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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For its first musical with a live, in-person audience in 19 months, Quad City Music Guild has the ideal show, “Mamma Mia!,” continuing through next weekend at the Prospect Park theater, in Moline.
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In a new partnership, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra is bringing an“Instrument Petting Zoo” to Mercado on Fifth in downtown Moline, and the newMercado in downtown Davenport this month.
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After being one of many canceled events in 2020, the Dawn and On Music Festival will return this year.
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The Biennial Exhibition at the Dubuque Museum of Art sheds light on how artists in the region have experienced, interpreted, and reacted to their experience of the last two years.
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A 2005 graduate of Rock Island High School, JUNO the Artist has toured the world as a guitarist and has played with everyone from Bruno Mars to Camila Cabello to Lizzo, plus the June 9 CMT Awards in Nashville.
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Even though the Mississippi Valley Blues Society had to cancel its annual bluesfestival and Blues in the Schools education program last year, it was hardly idle.
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After a year with no downtown market in Moline, Mercado on Fifth is back, with its family-friendly festivities, and a new director is excited to expand the market to downtown Davenport.
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Living Proof Exhibit hosts Creative Sessions each month with a variety of community partners at various locations in the region. It has one coming up in Muscatine, for the first time in a long time.
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EconomyIf there’s something we all could use in 2020, it’s a miracle – and a great cocktail.You can find both at the festive holiday pop-up bar, Miracle at the…
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The 100-mile-per hour winds that pummeled the Quad-Cities on Aug. 10 produced more than power outages, downed trees, and other property damage. The fast-…