On June 25, the Rock Island Public Library's Watts-Midtown Branch invites patrons to step back in time as the delightful touring duo Cherry & Jerry enchant audiences with hit tunes and rarely played gems from the ragtime era, delivering an hour of great songs that they've dusted off and brought back to life, and treating listeners of all ages to a bit of history, as well.

On June 16, the music of the locally famous composer, musician, and band leader Professor Ernst Otto will once again fill the air at Davenport's Schuetzen Park, with several of Otto's best-known compositions performed by Dr. Marian Lee, the gifted pianist and associate professor of piano at St. Ambrose University.

With his career thus far boasting five studio albums, three ACM Awards, and eight number-one smashes on Billboard's U.S. Country Airplay chart, Nashville-based singer/songwriter and instrumentalist Lee Brice brings his national "Me & My Guitar Tour" to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on June 14, the artist beloved for both his solo country repertoire and his songwriting for talents including Garth Brooks, Adam Gregory, and Tim McGraw.

With the June 15 event, this year, joining forces with the Quad City Juneteenth Festival (led by Friends of MLK and the Lincoln Center - TMBC) for a day of celebration, music, and community in Davenport's LeClaire Park, the 2024 Rhythm on the River concert will celebrate the contributions of Black musicians and highlight Black voices in our local music scene and beyond.

Its bandleader lauded by Guitar World Magazine as "a genuine blues guitar hero" and by Blues Access Magazine for delivering "an irrepressible mix of fresh gritty blues and romping Stax/Volt-era soul," the touring artists of Mike Morgan & the Crawl play a June 15 concert at Moline's Pour Bros. Craft Taproom in support of their most recent release The Lights Went Out in Dallas, the group's local appearance co-sponsored by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society.

Delivering what the Riverfront Times calls "a hard-hitting set that’s backed by the rip of live instruments," the seven-piece Beastie Boys tribute outfit My Posse in Effect plays a June 15 headlining concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, taking audiences through decades of unforgettable hits with three MCs, a world class DJ, and visuals from their iconic video collection.

Touring in support of their fourth full-length recording, a self0titled release that The Musical Divide called "the kind of tight, fun album that's easy to enjoy" as well as "their best album yet," the alternative-country and cowpunk musicians of Vandoliers headline a June 20 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, with 2022's Vandoliers also inspiring Holler Country to deem the group "a band of remarkable agility."

With his outfit lauded by LAST.fm for their ability to "seamlessly blend and arrange the root elements of rock and roll while forging new territory," singer/songwriter Billy Allen and his band The Pollies headline a June 19 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the group also praised by LAST.fm for "songs that sound so natural and effortless that you don't notice the intrinsic complexity and massive undertaking that each track represents."

Playing the Maquoketa venue in support of their most recent album OHBAHOY – a collection described by Maximum Volume Music as “such a staggeringly diverse 11 songs that you can only marvel at it” – the Rockford, Illinois-based talents of Miles Nielsen & the Rusted Hearts headline a June 15 concert event at the Codfish Hollow Barn, the band sure to deliver what Americana-UK calls “smooth, well-written, and well-produced power-pop packages.”

Boasting such top-10 charting singles as “$2.00 Coke,” “Radio Romance,” and “I'm Gonna be Bad Today,” the national institution that is The Carl Acuff Jr. Show brings its tour to Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center on June 15, the genre-blending headliner's additional credits including the hosting of TV's Ozarks Tonight and crooning such other hit songs as “Make the World Go Away” and “Getting Over You.”

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