A chart-topping country-rap star and a grandson of country-music icon Waylon Jennings, touring sensation Struggle Jennings plays a special concert event at East Moline venue The Rust Belt on March 24, the artist currently touring in support of his 2021 album Outlaw Shit recorded with fellow rapper and singer/songwriter Adam Calhoun.

Touring in support of the 15th anniversary of their seminal album The Fall of Ideals, a recording that The New Fury labeled the group's "crowning achievement," the heavy-metal and hard-rock musicians of All That Remains perform a March 26 engagement at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, playing hits from their extensive repertoire and the 2006 album that Pop Matters deemed "the kind of stylistic leap that most bands can only wish they could pull off."

Appearing locally in their “Country Cadillac Tour Part 2,” the critically acclaimed, award-winning duo of Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser play a special concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt on March 27, the artist's significant supply of hits songs including such beloved tunes as “Give It Away,” “In Color,” “Like a Cowboy,” and “What Whiskey Does.”

A collective of powerfully enthusiastic New York City musicians serves as the latest guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series, with the gifted touring sensations of the High & Mighty Brass playing performing concerts sets at the DeWitt Community Library on March 22 and Rock Island's Stern Center on March 24.

Tool, March 17

Chart-topping progressive rockers and the recipients of four Grammy Awards, the metal musicians of Tool bring their national tour to Moline's TaxSlayer Center on March 17, with the band's most recent album Fear Inoculum earning the group a Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Album and an AMFT Award for Best Metal Performance.

Epic Games Absorbs Bandcamp.com

What’s the right stance to take here? The answer remains to be seen in the specifics of what Epic Games’ influence does to Bandcamp’s business model, interface, and overall ethos as a company viewed as some kind of benevolent godsend for smaller artists in the music industry without the weight of the entire major label industrial complex behind them.

With Blues Blast praising their recording Daddy Told Me as “an excellent album by any standards,” the electrifying musicians of Shawn Holt & the Teardrops – led by the son of late blues legend Magic Slim – play a March 19 fundraising concert at Bettendorf's Crawford Brew Works, the musicians' raves including That Devil Music's praise for Daddy Told Me as "a wonderful collection of inspired versions of songs written or popularized by Magic Slim alongside Holt’s own well-written originals."

Numerous works by Quad Cities-area poets will be treating to exciting, brand-new interpretations at Bettendorf's Asbury United Methodist Church on March 19, when Chamber Music Quad Cities presents its springtime concert Poem to Song, a special event performed by acclaimed soprano and Quad Cities native Lily Arbisser accompanied by noted area pianist Thomas Sauer.

A special event taking place two days before the 75th birthday of its musical inspiration, the Redstone Room's March 23 concert with Elton Dan & the Rocket Band will pay tribute to one of the most successful and beloved entertainers of all time, the group's Davenport engagement sure to treat patrons to a night of unforgettable hits including “Bennie and the Jets,” “The Bitch Is Back,” “Pinball Wizard,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” and of course, “Rocketman.”

A celebration of Nordic music and a half-dozen esteemed composers, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra presentation Up Close with Scandinavia, Nordic Dreams will find a trio of marvelous musicians performing at Augustana College on March 17, the concert event boasting the talents of QCSO concertmaster Naha Greenholtz, QCSO principal cellish Hannah Holman, and pianist Juliana Han.

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