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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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

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!

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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!

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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!

"What's Happening Around Your Neck of the Woods" Event Listing:

St. Patrick's Boots on the Ground Party

9th Annual Original Krewe of Barkloxi PAWrade

First Ever 22nd Annual World's Shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade

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!

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Today, we’re remembering, delighting and celebrating! For our first stop, we’re checking out "Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers, Photographs by Melody Golding" exhibit, opening at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson March 8th, with Melody Golding and MDAH Director Michael Morris, then we’ll delight in all the fun at this year’s MS Anime Fest, March 8th – 9th at the MS Trade Mart with cosplay artist, Taycosplayy & festival rep. Clark Lee, then it’s birthday celebration shenanigans for Kamel & Java!

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 | Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers & MS Anime Fest 2025 & Kamel & Java Birthday Shenanigans

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!

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Today, we’re celebrating the Mardi Gras season, right before Fat Tuesday, around the state! In the building once again is none other than Epic Funk Brass Band on House Band Duty for the entire show and for our first stop, we’ll learn all about our state’s Mardi Gras History at Coastal Mississippi Mardi Gras Museum with Executive Director Abreeza Thomas… then we’re off to Meridian for The Gumbo Gala: A Sassy Swamp Soirée at MSU’s Riley Center with the MS Symphony Association, happening March 1st! We’ll also check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods! Laissez les bons temps rouler, buckle up, and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Epic Funk Brass Band, Coastal MS Mardi Gras Museum, & The Gumbo Gala

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!

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Today, we’re celebrating Black History Month once again! For our first stop, we’re off to Oxford to check out University of Mississippi Music's presentation of the 2025 Black History Month Concert "If Love Fails, Try Nothing Else," happening February 25th at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, then we’re heading to the Gulf Coast for the Statewide Community College Choral Festival, happening at MGCCC 2/27-2/28, then it’s a final stop in Jackson to show our appreciation at the Women for Progress of MS, Inc. "Women in Media Celebration," happening February 27th at the Railroad District, Jackson. 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:

Wrap N Sip: A Night of Southern Culture & Style

Tommy Davidson @ Johnny T's Bistro & Blues

The University of Mississippi Wind Ensemble Concert

For The Culture & Friends Present: Black History Month Parade

Black History Month Family Day

Spring Music Major Advantage Audition and Visit Day

Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | U of M: "If Love Fails, Try Nothing Else" & Women in Media 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!

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