In a special evening of rock featuring acclaimed talents from Collective Soul and Devil City Angels, Joel Kosche and Brandon Gibbs merge their talents for a December 11 concert at Davenport's Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, performing a high-energy acoustic show that features songs from each of their own catalogs plus music from various bands each talent has performed with individually and together.

Four-time GMA Dove Award nominees who won the trophy for New Artist of the Year in 2010, the Nashville-based contemporary-Christian ensemble Sidewalk Prophets bring their sixth-annual “Great Big Family Christmas” to Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on December 15, with frontman David Frey saying, "This year is going to be our fullest Christmas tour schedule yet, and we can’t wait to get out there and make new memories with fans across the country.”

Touring in support of their most recent album The Fear of Standing Still – a recording that No Depression said "feels like it stands on the mountain of the last 20 years and surveys the field"– the alt-country and Americana musicians of American Aquarium headline a December 10 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, their latest inspiring Saving Country Music to rave of the band, "No matter who you are or where you come from, they take you somewhere you want to go."

Featuring former members of classic-rock giants such as the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Rainbow, Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, and Trixter, the Wizards of Winter headline an exciting December 8 concert at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, this 11-member ensemble delivering soaring vocal harmonies, precision string instrumentation, powerful percussion, and a rich storyboard that evokes memories and emotions of Decembers past.