Described by the Texas Standard as "a multimedia love letter to the Texas coast, with voices and images from the Gulf set to an original score," the touring event The Living Coast comes to the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center on April 13, the performance's Montopolis ensemble a group that, according to the Houston Chronicle, "can create forceful sounding songs that have a bit of rock ‘n roll snarl, but is also capable of mournful classical sounding pieces.”

An in-person presentation focused on a fascinating period in German-American history, author Aaron Spencer Fogleman's program Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, & Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717 – 1775 will be held at Davenport's German American Heritage Center on April 8, his book of the same title the first comprehensive account of this 18th-century German settlement of North America.

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After the Illinois House and Senate voted to pass legislation to partially pay down the state’s unemployment insurance trust-fund debt, top Democratic leaders gathered for a Statehouse press conference to boast about their accomplishment.

With his most recent acoustic recording Lost My Brother's Goat named by Country Underdog as one of 2020's top-20 albums and described by Daily Texas Country as a “very strong” release with “a mix of everything you might want,” Billboard-charting country star Casey Donahew plays East Moline venue The Rust Belt on April 7, his career to date boasting five top-10 smashes and smash singles including “Country Song” and “Kiss Me.”

Delivering a pair of live performances of iconic country and folk favorites, touring artists Chris Collins & Boulder Canyon bring their concert event A Tribute to John Denver to Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse on April 7, presenting a salute to the Grammy-winning legend that will boast such unforgettable songs as “Sunshine on My Shoulders,” “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” “You Fill Up My Senses,” and “Thank God I’m a Country Boy.”

With all due respect to Robert Zemeckis' funny/exciting achievement, which I have adored ever since mid-puberty, Romancing the Stone didn't have Brad Pitt in it. The Lost City may be repackaged goods, but those goods, at least this time around, are still remarkably fresh.

An engaging series of quickfire presentations from a selection of artists will take place in the Figge Art Museum lobby on March 31 when the Davenport venue hosts an artist talk for the 2022 Rock Island Art Guild Fine Arts Exhibition, which currently houses 59 works – paintings, sculptures, installations, and more – by 50 artists living within a 200-mile radius of the Quad Cities.

One of the biggest names in contemporary Christian music brings his North American tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre in the April 5 performance with Matt Maher, the Grammy-nominated, Dove Award-winning singer/songwriter and pianist who presently boasts three recordings that have landed on the top 25 of Billboard's Christian Albums chart.