08 Apr 2025

Tal Cohen Trio, April 19

By Reader Staff

Critically acclaimed musicians renowned for their bold artistry and innovative approach to jazz, the talents of the Tal Cohen Trio enjoy a special April 19 engagement at Moline's Sound Conservatory, the lauded pianist and his fellow artists masterfully blending traditional jazz with global influences, creating a sound that is both refreshingly modern and deeply rooted in jazz history.

08 Apr 2025

Tummyache, April 21

By Reader Staff

With the band's most recent album Egosystem hailed for songs that, according to Higher Plain Music, "veer from depressed and vacuumed-out acoustic moments to barrages of grungy walls of sound with glee," the independent alt-grunge outfit Tummyache headlines an April 21 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Higher Plain Music adding that the ensemble's latest is "ragged, raucous, angry, and a bit knackered (in a great way) with everyday life."

08 Apr 2025

Lucid Express, April 22

By Reader Staff

Their self-titled 2021 release hailed by The Quietus as "a slow-cooked album with elements of shoegaze and synthpop that simmer within its sound palette," the Hong Kong musicians of Lucid Express headline an April 22 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, The Alternative adding of the indie artists' debut that "acting as a daydream, whisking away from the grays of reality, this record is full of sunny disposition and cascading mirth."

08 Apr 2025

Circuit Des Yeux and Netochka Nezvanova, April 23

By Reader Staff

A pair of gifted independent artists hailing from the Midwest will share an exciting co-headlining engagement at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox on April 23, with Circuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr a vocalist, composer and singer/songwriter based in Chicago, and Netochka Nezvanova's Gabi Vanek an experimental bassoonist living in Iowa City.

08 Apr 2025

Brìghde Chaimbeul, April 18

By Reader Staff

Hailed by BBC Radio 2 as "mesmerizing" and by The Quietus as "unique, exciting, and forward-thinking," experimental Celtic musician Brìghde Chaimbeul headlines an April 18 concert at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox, the artist revered for her exceptional playing of the traditional Great Highland bagpipe and the revived Scottish smallpipes.

08 Apr 2025

Illusionist Rick Thomas, April 24

By Reader Staff

Lauded by the L.A. Times as “stunning” and by the Chicago Tribune as “fabulous entertainment for the entire family” Branson, Missouri's wildly popular illusionist Rick Thomas brings his touring spectacle Mansion of Dreams to Davenport's Adler Theatre on April 24, the event delivering, up close and personal, some of most intriguing, innovative, and mind-blowing grand illusions in the world.

08 Apr 2025

SPECTRA Reading Series: MC Hyland and Elizabeth Clark Wessel, April 24

By Reader Staff

With the event co-presented by the Midwest Writing Center, the Quad Cities' longest-running reading series SPECTRA returns to Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on April 24 for its public event of the 2024-25 season, the evening showcasing a pair of lauded poets who will read from their latest collections; The Dead and the Living and the Bridge, written by MC Hyland, and None of It Belongs to Me, authored by Elizabeth Clark Wessel.

08 Apr 2025

SPECTRA Reading Series: Elizabeth Willis, Tanya Rastogi, and Sophia Bush, April 10

By Reader Staff

With the event co-presented by the Midwest Writing Center, the Quad Cities' longest-running reading series SPECTRA returns to Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on April 10, with Elizabeth Willis reading from her latest book Liontaming in America, longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in poetry, Iowa Student Poet Ambassador Tanya Rastogi, and Sophia Best, whose first chapbook PINK BATHWATER won the Iowa Chapbook Prize.

08 Apr 2025

Breath of Encouragement's “Rodgers' & Hammerstein's Cinderella,” April 19

By Reader Staff

A glorious stage fairytale boasting a legendary score and a reimagined script by Douglas Carter Beane, the Tony-winning Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella will be presented at Davenport's Adler Theatre on April 19, this beloved classic and Breath of Encouragement production an entertainment, according to the Associated Press, that "crackles with sweetness and freshness, combining a little Monty Python's Spamalot with some Les Misérables."

08 Apr 2025

“Never the Sinner,” April 24 through 27

By Reader Staff

Deemed "an excellent and compelling play" by the New York Post and "brilliant, powerful, and cinematic" by the Associated Press, Tony Award winner John Logan's dramatic thriller Never the Sinner enjoys an April 24 through 27 staging by the theatre talents at Scott Community College, this tale of the infamous Leopold & Loeb killing hailed by the New Yorker as a work that "sweeps the audience into the boys' friendship without losing sight of the brutal murder."

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