A celebrated Virginia string outfit currently enjoying their 25th year of professional performance, the country, folk, and Americana musicians of the Hackensaw Boys play Davenport's Raccoon Motel on November 11, the group's talents having inspired Pitchfork to rave, "The band infuses their grassy tornado with brazen punk attitude and catchy pop structure, while simultaneously remaining vehemently sincere."

Touring in support of her new album Baptized by the Blaze that Turn Up the Amp deemed "a rousing blend of honky-tonk brash-and-sass, by turns invigorating and healing," Americana singer/songwriter India Ramey headlines a November 8 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, No Depression adding that the artist's latest is "a fascinating portrait of a honky-tonk queen who shows the way to having a good time even while expressing her vulnerability."

A legendary holiday-film perennial and thrilling song-and-dance showcase for Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye will be brought to theatrical life when Quad City Music Guild closes the organization's 2024 season with Irving Berlin's White Christmas, its November 8 through 17 run treating audiences to a Tony-nominated treat featuring timeless Berlin hits in “Blue Skies,” “Happy Holiday,” “Let Me Sing and I'm Happy,” and “I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm.”

Closing the venue's 2024 season with a burst of wacky hilarity, Geneseo's Richmond Hill Barn Theatre will stage playwright Tim Kelly's My Son Is Crazy, but Promising from November 14 through 24, with the Brigham Young University Review stating that "Kelly has created a fun, screwball whodunit" boasting an "outlandish plot, amusing complications, and fun characters."

Opening its 2024-25 season of mainstage productions in the Brunner Theatre Center, Rock Island Augustana College will produce one of William Shakespeare's freshest and funniest titles in its November 14 through 17 presentation of The Comedy of Errors, a work that esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom said “reveals Shakespeare's magnificence at the art of comedy” and demonstrated “mastery in action, incipient character, and stagecraft.”

A winner on the competition program Ed McMahon’s Next Big Star also beloved for his frequent radio appearances on the syndicated The Bob & Tom Show, Greg Hahn brings his unique comedy stylings to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room on November 14, his Web-site biography stating than in addition to being a TB&TS hallmark, "he is also a stalwart, another word he doesn’t know."

Led by Whispering Souls Paranormal, a family team of investigators based in Rock Island, the German American Heritage Center's November 9 event Geisternacht Night at the Museum invites patrons of the Davenport venue to enjoy a spooky evening of paranormal investigation whether guests are skeptics or full believers.

Continuing its series of popular “Kaffee und Kuchen” programs on November, the German American Heritage Center will present an afternoon of German Printmaking with Joseph Lappie. His print series Die Hoffung der PlaPflanzen, being showcased at the Davenport venue through February 23, couples the intentional carved marks of 15th-century wood engravings with the bold shapes and composition of early-20th-century expressionist woodcuts, the result being a hand-colored contemporary portrayal of personal herbology, or the assumed language of a plant and its individual meaning to a person.

Mixing true stories with doses of famed wit and wisdom by one of history's most revered authors, acclaimed storyteller Brian "Fox" Ellis steps into the LeClaire Community Library on November 13 to regale his audience with the live performance piece Steamboatin' Down the Mississippi with Mark Twain, a delightful program of jokes, tall tales, and history woven together with songs and stories.

With the Boston Globe deeming the film "as pure and plaintive as a mountain ballad" and the Los Angeles Times raving "it makes history sing," writer/director John Sayles' Oscar-nominated 1987 drama Matewan enjoys a special November 13 screening at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox, this celebrated work's local presentation co-hosted by Iowa General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World.

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