A favorite summertime event moved to the fall for 2022, downtown Iowa City's beloved Soul & Blues Festival is back to enthrall live audiences on September 23 and 24, with this year's weekend schedule including a Black authors' panel, Caribbean-dance demonstrations, youth performances, and thrilling concert sets by the likes of Kevin Burt, Demetria Taylor, and the Mike Wheeler Band.

With the EP's release in October of 2020 making a correlating live-music event impossible, Davenport's Redstone Room will celebrate acoustic artist Soultru's The Truth with an official EP-release concert on September 24, the artist and his guest musicians performing recent favorites as well as some unreleased music, and joined for the evening opening acts Jim Swim and Kumate.

Appearing as the first guests in Quad City Arts' 2022-23 Visiting Artists Series, the Latin-folk fusion ensemble Son Monarcas will deliver a trio of public performances from September 20 through 23, the musicians dedicated to unfolding a world of experience for students of all backgrounds to learn about world cultures, language, geography, history, math, and more through the arts, providing a special focus in traditional Latin music and dance.

Touring in support of their 2021 album Namesake that Folking calls "a wonderful dream of a record," the Midwestern artists of Them Coulee Boys headline a September 22 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the bluegrass talents of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, also recent headliners at venues including Davenport's Redstone Room and Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn.

Celebrations of two of the most iconic and influential pop and rock stars in world history will take place in the same shared concert event on September 10, with Ball's Quad Cities housing timeless tunes with the touring artists of 52nd Street: The Music of Billy Joel and Captain Fantastic: A Tribute to Elton John.

A favorite of critics and alt-country fans nationwide, acclaimed singer/songwriter Dale Watson headlines a September 19 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, his most recent album Dale Watson Presents: The Memphians praised by Holler Country as a "spirited, affectionate work" that "further confirms his love of a genre he will never abandon."

With Atwood magazine praising his album Sudden Swoon as "a radiant blend of folk, pop, and rock glowing with humbling sincerity," independent singer/songwriter Stephen Fiore, performing under his recording alias Young, Mister, headlines a September 21 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist also lauded by Pop Matters for delivering "a rare balance between energetic yet considered songwriting and accessibility to a myriad of different listeners."

With All About Jazz praising their self-titled album as a work whose "relaxed ambience breathes friendship and family even as it pays tribute to the cool jazz that inspired both brothers at an early age," the sibling musicians of the Levin Brothers - keyboardist Pete and bass and cello player Tony - headline a special September 15 concert at Moline's Rascals Live, the pair offering an intimate evening of jazz alongside Ali Ryerson on flute and Jeff Siegel on drums.

One of the most successful and beloved country crooners of all time will be celebrated at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room on September 18 when recording artist Alan Turner performs The Gambler: Ultimate Kenny Rogers Tribute, a musical journey through the career of the American icon who has sold more than 120 million albums worldwide and racked up two dozen number-one hit singles, among them "Lady," "Islands In The Stream," "Lucille," and, of course, "The Gambler."

Currently touring in support of Reckless Abandon, the artist's second Rip Cat Records release with his ensemble The Abandoned, the celebrated Orphan Jon – in a performance co-presented by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society – plays an afternoon set at Davenport's Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill on September 18, the blues master and his touring musicians lauded by Rock & Blues Muse as “an important addition to the American roots- and blues-music tapestry.”

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