A well-regarded country, bluegrass, and Americana artist who, since 1986, he has released 34 studio albums, Jim Lauderdale brings his expressive talents to Davenport's Redstone Room on October 26, the artist's raves from fellow professionals including George Strait calling him "a consummate entertainer" and Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor deeming him "my favorite part of Americana music."

Hailed by WOMEX as "astonishing musicians" known for "coaxing fantastic sounds out of their chosen instruments," the musicians of WÖR serve as the latest guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series, their October 28 and 3 area performances showcasing a band whose curiosity, passion, and talent has led to a niche goldmine of 18th-century melodies from the Flanders region of Belgium melodies, recreated in stunning contemporary arrangements.

With their eponymous 2018 release the winner of the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, the Nashville-based The Travelin' McCourys brings their two to two area venues this month, the lauded artists headlining the "Codfish Halloween w/ the Travelin' McCourys" at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn on October 30, and an actual Halloween show at Davenport's Redstone Room on October 31.

Their October 27 event boasting works by Chopin, Brahms, Dohnányi, and Korean composer Unsuk Chin, whose piano étude gives the program its title, Chamber Music Quad Cities opens its 2024-25 season at Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Parish Hall with In C, in which violinist Serena Canin and violist Lee Taylor will join CMQC co-artistic directors Gregory Sauer, on cello, and Thomas Sauer, on piano, for a thrilling exploration of that musical key.

On October 30, Davenport's Raccoon Motel will host one of the most singular artists yet to headline this downtown venue, with outsider artist, musician, painter, puppeteer, and actor David Liebe Hart, the entertainer best-known for appearances on Adult Swim's Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, performing bizarre puppetry and singing in a variety of voice characterizations.

With its lead vocalist and keyboard player Karalyne Winegarner lauded by Glide magazine as a talent who "commands your attention like Freddie Mercury working the crowd in an arena," the indie rockers of Flight Attendant headline a Halloween-night concert at davenport's Raccoon Motel, their October 31 set sure to demonstrate why Rolling Stone proclaimed, "Flight Attendant delivers an experience."

An elegant evening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum and one of the most annually popular fundraising events in the Quad Cities, this year's Soirée: A Night in Italy will, on October 19, find Quad City Symphony Orchestra musicians Emily Nash, Madelin Capistran, Bruno Vaz Da Sila, and Laura Shaw performing in a special event boasting a cocktail hour, dinner, and live auction with Maestro Mark Russell Smith as auctioneer to benefit the QCSO’s education programs.

Their Midwestern tour having already taken the exhilarating performance troupe to Nebraska and Missouri before heading to Illinois and Indiana, the multi-faceted talents of A Taste of Ireland land in Iowa with an October 18 stop at the Adler Theatre, with audiences invited to laugh, cry, and jig into the night during a thrilling production designed to be Celtic for a whole new generation.

Touring in support of their fifth and most recent album Elsewhere, a work that Kerrang! said "sees the band experimenting even more and wearing their varied influences on their sleeves, whether it's R&B, hip-hop, or 2000s pop," pop-rock outfit Set It Off headlines an October 19 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room, their latest recording also inspiring Crucial Rhythm to state that the musicians "continue to prove they have plenty left in the tank, and they're here to stay."

Hailed by Rock and Roll Globe as "one of the most renowned alternative rock bands of the past three decades," the talents of Everclear – led by vocalist, guitarist, and founder Art Alexakis – headline an October 18 concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, performing all the hits from throughout the outfit's extraordinary, three decades-long catalog, and spotlighting tracks off their platinum-selling album Songs from an American Movie Vol. One.

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