Combining a hugely popular scary movie with a frighteningly fierce collection of musicians, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's latest QCSO at the Movies event, Jurassic Park in Concert, enjoys an October 25 performance at Davenport's Adler Theatre, with John Williams' iconic score performed live during an HD screening of the Steven Spielberg blockbuster.

With his career accomplishments including acting as frontman for the hard-rock outfit Skid Row and a successful turn on TV's The Masked Singer, Canadian musician Sebastian Bach co-headlines an October 25 concert at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center alongside the rockers of Slaughter, American Music Award winners whose hit singles include "Fly to the Angels," "Up All Night," and "Spend My Life."

Currently touring in support of his 2025 album Mvd Luv, praised by AllMusic as a recording that's "genuinely inspired" in its "inherent sweetness," Uruguayan indie-rock singer/songwriter Juan Wauters returns to Davenport venue The Raccoon Motel on October 24, the artist also hailed by Clash magazine as one who is "able to blend surrealistic aspects with melodies dappled in light,"

Touring in support of his June release Crying the Neck deemed "a riveting record rich with cathartic honesty" by Clash and an "epic comeback from the prince of orchestral art-pop" by Record Collector, English Baroque-pop singer/songwriter Patrick Wolf headlines an October 25 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, his latest recording also hailed by The Sun as a "ravishing song cycle" and "a bold, inventive, and life-affirming return."

Returning to Moline with two spectacular, all-new touring presentations, the live, multi-sensory musical experience known as the Candlelight Concerts series enjoys its latest Quad Cities engagement at the city's First Congregational Church with a pair of eagerly awaited October 24 events: Candlelight: Coldplay vs. Imagine Dragons and Candlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics.

Delivering a high-energy, sing-along night of hits sure to include "Beautiful Crazy," "Hurricane," "Beer Never Broke My Heart," "Kick the Dust Up," "Strip It Down," and "Home Alone Tonight," frontmen Adam Lee and Brandon Todd bring the touring sensation Battle of the Lukes: Hits from Luke Combs & Luke Bryan to East Moline venue The Rust Belt, their October 18 engagement a celebration of two of country music's biggest stars - and biggest Lukes.

Their latest program boasting an astounding variety of composing talents, Galesburg's professional vocal ensemble the Nova Singers opens their 40th-anniversary season with thrilling presentations of In Our Voices, a showcase of rare beauty, charm, sincerity, and emotional power being performed at Galesburg's First Lutheran Church on October 18 and Davenport's First Presbyterian Church on October 19.

Performing locally in support of their 2025 release Land's End Eternal, which The Quietus hailed as "an album of fluttering ambience and uncanny cyborg systems," the Oakland, California-based electroacoustic saxophonist, improviser, and composer Cole Pulice headlines an October 18 concert at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox, Treblezine calling the artist's latest a work in which "dissonant fragments and jagged edges settle in your ears with a sense of decay that is simultaneously unsettling and mesmerizing."

With her sound described by Post-Punk.com as "a genre-defying journey, a mysterious blend of sounds that teeters between light and shadow," multi-genre musician Taraneh headlines an October 20 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist also hailed by Paper magazine as "a magnetic force in the New York music scene" who "looks like a goth Debbie Harry and sings like a moody siren."

Touring in support of their 2025 album Don't Get Lost that Blood Makes Noise called "a collection designed to grab listeners quickly while also rewarding repeated listens," the power-pop quintet Social Cinema headlines an October 21 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the group also hailed by Anti-Music.com as "a force on stage, deploying tightly wound dance rhythms in the guise of rock songs."

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