With Living Blues hailing their self-titled 2022 debut recording as a work that "hums with vitality, spontaneity, and spice," the gifted Chicago-blues musicians of The Dig 3 perform an August 18 Mississippi Valley Blues Society concert at Davenport's Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, their 2023 album Damn the Rent leading the Chicago Blues Guide to rave, "There is no letdown whatsoever in song variety, inventiveness, and individual and collective capabilities."

Lauded by Rolling Stone as an artist whose “high guileless voice comes in swirls and artful smears,” New York-based folk singer/songwriter Paul Spring headlines an August 20 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the gifted musician also praised by the Irish Times for his “richly realized songs with deft lyrics and considered sensibility.”

Hailed by AllMusic's Fred Thomas as a group that “has yielded some of the most staggering and genre-defining sounds of noise and sound art's dense, largely obscured history,” Wolf Eyes headlines an August 22 concert event at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the improvisational group's remarkable discography boasting 27 titles … in 2001 alone.

Praised by Marquee magazine for their “dynamic presence” and for “continuously pushing the genre of bluegrass and their legacy within the genre,” the gifted musicians of Yonder Mountain String Band headline an August 21 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the musicians' most recent album, 2022's Get Yourself Outside, hailed by Glide magazine as “an antidote for feeling down. These 11 songs just make you feel good, like putting on your favorite sweater to ward off the cold.”