On March 13, one of the most iconic and tireless talents in the history of rock makes his eagerly awaited appearance at Moline's TaxSlayer Center, with the venue hosting the artist whom The Rolling Stone Album Guide calls “the world's most beloved heavy-metal entertainer” – Alice Cooper, appearing locally in his 2018 amphitheater spectacular “A Paranormal Evening with Alice Cooper Live.”

Praised by the International Review of Music for their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style, or technical demand,” the gifted chamber musicians of the Tesla Quartet perform as the latest guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series, demonstrating why The Strad lauded their “technically superb” artistry and the London Evening Standard raved over “a subtly coloured performannce that balanced confidently between intimacy and extroversion.”

Described by DrownedInSound.com as “a three-piece from Athens, Georgia who specialize in controlled chaos of the most sumptuous sort,” the indie rockers of Oak House perform a Moeller Nights concert on March 8 in support of their sophomore album Hot or Mood, which the Web site stated “shows a band of unbridled ambition, sonic scope, and potential truly stepping up to become one of their genre's foremost exponents.”

His astounding list of accolades including 14 Grammy Awards and 27 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jerry Douglas performs a March 9 Redstone Room concert in support of his ensemble's most recent album What If, described by PopMatters.com as “a superb instrumental showcase” and “an endlessly enjoyable listen.”

Two evening concerts boasting no fewer than six ensembles will begin a musical March at Davenport's St. Ambrose University, when the school's Galvin Fine Arts Center hosts four groups of campus and community musicians in the March 2 Winter Vocal Concert, and the Rogalski Center houses another two in the March 3 SAU Jazz Concert.

The latest guest musician and educator in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series, the noted pianist, composer, recording artist, and former Black Hawk College instructor Corey Kendrick will meet with area students and also perform locally in a pair of concerts on March 6 and 9, treating audiences to the talents that led Downbeat Magazine to call Kendrick a “very accomplished, highly gifted jazz pianist,” and IDigJazz.com to deem him “a dynamic interpreter of standards.”

Described by NoDepression.com as an artist who “will charm the pants off you, even when he's bummed,” the alt-country rocker Cary Branan performs a March 6 Moeller Nights concert in support of his most recent album Adios, which inspired Pitchfork.com to write, “Branan's latest set of countrified rock tunes may be his best to date,” finding “the right balance between audacity and subtlety, between humor and heartbreak.”

Performing what Acoustic Guitar magazine described as an “exhilarating all-acoustic swirl” of bluegrass, hip-hop, and gypsy jazz, the North Carolina-based Jon Stickley Trio plays Davenport's Redstone Room on March 2, sharing invigorating tunes that finds their inspiration in musicians as diverse as Green Day, Duran Duran, the Grateful Dead, and Nirvana.

Continuing this season's presentation of thrilling works that debuted across the Atlantic, conductor Mark Russell Smith leads the Quad City Symphony Orchestra in the ensemble's Masterworks V: Postcards from Germany & Austria, a program boasting legendary composers and a special solo by violinist and QCSO Concertmaster Naha Greenholtz.

Serving as the latest stop on the musician's “Hits Deep Tour,” Moline's TaxSlayer Center hosts a February 24 concert with the Grammy-winning, chart-topping TobyMac, whose 13-album discography has made him one of the best-selling artists in contemporary-Christian and hip-hop history.

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