Next Stop, Mississippi

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a great place to live. Today we start this road trip in Tupelo for the 13th Annual Communities Forward & Down on Main Festival, Next we’ll head to the MS Gulf Coast for Walter Anderson Week. Then we’ll move to Jackson for Wells Fest 2018 and end the show in Cleveland fo...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a great place to live. Today we start this road trip in Natchez for Barks on the Bluff. Next we’ll head to Jackson for the Soggy Sweat Craft Beer & BBQ Festival, then we’ll move to the MS Gulf Coast for Chefs of the Coast and end the show with Country music artist and M...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a great place to live. Today we start this road trip off in Biloxi for the 37th Annual Seafood Festival. Next we’ll travel to the MS Children’s Museum for 529 Day, then we’ll head over to Columbus for The 17th Annual Tennessee Williams Tribute and end the show with musi...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a great place to live. Today we continue our Best of MS Cities series in Hattiesburg!! We’ll start this Hattiesburg road trip off with Marlo Dorsey Executive Director of Visit Hattiesburg, next we’ll speak with Chef Katie Dixon owner of the Bird House Café, then we’ll w...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a great place to live. Today we’ll start our road trip off in Vicksburg for Tara Wildlife’s MS River Nature Weekend, then we’ll move to Clinton for their Red Brick Roads Music & Arts Festival. Next we’ll head to Hernando for the 9th Annual City Wide Scavenger Hunt and e...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a great place to live. Today we're kicking off the literary lawn party featuring the 2018 MS Book Festival. We’ll speak with authors Angie Thomas, and Mary Miller. Then we’ll chat with Artist & Illustrator Ginger Williams-Cook and end the show with blues journalist and...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a great place to live. We’ll start this road trip off today in Jackson and chat with Casey Creasey for Bright Lights Belhaven Nights, next we’ll talk with singer and comedian Heather Land about her “I Ain’t Doin It” Tour on August 19th in Jackson, then we’ll head down t...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a great place to live. We’ll start this road trip off today in Oxford and speak with Wayne Andrews for the 5th Annual Art-er Limits Fringe festival, then we’ll head over to Desoto County and chat with Margaret Yates for their First Friday Back Porch Party, next we’ll mo...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a great place to live. We’ll start our road trip off today in Natchez for the 18th Annual Natchez Food & Wine Festival, then we’ll head to Hatiesburg for their Downtown Summer Tunes Concert Series, next we'll move on over to Philadelphia for the 129th Annual Neshoba Cou...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi great. We’ll start this summer road trip off in Mize for their 40th Annual Watermelon Fest, then we’ll head to Jackson for the Jump Start Back to School Jam, next we’re off to The Bologna Performing Arts Center in Cleveland and end the show with musical guest violinist,...

Today we continue with our “Best of MS Cities” series. This month we’re featuring The MS Gulf Coast. We’ll start this coastal trip off with Anna Roy, Public Media Manager with Visit Mississippi Gulf Coast, then we’ll talk with Captain Louis Skrmetta with Ship Island Excursions. Next we’ll speak to Roxy Condrey with The Roost Boutique Hotel and end the trip with Musician Rochelle Harper, so hold on...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a wonderful place to live. Today we’ll start our road trip off on the MS Gulf Coast and speak with Keri Horn about her VO-101 seminar, next we’ll speak with Layne Bruce about the People, Politics & the Press event then we’ll speak with Executive Director James Robinson...

Today is all about Independence Day Mississippi Style! So we’re going to showcase different ways we celebrate the 4th of July in Mississippi. We’ll start our trip in Jackson for MPB’s Summer Learning Family Fun Day then we’ll move to Oxford for their 2018 LOU 4th of July Celebration, next we’ll stop by Canton for the 33rd Annual Mississippi Championship Hot Air Balloon Fest and end the show on the...

People plan their visits to Yazoo County around their annual events but Yazoo County is a great place to visit year-round for anyone who enjoys an off-the-beaten-path adventure. Today we will feature this colorful county in our new series,"Best of MS Cities". First we'll talk to Dawn Davis with the Yazoo Co. CVB, then well move over to Wolf Lake and speak to Melinda Abraham co-owner of MJ Cabins....

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi and wonderful place to live!! We’ll start this road trip off in Jackson at New Stage Theatre and speak with two of the leads of their production of “Sister Act”, Kimberly Morgan- Myles and Ray McFarland. Next we’ll move to the Yazoo City and chat with Phyllis Haynes abo...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi and wonderful place to live!! For our first stop, we head to Jackson and talk with comedian Rita B about her One Night Only comedy show. Then we’ll move to Ridgeland for Pepsi Pops 2018. Next we’ll head back to Jackson for Lucky Town Brewery’s "Sippin Saturday’s" and en...

As we do every Friday, we’ll travel across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi and wonderful place to live!! We'll start this road trip off in McComb and speak with Calvin Phelps for the McComb Music & Heritage Festival. Then we’ll move to Meridian and speak with Nicole Ethridge, Assistant Director of The MAX, Mississippi’s newest arts and entertainment...

Every music lover has that one record that changed their life. They played it over and over until they knew every note, so today in honor of National Record Store Day, we will travel across the state showcasing some of MS best record stores. We’ll start this road trip off in Hattiesburg at T-Bones records then we’ll move north to End of All Music in Oxford, after that we’ll head down to Jackson an...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi and wonderful place to live!! We’ll start this road trip off on the MS Gulf Coast and speak with Kendra Simpson about the Crawfish Music Festival. Next, we’ll head to Byram and talk to Mayor Richard White about their Annual Swinging Bridge Festival. After that we’ll sco...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a wonderful place to live!! We’ll start this road trip off in Oxford and talk with Chef Vish Bhatt about their First Market Feast. Next, we’ll head to Ridgeland and speak to Kelly Mott about the Ridgeland Fine Arts Festival. After that we’ll move up to Tupelo and chat w...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about people, places and events that make Mississippi a wonderful place to live!! We’ll start this road trip off in Jackson and speak with Malcolm White about his new book and the legendary Hal’s St. Paddy’s Day Parade and Festival. Next, we’ll head down to Biloxi and talk with Steven Barney about Arts Alive. After that, w...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about places events that make Mississippi great!!! On today’s show, it’s all about Spring break destinations!! We’re going to start things off in at the Tupelo Buffalo Park & Zoo. Next, we’ll head to the MS Gulf Coast for the 2018 BBQ & Bluegrass Festival. After that we’ll move to Hattiesburg for Spring Break in the Hubcit...

March is National Women's Month so on today’s show, it’s all about Women in Music. We’re going to start things off and talk to NaCherrie Cooper the Marketing & Communications Manager with the Grammy Museum MS about their new exhibit, Legends of Motown: Celebrating the Supremes. then we’ll head to Greenwood and speak with Dr. Alphonso Sanders about his production of Dreamgirls, after that we’ll mov...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about places events that make Mississippi great!!! On today’s show we’re going to speak with Ki Harris with the Sunflower County Freedom Project about the student play “Crumbs from the Table of Joy”, then we'll speak with Jane Halbert-Jones about the Jackson City Tours. Next, we’ll talk to Patrick Welsh about Conspirare's...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about places events that make Mississippi great!!! On today’s show, we’re going from to start things off with The Detectives Comedy Dinner Theatre for the perfect date night, then we’re off to Greenville for the MS River Marathon. Next, we’ll head to the Gulf Coast for all of the Mardi gras celebrations and end our trip wi...