A dynamic celebration of the legendary singer/songwriter’s greatest hits, as well as the story of the man behind the melodies, the touring sensation The Billy Joel Legacy: A Tribute Experience comes to Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 10, this exhilarating stage spectacle the latest from the producers of The Life and Music of George Michael and this past February's Adler Theatre smash The Simon & Garfunkel Story.

Touring in support of their most recent album, 2025's Billboard-charting The Screaming of the Valkyries, the English extreme-metal artists of Cradle of Filth bring their latest tour to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on October 12, their hit songs including "Libertina Grimm," "Tonight In Flames," "Cemetery & Sundown," "I Am the Thorn," "The Byronic Man," and a cover of Heaven 17's '80s pop gem "Temptation,"

Led by Poison drummer Rikki Rockett, a hard-driving rock outfit comes to East Moline's The Rust Belt on October 10 with the venue debut of Rockett Mafia, the group's current national tour centered around performing the classic Poison: Look What The Cat Dragged In album in it’s entirety.

With his songs, according to Little Village Magazine, "filled with a mix of goofy juvenilia, absurd sexual content, nerdy grammatical breakdowns and introspective lyrical detours," rapper and comedian Schaffer the Darklord headlines the October 10 "Horror Show 3" at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the popular touring artist appearing alongside Coolzey and Baby Jayne.

Touring in support of his summer release Barnstorm and lauded by Rolling Stone as an artist whose “high guileless voice comes in swirls and artful smears,” New York-based folk singer/songwriter Paul Spring headlines an October 12 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the gifted musician also praised by the Irish Times for his “richly realized songs with deft lyrics and considered sensibility.”

Hailed by Nashville Scene as an artist who "sings and plays like nobody's business," country and honkytonk singer/songwriter and fiddler Greg Garing returns to the Quad Cities on October 11 for an engagement at Davenport's Deanery School of Music, this veteran of the Nashville and New York City music scenes inspiring the legendary Johnny Cash to call him “the best country singer I’ve heard in 30 years."

Opening their 41st season of professional engagements, the thrilling vocal ensemble Nova Singers will perform Music of South Africa at Galesburg's First Lutheran Church on October 10 and Davenport's St. Paul Lutheran Church on October 11, the company's founder and director Dr. Laura Lane stating, "This might be the most exciting program we have ever done!"

The October 8 event made possible through partnership between the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities and the Rock Island Public Library, a pair of iconic folk singer/songwriters will be saluted when the library's Watts-Midtown Branch hosts When Dylan Met Guthrie, an exuberant two-man show created by award-winning Wisconsin Artists Lil Rev and Will Branch.

Revered for having landed 51 singles on the Billboard country charts, 20 of them number-one smashes, the iconic duo of singer/songwriters – better known as Brooks & Dunn – bring their "Neon Moon Tour 2026" to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK on October 3.

Opening the organization's astonishing 112th season of thrilling Masterworks repertoires, the musicians of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Mark Russell Smith, present Symphonie fantastique at Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 3 and, in Rock Island, Augustana College's Centennial Hall on October 4.

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