivering an insightful and engaging program on the famed passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937, as stands as the world's first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service.

A hilarious and affecting stage presentation in Galesburg's Summer FUN-Raising Series, comedian and radio personality Greg Batton's one-man show Life. In Boxes. enjoys an August 24 presentation at the Orpheum Theatre, the show's star offering an invitation to view some of the memories and moments that have helped define his life – and maybe experiences that will reflect yours, as well.

A special theatrical event that explores the positive relationship that Iowa's Amana Colonies have had with the Meskwaki Indigenous people, the one-man drama Squatters on Red Earth enjoys a one-night-only staging in the Galvin Fine Arts Center of Davenport's St. Ambrose University on August 24, this tale of a peaceful encounter in the midst of the U.S. white settler land grab the latest stage work by former Poet Laureate of Iowa Mary Swander.

Held in conjunction with the exhibit showcasing the magnificent art and artists within the vast collection of the Do Good Fund, a Last Chance Tour Night for Reckonings & Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund will be held at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on August 29. The exhibition is currently on display thanks to supporting sponsor The Brian Pasierb Family Foundation, contributing sponsor Carolyn Levine & Leonard Kallio Trust, and media sponsor KLJB FOX 18.

A filmed-live version of the hit stage piece that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award nominee for Best Play, director Marielle Heller's What the Constitution Means to Me enjoys a special, free screening at Davenport's Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad Cities on August 26. This Women’s Equality Day event finding writer/star Heidi Schreck both humorously and seriously challenging how Americans understand their rights in the U.S. Constitution, and arguing that the document actually does little to guarantee the rights of women and minority groups.

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