Touring in support of his 2024 album Our Other History, a recording that fellow singer/songwriter Will Oldham called "as rewarding a listening experience as I’ve come across in recent times," genre-hopping indie artist Ned Collette performs a September 20 headlining engagement at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox venue, the artist inspiring Raven Sings the Blues to rave that "Collette captures our imagination, building worlds of sound around the listener in the longform."

An evening of exhilarating rock, rap, and hip-hop awaits fans at the Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on September 13, with the Davenport venue hosting a special evening featuring two chart-topping headliners: the iconic Robert Van Winkle, better known as Vanilla Ice, and Rob Base, who, alongside DJ E-Z Rock, released the number-one smash "Get on the Dance Floor."

With their 2023 album Can't Find the Brakes lauded by Rock & Blues Muse as "pure, organic rock with a bluesy edge that's nearly unbeatable," the Los Angeles-based talents of Dirty Honey bring their national tour to East Moline venue The Rust Belt on September 13, their sophomore recording also hailed by HeadBangers Lifestyle as "one of the most entertaining classic-rock albums you have heard in a while."

Appropriately embarking on a Midwestern tour in support of their August release We Made a Mess in Middle America, the Americana musicians of The Way Down Wanderers return to Davenport's Redstone Room on September 18, their concert sure to demonstrate why Rolling Stone Country raved about their “intricate, hypnotic rhythms,” and why Best New Bands wrote, “Their live show is full of energy and just a damn good time.”

Delivering a thrilling night of salsa and dance music in the Redstone Room, the exclusively female ensemble Las Guaracheras brings their tour to downtown Davenport on September 16, their talents inspiring La Vaga Comunicaciones to rave, "Their songs navigate the sounds of the piano, bass, congas, timbales, vibraphone, and vocals," while "their lyrics are a celebration of life, love and feminine strength.

Treating guests to a lovely afternoon of classical music in the Rock Island Public Library's Watts-Midtown Branch on September 15, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's Up Close with Naha Greenholtz will find the QCSO Concertmasters and pianist Marian Lee Naha Greenholtz and pianist Marian Lee leading music lovers on a journey through diverse emotional landscapes and cultural expressions, their repertoire boasting works by Sergei Prokofiev, George Gershwin, and Angel Lam.

With their most recent album For Old Times Sake lauded by Bluegrass Unlimited as "delivered with an explosive spark and an unbridled joy," the Stephens Point, Wisconsin natives of Horseshoes & Hand Grenades headline a September 14 concert event at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the bluegrass and roots musicians also praised by Americana-UK for delivering "a youthful energy, an engaging honesty, and a loose sense of fun."

Two venerated rock outfits with their origins in Washington D.C. will co-headline a special September 18 concert event in downtown Davenport, with the Raccoon Motel proud to host the hardcore and punk rockers of Scream alongside the post-hardcore trailblazers of Soulside.

Delivering what The Big Takeover describes as “muscular, meat-and-potatoes-style blues rock” and what The Dead Hub calls “old souls making incredible new music,” the Minneapolis-based rockers of The 4onthefloor headline a September 14 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, treating audiences to what Music in Minnesota deemed “an exciting, drums-driven show with much-promised dancing, howling, and fun.”

Offering a seductive mix of dream pop, shoegaze, and trip-hop influences with an experimental bent, the independent musicians of Bodywash headline a September 13 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, their 2023 album I Held the Shape While I Could lauded by I Am Tuned Up as "an experience that encompasses many moods yet is strangely consistent."

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