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.

A genuine blues-rock legend who famously opened for B.B. King when he was only 12 years old, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Bonamassa makes his long-awaited return to Davenport's Adler Theatre on November 9, treating fans to the hard-driving talents that have resulted in chart-topping success, three Grammy Award nominations, and collaborations with some of blues music's most iconic performers.

Currently touring in support of her 2022 EP Same History, New Feelings – a work in which, according to Northern Transmissions, "a profound sense of intimacy and camaraderie is expressed through lyrics surrounding heartbreak and great change" – pop-rock and folk singer/songwriter Madi Diaz headlines a November 7 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, with Holler Country adding that the artist's latest "sees a dextrous storyteller honing her craft through an evolving lens."

With Pitchfork lauding the group's 2020 Forever Just Beyond as an album that "feels both charmingly at ease and refreshingly ambitious," the alt-country/indie-rock outfit Clem Snide headlines a November 9 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, with frontman Eef Barzelay touring in support of two 2021 releases: the extended-edition album Beyond Forever Just Beyond and the EP Smothered & Covered Vo. I, a collection of covers of Bob Dylan, Lauren Hill, Journey, Cat Stevens, and other music icons.