Hailed by Nashville Scene as an artist who "sings and plays like nobody's business," country and honkytonk singer/songwriter and fiddler Greg Garing returns to the Quad Cities on October 11 for an engagement at Davenport's Deanery School of Music, this veteran of the Nashville and New York City music scenes inspiring the legendary Johnny Cash to call him “the best country singer I’ve heard in 30 years."

The October 8 event made possible through partnership between the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities and the Rock Island Public Library, a pair of iconic folk singer/songwriters will be saluted when the library's Watts-Midtown Branch hosts When Dylan Met Guthrie, an exuberant two-man show created by award-winning Wisconsin Artists Lil Rev and Will Branch.

Opening the organization's astonishing 112th season of thrilling Masterworks repertoires, the musicians of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Mark Russell Smith, present Symphonie fantastique at Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 3 and, in Rock Island, Augustana College's Centennial Hall on October 4.

Touring in support of last year's sophomore breakout The Curse of Caring, the genre-hugging independent musicians of Phabies headline an October 4 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Americana UK calling the outfit "a great band to catch live" and their latest recording "a very strong set of eclectic tunes which combine to create something which leaves the listener wanting more."