Appearing as the final guests in Quad City Arts' 2024-25 Visiting Artist series, the gifted folk-rock quintet Jarabe Mexicano will perform an exhilarating concert event at Moline's Mercado on Fifth on May 8, the group lauded by cultural anthropologist and noted author Alejandro Lugo a team of musicians who are “truly excellent and bring new blood to the musical traditions they perform."

Delivering a night of spectacular Latinx music sure to inspire cheers and dancing aplenty, Noche de Sabor presents a special night with headliners Tropicalisimo Apache and national opener Grupo Control at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, the May 9 event also boasting a pre-show dance party and post-show Rhythm Room bash hosted by DJ Tommy Beats.

An Alabama-based singer/songwriter and guitarist who is also member of Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band and Dead Fingers, folk, rock, and blues artist Taylor Hollingsworth headlines a May engagement at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist's 2020 album Country Visions lauded by Blackwater Collective as "a true psychedelic wanderer with a gritty glow of downhome goodness."

Arriving directly from New York and with his latest stage spectacular featuring Dubuque native Rita Harvey, the May 9 performance of Neil Berg's 104 Years of Broadway, presented by the Dubuque Arts Council, finds the producer/pianist/composer returning to the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center alongside a cast of stars from history's greatest musicals, with Berg sharing the songs and stories behind the music that helped change the world.