Next Stop, Mississippi

Today it's all about music, pirates (arr, Matey!), and more music! First up, we're dropping verses at the 2025 Mississippi Songwriters Festival, May 16th & 17th, at Grammy Museum MS in Cleveland, then we're celebrating Pirate Day in the Bay's 10th Anniversary, My 16th & 17th in Bay St. Louis, and finally we'll tickle the keys at the 2025 World Championship Old-Time Playing Contest & Festival at Ole Miss in Oxford. Plus, we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Pepsi PopsBrunch with Bertie @ the Hattiesburg ZooWatch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Songwriters Festival, Pirate Day in the Bay, & Old-Time Piano ContestNext 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!

Today, the trip is packed with 2 stops! First up is a stop in Ridgeland to see the Snappy Sync Fireflies 25', happening May 15th-18th at The Waller Craft Center, before a final stop in the world-famous city of Clarksdale for this year’s Women In Blues Fest 2025, happening May 16 & 17 at Shared Experiences HQ! And of course, we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Five Star City Fest 2025Felder Rushing @ The Hitching Lot Farmers' Market Grand OpeningMississippi Mud MonstersWatch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Snappy Sync Fireflies 25', and Women in Blues 2025Next 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!

Today we're getting folksy folks! For our first stop, we're heading to the Two Mississippi Museums, May 10th, in Jackson for this year's Mississippi Makers Fest, with Museum Store Manger, Kim Cooper, Artisan, Harold Miller, and country/rock singer and American Idol finalist, Colin Stough, we check out what's happening around your neck of the woods before a third stop for the National Folk Festival special artist announcements from Local Festival Manager, Thabi Moyo and National Council for the Traditional Arts Exec. Dir., Blaine Wade! Stay tuned, buckle up, and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Mississippi Antique Showcase - OxfordThe Force Awakens in Downtown Hattiesburg: Join the Lightsaber Meetup at the Hattiesburg Pocket MuseumStar Wars Night at Fondren YardCinco de Mayo Weekend @ Sombra (Four-Day Fiesta)Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | MS Makers Fest & National Folk Festival Special AnnouncementNext 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!

Today, we're celebrating volunteers and we're off to the races! For our first stop, we're sitting down with Miss Mississippi Volunteer organization's 2025 title holder, Lauryl Joyner, then we're off to the races at the 3rd Annual Starkville Derby, with Director Alden Thornhill, and we'll finish it off at the Friends of the USA IBC Kentucky Derby Day Party with Executive Director, Mona Nichols. We’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Mississippi Antique Showcase - OxfordWatch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Miss Mississippi Volunteer, Starkville Derby, & Kentucky Derby PartyNext 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!

Today, we're celebrating nothing but music with three stops! First up is Opera Mississippi as they present: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s "THE MAGIC FLUTE," happening April 26th in Clinton, then it’s stop in Natchez with blues Musician, Vasti Jackson at the Natchez Festival of Music’s: BB, King of the Mississippi Blues concert, April 26th, before a final stop at Martin’s Downtown in Jackson to catch Tennessee’s own Southern Avenue tear up the stage! We’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | THE MAGIC FLUTE, Natchez Festival of Music, & Southern AvenueNext 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!

Today we’re live from the 22nd Annual Juke Joint Festival in Clarkdale! Clarksdale, Mississippi's Juke Joint Festival is half blues fest, half small-town fair & all about the Delta with a dozen day stages, 20+ night venues, 100+ blues acts, racing pigs, & more! We're kicking back with Visit Clarksdale's, Bubba O'Keefe, Team Ghost Riders' (aka monkeys riding dogs herding sheep) animal whisperer, Tim "Wild Thang" Lepard, blues native, Anthony "Big A" Sherrod, and we’ll also check out what’s happening around Grammy Museum Cleveland's neck of the woods! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | LIVE from the 22nd Annual Juke Joint 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 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!

Today we’re hitting the ground running with four stops! First up is the Mississippi Film Society's Stranger Than Fiction Film Festival, April 10th through the 13th at the Capri Theatre & Fondren Yard in Jackson with Exec. Dir., Ryan Parker, next it’s a stop in Oxford for the Mississippi Antique Showcase, May 2nd and 3rd at the Inn at Ole Miss with Exec. Dir. Angela Ferraez and Rep. Lisa Lancaster, then we’re off to Belzoni for the 48th Annual World Catfish Festival, April 5th with President, Emily Tillman, before a final stop in Water Valley for Bozart’s Gallery’s Folk Art Twice, It's Alright event, happening April 5th - May 31st with Gallery Owner, Dr. Annet​te Trefzer, Photographer & Artist, Suzi Altman, and Artist, Church Goin' Mule (aka Marshall Blevins)! We’ll also check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Paving The Path, Touch-a-Truck & Fun Run & WalkHoli Mela 2025: The Festival of Colors22nd Annual Juke Joint FestivalWatch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Stranger Than Fiction Film Fest, MS Antique Showcase - Oxford, World Catfish Festival, & Folk Art Twice, It's AlrightNext 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!

Today we have a special announcement coming from Holi Mela – Festival of Colors 2025, then it’s a stop in Jackson to honor Mississippi Changemakers at Visionaries, presented by Women’s Foundation of MS, happening tonight, we’ll also celebrate my birthday & MPB Think Radio MAB Award wins, plus, we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before a final stop in Starkville, April 5th, for the 33rd MSU International Fiesta! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MUSLIM CULTURES "ISLAMIC HERITAGE MONTH ART CONTEST" & FESTIVALRed Brick Roads Plein Air Paint OutThe 2025 Miss Mississippi USA PageantFred Armisen: Comedy for Musicians but Everyone is WelcomeThe 2025 Jackson Indie Music Week Icon Awards & R&B Showcase22nd Annual Juke Joint FestivalWatch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Visionaries: Honoring Mississippi Changemakers & MSU International FiestaNext 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!

Today is Next Stop Festival Day! Hey, hey, the Blues is all GREEN... at this year’s Hal's St. Paddy's Day Parade & Festival, happening March 22nd, and in with us to jump-start the celebration is Parade Grand Marshal, and legendary blues musician, Jesse Robison! Then we’re off to check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before a final “On The Road” announcement stop in Clarksdale, April 10th – 13th, for the Delta’s biggest party, the 22nd Annual Juke Joint Festival! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:Hal's St. Paddy's Parade & Festival Official After Party - Jackson's Biggest (Outdoor) Dance PartyThe 440 St. Paddy's Day CelebrationSt. Patrick's Southern Soul CelebrationSt. Paddy's Parade Party & After ShowBuggin' The Beach: 30th Annual Charity VW Car ShowD'Iberville BBQ FestivalCheck out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Hal's St. Paddy's Parade & Festival and Juke Joint 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 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!