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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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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For our first stop, we’re exploring the Mississippi Museum of Art’s “Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South” exhibition, opening November 16th in Jackson with Curator Sharbreon Plummer, then we’re off to check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before a final stop in Bay Springs to test our taste bud’s courage at the Jasper Wildlife Jamboree and Magnolia State Bank Wild Game Cook Off, presented by the Bay Springs Chamber of Commerce, happening November 16th with Mayor Donald Brown! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

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

Hattiesburg Zoo’s Lights of the Wild Nominated for USA TODAY’s 10Best Readers’ Choice 2024 for Best Zoo Lights

Seventh Annual “Lights of the Wild”

Thacker Mountain Radio Hour: Gerry Wilson, Eric Stracener & 5th Child with MS Symphony Ensemble

National Folk Festival Kickoff

Fin & Zen Yoga

Goat Yoga in the Mound!

Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Of Salt and Spirit Exhibition & Jasper Wildlife Jamboree

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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For our first stop, we’re showing our appreciation at the Gulf Coast Veterans Association’s 2nd Annual Veterans Day Parade, Saturday, November 9th in Pass Christian, and in with us to tell us more is the President of the Gulf Coast Veterans Association, Moises Espinal, then we’re off to check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods, before a final stop in Poplarville, to indulge in the south’s most iconic beverage at this year’s Sweet Mississippi Tea Festival, November 8th & 9th... and in with us to tell us who has the best sweet tea in the south is MS Tea Festival Chairperson and Owner of JD Blueberry and Tea Farm in Poplarville, Don Van de werken, in addition to Official Sweet Tea Judge & former Mayor of Poplarville, Rossie Creel! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

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

Petal Jaycees Veterans Day Chili Cook-Off

Veteran's Day Program 2024

7th Annual Hickory Pick'N Day

Lego Holiday Snow Globe Build

Wayne-Sanderson Farms Wing Wars

Check out this episode on MPB's YouTube Channel: Next Stop, Mississippi | Gulf Coast Veterans Association & Sweet Mississippi Tea 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 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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Wikipedia defines festivals as events celebrated by a community and centering on characteristic aspects of that community, and today, we’re paying homage to the festivals that make us great! Today we’re heading to Downtown Ocean Springs for this year’s Peter Anderson Arts & Crafts Festival, Nov. 2nd & 3rd, then we’re off to check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before our final stop in Downtown Jackson to jam out at the National Folk Festival Kickoff Event, Saturday, November 16th with Blaine Wade, NCTA Exec. Dir. & Legendary Blues Musician, Eddie Cotton, Jr.! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

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

Fantasia Barrino

Dia de los Muertos: A Celebration of Life

The Fairhope Film Festival - 12th Year Anniversary

November Pinball Rumble

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

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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With Hallows' Eve creepily approaching, our first stop is all about Tricks, Treats & Trains at the Traintastic Interactive Model Railroad Museum in Gulfport October 26th & 27th with Tabitha Barnes, Dir. of Marketing & Events, then we’re off to check out what’s happening around your neck of the woods before a final stop at the Briarwood Arts Center in Jackson to enjoy Pints & Pumpkins, A Wine & Painting Experience, October 26th & the BAC Trunk-or-Treat, October 31st with Owner/Operator Stephen Brown a.k.a. 5th Child & Artist Jangela Burden with Experience Architects! It’s going to be a ghoulish time, today on the show! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop MS!

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

Scarecrow Cruise & Car Show 2024

Pass Christian Community Trunk or Treat

Tunnel of Terror

Trick or Treat at the Two Mississippi Museums

BankPlus Red Beans & BBQ Fest

Rocky Horror Show

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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For our first stop, it’s all about lederhosen at Fertile Ground Beer Company’s 3rd Annual Oktoberfest, October 18th through the 19th in Jackson, then we’ll check out what’s happening, AND what happened around your neck of the woods, before an exclusive sit-down with viral stand-up comedian, radio personality, and winner of Comedy Central's Up Next competition in 2013… Ali Siddiq! He joins the show to talk about his career and upcoming shows in the state, "I Got a Story to Tell," October 19th at the MS Coliseum in Jackson and "In the Shadows Tour," January 18th at the Historic Saenger Theater in Hattiesburg! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop, Mississippi!

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

2024 Forum on American Enterprise

The 39th Annual Natchez Balloon Festival

Booneville Fall 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 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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