27 Mar 2018

Danielle Nicole Band, April 6

By Reader Staff

With Blues Rock Review calling her “a captivating artist with a new take on a familiar genre” and RockAndBluesMuse.com labeling the musician “a gutsy and emotionally charged singer with a vocal range to die for,” blues rocker Danielle Nicole brings her Kansas City outfit the Danielle Nicole Band to Davenport's Redstone Room on April 6, sharing the talents that, this past February, made her sophomore solo album Cry No More the number-one hit on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart.

27 Mar 2018

Charlie King, April 7

By Reader Staff

Appearing in a concert benefiting local organizations for peace, cultural diversity, and human rights, folk singer/songwriter Charlie King performs his annual area show at Rock Island's Broadway Presbyterian Church on April 7, an event being held six months after King received the esteemed Phil Ochs Award in recognition of his music and activism for social and political justice.

27 Mar 2018

No Joy, April 8

By Reader Staff

Fronted by guitarist/vocalists and founding members Jasamine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd, the acclaimed alternative rockers of No Joy play a Daytrotter concert on April 8, the band's sound described by the New York Times as “a tingling, immersive experience,” and the musicians' talents inspiring Fader to state, “They know how to write a gorgeous song.”

27 Mar 2018

Quad City Symphony Orchestra Masterworks VI: “Postcards from Russia,” April 7 and 8

By Reader Staff

For the final presentations in the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's 2017-18 Masterworks season, conductor Mark Russell Smith and his gifted musicians celebrate legendary composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Masterworks VI: Postcards from Russia, a pair of April 7 and 8 concerts featuring showcase performances by 2017's Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Medalist Daniel Hsu.

20 Mar 2018

Kansas, April 4

By Reader Staff

Appearing locally in the musicians' “Leftoverture 40th Anniversary Tour,” the legendary progressive rockers of Kansas take the Adler Theatre stage in an eagerly awaited April 4 event, filling the venue with selections from the group's multi-platinum-selling albums that include the iconic “Carry on Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind.”

20 Mar 2018

Mothers, April 1

By Reader Staff

Praised by Pitchfork.com for her “raw, striking vulnerability” and by the New York Times for her “plantive, slender voice” with “not a hint of timidity in it,” singer/songwriter and guitarist Kristine Leschper brings her four-piece indie-folk outfit Mothers to Davenport for an April 1 Moeller Nights concert, sharing songs that led ConsequenceOfSound.net to rave of Leschper, “Her words are both what break you and what heal you.”

20 Mar 2018

Anthony Gomes, March 31

By Reader Staff

With Music Taster's Choice calling him “one of the top 10 guitarists in the world,” the acclaimed blues rocker Anthony Gomes performs a special Easter Eve set at Davenport's Redstone Room, sharing the talents that led BluesWax to name him its 2003 Artist of the Year and inspired B.B. King to famously ask, “Where did that voice come from?”

20 Mar 2018

Clint Black, March 31

By Reader Staff

A country-music legend brings with him nearly three decades' worth of hits when Clint Black takes the stage at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, his March 31 concert showcasing the Grammy-winning talents that have made Black a Billboard chart-topper more than 20 times over.

13 Mar 2018

Negative Gemini, March 27

By Reader Staff

With Spin magazine lauding the artist as “something jarring and sublime in crystalline brilliance” and Resident Advisor admiring her “ethereal New Age jungle with a vocal flex that nods to Enya and Björk,” Negative Gemini singer/songwriter Lindsey French brings her singular electro-pop to Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on March 27, performing in support of the recent Bad Baby EP that BandCamp described as “a stunner.”

13 Mar 2018

Humming House, March 27

By Reader Staff

Described by American Songwriter as “a standout live act that loosely interprets the label of a 'folk' band,” the talents of Humming House will also share their roots-rock and bluegrass stylings in a Moeller Nights concert on March 27, demonstrating why Glide magazine stated, “Over years of touring, the group has managed to craft a sound that is incredibly tight but also unbelievably catchy.”

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