Local superstar Angela Meyer will be having her Legions & Legends album release show at the Motel Aug. 26th!! Tickets go on sale at noon July 2! It’s going to be a full house so get on those tickets. Tickets are now on sale. TICKETS to all Raccoon Motel shows can be purchased HERE!! TICKETS to all Codfish Hollow shows can be purchased HERE!! www.theraccoonmotel.com  Read More

Mike Mathews and Sean Ryan are pumped for this year’s Dawn and On Music Festival – firstly for the simple fact that it’s back on. The all-day celebration of music, family and fun – Saturday, July 10th from noon to midnight at Schwiebert Riverfront Park, 101 17th St., Rock Island – had to be canceled due to Covid last year, and there were serious questions whether it would be a go this summer. “We got off to a very late start just because the artists didn’t know what was going to happen,” Mathews, the event co-director, said recently. “They weren’t necessarily making... Read More

A disgruntled conductor might say leading an orchestra is like herding cats. In a new partnership, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra is bringing an “Instrument Petting Zoo” to Mercado on Fifth in downtown Moline, starting Friday, July 2 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “The QCSO has been really doubling down on our private lesson effort and group lesson effort,” Marc Zyla, the orchestra’s director of education & community engagement, personnel manager and principal horn player, said Wednesday. The QCSO has partnered with the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Mississippi Valley, and the weekly... Read More

Moody New York psych rockers Wild Pink will be performing at The Raccoon Motel Oct. 8 It’s going to be a full house so get on those tickets. Tickets are now on sale. TICKETS to all Raccoon Motel shows can be purchased HERE!! TICKETS to all Codfish Hollow shows can be purchased HERE!! www.theraccoonmotel.com  Read More

Moline Centre on Friday was excited to announce this year’s lineup for the Thursday night Bass Street Landing Summer Concert Series, off 17th Street and River Drive. “It has been 610 days since our last FREE concert @ Bass Street, and we are ready to ‘safely’ party with all of you again on the plaza!” it posted on Facebook, noting it is partnering again with Courtesy Car City as both the title and vehicle sponsor for this year’s concert series. Moline Centre “is taking many extra precautions to ensure that these series of concerts are following all CDC/State of Illinois Covid-19 safety... Read More

Pinegrove is coming to Codfish Hollow! The venue announced the following on their social media just a few moments ago: Excited to announce Pinegrove LIVE in the barn on August 31st, 2021 with @miloemusic and Grumpy! Tickets will go on sale for this show as follows: ARTIST PRESALE: Tomorrow, Tuesday June 29th at 11AM until Wednesday at 10AM. GENERAL ON SALE : Wednesday, June 30th at NOON! For more info, see HERE.  Read More

Ani DiFranco is playing at Codfish Hollow! The venue posted the following on its social media just a few moments ago: SUPER EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE: Ani DiFranco LIVE in our barn for our GRAND RE-OPENING on August 19th! HECK YES! Tickets for this show will go on sale as follows : ARTIST PRESALE :TOMORROW Tuesday, June 29th from 9AM to 9 PM. This is an Artist Presale. You have to be a member of her fan club to get the Presale Code. WE CANNOT GIVE YOU THE CODE. GENERAL ON SALE : Wednesday, June 30th at 10 AM. For more info, see HERE.  Read More

The Starlight Revue Concert Series in Rock Island is offering free concerts and this Tuesday, Josh Duffee Orchestra is in the spotlight, or, rather, the starlight! The Tuesday night free Starlight Revue series starts at 5 p.m. Hy-Vee Grille and Rock Island Parks and Recreation will sell food and drink, with the concerts starting at 7 p.m. The upcoming 2021 lineup is: June 29: 20th Anniversary Concert of Josh Duffee Orchestra July 6: The Night People Jazz drummer and Q-C bandleader Josh Duffee recently posted that his concert will commemorate the 20th anniversary of their first Starlight Revue... Read More

BREAKING NEWS: Davenport’s Adler Theatre on Monday announced its planned 2021-22 Broadway at the Adler season, which will feature the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Rent,” the concert-style theatrical event “The Simon & Garfunkel Story,” the newly-staged production of the Tony-winning “Fiddler on the Roof,”  the record-breaking musical spectacular “Cats,” and the Tony- and Grammy- winning “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.” In addition to the shows in the 2021-2022 series, the rescheduled performance of the Sara Bareilles musical “Waitress”... Read More

DAVID HUCKFELDT (of The Pines, featuring members of Taylor Swift and Big Red Machine’s bands) w/PIETA BROWN and MAC LEAPHART will play at 7 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Raccoon Motel in Davenport. To LISTEN to David Huckfeldt To LISTEN to Pieta Brown To LISTEN to Mac Leaphart Tickets on sale HERE  Read More