Next Stop, Mississippi

Today, were all about the blues and back to school! We're heading to the Wayfarer Blues Tour featuring Cary Hudson and Dan Raza, happening all month long around the region, then we'll check out what’s happening around your Back to School neck of the woods before a final stop at the 25th Annual Jus' Blues Music Foundation Awards & Conference, in Biloxi, August 1-2nd! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi! "What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing: Back-to-School Splash Bash at Cowpen Creek Back 2 School Drive 2025 Magnolia Grace Marketplace: Back to School Bash! Back to School Giveaway 2025 Back to School Fair presented by Orange Grove Community Center Back to School Bash presented by Ambetter by Magnolia Health Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Wayfarer Blues Tour, Back to School, & Jus' Blues Music Foundation Awards 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, we are on the road live at the Mississippi Ag & Outdoor Expo! We're in the middle of all of the action with Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, Andy Gipson, Southern Native Custom Calls, Jackson Music Awards, DAM Coolers, MDWFP Mississippi Outdoors and more! 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* at The Mississippi Ag & Outdoor Expo 2025 Next Stop, Mississippi | *Live* at The Mississippi Ag & Outdoor Expo 2025 Continued... 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, of course, we'll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before an awesome HANG OUT, literally with Chewbacca, aka Chewy the sloth, at the Hattiesburg Zoo Sloth Experience with trainer Stephanie Buckley, before a final sit down with Grammy Award Winner, and the bridge between blues, soul and R&B, Dexter Allen to talk blues and his upcoming show at Ground Zero Biloxi and more! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi! "What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing: Christmas in July Demo Day @ MS Craftsmen's Guild Union Market @ Union Station Nardo Blackmon: I Ain’t Even Posed To Be Here Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Hattiesburg Zoo Sloth Experience & Dexter Allen @ Ground Zero Blues Club 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today on the show, we’re heading over to Pacesetter Gallery’s Art of Soul Live Art and Music Event, in Flowood with gallery owner, Keri Davis, featuring artist, Tony Davenport and musician, Eddie Williams, happening July 12th, then we’re turning up at the Season 1 Finale of Late Night with Rita Brent, happening July 11th & 12th in Jackson, before a final stop in Bay St. Louis to celebrate at the 10th Annual Frida Fest, happening Sat. Jul 12th at Mockingbird Café, owned by, Alicein Schwabacher, in honor of world renowned Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi! Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Art of Soul Live Art and Music, Late Night with Rita Brent, & Frida Fest 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, we're celebrating Independence Day for our first stop at the Biloxi Shuckers Fireworks Friday: Independence Day Extravaganza, happening July 4th, then we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before a final stop and sit down with my favorite artist currently, Dear Silas to chat about his upcoming "Cadillac Leather in July" Tour and scheduled stop at Duling Hall in Jackson on August 2nd. Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi! Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today on the show, we’re celebrating Kamel King’s JACKTOWN USA Book Release & Signing Party! It’s all going down at Lemuria Books in Jackson, June 26th! And in with us to kick it all off are the players, co-author Joe Lee, and music legends, Eddie Cotton, Jr., Stevie J Blues, Zac Harmon, Chad Wesley, Rashad The Blues Kid and J’Wonn! We’ll also celebrate Juneteenth again at the 9th Annual Juneteenth on Farish Celebration, Saturday, June 21st, in the historic Farish Street District! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi! Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | JACKTOWN USA & JUNETEENTH on Farish Celebration 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today on the show, we’re transforming the studio into a bonafide Juke Joint, with two star-studded stops today! First up is this year’s North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, June 27th & 28th, at the Betty Davis Ponderosa in Waterford with Frank Kossen, then we’ll chat with Next Stop Mississippi’s biggest fan, and checkout what’s happening around your neck of the woods, before a final stop at Blue Front Café, for the 2025 Bentonia Blues Festival, June 29th through the 21st and in studio with us is none other than blues legends, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, Bobby Rush & Mizz Lowe! