Next Stop, Mississippi

Today, we're pushing the pedal to the metal this holiday season! For our first stop, we're kicking off our shopping experience at this year's Chimneyville Arts Festival at the Bill Waller Crafts Center in Ridgeland, December 5th thorough the 7th, then we're off to check out S.T.E.M. with Snowflakes, December 6th and Snow Much Fun!, December 13th through December 14th at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson, before our third stop in Jackson for the 4th Annual Capital City Lights, December 6th, before a final stop in Clinton to enjoy the sounds at this year's Festival of Lights, happening December 5th with Conductor, Dr. Beth Everett! Stay tuned, buckle up, and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi! Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/IHeWLayeEhk?si=rhNcnW9ZT44FH4vTNext Stop, Mississippi is your #1 on-air source for information about upcoming events and attractions across the state. Get to know the real Mississippi! Each week the show's hosts, Germaine Flood and Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, highlight well-known and unknown places in Mississippi with the best food, parks, music and arts. Check out our Sipp Events calendar to help plan your next trip!

Today, we’re kicking off the 2024 holiday season right! For our first stop, we’re having A Very Merry Night at the Mississippi Children’s Museum in Jackson, for their aptly titled event tomorrow, November 23rd with Director of Marketing, Morgan Page, then we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before a final festive stop at the greatest Christmas tree show on earth, the Trees of Christmas at Merrehope in Meridian, beginning November 24th through December 31st, with President, Kim Waters! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Side-By-SideLight GardenHartfelt Family Christmas Tour - Bartlett, TN 11/22/24Hartfelt Family Christmas Tour - Bartlett, TN 11/23/24Let's Talk TurkeyEpic Funk Brass Band @ Social 21 BistroChristmas on the Water 24'Deck the District 24'Ballet Magnificat Presents: ‘LIGHT HAS COME’Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | A Very Merry Night & Trees of Christmas at MerrehopeNext Stop, Mississippi is your #1 on-air source for information about upcoming events and attractions across the state. Get to know the real Mississippi! Each week the show's hosts, Germaine Flood and Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, highlight well-known and unknown places in Mississippi with the best food, parks, music and arts. Check out our Sipp Events calendar to help plan your next trip!

For our first stop, we’re exploring the Mississippi Museum of Art’s “Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South” exhibition, opening November 16th in Jackson with Curator Sharbreon Plummer, then we’re off to check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before a final stop in Bay Springs to test our taste bud’s courage at the Jasper Wildlife Jamboree and Magnolia State Bank Wild Game Cook Off, presented by the Bay Springs Chamber of Commerce, happening November 16th with Mayor Donald Brown! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Hattiesburg Zoo’s Lights of the Wild Nominated for USA TODAY’s 10Best Readers’ Choice 2024 for Best Zoo LightsSeventh Annual “Lights of the Wild”Thacker Mountain Radio Hour: Gerry Wilson, Eric Stracener & 5th Child with MS Symphony EnsembleNational Folk Festival KickoffFin & Zen YogaGoat Yoga in the Mound!Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Of Salt and Spirit Exhibition & Jasper Wildlife JamboreeNext Stop, Mississippi is your #1 on-air source for information about upcoming events and attractions across the state. Get to know the real Mississippi! Each week the show's hosts, Germaine Flood and Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, highlight well-known and unknown places in Mississippi with the best food, parks, music and arts. Check out our Sipp Events calendar to help plan your next trip!

For our first stop, we’re showing our appreciation at the Gulf Coast Veterans Association’s 2nd Annual Veterans Day Parade, Saturday, November 9th in Pass Christian, and in with us to tell us more is the President of the Gulf Coast Veterans Association, Moises Espinal, then we’re off to check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods, before a final stop in Poplarville, to indulge in the south’s most iconic beverage at this year’s Sweet Mississippi Tea Festival, November 8th & 9th... and in with us to tell us who has the best sweet tea in the south is MS Tea Festival Chairperson and Owner of JD Blueberry and Tea Farm in Poplarville, Don Van de werken, in addition to Official Sweet Tea Judge & former Mayor of Poplarville, Rossie Creel! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Petal Jaycees Veterans Day Chili Cook-OffVeteran's Day Program 20247th Annual Hickory Pick'N DayLego Holiday Snow Globe BuildWayne-Sanderson Farms Wing WarsCheck out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Gulf Coast Veterans Association & Sweet Mississippi Tea FestivalNext Stop, Mississippi is your #1 on-air source for information about upcoming events and attractions across the state. Get to know the real Mississippi! Each week the show's hosts, Germaine Flood and Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, highlight well-known and unknown places in Mississippi with the best food, parks, music and arts. Check out our Sipp Events calendar to help plan your next trip!

