In celebration of America’s 250th birthday, Davenport's Figge Art Museum is hosting American Art talks throughout the month of July, and on Thursday the 23rd, guests are invited to hear from Larassa Kabel in Focus on the American Landscape, the speaker a multidisciplinary artist based in Des Moines, Iowa, whose work captures the uneasy balance between humans and nature.

With the latest program in the German American Heritage Center's popular “Kaffee und Kuchen” series offered by Ryan Saddler, MEd, the fascinating lecture Davenport Civil Rights Movement will be presented at the Davenport venue on July 19, the event featuring an emphasis on Charles and Ann Toney, widely known as the father and mother of the famed and historically essential movement.

Touring in supporting of his September release Signs, the artist's ninth studio album dating back to 2007, country-pop superstar Luke Bryan brings his national tour to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK on July 10, the longtime American Idol judge also one of the world's best-selling singers, with more than 75 million records sold to date.

With his 2025 album Magnifier hailed by Music Connection Magazine as an "intensely personal" creation that "reminds everyone of the value in taking a breather to contemplate the world and reexamine our place within it," indie-folk singer/songwriter Mason Jennings headlines a July 16 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, AllMusic adding that the artist's latest is "folk-pop with an intimate feel" and "an amazingly realized work."