With the concert event boasting six dazzling costume changes, exquisite musicianship, powerful vocals, and a spectacular and immersive multimedia backdrop, the touring artists of BritBeat: A Tribute to the Beatles take the stage at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse on November 19, allowing patrons to step into a time machine and experience a remarkable recreation of the Fab Four in concert during the fabulous 1960s.

With The Cabaret Way raving that "her voice is stunning" and the Bistro Awards' Gerry Geddes calling her breakout performance "one of the most stylish, assured, intelligent, entertaining New York cabaret debuts I have had the pleasure to witness," the gifted, versatile singer Amy Friedl Stoner headlines a November 19 concert at Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center, blending traditional Christmas songs with contemporary seasonal favorites in her touring show Home for the Holidays.

With Louder Sound deeming the band's most recent album No Place Is Home "something special" and "rousing, radio-friendly pop-rock [that] has the potential to blow up," the alternative, blues, and pop rockers of Welshly Arms headline a November 16 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, with Omnisound magazine also praising the group for its "full, clean sound" that's "well-rehearsed and refined."

A country-music superstar whose long list of accomplishments includes eight chart-topping albums, more than two dozen chart-topping singles, and recognition as the most awarded country artist of all time – all since her American Idol debut in 2005 – Carrie Underwood brings her eagerly anticipated “Denim & Rhinestones” tour to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK on November 12, with her 2022 album of the tour's name currently nominated for three Country Music Association Awards.

Globally touring sensations who have routinely sold out international theatres and concert halls since their 1999 debut, the talents of MANIA: The ABBA Tribute bring their stage spectacle to Davenport's Adler Theatre on November 10, thrilling patrons with such iconic pop anthems and familiar Mamma Mia! tunes as “Dancing Queen,” “Waterloo,” “The Winner Takes It All,” and “Take a Chance on Me.”

Touring nationally in support of their seventh album and 2022 release Strike a Nerve, an 11-track recording that Music Matters deemed “an adrenaline rush,” the hard rockers and alternative-metal artists of Drowning Pool headline a November 13 concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, their latest work inspiring Loud Hailer magazine to rave, "From start to finish, fans are sure to appreciate the unsettling comfort of this new but familiar album."

Lauded by legendary composer and Marvin Hamlisch as “a great band,” with the EGOT winner adding “I can't imagine better ambassadors for our country,” the United States Army's premier big-band outfit the Jazz Ambassadors headlines a special Veterans Day concert at Davenport's Adler Theatre, the group's November 11 engagement demonstrating why the ensemble has received great acclaim both at home and abroad while performing America’s original art form.

Celebrating the 225th anniversary of Franz Schubert's birth with pieces including the composer's beloved “Trout” Quintet and seldom-heard “Nottourno” for trio piano, Chanber Music Quad Cities presents A Schubert Sampler at Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, the November 13 event also boasting Rossini's "Duetto in D Major for Cello and Bass" and Grieg's "Third Violin Conata in C Minor as performed by CMQC artistic directors Thomas and Gregory Sauer alongside guest musicians Mira Wang, Elizabeth Oakes, and Volkan Orhon.

With the ensemble's ranks presently including a retired University of Iowa jazz professor, a former Augustana College guitar instructor, and a current Augustana professor of astronomy, Iowa City's popular rock and blues tribute musicians The Beaker Brothers Band play a rare Quad Cities concert on November 13, the group's Sunday Funday concert at Moline's Viking Club a joint effort between the venue, the Mississippi Valley Blues Society's entertainment committee, and Rudy Hernandez.

Joe Bonamassa is the biggest name in blues-rock today. The former child guitar prodigy has risen to stardom with virtually zero major-label support, instead forming J&R Ventures with manger Roy Weisman and producer/A&R man Kevin Shirley to bypass the fickle, meddling, trend-and-profit driven nature of the record companies and bring Bonamassa's music directly to the people.

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