A high-energy ensemble boasting some of the sharpest musical talents the area has to offer, 10 of Soul headlines an August 16 SkyBridge Courtyard concert in Common Chord's popular “Live at Five” series, their Davenport set sure to boast classic tunes from the genres of soul, funk, and blues, as well as a few funky arrangements of their own.

Praised by Marquee magazine for their “dynamic presence” and for “continuously pushing the genre of bluegrass and their legacy within the genre,” the gifted musicians of Yonder Mountain String Band headline an August 21 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the musicians' most recent album, 2022's Get Yourself Outside, hailed by Glide magazine as “an antidote for feeling down. These 11 songs just make you feel good, like putting on your favorite sweater to ward off the cold.”

Offering a stage salute to beloved recording artists including Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, and more than a dozen other icons, the popular vocal duo Gordy & Debby bring The Country Legends Show to Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center on August 17, the married touring artists currently celebrating nearly 20 years as beloved Branson entertainers.

Appearing together in the Vibrant Arena at the MARK's eagerly awaited Summer Jam '24 event, a trio of supremely gifted hip-hip acts will combine their talent in Moline on August 10, with the amphitheater housing the Grammy-winning musicians of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Billboard sensation Xzibit, and Georgia's Yung Loc, featured on T-Pain's chart-topping "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')."

A chart-topping, two-time Grammy nominee as recognizable for the film and television appearances as he is for his recordings, country superstar Trace Adkins headlines an August 10 concert event at East Moline's The Rust Belt, the Grand Ole Opry member's accomplishments including selling 11 million albums, charting more than 20 singles, and garnering more than two billion streams to date.

With the Emmy-nominated singer/songwriter and composer having created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with his ensemble, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records, Ben Folds headlines an August 13 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, his varied credits including serving as a judge on the NBC's The Sing-Off and, in 2019, publishing his memoir A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons.

Traveling the country on their "Not Dead Yet Tour" in support of their most recent recording Dogma, the chart-topping metalcore musicians of Crown the Empire headline an August 10 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, their 2023 recording praised by CaliberTV as a work that "represents a great deal of honesty and determination," resulting in "quite possibly their most straightforward release yet."

Delivering an exploison of electro-jam fun on the first night of this year's Alternating Currents festival, the Bloomington, Indiana talents of Dizgo are set to rock Davenport's Redstone Room on August 15, the musicians praised by Space Tapes for "evoking a transcendence of genre: a dizzier disco, filled with a hodge-podge of genres, styles, and technical influences [that's] still, at it’s core, a dance party."

Two very disparate, equally thrilling concert events will take place in the same Davenport venue on August 10, with the Raccoon Motel proud to host a performance by the drone-doom and post-metal musicians of BIG | BRAVE in the afternoon, and the alternative-country and Americana artists of Old 97's in the evening.

Touring in support of their 2023 recording Validate Me, a sophomore release that Glide magazine called "a testament to their unique alternative rock sound that is uniquely their own," the Brooklyn-based talents of Gooseberry headline an August 12 engagement at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Glide adding that the group "melds alternative rock, indie, and blues to craft their distinctive sound."

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