In a unique blend of music and dance launching the 2021 Adler Theatre Foundation Series – a selection of eclectic live performances featuring celebrated national touring artists and lauded local talents – professional dancers from Ballet Quad Cities and professional musicians from the Quad City Symphony Orchestra take over the Davenport stage on May 29, treating audiences to choreographed favorites from the BQC repertoire and QCSO talents Kit Polen, Bruno Vaz da Silva, and Emily Nash delivering Music of Appalachia.

Once again, thanks to Bandcamp’s region-based search, I've happened upon an inexplicable pocket of highly technical metal nestled somewhere along the riverbanks of the Mississippi, this time courtesy of Davenport-based shredder Austin Korth. If the material he has here is any indicator, his self-proclaimed quest to "play and record as much music as possible" (as per his Bandcamp bio) shows plenty of promise for idiosyncratic Quad Cities home recording.

Perhaps you’ll be surprised to learn that William Campbell, the composer of the film’s spectral, gorgeous soundtrack resides right here in lovely Davenport, Iowa – and that this isn’t even his first film to receive an Academy Award nomination, the first being 2018's Lifeboat. Quad Cities representing!

Performing a livestreamed concert set spanning their works from 2015 to 2019, the Grammy-nominated indie-folk artists of The Milk Carton Kids – singer/guitarists Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan – headline a special May 13 presentation hosted by Iowa City's Englert Theatre, with the artists performing songs from their most recent recorded collaborations Monterey, All the Things That I Did & All the Things That I Didn't Do, and The Only Ones.