Performing a repertoire featuring Johannes Brahm's Tragic Overture, op. 81, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, op. 36, and the newly commissioned Clarinet Concerto by beloved local composer Jacob Bancks, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra closes their 2023-24 Masterworks series with the concert event The Force of Fate, its April 6 and 7 presentations at Davenport's Adler Theatre and Augustana College's Centenniual showcasing the thrilling talents of clarinetist Ricardo Morales.

Currently touring in support of his 2023 album Dirt on My Diamonds Vol. 1, a recording that No Depression deemed "a chewy spread of grown-up blues for fans of all ages," blues-rock singer/songwriter and guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd brings his ensemble to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on April 11, the artist's latest also inspiring Rose & Blues Muse to rave that the bandleader is "gifted with a voice that's made for country radio and a knack for co-writing hook-laden, memorable songs."

Lauded by Noisey for the way his "messy, raw records swirl together outlaw country, blues, Americana, soul, and rock 'n' roll ... in the best kind of way," singer/songwriter Scott H. Biram headlines an April 9 engagement at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, his 2020 recording Fever Dreams praised by Bluestown Music for the artist "honestly laying down his bare soul at the people's feet once again in a way that very few can."

Her 2023 album Healing Power hailed by Americana Highways for its "freshness and consistent melodic assets," Canadian folk and roots-rock singer/songwriter Terra Lightfoot headlines an April 11 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, her famed touring partners over the years including The Posies, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bruce Cockburn, Blue Rodeo, and, in his lone Canadian date for the 2018 Outlaw Music Festival, country icon Willie Nelson.