Next Stop, Mississippi

In this last live episode of 2024, we’ll enjoy a night of beautiful spoken word at The Artistry in Jackson for Curate: An Intimate Night with Mariama, December 20th, then we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods, before a final stop to learn about MPB Think Radio employee holiday traditions with special guests Rita B, Taiwo Gaynor, Kevin Farrell, & Liz Gill! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:USA Today - 10 best historic home tours that are decked out for the holidays - Merrehope Trees of Christmas, Meridian (#4)Forbes - Experience A Hallmark Holiday Throughout Small Town U.S.A. - Hattiesburg, MS & Oxford, MSHartfelt Family Christmas Tour - CarriereHartfelt Family Christmas Tour - GautierRobby Peoples: Martin's Downtown's Annual Christmas ShowTupelo’s 2025 New Year’s Eve PartyMartin's Downtown's NYE Blowout with Flintwick, DJ Scrap Dirty & ANGELOBiloxi 12th Night CelebrationCheck out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Curate: An Intimate Night with Mariama & Think Radio Holiday TraditionsNext 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 entertainment attorney Kamel King, 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!

If you love Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley & Carl Perkins, then our first stop in Jackson to check out New Stage Theatre's presentation of "Million Dollar Quartet Christmas,” happening now through December 22nd, is going to be right up your alley! Then we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods, including a pit-stop at Unite Mississippi’s Monthly Inspiring and Equipping Lunch, December 19th, before a final stop in at the Walter Payton Center in Jackson, December 14th to have Fun with Santa, Presented by Jack & Jill of America’s Jackson Chapter! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Seventh Annual “Lights of the Wild”Carl Jackson's 2024 "Home for Christmas"Mississippi Boychoir: Annual Christmas Concert - HattiesburgUnite Mississippi Monthly Inspiring and Equipping Lunch - December 2024Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Million Dollar Quartet Christmas and Fun with Santa by Jack and Jill - JacksonNext 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!

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From MPB Think Radio, this is Next Stop, Mississippi. I’m Kennedy King along with my traveling partners, Germaine Flood, Java Chatman and my dad, Kamel King, with Visit Mississippi! We’re your number one on-air source covering the people, places and events that make our state great! And I’m Germaine Flood... In this episode, & whom you just heard from, we welcome Kennedy King, the daughter of Kamel King, as our special guest host, and for the entire show, we’ll be joined by none other than Santa Claus! For our first stop, we’re keeping the holiday family theme alive as we welcome back Mississippi’s own, Chapel Hart, to talk about their Hartfelt Family Christmas Tour 2024 with stops in Meridian, Carriere & Gautier, then we’ll sit-down with Santa to check out what’s naughty & nice around your neck of the woods before a final stop at the Jackson Medical Mall to celebrate the power of community, empowerment, and generational wealth at The Legacy Gala, happening tonight, and in with us to is Organizer, Fallon Brewster, Host, Kayla Thompson & musicians, Four Washington! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi: The Heartfelt Family Holiday Edition!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Christmas in the PassChristmas Market @ Brandon on Ice 2024Christmas on the Square in Raymond2024 Flora Christmas ParadeDowntown Vicksburg's Christmas Parade of LightsCheck out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Chapel Hart, Legacy Gala, & Santa Claus!Next 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 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!