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Jackson native back home with a free public performance in her hometown featuring songs from the recent release, “Every Hour.”
New revitalization initiative’s goal is to build on the structural integrity of the area’s post-war houses for first-time homeowners.
Organizers hope the Natchez International Crepe Myrtle Festival, June 21-22, will rival the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., and fall foliage tours in New England.
Silhouettes predated photography and explored slavery and other stereotypes. The exhibit from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is on display through Aug. 25 at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
Participants say festival, debuting June 13-15 “… is just good for Jackson. It’s nice to have something worth coming here for.”
Tale of love, forgiveness and redemption anchored in folk/Americana music and runs through June 9.
Marty Stuart plays a key role in film that opens on PBS in September — as a guide to Jimmie Rodgers and his music to the Father of Bluegrass Bill Monroe to Johnny Cash.
A wall, 8 feet high and 24 feet across unveiled at the Arts Center of Mississippi, invites people to reflect on their mortality and dovetails with the Greater Jackson Arts Council’s focus on art as a way to heal social injustice and address community needs.
Pulitzer Prize-winning drama tackles hot-button topics of racism, immigration, “us and them” conflicts. “Microcosm for the entire country” powerful but also funny.
Hattiesburg charity founded by Robert St. John is also celebrating its 10th year of helping to bring “healthy food to our neighbors most in need.”
The musical opens Wednesday and runs through March 24 with the final weekend coinciding with Hal’s St. Paddy’s Parade & Festival and the Sweet Potato Queens’ return to it.
Sweet Potato Queens return to downtown Jackson’s annual rite of spring, Hal’s St. Paddy’s Parade
Vasti Jackson’s character personifies the mighty Mississippi River in play that tells the story of courage and cowardice in historic flood that affected the nation while calling attention to nation’s race relations.
The collection that includes 18 selections – as classic as Mozart and Mendelssohn and as contemporary as Kirk Franklin and Eric Whitacre – was recorded at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Jackson.
The “Return of the Snow Queen” runs Dec. 15-16 at Thalia Mara Hall