With their album Passage hailed by SonicAbuse as "deeply evocative and perfectly executed," the women-led world-fusion ensemble ADAAWE opens Quad City Arts' 2023-24 Visiting Artists Series with an October 7 concert event in Augustana College's Centennial Hall, their previous engagements including a performance at the California World Music Festival, a concert is Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and a booking at the Alex Theater with Emmy nominee Jasmine Guy and Oscar nominee Angela Bassett.

With his recent recording Stone Crazy lauded by Blues Matters! as “vocally exquisite, musically phenomenal,” and “a blues album to cherish,” acclaimed vocalist, guitarist, and harmonica player Kevin Burt headlines an October 11 concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room, the artist also praised by Living Blues as "a serious songwriter who knows how to craft music to fit his personality, and no one delivers this brand of music better than he does."

His extraordinary professional career including the release of more than two dozen albums over the span of more than half a century, legendary Mexican singer, accordion player, composer, and songwriter Ramón Ayala and his ensemble Sus Bravos Del Norte land at Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 8, the international talents noted for their thrilling renditions of traditional norteño music and for Ayala's fame as "King of the Accordion."

Praised by Ones to Watch for her "intricate storytelling infused with both pop sensibilities and folk tenderness," Bre Kennedy headlines an October 6 concert event at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the singer/songwriter's talent inspiring Atwood magazine to call her "undeniably an artist that deserves your undivided attention," adding that "as a narrator, she’s achingly relatable, and as a new artist, she’s more than ready for the spotlight."

Renowned for her Americana and alternative-country ensemble Leslie & the Badgers, the group's headliner Leslie Stevens enjoys an October 9 headlining engagement at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the chanteuse and multi-instrumentalist's recording Sinner lauded by The Guardian as "an album that should establish her credentials as a singer/songwriter of skill and passion."

Performing a special free concert for all veterans, first responders, and their families, country singer/songwriter Austin Wahlert headlines an October 12 engagement at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, his recording I Will Win described by Real American Cowboy Magazine as a “ballsy album with songs that challenge your realities and make you swell inside, some even make you re-commit to things that you’ve left behind.”

Appearing in conjunction with his weekend Masterworks concert events with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, acclaimed Cuban-American cellist Dr. Tommy Mesa will play a special pop-up concert in Davenport's brand-new MLK Park on October 6, the artist lauded by New York Concert Review as “commanding in every detail” performing alongside QCSO violinists Janis Sakai and Emily Nash.

On September 24, a lauded singer/songwriter and gifted pianist/composer will combine their talents at Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre when Pippi Ardennia and Daniel Leahy perform the perfect amalgamation of soul, jazz, blues, gospel and R&B in the afternoon concert Pippi & Daniel, the eclectic, stylistic composers and performers sharing their favorite original compositions and the standards they most love.

Praised by The Buffalo News as "fiery, passionate, and deeply musical," the collective musical talents of Organ Fairchild headline a September 29 concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room, their 40-plus years of professional experience inspiring the United Kingdom's Soul & Jazz & Funk to call the outfit "a veritable cocktail of flavours – no gimmicks, no hype."

A celebration of one of the most popular and influential recording artists of all time coinciding with the artist's current, record-breaking "Eras" tour, Burning Red: A Tribute to Taylor Swift will take the stage at East Moline venue The Rust Belt on September 30, this exhilarating event "by Swifties and for Swifties" taking fans on a journey through all of Swift's own eras from her pop hits to folk, country, dance, and back again.

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