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi! "What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing: Meredith Michele @ Godfrey's Juneteenth at the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument Juneteenth Art Soiree Canton Juneteenth Celebration Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic & Bentonia Blues Festival 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today it’s a jubilee & jam on Next Stop! For our first stop, we’re celebrating freedom with the Two MS Museums, June 19th at Juneteenth Jubilee in Jackson and additional celebrations that weekend with Museum Director, Michael Morris, then we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods, before a final stop at Cathead Distillery this weekend to jam out, as Cathead Jam returns to Jackson, June 6th – 7th with Ardenland Rep., Elizabeth Dampier! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi! Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Juneteenth Jubilee & CATHEAD JAM 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we’re taking a food vacation, a.k.a. a 3-stop culinary tour! First up is the 20th Annual Red, White & Blueberry Festival, June 7th, in Ocean Springs… then we’re celebrating 601 JXN Day around the capital city, May 31st & June 1st…. Finally, it’s a stop at the 2025 Mississippi Pickle Fest, June 7th through the 8th at the MS Ag Museum. I’ve also got your chance to win a family pack of 4 tickets to see Wang Chung, Rick Springfield & more at the “I Want My 80’s Tour” in Gauiter, Sunday, June 1st! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi! Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Red, White & Blueberry Festival, 601 Day at Union Market, and Pickle Fest 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you’ve heard the show before, you know the Next Stop gang is all about music! And today’s show will definitely deliver with three stops! First up is Jazz in the Pass 25', happening May 25th in Pass Christian, then it’s a blast from the past as Germaine Flood sits down 1-on-1 with the legendary Jack Hues of Wang Chung, to talk about their upcoming shows during the "I Want My 80s Tour" with headliner, Rick Springfield, May 31st in Brandon, and June 1st in Gautier, then it’s a final sit down with none other than Mr. Sipp for his upcoming Mr. Sipp @ Duling Hall show at in Jackson May 31st. 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: SOLD OUT - Late Night with Rita Brent Memorial Day Weekend Seafood Boil Serengeti Springs at the Hattiesburg Zoo Announces Official Opening Date for Season Two! ChiknNBeer 2025 Bobby Rush LIVE! Blues Brunch - Bobby Rush: King of the Chitlin Circuit Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Jazz in the Pass, Wang Chung, and Mr. Sipp 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Pops Brunch with Bertie @ the Hattiesburg Zoo Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Songwriters Festival, Pirate Day in the Bay, & Old-Time Piano Contest 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 2025 Felder Rushing @ The Hitching Lot Farmers' Market Grand Opening Mississippi Mud Monsters Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Snappy Sync Fireflies 25', and Women in Blues 2025 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 - Oxford The Force Awakens in Downtown Hattiesburg: Join the Lightsaber Meetup at the Hattiesburg Pocket Museum Star Wars Night at Fondren Yard Cinco 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 Announcement 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 - Oxford Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Miss Mississippi Volunteer, Starkville Derby, & Kentucky Derby Party 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Avenue 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Festival 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 & Walk Holi Mela 2025: The Festival of Colors 22nd Annual Juke Joint Festival Watch 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 Alright 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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" & FESTIVAL Red Brick Roads Plein Air Paint Out The 2025 Miss Mississippi USA Pageant HUBFEST 2025 Fred Armisen: Comedy for Musicians but Everyone is Welcome The 2025 Jackson Indie Music Week Icon Awards & R&B Showcase 22nd Annual Juke Joint Festival Watch this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Visionaries: Honoring Mississippi Changemakers & MSU International Fiesta 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Party The 440 St. Paddy's Day Celebration St. Patrick's Southern Soul Celebration St. Paddy's Parade Party & After Show Buggin' The Beach: 30th Annual Charity VW Car Show D'Iberville BBQ Festival Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Hal's St. Paddy's Parade & Festival and Juke Joint Festival 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For our first stop, we’ve got a special announcement, news and more coming from the 82nd National Folk Festival, happening November 7th-9th in Jackson, with NFF Local Festival Manager, Thabi Moyo, then it’s a stop in Biloxi to celebrate the 3rd Annual Irish Malarkey, presented by the Hibernia Irish Society, happening Saturday March 15th, 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! Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | National Folk Festival & Irish Malarkey 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 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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.