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One of the Quad Cities most eagerly anticipated day-long festivals returns on July 23 in the seventh iteration of the Dawn & On Music Festival, with the area musicians of The Dawn hosting bluegrass, funk, roots, reggae, and plenty of rock in nine exhilarating concert sets – from nine much-admired local and regional acts – held in Rock Island's Schwiebert Riverfront Park.

Performing locally in support of her latest EP in which, according to Atwood magazine, "the Nashville singer/songwriter stuns with stirring alternative and indie-pop gold," Savannah Conley brings her tour to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on July 23, the artist's new EP Surprise, Surprise, in Atwood's words, "an intimate, elegant, and charming set of coming-of-age songs reckoning with the throes of young adulthood."

Ogden and Fry conducted a poll in the days leading up to former President Donald Trump’s visit to the Quincy area for a US Representative Mary Miller endorsement in late June. The poll of Republicans in the Downstate 15th Congressional District taken June 22-24 (Trump’s visit was June 25) found Representative Miller leading fellow US Representative Rodney Davis by eight points, 46-38. When undecideds were pushed to decide, Miller’s lead jumped to 10 points, 55-45. She won by fifteen points, 57.6-42.4.

Having charted 67 tunes – seven of them number-one hits – on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart between 1985 and 2019, legendary country-pop artist Vince Gill makes his long-awaited return to Davenport's Adler Theatre on July 21, performing from a solo repertoire that dates from 1985's The Things That Matter to his most recent release Okie, the latter a top-10 Billboard smash in 2019.

Returning to the Moline venue following their successful tour stop this past spring, Alice Cooper's daughter Calico Cooper and longtime bassist Chuck Garric bring their heavy-metal ensemble Beastö Blancö to Moline's Rascals Live on July 25, performing from a repertoire that includes the band's 2019 album We Are, a work that Metal-Temple.com called “Mötley Crüe meets White Zombie meets the heavy-metal period of Alice Cooper back in the 2000s."

A Tony-nominated delight that the Chicago Reader lauded for its “tongue-in-cheek choreography and playfully smart lyrics,” the theatrical version of beloved Reese Witherspoon comedy enjoys a Timber Lake Playhouse presentation in the July 14 through 24 run of Legally Blonde: The Musical, the Mt. Carroll venue's production sure to demonstrate why Broadway World called the show “a bright testimony to the power of women and importance of self-love.”

A pair of summertime exhibits by Illinois artists – with some of their works boasting a distinctly summertime theme – are currently on display at the Quad City Arts International Airport Gallery, with the Moline locale, through August 29, housing vividly colorful oil paintings by Wapella's Judy Steffens and acrylic paintings and mixed-media assemblages by Rock Island's Lisa Mahar.

Making a stop in Davenport in support of their most recent album Madness – a work crafted during the early months of the pandemic that demonstrates, as AllMusicCom. stated, that the musicians “were evolving even when the world seemed to come to a standstill” – the synth-pop and alt-rock talents of Poliça headline a Raccoon Motel concert on July 19, the group noted for such Billboard-charting hits as “Dark Star,” “Lay Your Cards Out,” and “Chain My Name.”