A five-time Grammy Award winner who was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and earned the Americana Music Awards Lifetime Achievement for Performance, blues-rock legend Robert Cray brings his band's national tour to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on August 9, the artist's ensemble having previously shared stages with the iconic likes of Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, and Eric Clapton.

With their repertoire boasting six studio albums, two live albums (including last year's Live at Riverside), five EPs, 22 singles, and 28 music videos, the heavy-metal artists of Ice Nine Kills play East Moline venue The Rust Belt on August 9, their most recent recording The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood a Billboard smash and the highest-charting album in the band's history.

With her most recent recording Modern Age hailed by Glide magazine as "a deeply nostalgic, sometimes melancholy, but ultimately charmingly sweet album," Nashville-based singer/songwriter Jill Andrews headlines an August 8 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist's 2023 release also inspiring Americana Highways to rave, "All of it makes us smile, tear up, and think of days gone by, all at once."

An inventive duo that explores the outer edges of sound through improvisation and experimental music, harpist Stephan Haluska and percussionist Adam Shead will blend their talents in an August 9 concert event at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox, their collaboration drawing on a shared commitment to sonic exploration and contemporary composition, creating performances as meditative as they are unpredictable.

On August 14, the chart-topping, Grammy-winning rockers of the Eagles will be celebrated when Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse hosts the return of 7 Bridges: The Ultimate Eagles Tribute, an evening of beloved, iconic hits sure to include such chart-toppers as "Best of My Love," "One of These Nights," "Heartache Tonight," and "Hotel California."

On August 7, the 2022 winner of Graceland’s Ultimate Elvis Competition will bring his stunning impersonation skills to the Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse when the Rock Island venue hosts two performances of The King in Concert, with critically lauded stage sensation Victor Trevino Jr. taking audiences on a thrilling trip through the decades and some of the most beloved rock, soul, and gospel tunes of all time.

On August 2, this year's Mississippi Valley Fair will offer a two-fer of alternative rock and post-grunge with its fifth grandstand concert of the summer: a co-headlining event featuring Lit, whose top-10 Billboard hits include "Miserable," "Lipstick & Bruises," and the chart-topping "My Own Worst Enemy," and Pop Evil, their own Billboard smashes including the number-one singles "Trenches," "Torn to Pieces," and "Deal with the Devil."

Revered for such chart-topping Billboard singles as “Head Over Boots,” “Dirt on My Boots,” “Heartache Medication,” and “Last Night Lonely,” country-music star and Grand Ole Opry member Jon Pardi plays the final grandstand concert of the 2025 Mississippi Valley Fair, his 2025 Honkytonk Hollywood praised by Pro Country Music as an album that "captures what we've already loved about Pardi for nearly 12 years."

Hailed by the Kansas City Pitch as "an eclectic band that thrives in the realm of genre-bending," the Missouri-based talents of Stranded in the City play a special outdoor concert hosted by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society, their August 3 engagement in Davenport's Kaiserslautern Park treating audiences to a group that, the Pitch continued, "delves deep into pushing the limits of individual talent."

Lauded by the Charleston City Paper as its "Singer/Songwriter of the Year," and praised for "deftly blending an array of influences that nod toward crooning pop-rock in the vein of Chris Isaak or Roy Orbison, the theatrical roots-rock excess of Bruce Springsteen, and the dark post-punk romanticism of Echo & the Bunnymen," Johnny Delaware performs a solo concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel on August 2, the artist also famed for his tenures with the alt-rockers of Susto and The Artisanals.

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