Boasting a repertoire bubbling over with hits including the heartfelt singalong "Heard It in a Love Song," the testifying "Fire on the Mountain," and the explosive testimony of "Ramblin,'" the genre-crossing rockers of The Marshall Tucker Band headline a June 7 concert event at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, the ensemble famed for incorporating blues, country and jazz into an eclectic sound, and helping establish the Southern rock genre in the early 1970s.

With the Boston Globe hailing the world musician as "the main exponent of Chamamé”, Argentine composer, accordionist, and researcher Alejandro Brittes headlines a special June 9 concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room. The event will boast an exploration of Brittes' Chamamé heritage: an ancestral rhythm born from the encounter between the ritualistic musicality and the worldview of the Original Peoples – The Guaranis – and the Baroque music taught in the Jesuit Missions in a cultural macro-region that encompasses Argentina, central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

With the Chicago Blues Guide deeming them “excellent” and Emmy-nominated actor Hugh Laurie upping the praise by calling them “bloody excellent,” the blues artists of Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin' Altar Boys featuring Westside Andy play Davenport's Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill on June 8 in a concert co-presented by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society, the artists noted for albums include Big Bee, Slow Burn, and Shake Your Boogie.

With the free event presented in partnership with the Quad Cities Cultural Trust and the City of Davenport and supporting sponsor, Tower Trust & Investment Company, Davenport's Common Chord is set to jump-start the warm-weather months with the Live at 5: Summer Kickoff Block Party on June 6, the outdoor celebration starting in the venue's courtyard with high-energy performances by 10 of Soul and students from the QC Rock Academy.

Touring in support of her 2025 release year of the slug, an album that Under the Radar Magazine described as "loaded with one jolting pleasant surprise after the next," Grammy-nominated indie-pop singer/songwriter Caroline Rose headlines a June 11 concert a Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist's latest also praised by Paste as a work in which Rose's "intricate, thoughtful songwriting shines through."

With Grammy-winning songwriter Marcus Hummun lauding the Minnesota talent for mastering "the lost art of the story song," rising country- and roots-music talent Clayton Ryan headlines a June 12 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist also praised by B Sides & Badlands for being "the kind of singer/songwriter Americana and roots music needs right now. He’s that good."

A collective of Iowa-based musicians and educators founded in 2017 by a group of friends at the University of Northern Iowa, the high-energy ensemble BYObrass headlines a June 6 concert in the Rock the Wood summer-concert series at Bettendorf venue The Tangled Wood.

Revered as the most popular and sought-after big band in the world today for both concert and swing-dance engagements, The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra brings their tour to the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts on June 12, the present iteration of this assemblage of gifted jazz musicians featuring Erik Stabnau as musical director and returning female vocalist Jenny Swoish.

Influenced by blues legends including Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Louis Jordan, and Junior Wells, the Chicago-honed talents of Morry Sochat & the Special 20s perform a June 1 set at Pour Bros. Craft Taproom Moline, this exhilarating afternoon of blues, swing, and 1950s rock-and-roll co-presented by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society.

Hailed by Noob Heavy for their "fine blend of industrial, groove, electronic, and metal" and by Rough Edge for music that's "alive, straightforward, and forceful," the Los Angeles-based alternative-metal talents of Static-X headline the "Machines vs. Monsters Tour" alongside GWAR, Dope, and A Killer's Confession, the sure-to-be-unforgettable night of thrilling rock and thrash mayhem landing at Davenport's Capitol Theatre on May 31.

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