On June 16, the music of the locally famous composer, musician, and band leader Professor Ernst Otto will once again fill the air at Davenport's Schuetzen Park, with several of Otto's best-known compositions performed by Dr. Marian Lee, the gifted pianist and associate professor of piano at St. Ambrose University.

With his career thus far boasting five studio albums, three ACM Awards, and eight number-one smashes on Billboard's U.S. Country Airplay chart, Nashville-based singer/songwriter and instrumentalist Lee Brice brings his national "Me & My Guitar Tour" to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on June 14, the artist beloved for both his solo country repertoire and his songwriting for talents including Garth Brooks, Adam Gregory, and Tim McGraw.

With the June 15 event, this year, joining forces with the Quad City Juneteenth Festival (led by Friends of MLK and the Lincoln Center - TMBC) for a day of celebration, music, and community in Davenport's LeClaire Park, the 2024 Rhythm on the River concert will celebrate the contributions of Black musicians and highlight Black voices in our local music scene and beyond.

Its bandleader lauded by Guitar World Magazine as "a genuine blues guitar hero" and by Blues Access Magazine for delivering "an irrepressible mix of fresh gritty blues and romping Stax/Volt-era soul," the touring artists of Mike Morgan & the Crawl play a June 15 concert at Moline's Pour Bros. Craft Taproom in support of their most recent release The Lights Went Out in Dallas, the group's local appearance co-sponsored by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society.

Delivering what the Riverfront Times calls "a hard-hitting set that’s backed by the rip of live instruments," the seven-piece Beastie Boys tribute outfit My Posse in Effect plays a June 15 headlining concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, taking audiences through decades of unforgettable hits with three MCs, a world class DJ, and visuals from their iconic video collection.

Playing the Maquoketa venue in support of their most recent album OHBAHOY – a collection described by Maximum Volume Music as “such a staggeringly diverse 11 songs that you can only marvel at it” – the Rockford, Illinois-based talents of Miles Nielsen & the Rusted Hearts headline a June 15 concert event at the Codfish Hollow Barn, the band sure to deliver what Americana-UK calls “smooth, well-written, and well-produced power-pop packages.”

Boasting such top-10 charting singles as “$2.00 Coke,” “Radio Romance,” and “I'm Gonna be Bad Today,” the national institution that is The Carl Acuff Jr. Show brings its tour to Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center on June 15, the genre-blending headliner's additional credits including the hosting of TV's Ozarks Tonight and crooning such other hit songs as “Make the World Go Away” and “Getting Over You.”

A four-time Grammy Award nominee who has earned trophies from the Country Music Association Awards and Academy of Country Music Awards, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Elle King headlines a June 13 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, her 2023 recording Come Get Your Wife hailed by Variety magazine as King's "most dynamic full album, one full of wonder, whiskey, spite, laughter, sensuality, religion, soul, and country-fried spirit."

With his career accomplishments including acting as frontman for the hard-rock outfit Skid Row, a successful turn on TV's The Masked Singer, and fame as "the first heavy metal singer on Broadway” thanks to his leading role in Jekyll & Hyde, Canadian musician Sebastian Bach headlines a June 9 concert at East Moline's The Rust Belt, his 2024 album Child Within the Man lauded by This Day in Metal as "heavy and hard rock that old and new fans will undoubtedly enjoy."

Praised by Funkatopia for his “amazingly fluid guitar and great piano work” and “vocal work which he has nailed down to a science,” singer and multi-instrumentalist Marshall Charloff brings his ensemble the Purple xPeRIeNCE to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK on June 8, the touring artists performing the signature stylings of Prince & the Revolution in a special concert free to ticket-holders for that evening's Quad City Steamwheelers game against the Frisco Fighters.

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