Wikipedia defines festivals as events celebrated by a community and centering on characteristic aspects of that community, and today, we’re paying homage to the festivals that make us great! Today we’re heading to Downtown Ocean Springs for this year’s Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival, Nov. 2nd & 3rd, then we’re off to check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before our final stop in Downtown Jackson to jam out at the National Folk Festival Kickoff Event, Saturday, November 16th with Blaine Wade, NCTA Exec. Dir. & Legendary Blues Musician, Eddie Cotton, Jr.! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Fantasia BarrinoDia de los Muertos: A Celebration of LifeThe Fairhope Film Festival - 12th Year AnniversaryNovember Pinball RumbleBone Thugs-N-HarmonyNext Stop, Mississippi is your #1 on-air source for information about upcoming events and attractions across the state. Get to know the real Mississippi! Each week the show's hosts, Germaine Flood and Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, highlight well-known and unknown places in Mississippi with the best food, parks, music and arts. Check out our Sipp Events calendar to help plan your next trip!

With Hallows' Eve creepily approaching, our first stop is all about Tricks, Treats & Trains at the Traintastic Interactive Model Railroad Museum in Gulfport October 26th & 27th with Tabitha Barnes, Dir. of Marketing & Events, then we’re off to check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before a final stop at the Briarwood Arts Center in Jackson to enjoy Pints & Pumpkins, A Wine & Painting Experience, October 26th & the BAC Trunk-or-Treat, October 31st with Owner/Operator Stephen Brown a.k.a. 5th Child & Artist Jangela Burden with Experience Architects! It’s going to be a ghoulish time, today on the show! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop MS!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Scarecrow Cruise & Car Show 2024Pass Christian Community Trunk or TreatTunnel of TerrorTrick or Treat at the Two Mississippi MuseumsBankPlus Red Beans & BBQ FestRocky Horror ShowNext Stop, Mississippi is your #1 on-air source for information about upcoming events and attractions across the state. Get to know the real Mississippi! Each week the show's hosts, Germaine Flood and Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, highlight well-known and unknown places in Mississippi with the best food, parks, music and arts. Check out our Sipp Events calendar to help plan your next trip!

For our first stop, it’s all about lederhosen at Fertile Ground Beer Company’s 3rd Annual Oktoberfest, October 18th through the 19th in Jackson, then we’ll check out what’s happening, AND what happened around your neck of the woods, before an exclusive sit-down with viral stand-up comedian, radio personality, and winner of Comedy Central's Up Next competition in 2013… Ali Siddiq! He joins the show to talk about his career and upcoming shows in the state, "I Got a Story to Tell," October 19th at the MS Coliseum in Jackson and "In the Shadows Tour," January 18th at the Historic Saenger Theater in Hattiesburg! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:2024 Forum on American EnterpriseThe 39th Annual Natchez Balloon FestivalBooneville Fall FestivalNext Stop, Mississippi is your #1 on-air source for information about upcoming events and attractions across the state. Get to know the real Mississippi! Each week the show's hosts, Germaine Flood and Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, highlight well-known and unknown places in Mississippi with the best food, parks, music and arts. Check out our Sipp Events calendar to help plan your next trip!

Hey y'all! We've got your key to the driver's seat because we're broadcasting live from Cruisin' the Coast 2024, America's Largest Block Party, this Friday, October 11th at 10 a.m.! Join Germaine Flood and Kamel King of Visit Mississippi as they go live from Vicari's Annual Cruisin' the Coast Auction at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center, and they have a special MS Aquarium Dolphin Encounter segment you do not want to miss! Also tune-in to the MPB YouTube Livestream at the same time! Only on MPB Think Radio!