A special fundraising event designed to benefit the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's educational programs, the October 21 Soirée: Shaken, Not Stirred will treat guests to an elegant evening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, the night boasting a cocktail hour, dinner, paddle raise, and live auction with QCSO Maestro Mark Russell Smith, plus performances by symphony members Emily Nash, Hannah Holman, and Marian Lee.

With Under the Radar calling her latest album Lighten Up "a warm, quirky, and heavily atmospheric concoction, richly-textured and poetically potent," folk-pop singer/songwriter Erin Rae headlines an October 22 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist inspiring Rolling Stone to rave that "her arrangements – anchored by pedal-steel guitar and the steady strum of an acoustic guitar – may be rooted in modern-day indie folk, but the songs themselves rustle up comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne."

For their first performance of the 2023-24 season, Galesburg's professional vocal ensemble the Nova Singers will explore one of the most complex and beautiful of human emotions in their October 21 and 22 performances of We Are Love, enabling audiences to experience the exhilaration of young love, the comfort of mature love, the longing for a love who is far away, love of home, love of one’s art, and the power of unconditional love to transform our world.

With smash pop and rock hits performed by the intensely gifted tribute artist Brian Harris and his five-piece ensemble The Mad Hatters Band, the repertoires of two iconic artists will be celebrated at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse on October 21, with the stage event The Piano Men: Simply Billy & Simply Elton delivering a night of incredible music and showmanship by two of history's most venerable and beloved talents.