Fronted by Canadian singer/songwriters Devan Glover and Khalid Yassein – described by PopMatters.com as “two fabulous singers who harmonize perfectly, like two people born to perform together – the indie-folk quartet Wild Rivers plays a Moeller Nights concert on February 11, creating a sound the Web site also deemed “completely contemporary and fresh.”

A quartet that, according to Vanyaland.com, “laces modern folk and Americana with an electronic jolt, waltzing along the grooved edges of dream-pop, synth-pop, and Brooklyn's mid-aughts guitar-rock revival,” the musicians of Kuinka perform an RME Member Appreciation Show on February 9, demonstrating why NPR raved about the ensemble's “joyful noise” and “joyous organic sound.”

Presented in celebration of America's oldest, largest civil-rights organization and its local members, the Figge Art Museum will house History of the Davenport NAACP February 10 through April 22, a new exhibition focusing on area contributions to this nationwide effort that boasts more than 2,200 branches and roughly half a million members worldwide.

After receiving dozens of national and local entries for its second-annual contest, the QC Theatre Workshop will present the six winners and finalists in the company's 2018 Susan Glaspell Playwriting Festival during a special two-part event, with readings of three different scripts performed on two successive nights.

Two sensational blues acts join forces for one stellar concert when the Mississippi Valley Blues Society hosts a February 10 event at the Moline Viking Club: a night of rock, reggae, and good-old-fashioned blues with Odds Lane and Reverend Raven & the Chain-Smoking Altar Boys.

Even though many fans of The Sound of Music know this legendary Rodgers and Hammerstein musical by heart, audiences will be in for a thrilling treat on February 8 when the Adler Theatre's Broadway at the Adler series hosts the show in its nationally touring presentation directed by Jack O'Brien, the three-time Tony Award winner who directed Broadway's original production of Hairspray.

For its annual Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Lecture, St. Ambrose University hosts the February 6 event Sharp Fights & Hard Lessons in the Global Race, a presentation on energy and the environment delivered by award-winning author Jeffrey Ball.

For the fourth performances of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra';s 2017-18 season, conductor Mark Russell Smith and his musicians take audiences on a figurative trek across the Atlantic in Postcards from Venice, a program of wit, charm, and musical mischief with a special performance by trumpet soloist Matthew Onstad.

A six-piece ensemble from Austin, Texas whose Mockingbird was cited by Rolling Stone as one of the year's best country albums, the honkytonk talents of Mike & the Moonpies play a February 4 Moeller Nights concert, treating audiences to a sound that NoDepresion.com praised for its “shining tautness” and “crisp precision that is marvellous.”

Written by award-winning author Jennifer Haley, the stage cyber-thriller The Nether opens New Ground Theatre's 2018 season in a production running February 2 through 11, with Haley's acclaimed play earning this rave from the New York Times: “As a parable for where we’re headed on that big old highway in the digital sky, The Nether exerts a viselike grip while taking you down avenues of thought you probably haven’t traveled yet.”

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