An eagerly awaited weekend of live performances returning to the Quad Cities for the 51st time, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival will, from August 4 through 6, again enjoy residency at the Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, with the Davenport venue hosting no fewer than 25 individual sets by nine assemblages of thrilling jazz talents.

Returning to Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn for the second August in a row, folk- and alternative-rock icon Ani DiFranco will headline a pair of summer concerts on August 9 and 10, the artist's most recent album Revolutionary Love described by The New Yorker as boasting “robust melodies, padded with streaks of soul and jazz, that represent some of DiFranco's fullest productions yet.”

Praised by Rolling Stone for their “gutbucket rock & roll and soulful boogie” and by NPR Music for being “fresh, original, and truly pledged to rock and roll,” the Philadelphia-based musicians of Low Cut Connie headline an August 4 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel in support of their latest studio album Private Lives, revealing why the Los Angeles Times wrote of the outfit, “Their ferocious live show … is unmatched in all of rock right now.”

Touring in support of such recent hits as "Rolex on a Redneck" (with Jason Aldean) and "The Worst Country Song of All Time" (featuring Hardy and Toby Keith), as well as his most recent album Fire & Brimstone, country-rock superstar Brantley Gilbert headlines the Mississippi Valley Fair's grandstand concert on August 6, the Nashville artist's career achievements including multi-platinum sales, a trio of studio-album chart-toppers, and a “Favorite Country Music” citation from the American Music Awards.