Today, it’s going to be a Late Night tonight, with Rita Brent at Duling Hall in Jackson, then we’re off to act like royalty at The Royal Y’all Improv Comedy Show at Pacesetter Gallery in Flowood this Saturday, we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods, before a final stop at Cathead Distillery in Jackson tomorrow as Twurt Chamberlain presents his documentary, "Country, Punk, Black!" Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

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

15TH ANNUAL CLARKSDALE FILM FESTIVAL & MUSIC FESTIVAL

Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Late Night with Rita Brent, The Royal Y'all, & Twurt Chamberlain

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 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! For our first stop, we're heading around the corner to the Two Mississippi Museums for their upcoming "MLK Celebration Free Weekend," happening 1/18 - 1/21/25, to include the "MLK Night of Culture," and related events with Museums Director, Michael Morris. Then we'll check out what's happening around your MLK neck of the woods before a final stop at Lynn Meadows Discovery Center's "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Event," happening 1/20/25. Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

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

MLK Unity 5K Walk/Run

The Power of Peace: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Natchez NAACP: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade

National Day of Racial Healing

History is Lunch: MLK in Mississippi

Sunday Screening: Always a Winner

MPB Presents - BLACKLIFE: Coretta Scott King Interview

Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations

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 an exclusive one-hour sit-down with viral stand-up comedian, radio personality, and winner of Comedy Central's 2013 "Up Next" competition… Ali Siddiq! He joins the show to discuss his career, his upcoming "In the Shadows Tour," January 18th at the Historic Saenger Theater in Hattiesburg and of course to crack a joke or two or three! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

Check out the extended episode with visuals on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi - Ali Siddiq

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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In 2024, “Next Stop, Mississippi” episodes went live on YouTube! MPB Think Radio has pulled the Top 10, our favorites, with hosts Germaine Flood and Entertainment Attorney, Kamel King, as well as the guests, performances, and celebrities from Mississippi that topped the list!

Top 10 Performances:

10. Micheal J. Hall feat. Lenita Harris "What Say You" Music Video

9. Jason Ervin, Poet

8. Brian Ballou, Musician

7. Ralph Miller, Musicologist

6. Million Dollar Quartet Christmas

5. Twurt Chamberlain, Musician

4. Eddie Cotton, Jr., Musician

3. Heartspace Holistic Self-Care Sound Bath with Jason Lee, LPN

2. The Mississippi Mass Choir

1. Epic Funk Brass Band

Check out the episode with visuals on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi - Top 10 Livestream Performances of 2024

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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In this episode, we tour the Mississippi Aquarium with Public Relations and Communications Director, Nicole Martz, during our live broadcast at Cruisin' the Coast 2024! We enjoyed our encounter with Axel the Dolphin, we got up close and personal with various aquatic wildlife, and we explored the 5.8 acres and 80,000 square feet the Aquarium has to offer! We'll also check out what's happening around the Aquarium's neck of the woods. Stay tuned, buckle-up, and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi! 

Check out the extended episode with visuals on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi - On The Road at The Mississippi Aquarium

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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In this last live episode of 2024, we’ll enjoy a night of beautiful spoken word at The Artistry in Jackson for Curate: An Intimate Night with Mariama, December 20th, then we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods, before a final stop to learn about MPB Think Radio employee holiday traditions with special guests Rita B, Taiwo Gaynor, Kevin Farrell, & Liz Gill! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

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

USA Today - 10 best historic home tours that are decked out for the holidays - Merrehope Trees of Christmas, Meridian (#4)

Forbes - Experience A Hallmark Holiday Throughout Small Town U.S.A. - Hattiesburg, MS & Oxford, MS

Hartfelt Family Christmas Tour - Carriere

Hartfelt Family Christmas Tour - Gautier

Robby Peoples: Martin's Downtown's Annual Christmas Show

Tupelo’s 2025 New Year’s Eve Party

Martin's Downtown's NYE Blowout with Flintwick, DJ Scrap Dirty & ANGELO

Biloxi 12th Night Celebration

Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Curate: An Intimate Night with Mariama & Think Radio Holiday Traditions

