Maintaining a career marked by platinum success, performances for two U.S. presidents, sold-out shows worldwide, a quarter-of-a-billion streams, and dozens of film and television appearances, pop-rock and R&B dynamo Jesse McCartney headlines a January 25 concert at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, the Billboard-charting musicians and former teen idol currently touring in support of his fifth studio album New Stage.

With the artist having sold in excess of 11 million albums, award-winning, Billboard-charting country-music singer/songwriter Brady Seals headlines a January 20 concert at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room, the artist kickstarting the venue's three-month Country Vibes Series with hits from his repertoire that includes The Truth, Thompson Street, Play Time, and his self-titled 1998 release.

With the January 23 event hosted by WQPT-TV PBS and the Friends of MLK, Davenport's Adler Theatre will ring in 2024 with glorious song in the Quad City Gospel Celebration, an ideal event for family audiences whether you’re a longtime fan of gospel music or simply looking for an evening of inspiration.

Presented in conjunction with the Quad Cities' noted river-cleanup operation founded by Chad Pregracke, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra invites music lovers to a special January 20 concert event at Davenport's Figge Art Museum: Up Close with Living Lands & Waters, a chamber-music celebration of the natural wonders around us boasting Emily Nash and Sabrina Tabby on violin, Bruno Vaz da Silva on viola, Hannah Holman on cello, Kit Polen on bass, and Marian Lee on piano.

Presented as the first 2024 concert event in Polyrhythms' popular Third Sunday Jazz Series, the exhilarating artists of the Karli Bunn Quartet take the stage at Davenport's Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities on January 21, the headliner one of the organization's special workshop proteges who will also lead a 3 p.m. jazz workshop in advance of the evening's 5 p.m. performance.

Coming off am intensely challenging year personally and professionally, Jason Singer, famed for his popular solo project Michigander, headlines a January 25 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel in support of his EP It Will Never Be the Same, his work leading NPR to rave, "Jason Singer's mix of optimism and vulnerability has been one of indie rock's most exciting stories in the last few years."

Currently touring in support of his new release Lost, which Entertainment Focus lauded as a "haunting, powerful EP ... with massive crossover appeal," Irish singer/songwriter Darren Kiely headlines a January 20 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, his recording also hailed by RockShot magazine as a work that "explores the triumphant war of overcoming self-doubt."

With the critically praised singer/songwriter and his ensemble touring in support of their live album Secret Stratosphere, the indie-folk and pop-rock musicians of William Tyler & the Impossible Truth take the stage at Davenport's Raccoon Motel on January 21, Pitchfork magazine raving that the band "maintains the spiritual minimalism of Tyler’s solo work while expanding the sound."

Einstein's Sister w Friends Chris Bernat, Marty Reyhons and Tom Maicke at RIBCO December 16 2023

We're switching up the format once again for the Reader's annual year-in-music crowd-sourced survey, and expanded the participants to include even more local on-air radio broadcasters as well as picks from long time Reader readers.

Praised by Glide magazine for songs that "radiate a sense of optimism and purpose ever so welcome in these fragmented times.," the alternative rockers of Big Head Todd & the Monsters headline a January 16 concert at Davenport's recently remodeled Capitol Theatre, the platinum-selling Billboard artists also hailed by the Los Angeles Times for their "great songs that incorporate blues, folk, rock, and country."

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