An eagerly awaited weekend of live performances returning to the Quad Cities for the 52nd time, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival will, from August 3 through 5, again enjoy residency at the Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, with the Davenport venue hosting performances by a half-dozen local and national jazz acts -- Andy Schumm’s Chicago Cellar Boys, Banu Gibson & Hot Jazz, Dan Levinson's Roof Garden Jass Band, Hal Smith’s New Orleans Night Owls, TJ Muller & the Arcadia Dance Orchestra, and Josh Duffee’s Graystone Monarchs -- with guest sets by Jeff Barnhart and Matt Tolentino.

With Blues Rock Review calling her “a captivating artist with a new take on a familiar genre” and Rock and Blues Muse labeling the musician “a gutsy and emotionally charged singer with a vocal range to die for,” award-winning blues rocker Danielle Nicole brings her Kansas City outfit to Common Chord's Redstone Room on August 2, when the Davenport crowd will be treated to the talents that made 2018's Cry No More a number-one smash on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart.

Industrial rockers whose Billboard-charting hits include Destroy What You Enjoy, Builders of the Future, and the platinum-selling Tonight the Stars Revolt!, the musicians of Powerman 5000 headline a July 22 concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, the group's most recent album The Noble Rot having received a five-out-of-five rating by Cryptic Rock, which called the recording "a must-listen if you're a fan of Powerman 5000 or the fantastic camp of a B-movie."

A popular, Chicago-based touring outfit composed of lead vocalist Billy Yost, guitarist Jonny Ifergan, and bassist Daniel Leu, The Kickback headlines a July 24 concert event at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, with Rolling Stone raving that the band "conjures the very best parts of The Veils and The Walkmen and The Killers, writing lean, nervy songs that snarl and snap."