With a lineup that ranges from Grammy and Downbeat Award winners to the Corridor’s top student performers, Summer of the Arts and GreenState Credit Union will present the Iowa City Jazz Festival July 1 through 3, this nationally renowned event returning to downtown Iowa City for its 31st year, and taking place on both the Ped Mall and South Clinton Street.

Touring in support of their most recent recording Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between,” a work lauded by Rolling Stone as its frontman Ryan “Honus Honus” Kattner's “best album to date,” the experimental rockers of Man Man headline a June 23 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, with the group's latest also acclaimed by Glide magazine for its “eccentric stories, unique compositions, and sonic experimentation.”

Touring in support of their most recent album Electro Melodier, which PopMatters lauded as a release that “examines and protests our society and provides words of hope and optimism for making it through tough times," the alternative-rock and -country artists of Son Volt headline at June 28 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, with Pop Matters adding that the band "never stopped making songs to make you think and sing."

In Rock Island's Schwiebert Park on June 26, Davenport's River Music Experience will amass the Quad Cities' creative power for an All Sweat Beatles tribute like never seen before in Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music of the Beatles, with musical performances from more than two dozen area musicians accompanied by performances from AcroYoga Quad Cities’ circus and flow artists and members of Quad City Symphony Orchestra.