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: Common Chord Stage
David Casas
10:00 am: Kaiserslautern Square
10:00 am: Made Indie Market
10:00 am: Freight House Pavilion
10:00 am: Made Indie Market
Abbie Sawyer
10:00 am: Common Chord Stage
Toto Johnson, David Casas
10:00 am: Figge Art Museum
11:00 am: The Last Picture House Rooftop
Andrea Olson
11:00 am: MLK Park - Estes Construction Stage
The Swam: pland Jewels
11:00 am: Front Street Pub & Eatery
The Textures
11:30 am: Made Indie Market
Eva Kendall
12:00 pm: The Last Picture House
Tin Can, Bumper Hitching
12:00 pm: Great River Brewery
Katie and the Honky Tonks
12:30 pm: Daiquiri Factory
Abbie Sawyer
12:30 pm: MLK Park - Estes Construction Stage
Barefoot & Sunshine
12:30 pm: City Loafers
Jam: es Draper, Josh Plant, Mike Lucas, Aubree Plant, Aloe Mean, and 4 more...
12:30 pm: Stompbox Brewing - NTI Stage
Lady Igraine
12:30 pm: Kaiserslautern Square
Alborn
1:00 pm: The Last Picture House Rooftop
Andrea Olson
1:00 pm: Made Indie Market
Sun Centauri
1:30 pm: Front Street Pub & Eatery
Jerm Theory
1:30 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
1:30 pm: Armored Gardens - Palmer College Stage
OTNES
1:30 pm: Mac's Tavern
Joel Sires
2:00 pm: MLK Park - Estes Construction Stage
John Resch & Doggin' Out
2:30 pm: The Last Picture House
Girls Who Wanna Surf, Building Bub's Grubs, Spectrum of Consumption: A Conservation Story
2:30 pm: Made Indie Market
River Glen
2:30 pm: Mississippi River Distilling Company Downtown Lounge
Dickie
3:00 pm: Kaiserslautern Square
Cam: p Regret
3:00 pm: Stompbox Brewing - NTI Stage
Gully Boys
3:30 pm: Great River Brewery
Lady Igraine
3:30 pm: Figge Art Museum
3:30 pm: Daiquiri Factory
Beeson
4:00 pm: MLK Park - Estes Construction Stage
Siri Lorece
4:00 pm: City Loafers
Chris Schlichting, Matt Lam: b, Michael Meyers, Kristen Toomey, Aaron Scarbrough, and 4 more...
4:00 pm: The Last Picture House
The Grief Project, Not Mine, The Short Stay, Tallulah Park, Holy Calam: ity!
4:00 pm: Armored Gardens - Palmer College Stage
The Thing With Feathers
4:00 pm: Common Chord Stage
The Sean McKee Band
4:00 pm: Freight House Pavilion
Andrew Jacob and Lisa Lyn
4:30 pm: Front Street Pub & Eatery
Katie and the Honky Tonks
4:30 pm: The Last Picture House Rooftop
Andrea Olson
4:30 pm: Micky's Irish Pub
The Textures
5:00 pm: Killpop Studios
5:00 pm: Kaiserslautern Square
Jerm Theory
5:15 pm: Freight House Pavilion
Chris Gesler
5:30 pm: The Last Picture House
Leaf Man, Emperica, Monument, To Be, Park & Ride, and 1 more...
5:30 pm: Café San Lorenzo
Barefoot & Sunshine
5:30 pm: UP Skybar at the Current Hotel
Eva Kendall
5:30 pm: The Last Picture House
Max Allan Collins
5:30 pm: Mississippi River Distilling Company Downtown Lounge
THOT Squad
6:00 pm: Wake Brewing
6:00 pm: Ragged Records & Trash Can Annie
Super 88, Lark's Tongue, The Golden Fleece
6:00 pm: Ragged Records & Trash Can Annie
Super 88
6:00 pm: Mac's Tavern
The Swam: pland Jewels
6:30 pm: Armored Gardens - Palmer College Stage
Beeson
6:30 pm: The Last Picture House
Butchered, Infernalis, Recall, Project Lucidity, The Parallels of Loneliness
6:30 pm: Common Chord Stage
Jon Stickley Trio
6:30 pm: Stompbox Brewing - NTI Stage
Alborn
7:00 pm: Freight House Pavilion
HalfwayHomeless
7:00 pm:
The Phoenix
Chris Schlichting, Josh Plant, Nate Abshire, Sohrab Forouzesh, Mike Baldwin, and 4 more...
7:00 pm:
Café San Lorenzo
River Glen
7:00 pm:
Ragged Records & Trash Can Annie
The Golden Fleece
7:00 pm:
Micky's Irish Pub
The Wonderlands
7:30 pm:
Front Street Pub & Eatery
The Thing With Feathers
7:30 pm:
Daiquiri Factory
Joel Sires
8:00 pm:
Ragged Records & Trash Can Annie
Lark's Tongue
8:00 pm:
The Last Picture House Rooftop
OTNES
8:00 pm:
UP Skybar at the Current Hotel
Sun Centauri
8:00 pm:
Raccoon Motel
Emily How
8:00 pm:
The Last Picture House
Joe Pickett & Scott Miller (Strange and Found VHS)
8:30 pm:
The Phoenix
Donny Townsend, Aubree Plant, Jam: es Draper, Matt Lam: b, Mike Lucas, and 4 more...
8:30 pm:
Mississippi River Distilling Company Downtown Lounge
Gully Boys
9:00 pm:
At The Stardust
Illuminaughties Burlesque
9:00 pm:
Armored Gardens - Palmer College Stage
Siri Lorece
9:00 pm:
Skybridge
DJ Shane Brown, DJ Sean Tripp, Discoletariat
9:00 pm:
Common Chord Stage
Terrapin Flyer
9:30 pm:
Stompbox Brewing - NTI Stage
Running Man
9:30 pm:
The Phoenix
Chris Schlichting, Aaron Scarbrough, Bernard Bell, Lauren Vino, Sohrab Forouzesh, and 3 more...
10:00 pm:
The Last Picture House Rooftop
Dickie
10:30 pm:
Raccoon Motel
Moony
11:00 pm:
Great River Brewery
The Wonderlands
11:30 pm:
Micky's Irish Pub
Cam: p Regret
11:59 pm:
Mac's Tavern
THOT Squad
