With the touring ensemble boasting the talents of keyboardist Vic White, lead guitarist Steve Sheroan, bassist Trenton "Poptart" Shuler, drummer Criss Cheatham, and lead vocalist Bryan Cole, Resurrection: A Journey Tribute lands at Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on October 2, the rockers delivering a celebration of the band's legacy sure to feature such Billboard smashes as “Separate Ways,” “Wheel In the Sky," "Lights," and many more.

Paying tribute to the soft-rock pioneers who were number-one sensations on Billboard's Adult Contemporary, the touring musicians of TOAST: The Ultimate Bread Experience bring their tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on September 25, performing from a repertoire that includes such smashes as "Baby I'm-a Want You," "Everything I Own," "If," and the chart-topping "Make It with You."

The familiar, beloved sounds of “Peggy Sue,” “Maybe Baby,” “Oh Boy,” and many other iconic '50s and '60s rock hits will successively fill Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse and Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse on September 25 and 26, the venue's concert events with Todd Meredith & the Rave Ons showcasing the dynamic talents of the headliner who memorably portrayed the lead in in Circa '21's 2008 musical Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story.

Headlining a September 24 evening at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the Heligoats – what NPR called “a strange name for a guy strumming a guitar, but oddly befitting someone who stuffs his songs with so many sideways ideas and observations” – delivers acoustic indie rock courtesy of singer/songwriter Chris Otepka, whom NPR declared “writes songs that are brainy in the best way: clever without straining for cuteness, wry but never smug.”