A quartet that, according to Vanyaland.com, “laces modern folk and Americana with an electronic jolt, waltzing along the grooved edges of dream-pop, synth-pop, and Brooklyn's mid-aughts guitar-rock revival,” the musicians of Kuinka perform an RME Member Appreciation Show on February 9, demonstrating why NPR raved about the ensemble's “joyful noise” and “joyous organic sound.”

For the fourth performances of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra';s 2017-18 season, conductor Mark Russell Smith and his musicians take audiences on a figurative trek across the Atlantic in Postcards from Venice, a program of wit, charm, and musical mischief with a special performance by trumpet soloist Matthew Onstad.

As NoDepression.com raved, “If James Brown and Otis Redding had a love child, it would be Josh Hoyer,” and the Nebraska-based musician and his Soul Colossal ensemble play RIBCO on February 2 in a show guaranteeing “a sound so big, so funky, so wring-the-sweat-out-of-you energetic that it reaches through the speakers and shakes you until you start moving to its groove.”

Singer/songwriter John Paul Roney performs a January 26 Moeller Nights concert alongside Andrew Fraser and Aaron Simon in the musicians' experimental-folk outfit Boom Forest, a group whose recent album Post Knight Errant led MXDWN.com to write that Roney's “career should no doubt be watched with great interest,” adding, “No matter which direction Roney chooses to bring the listener, it’s impossible to be disappointed.”