Appearing locally in the musicians' “Leftoverture 40th Anniversary Tour,” the legendary progressive rockers of Kansas take the Adler Theatre stage in an eagerly awaited April 4 event, filling the venue with selections from the group's multi-platinum-selling albums that include the iconic “Carry on Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind.”

With Music Taster's Choice calling him “one of the top 10 guitarists in the world,” the acclaimed blues rocker Anthony Gomes performs a special Easter Eve set at Davenport's Redstone Room, sharing the talents that led BluesWax to name him its 2003 Artist of the Year and inspired B.B. King to famously ask, “Where did that voice come from?”

With Spin magazine lauding the artist as “something jarring and sublime in crystalline brilliance” and Resident Advisor admiring her “ethereal New Age jungle with a vocal flex that nods to Enya and Björk,” Negative Gemini singer/songwriter Lindsey French brings her singular electro-pop to Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on March 27, performing in support of the recent Bad Baby EP that BandCamp described as “a stunner.”

Having played music icon Jerry Lee Lewis in more than 2,500 performances of the Tony-winning Million Dollar Baby at Chicago's Apollo Theatre, touring sensation Lance Lipinsky brings his high-wire talents to Galesburg's Ohnward Fine Arts Center in the March 24 concert event Rock Baby Rock, an explosive, piano-pumping performance showcasing musical influences of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s.