Inviting audiences to celebrate St. Patrick's weekend at the Ohnward Fine Arts center, the Maquoketa venue will host a night of exhilarating fun in the March 15 concert event Classical Blast in Kilts, the event featuring rock versions of traditional Celtic music alongside songs by contemporary Irish rock bands including U2, Cranberries, Dropkick Murphues, Snow Patrol, and other greats.

With their national tour landing locally just five days ahead of St. Patrick's Day, the internationally beloved Shamrock Tenors play Davenport's Adler Theatre on March 12, this acclaimed quintet hailed by The Irish News for delivering "songs we all know ... gilded with beautiful harmonies and a typically Irish sense of fun!”

After 25 years, 12 albums, five Grammy Award nominations, and sold-out shows across the country, the blues and Southern-rock talents of the North Mississippi Allstars headline a March 8 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room, their recent recording Set Sail lauded by AllMusic as "easily the band's most mature, far-reaching, affirmative statement."

Held as part of the unique concert series held in Davenport's intimate and cozy Redstone Room, the March 7 7 Songwriter Sessions event will find guests treat to a seated evening of tunes hosted by David G. Smith, with additionally winning performances delivered by Mark Ridolfi and Carol Montag.

A special musical presentation in the Davenport venue's popular "Kaffee und Kuchen" series, the German American Heritage Center's Friendship: Connections in New Lands will, on March 9, find gifted soprano Lily Arbisser and esteemed French pianist Dimitri Malignan performing a special recital inspired by Oranit Ben Zimra’s photography exhibition Mit dir bin ich ich / With You, I Am Myself.

Lauded for his work as lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist in alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday, and currently active with outfits The Color Fred and Say Anything, Fred Mascherino headlines a March 10 concert event at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, The Color Fred's 2022 recording A Year & Change praised by I Am Tuned Up as a work that "sounds fresh and driven, and the stories here are sincere and slightly unnerving."

Current winners of the solo/duo category for the Iowa Blues Challenge who placed as semi-finalists at the 2025 International Blues Festival in Memphis, Cedar County Cobras headline a March 13 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the popular duo of Tom Spielbauer and April Dirks arriving with an upright bass, foot drum, and several guitars to play American roots and blues music from the last century.

Finom, March 8

Touring in support of their 2024 album Not God, hailed by Flood magazine as "a wonderful rumination on the perceived limitations of songcraft," the indie-folk duo Finom headline a March 8 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the Chicago-based outfit formed in 2014 by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist duo Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart.

Having sold in excess of 27 million albums and 33.7 million digital downloads since their debut in 2000, the chart-topping country musicians of Rascal Flatts bring their "Life Is a Highway Tour" to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK on March 1, the group's impressive collection of number-one hits including the recordings Melt, Unstoppable, and Rewind, and the singles "Bless the Broken Road," "Stand." and "Here Comes Goodbye."

Lauded by the Philadelphia Enquirer for his "electric presence" and by the American Record Guide for his "rich, deep, mellifluous tone, impeccable intonation," and "excellent sense of timing and tempo," viola master Roberto Díaz acts as featured guest in the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's fifth Masterworks presentations of the ensemble's 2024-25 season, the gifted musician lending his talents to the March 1 and 2 performances of Echoes of Exploration.

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