Next Stop, Mississippi

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 the 15th Annual Oxford Film Festival. We’ll start our show by welcoming Melanie Addington, Executive Director of the Oxford Film Fest. Then we’ll speak with award-winning daytime TV actress, director /producer Cady McClain about her film “Se...

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’ll start our road trip in Biloxi and speak with Pinkey Lewis for the Second Liner’s Mardi Gras Club annual Mardi Gras Celebration, then we’ll head to Clarksdale and chat with Roger Stolle for the Clarksdale Film Fest. Next we’re on to Jackson to talk wi...

On today’s show, we’ll start our trip in Jackson for the MS Blues Marathon and speak with Director, John Noblin, then we’ll head to Madison and chat with Peter Zapletal and Abram Orlansky with the MS Jewish Film Festival and we’ll end the show in Oxford and talk to Wayne Andrews, with the Small Hall Songwriter Festival. So hold on tight, because we’re going for a ride here on Next Stop Mississippi...

As always, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about places events that make Mississippi great!!! On today’s show, we’ll start our trip in Bay St. Louis and speak with Ann Madden and Sandy Maggio ​about their Dolly Parton themed Art Walk in Old Town, then we’ll head to Starkville and speak with Meggan Franks about the 2018 Starkville MLK Day of service celebration, next we’re on t...

Well it’s a new year and we’re going to start the year off here in Jackson for Jackson Indie Music Week. We’ll speak with the founder, Brad “Kamikaze” Franklin about JIMW’s history and what you can expect this year. We’ll also speak with a few of the artist scheduled to perform. Singer Akami Graham, Remy Knott from the group Compozitionz will join us plus Hayden Boyd and Salar Almakky of the band,...

Today we’re showcasing more of Mississippi holiday events. We’ll start this road trip off in Tupelo at the Tupelo Automobile Museum and speak with Terry Easterling about a Corvette Christmas, next we’ll head down to Hattiesburg and speak with Emily Hall about Hattiesburg Zoo Lights, next we’ll move up to Canton and talk with Jana Padgett-Dear about Canton's Victorian Christmas, and end our trip wi...

Today we’re showcasing some of the Mississippi's holiday events. We’ll start this road trip off in Gulfport and speak with Mayor Dilly Hewes about the Gulfport Harbor Lights Winter Festival, then we’ll talk with Majure Markow from Cathead Distillery about the Cathead Christmas Jam, next we’ll chat with Jane Marie Dawkins with GRAMMY Museum MS about their Blues Family Day and end our trip with musi...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about events that make Mississippi great. Today we’re showcasing some of MS Bicentennial events. We’ll start this road trip off and speak with Yolanda Clay Moore about the MS Bicentennial Celebration North, then we’ll talk with Julian Ranking about the MS Museum of Art's Picturing Mississippi exhibit and end our trip with...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about events that make Mississippi great!!! Today we’ll start our trip off in Jackson at the MS Children’s Museum and speak with Mary Alex Thigpen with the MS Children’s Museum about their exhibit, a Journey to the North Pole, next we’ll head to Cleveland and talk with Kelli Carr about 50 Nights of Lights, Then we'll head...

As we do every Friday, we'll be traveling across the state letting you know about events that make Mississippi great. Today we’ll start our road trip off in Jackson and speak with Sam Wells and Monica Daniels for the Special Olympics Gala, next, we’ll swing by the Jackson Mississippi Bicentennial - Community Photo Screening and speak with Chandler Griffin then we’ll head to the coast and talk with...

Today we’ll start this trip off in Natchez and speak with Owner Ginger Hyland about the “Haunting of the Towers”, next, we’ll stop by Seward Farms in Lucedale and speak with Rita Seward and check out their Trick or Treat Day and their Corn Maze then we’ll head to the coast to speak with Tammy D for the Gulf Coast Halloween Festival,next we'll move up to Tupelo and talk with Leslie Pearman with the...

As we do every Friday, we traveled across the state letting you know about events that make Mississippi great. Today we started our road trip in Natchez and spoke with Bubba McCabe, for Music at the Mounds. Next we headed to Greenville for the Delta Hot Tamale Festival and chatted with Daniel Boggs. Then we moved down to Jackson and spoke with Bryan Keller for Jacktoberfest and ended our road trip...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about events that make Mississippi great. Today we’ll start our road trip in Jackson for the 2017 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in Mississippi event. Next we’ll head to Ridgeland for the 10th Annual Fat Tire Festival and Lung BUSTER Race. Then we’ll move up to Cleveland for the 35th Annual Octoberfest and end our trip...