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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If you love Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley & Carl Perkins, then our first stop in Jackson to check out New Stage Theatre's presentation of "Million Dollar Quartet Christmas,” happening now through December 22nd, is going to be right up your alley! Then we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods, including a pit-stop at Unite Mississippi’s Monthly Inspiring and Equipping Lunch, December 19th, before a final stop in at the Walter Payton Center in Jackson, December 14th to have Fun with Santa, Presented by Jack & Jill of America’s Jackson Chapter! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

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

Seventh Annual “Lights of the Wild”

Carl Jackson's 2024 "Home for Christmas"

Mississippi Boychoir: Annual Christmas Concert - Hattiesburg

Unite Mississippi Monthly Inspiring and Equipping Lunch - December 2024

Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Million Dollar Quartet Christmas and Fun with Santa by Jack and Jill - Jackson

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 Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, 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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Happy Holidays From MPB Think Radio! This promo features Kamel King with Next Stop, Mississippi and his daughter, Kennedy King.

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From MPB Think Radio, this is Next Stop, Mississippi. I’m Kennedy King along with my traveling partners, Germaine Flood, Java Chatman and my dad, Kamel King, with Visit Mississippi! We’re your number one on-air source covering the people, places and events that make our state great! 

And I’m Germaine Flood... In this episode, & whom you just heard from, we welcome Kennedy King, the daughter of Kamel King, as our special guest host, and for the entire show, we’ll be joined by none other than Santa Claus! For our first stop, we’re keeping the holiday family theme alive as we welcome back Mississippi’s own, Chapel Hart, to talk about their Hartfelt Family Christmas Tour 2024 with stops in Meridian, Carriere & Gautier, then we’ll sit-down with Santa to check out what’s naughty & nice around your neck of the woods before a final stop at the Jackson Medical Mall to celebrate the power of community, empowerment, and generational wealth at The Legacy Gala, happening tonight, and in with us to is Organizer, Fallon Brewster, Host, Kayla Thompson & musicians, Four Washington! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi: The Heartfelt Family Holiday Edition!

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

Christmas in the Pass

Christmas Market @ Brandon on Ice 2024

Christmas on the Square in Raymond

2024 Flora Christmas Parade

Downtown Vicksburg's Christmas Parade of Lights

Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Chapel Hart, Legacy Gala, & Santa Claus!

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 Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, 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 pushing the pedal to the metal this holiday season! For our first stop, we're kicking off our shopping experience at this year's Chimneyville Arts Festival at the Bill Waller Crafts Center in Ridgeland, December 5th thorough the 7th, then we're off to check out S.T.E.M. with Snowflakes, December 6th and Snow Much Fun!, December 13th through December 14th at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson, before our third stop in Jackson for the 4th Annual Capital City Lights, December 6th, before a final stop in Clinton to enjoy the sounds at this year's Festival of Lights, happening December 5th with Conductor, Dr. Beth Everett! Stay tuned, buckle up, and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/IHeWLayeEhk?si=rhNcnW9ZT44FH4vT

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 Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, 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 kicking off the 2024 holiday season right! For our first stop, we’re having A Very Merry Night at the Mississippi Children’s Museum in Jackson, for their aptly titled event tomorrow, November 23rd with Director of Marketing, Morgan Page, then we’ll check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before a final festive stop at the greatest Christmas tree show on earth, the Trees of Christmas at Merrehope in Meridian, beginning November 24th through December 31st, with President, Kim Waters! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

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

Side-By-Side

Light Garden

Hartfelt Family Christmas Tour - Bartlett, TN 11/22/24

Hartfelt Family Christmas Tour - Bartlett, TN 11/23/24

Let's Talk Turkey

Epic Funk Brass Band @ Social 21 Bistro

Christmas on the Water 24'

Deck the District 24'

Ballet Magnificat Presents: ‘LIGHT HAS COME’

Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | A Very Merry Night & Trees of Christmas at Merrehope

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 Kamel King, Tourism Development Bureau Manger with Visit Mississippi, 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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