Scottish bagpipe marches and rollicking Irish pub tunes will fill Rock Island’s Riverfront Grille on July 16 as part of the second-annual Celtic Night Out, a celebration of heritage sponsored by the Scottish American Society of the Quad Cities, and boasting performances by the Black Hawk Pipes and the musicians of east/central Iowa's Blame Not the Bard.

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.

Following their successful late-winter performance in Davenport's Redstone Room, the exuberant musicians of the NOLA Jazz Band will deliver an equally hot set during their July 23 concert in the River Music Experience's outdoor courtyard, the group's members dedicated to exposing audiences to traditional jazz music, its history, and its emotion.

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."

Touring in support of 2022's Explosions, a May release that Cryptic Rock called "an intense album you can listen to over and over and still find cathartic release of heartbreak and pain with each spin," the alt-rock and -metal talents of Three Days Grace make a July 19 stop at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, the group's credits including a half-dozen top-10 Billboard album smashes and more than a dozen chart-topping singles.

Making a stop in Davenport in support of their most recent album Madness a work crafted during the early months of the pandemic that demonstrates, as AllMusicCom. stated, that the musicians “were evolving even when the world seemed to come to a standstill” – the synth-pop and alt-rock talents of Poliça headline a Raccoon Motel concert on July 19, the group noted for such Billboard-charting hits as “Dark Star,” “Lay Your Cards Out,” and “Chain My Name.”

A gifted solo and group musician whose talents led Rock and Blues Muse to laud her as "an accomplished guitar virtuoso with a voice that rivals the best," Ana Popovic headlines a special concert event in the Rhythm City Casino Blues Night, the Davenport venue's July 15 event showcasing the gifts of the Yugoslavian native whom American Blues Scene deemed a "blues-rock guitar goddess."

Low, July 15

Touring in support of their most recent, critically acclaimed album Hey What, married musicians Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker bring their indie-rock outfit Low to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on July 15, the duo's lauded vocal harmonies inspiring music journalist and historian Denise Sullivan writes to call them "as chilling as anything Gram [Parsons] and Emmylou [Harris] ever conspired on - though that's not to say it's country-tinged, just straight from the heart."

A celebrated Virginia string outfit currently enjoying its 23rd year of professional performance, the country, folk, and Americana musicians of the Hackensaw Boys play Davenport's Raccoon Motel on July 14, the group's talents having inspired Pitchfork to rave, "The band infuses their grassy tornado with brazen punk attitude and catchy pop structure, while simultaneously remaining vehemently sincere."

Winners of the Quad-City Times' 2017 Reader's Choice Award for “Best Local Band” and one of the most successful music acts to emerge from the area in recent years, the AC/DC tribute artists of Electric Shock headline a July 16 Summer 2022 Music Lineup concert at Bettendorf venue The Tangled Wood, with the night boasting hits from a classic-rock repertoire that includes Billboard chart-toppers Black Ice, Power Up, Ballbreaker, and 1980's seminal Back in Black.

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