Today we’ll start our road trip in Jackson and speak with Royce Boyer for the MS Composer’s Concert. Next we’ll head to Ridgeland and talk with Mike Marsh with the Renaissance Euro Fest. Then we’ll stroll by Ruleville for the Fannie Lou Hamer Centennial Celebration, Cruising on the Coast and the Chickasaw Co. Historical Arts & Craft Festival, and end our trip back in Jackson to speak with George "...

Today we’ll start our road trip in Jackson and speak with Brenda Ferguson for the 2017 WellsFest. Next we’ll head to DeSoto and chat with the sculptor of “A Cast of Mask”, Sharon McConnell-Dickerson. Then we’ll stroll by Biloxi and talk with Mayor "Fofo" about the 43rd Annual Slavic Invitational Golf Tournament and end our trip with Americana Duo, Grits & Soul. So hold on tight because we’re going...

Today we’ll start our road trip in Jackson for the LeFleur Museum District MS Science Fest. Next we’ll head to Jackson for the 37th Annual Farish Street Heritage Festival. Then we’ll stroll by Brain Drain, a Mississippi Panel discussion at Millsaps College, Bank Plus International Gumbo Festival in Jackson, Sam Chatmon’s Blues fest in Hollandale and end our trip with Mississippi Blues Woman and so...

Today we’ll start our road trip in Natchez for the “Bicentennial Reveille”. Next we’ll head to Greenville, for the 40th Annual MS Delta Blues & Heritage Festival. Then we’ll talk with author Jene’ Ray Barranco about her upcoming book release and end our trip with Jackson native, musician Dent May as he talks about his new album, "Across the Multiverse". So hold on tight because we’re going for a r...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about events that make Mississippi great. Today we’ll start our road trip in Pelahatchie for the 37th Annual Muscadine Jubilee. Then we’ll head to Jackson to speak with Ariss King a local artist about the Introspection Art Exhibit tonight. Next we’ll head to Ridgeland for the Sweetest Chefs of the South Competition, and en...

As we do every Friday, we’ll be traveling across the state letting you know about events that make Mississippi great. Today we’ll start our road trip in West Point, for the Black Prairie Blues Festival. Then we’ll head to the coast for the Gulf Coast Gospel Music Award. Next we’ll go to Kiln for 1st Friday’s at Lazy Magnolia Brewery, and end our trip with musician Wes Lee. So hold on tight because...

Today, we traveled to Jackson for the MS Book Festival’s 3rd annual “Literary Lawn Party” We spoke with Tracy Carr with the MS Library Commission, Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books Oxford, cookbook author & chef, Martha Foose and gospel-blues and southern soul singer-songwriter Devon Gilfillian. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, our road trip lead us to Clarksdale as we showcased the Sunflower River Blues Festival, the Delta Blues Museum, Levon’s Bar & Grill, and Delta blues musician David Dunavent & the Evol Love Band. So bukle up, because we're heading to the Delta on this edition of Next Stop MS!!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we do every Friday, we traveled across the state letting you know about events that make Mississippi great. Today we started our road trip off with Aallyah Wright, and Charles Coleman, co-writers of the play “Beautiful Agitators”. Then we headed to Greenwood, to speak with Danielle Morgan for the Bikes, Blues & Bayous, Bike ride. Next we moved to Water Valley, and spoke with Linda White for the...

Today we’ll start our road trip off in Jackson as we talk with DJ Venom about the Big Freedia concert tonight at Martin’s, Then we’ll head to Natchez, MS and for the Natchez Food & Wine Festival. Next we’ll move to Tunica, MS for the J.U.S Music Awards and ending our road trip in Jackson for the Central MS Blues Society’s Bicentennial Celebration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

The Neshoba County Fair is underway and it's always one big party. Also, the Emmett Till Freedom Trail marker is being rededicated after severe vandalization. Then on the program, the Mississippi Encylopedia is explored and singer Shannon McNally shares music from her new album, Black Irish. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Empty Atlas frontman, Micha Smith starts off the show with a mini concert. Then we talk about the Great Chickasawhay River Race in Waynesboro, the Ida B. Wells Festival in Holly Springs, and the Slugburger Festival in Corinth. Last we finish up with an actors boot camp in Canton, the backlot of Mississippi. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.