Alternating Currents is an annual music, film, art and comedy festival. It’s a unique downtown adventure, where thousands converge to experience our region's vibrant culture while celebrating and supporting our Quad Cities businesses.
Unless you’ve ever been, you’ve never seen the Quad Cities electrified in this light. 40+ venues hosting over 200 performances, screenings and arts events surge through Quad Cities downtowns during Alternating Currents. It's where you’ll find dozens of unique restaurants, shops, bars and more to explore as you move from one venue to the next, just like the flow of the Mississippi’s alternating currents. QC, That's Where!
Schedule of Events
10:00 am: Figge Art Museum
4:00 pm: The Last Picture House
Tin Can, Bumper Hitching
4:00 pm: UP Skybar at the Current Hotel
Wolfskill & The Wild
4:00 pm: Stompbox Brewing - NTI Stage
ZED
4:30 pm: Café San Lorenzo
Right Outside
5:00 pm: Common Chord Stage
Heads in Motion
5:00 pm: Kaiserslautern Square
5:00 pm: Common Chord Stage
Toto Johnson, David Casas
5:00 pm: Front Street Pub & Eatery
Parrotfish
5:00 pm: Killpop Studios
5:30 pm: Kaiserslautern Square
Avey Grouws Band
5:30 pm: The Last Picture House
The Grief Project, Not Mine, The Short Stay, Tallulah Park, Holy Calamity!
5:30 pm: City Loafers
Chris Schlichting, Mike Lucas, Lauren Vino, Austin Black, Aaron Scarbrough, and 3 more...
5:30 pm: Great River Brewery
Tim Stop
5:30 pm: The Last Picture House
Girls Who Wanna Surf, Building Bub's Grubs, Spectrum of Consumption: A Conservation Story
5:30 pm: Tiphanie's
Belly Diva Samantha and Belly Divas
6:00 pm: Stompbox Brewing - NTI Stage
Terra Lightfoot
6:00 pm: Armored Gardens - Palmer College Stage
The Kickback
6:30 pm: Mac's Tavern
pure xtc
6:30 pm: Mississippi River Distilling Company Downtown Lounge
Me Like Bees
7:00 pm: Front Street Pub & Eatery
King of the Weirdos
7:00 pm: The Last Picture House
Justin Beahm
7:00 pm: Café San Lorenzo
Wolfskill & The Wild
7:00 pm: UP Skybar at the Current Hotel
Right Outside
7:00 pm: The Phoenix
Chris Schlichting, Damon Tucker, Mel Mackey, Donny Townsend, Michael Meyers, and 3 more...
7:30 pm: Kaiserslautern Square
Logan Springer & The Wonderfully Wild
7:30 pm: Daiquiri Factory
The Back Alley
8:00 pm: Common Chord Stage
Hembree
8:00 pm: The Last Picture House Rooftop
Tim Stop
8:30 pm: The Last Picture House
Butchered, Infernalis, Recall, Project Lucidity, The Parallels of Loneliness
8:30 pm: Micky's Irish Pub
Terra Lightfoot
8:30 pm: Stompbox Brewing - NTI Stage
Parrotfish
9:00 pm: The Last Picture House
Ms. Rossi 3: Ms. Rossi Meets the Mob, The Passion According to Henry Chapel, Most Likely to Succeed, Making Magic
9:00 pm: Skybridge
DJ Bryan Lee, DJ Woodlake, DJ Voidberg
9:00 pm: The Phoenix
Chris Schlichting, Austin Black, Jeanie Doogan, Aaron Scarbrough, Bernard Bell, and 3 more...
9:00 pm: Mississippi River Distilling Company Downtown Lounge
Avey Grouws Band
9:30 pm: Mac's Tavern
ZED
9:30 pm: Armored Gardens - Palmer College Stage
pure xtc
9:30 pm: Raccoon Motel
Lauren Lovelle & The Midnight Spliffs
9:30 pm: Common Chord Stage
Post Sex Nachos
9:30 pm: Kaiserslautern Square
American Devil Sound
10:30 pm: Micky's Irish Pub
Logan Springer & The Wonderfully Wild
10:30 pm: The Last Picture House
Leaf Man, Emperica, Monument, To Be, Park & Ride, and 1 more...
11:00 pm: Stompbox Brewing - NTI Stage
Me Like Bees
11:00 pm: Raccoon Motel
Hembree
11:00 pm: The Last Picture House Rooftop
The Back Alley
11:59 pm: Great River Brewery
The Kickback
11:59 pm: Mac's Tavern
King of the Weirdos
