Jonathan Turner
Formerly the arts and entertainment reporter for The Dispatch/Rock Island Argus and Quad-City Times, Jonathan Turner now writes freelance for WVIK and QuadCities.com. He has experience writing for daily newspapers for 32 years and has expertise across a wide range of subject areas, including government, politics, education, the arts, economic development, historic preservation, business, and tourism. He loves writing about music and the arts, as well as a multitude of other topics including features on interesting people, places, and organizations. He has a passion for accompanying musicals, singers, choirs, and instrumentalists. He even wrote his own musical based on The Book of Job, which premiered at Playcrafters in 2010. He wrote a 175-page history book about downtown Davenport, which was published by The History Press in 2016. Turner was honored in 2009 to be among 24 arts journalists nationwide to take part in a 10-day fellowship offered by the National Endowment for the Arts in New York City on classical music and opera, based at Columbia University’s journalism school.
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Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse will stay closed until this fall.Owner and Producer Denny Hitchcock has announced Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island…
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Because of COVID-19, Quad City Arts made changes to this summer’s Metro Arts program. Just as last year was unusual for the Metro Arts Youth…
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The Family Museum, Figge Art Museum, and Putnam Museum are among the most popular attractions in the Quad-Cities area. The Iowa-side institutions – which…
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After being closed since mid-March, the German American Heritage Center in Davenport will re-open with specific health and safety conditions on Tuesday,…
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Since Circa ’21 can’t bring people into the theater, it’s taking the show outside for a special weekend.The dinner playhouse – which just marked its 43rd…
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The 49 th-annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival will be virtual this year for the first time.Joining the cavalcade of Quad-Cities cultural…
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So it can present a new experience for visitors, the Putnam Museum Science Center will take longer to re-open. The 153-year-old Davenport institution, on…
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Quad City Arts has re-opened in Rock Island and is revamping its online and in-person programming.As Illinois began to relax its social restrictions…
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The Family Museum in Bettendorf and the Figge Art Museum in Davenport have taken different approaches to re-opening after shutdowns caused by…
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Like other arts organizations during the pandemic, Ballet Quad Cities has moved online.It makes sense that even though Ballet Quad Cities had to cancel…