Susan Marquez

2 days ago | magnoliatribune.com | Susan Marquez

Mammy’s Cupboard in Natchez serves daily specials Tuesday through Saturday. In the 1940s and ‘50s when highways were being built throughout the United States, car culture was all the rage as Americans took to their automobiles to see other parts of the country. In an effort to attract those tourists, interesting roadside architecture began popping up. Natchez businessman Harry Gaude built the iconic Mammy’s Cupboard in 1939, opening for business in 1940.

3 days ago | magnoliatribune.com | Susan Marquez

She is considered Mississippi’s first Abstract Expressionist painter and its first Modernist artist. Dusti Bongé, whose real name was Eunice Lyle Swetman, was the youngest of three children born to a prominent Biloxi, Mississippi, banking family. Always an artistic child, Bonge’ attended Blue Mountain College in northeastern Mississippi before graduating from the Lyceum Arts Conservatory in Chicago.

6 days ago | thebluegrassstandard.com | Susan Marquez

When Patrick David Sawyer began making Pisgah Banjos in 2012, he focused on sustainability—a deeply rooted concept in his soul. Raised in Morganton, North Carolina, the surrounding nature of the Pisgah National Forest profoundly affected his outlook on life. However, it wasn’t until he attended college at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, that he began connecting the dots that would lead to his career. Like many kids, Patrick played in his middle and high school bands.

6 days ago | thebluegrassstandard.com | Susan Marquez

As a saxophone player in high school, Casey Holmberg could not have been less interested in bluegrass music. “I never even liked to play the guitar,” he says. “As a saxophone player, the guitar just didn’t make sense to me.”  After hearing Ricky Skaggs’ Bluegrass Rules album, Casey began playing a used mandolin. “I listened to the ‘Rawhide’ track on repeat. I was mesmerized.”While in college in Los Angeles, Casey began looking for a cheap banjo and found someone in his dorm who had one.

1 week ago | magnoliatribune.com | Susan Marquez

From Elvis to blueberries, blues to tomatoes, June in Mississippi has something for everyone this summer. Summer is here and there’s plenty to enjoy about the Magnolia State during the month of June. Here are a few events worth seeing in Mississippi this month. Festival South, the largest project of the Hattiesburg Concert Association (HCA), is a multi-disciplinary arts celebration that primarily features exceptional performing and visual artists during the month of June.