Lauded by Pitchfork magazine as "an audacious ringleader for new music," percussionist and composer Jon Mueller headlines a solo March 12 concert at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox, the artist's esteemed list of collaborators having included James Plotkin, Rhys Chatham, Asmus Tietchens, Z'EV, Jason Kahn, and Marcus Schmickler.

With his recent appearances including concert sets for the Chicago Blues Festival, the Big Blues Bender, and the October Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise, noted blues guitarist Héctor Anchondo performs a special March 13 concert at Davenport's Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, with the acclaimed artist the 2020 winner of the solo/duo category in the 2020 International Blues Challenge.

On March 15, literary history will come alive through a Moline Public Library presentation when historian and performer Laura Keyes delivers her virtual one-woman show on Charlotte Brontë, whose classic Jane Eyre remains a beloved staple of English literature 175 years after its first publication.

A fascinating program held in conjunction with the Figge Art Museum's current exhibition Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee, the March 10 virtual presentation Explore the Archives: Doris Lee will find Emily Moore – former archival assistant at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) – exploring the gifted Midwestern artist's career and works in the Doris Lee Archive housed in the NMWA Library and Research Center.

Winner of two 2008 Tony Awards and the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy of 2007, author Patrick Barlow's slapstick thriller The 39 Steps enjoys a March 10 through 13 run at Rock Island's Augustana College, the show's creative team and its four-person cast sure to demonstrate why the New York Times called this Alfred Hitchcock celebration/spoof an “indomitably funny” comedy of “virtuosic clowning.”

Chart-topping Scottish musicians whom Broadway Baby praised for producing “music that upholds heritage while still sounding unmistakably current,” the Celtic rockers of Skerryvore play a special University of Dubuque Heritage Center concert perfectly timed for St. Patrick's Day, their March 17 performance delivering an eclectic fusion of rock, pop, and folk music with an emphatic thundering of drums and bagpipes.

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For what seems like an eternity, but probably just for the past year or so, infamous COVID attorney Thomas DeVore has been citing the first paragraph of Section 2 of the Illinois Department of Public Health Act to claim that only IDPH has the power to quarantine or isolate Illinoisans. And, indeed, the statute clearly states, at the top of Section 2, that IDPH has “supreme authority in matters of quarantine and isolation.” Those powers come with some strong individual-consent and due-process checks and balances, including the right to judicial review.

Having completed more than 30 full-length performances in North America between 2019 and 2020, and selling out venues in states including Illinois, Florida, Texas, and Washington, the exhilarating dance talents of Chicago's Hiplet Ballet appear as the latest guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series, their March 3 and 5 performances potentially incorporating the rhythms of African drums with Tchaikovsky, or arabesques and beat-boxing en pointe, all while showcasing the group's trademark sass.