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.”

A four-time Grammy Award nominee who has earned trophies from the Country Music Association Awards and Academy of Country Music Awards, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Elle King headlines a June 13 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, her 2023 recording Come Get Your Wife hailed by Variety magazine as King's "most dynamic full album, one full of wonder, whiskey, spite, laughter, sensuality, religion, soul, and country-fried spirit."

With his career accomplishments including acting as frontman for the hard-rock outfit Skid Row, a successful turn on TV's The Masked Singer, and fame as "the first heavy metal singer on Broadway” thanks to his leading role in Jekyll & Hyde, Canadian musician Sebastian Bach headlines a June 9 concert at East Moline's The Rust Belt, his 2024 album Child Within the Man lauded by This Day in Metal as "heavy and hard rock that old and new fans will undoubtedly enjoy."

Praised by Funkatopia for his “amazingly fluid guitar and great piano work” and “vocal work which he has nailed down to a science,” singer and multi-instrumentalist Marshall Charloff brings his ensemble the Purple xPeRIeNCE to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK on June 8, the touring artists performing the signature stylings of Prince & the Revolution in a special concert free to ticket-holders for that evening's Quad City Steamwheelers game against the Frisco Fighters.

With the free event sponsored by Northwest Bank & Trust, Davenport's Common Chord is set to jump-start the warm-weather months with a Summer Kickoff Block Party on June 7, the outdoor celebration starting in the venue's courtyard with high-energy performances by local acts Einstein’s Sister, The Crew, and students from the QC Rock Academy.

Delivering an intimate evening of music at Moline's historic Butterworth Center followed by a season-closing cocktail reception, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra officially wraps up its 2023-24 season with the June 8 event Up Close with Dave Scholl, which finds the QCSO's principal bass performing alongside noted pianist Mio Nakamura.

Treating audiences to the sounds of heartland Americana steeped in an amalgamation of country and rock, and lyrically swinging from bluegrass to the blues, Logan Springer & the Wonderfully Wild perform at Quinlan Court on June 8 in the summer's first Big 9 Concert Series event sponsored by the City of Davenport and Common Chord, with gifted Midwestern musicians playing nine sets in various parks along Davenport’s nine miles of riverfront.

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