With the lauded stage talent best known for Broadway and touring productions of Mary Poppins and for originating the role of Hannah in the Tony-winning musical Come from Away, a Midwestern native takes the stage in A Broadway Cabaret with Q. Smith, a September 26 event in the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center that will find the artist joined by visiting high schoolers to perform a showcase of thrilling solos and group numbers.

Fifty-one years after his passing, the music of the man who introduced the world to "Take the A-Train," "Caravan," "Sophisticated Lady," "Satin Doll," and other classics will be performed by the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts Big Band in An Evening of Duke Ellington: Sentimental Mood. a September 26 evening boasting vocalists Mary Denmead, Katelyn Halverson, and Steven Jepson, and presented by Josh Sazon and Wes Habley as part of the American Songbook series.

Composed of veteran Chicago musicians Melissa Brausch, Josh Chicoine, Mike Holtz, Dan Ingenthron, Mike Vanier, and Lindsay Weinberg, the touring artists of Second Hand News: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac land at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse on September 27, treating fans to such timeless hit singles as "Dreams," "Go Your Own Way," "Rhiannon," "Edge of Seventeen," "Landslide," and "Gypsy."

Presented by Jacob Bancks, Ph.D., a professor and co-chair of composition and musicianship at Rock Island's Augustana College, Brahms Symphony No. 2 serves as the latest program in the German American Heritage Center's popular "Kaffee und Kuchen" lecture series, with Bancks enlightening patrons on the gorgeous musical work whose composition was reportedly brief in comparison with the 21 years it took Brahms to complete his first symphony.