One of the Quad Cities most eagerly anticipated day-long festivals returns on July 23 in the seventh iteration of the Dawn & On Music Festival, with the area musicians of The Dawn hosting bluegrass, funk, roots, reggae, and plenty of rock in nine exhilarating concert sets – from nine much-admired local and regional acts – held in Rock Island's Schwiebert Riverfront Park.

Performing locally in support of her latest EP in which, according to Atwood magazine, "the Nashville singer/songwriter stuns with stirring alternative and indie-pop gold," Savannah Conley brings her tour to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on July 23, the artist's new EP Surprise, Surprise, in Atwood's words, "an intimate, elegant, and charming set of coming-of-age songs reckoning with the throes of young adulthood."

Having charted 67 tunes – seven of them number-one hits – on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart between 1985 and 2019, legendary country-pop artist Vince Gill makes his long-awaited return to Davenport's Adler Theatre on July 21, performing from a solo repertoire that dates from 1985's The Things That Matter to his most recent release Okie, the latter a top-10 Billboard smash in 2019.

Returning to the Moline venue following their successful tour stop this past spring, Alice Cooper's daughter Calico Cooper and longtime bassist Chuck Garric bring their heavy-metal ensemble Beastö Blancö to Moline's Rascals Live on July 25, performing from a repertoire that includes the band's 2019 album We Are, a work that Metal-Temple.com called “Mötley Crüe meets White Zombie meets the heavy-metal period of Alice Cooper back in the 2000s."