A celebrated Virginia string outfit currently enjoying its 24th year of professional performance, the country, folk, and Americana musicians of the Hackensaw Boys play Davenport's Raccoon Motel on March 3, the group's talents having inspired Pitchfork to rave, "The band infuses their grassy tornado with brazen punk attitude and catchy pop structure, while simultaneously remaining vehemently sincere."

A seminal voice in progressive rock for roughly a quarter-century, the Florida-based talents of Underoath headline a March 10 concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, the musicians' accomplishments including a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance and their 2006 album Define the Great Line debuting at number two on the Billboard 200.

Performing in a special concert event at Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Parish Hall on March 11, New-York based violinist Anna Elashvili and Chamber Music Quad Cities co-director Thomas Sauer will deliver a recital program of classic violin sonatas by Johannes Brahms and Maurice Ravel, these beautiful works presented alongside short, melodious character pieces by composers Christoph Glück, Antonin Dvorák, and Georges Boulanger.

Performing a singular blend of Chicago blues, New Orleans funk, Grateful Dead-style psychedelia, and jazz fusion, and also touring in support of their recent albums Solo Guitar and JMB4, the gifted musicians of the Joe Marcinek Band play Davenport's Redstone Room on March 9, a night also boasting the significant musical talents of special guest Jason Hann of String Cheese Incident.

A consistently popular and lauded presence on the Midwestern touring circuit, beloved folk singer/songwriter Cody Diekhoff – better known by his recording alias Chicago Farmer – headlines a March 16 concert with his band The Field Notes at Davenport's Redstone Room, the artist a soulful crooner and guitarist who inspired No Depression to rave, “If the Midwest is looking for a voice, the search is over.”

Lauded by Living Blues magazine as “21st Century blues at its best,” the Memphis-based artists of the Ghost Town Blues Band perform a March 4 concert at the Moline Viking Club presented by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society, treating audiences to the soulful, electrifying effects of, as Living Blues stated, “what can happen when the past is distilled through young sensibilities, voices, and instruments.”

A pair of disparate musical artists celebrating the releases of 2023 recordings will take the stage at Davenport's Raccoon Motel on March 10, the night bringing with it a set by Georgia-based folk-rock, country, and blues vocalist Pony Bradshaw, celebrating the release of his new album North Georgia Rounder, and the Canadian singer/songwriter poolblood, delivering impassioned indie rock and lush baroque flourishes in their LP mole.

With Pitchfork deeming the artist a "Nashville spitfire [who] flits easily between country, bluegrass, and rock," singer/songwriter Lillie Mae headlines a March 6 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, her most recent recording Other Girls lauded by Pop Matters as "the album that will garner Americana/alt-country artist Lillie Mae the attention she richly deserves."

Serving as the latest stop on the musician's “Hits Deep Tour 2023,” Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK hosts a March 3 concert with the Grammy-winning, chart-topping TobyMac, whose extensive, critically acclaimed discography has made him one of the best-selling artists in contemporary-Christian and hip-hop history.

A celebration of brilliant musicianship both on the stage and on the page will take place when the Quad City Symphony Orchestra continues their 2022-23 Masterworks season with Fierce Females, the concert's March 4 and 5 performances at Davenport's Adler Theatre and Augustana College's Centennial Hall boasting a repertoire of works by women composers and the eagerly awaited area return of piano virtuoso Wei Luo, who last performed with the ensemble in 2018.

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