The Col Ballroom is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States.

[1][2] Davenport's strong music tradition is due in large part to the influx of German immigrants into the city starting in the late 1840s.

The groups with longer staying power included: the Liedertafel (founded in 1848), Maennerchor (1851), Strasser's German Union Brass Band (1856), Germania Band (1883), and three other groups founded in the 1850s included Gesang Chor Der Turngemeinde, Deutscher Saengerbund, and Onretti Verein.

[3] In 1858 the city hosted the third annual Saengerfest, or singer's festival, which drew people from throughout the Mississippi River Valley.

The event drew German-Americans from throughout the Midwest, and Western Union added extra German operators so as to get news of the festival out over the wires.

It has an arched roof, and individual tiles across the top of the façade each have a letter that spells out the word "Coliseum".

King, The Everly Brothers, The Beach Boys, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Slipknot, Danzig, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.