Bay St. Louis

Bay Saint Louis, MS – The 100 Men Hall welcomes blues guitar master Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Muscle Theory back to the historical stage for a night of blues unlike any other on Friday, September 5, 2025 at 7PM. Tickets are $25 in advance and $35 at the door. Food for purchase by Nolan’s Catering and cash/credit bar. Known as a “musician’s musician” Alvin Youngblood Hart’s praises have been sung by everyone from Bob Dylan to guitar gods Eric Clapton & Mick Taylor. A devout follower of the “no barriers” approach carved out by veteran performers like Gatemouth Brown and the late/great Doug Sahm, Hart aims to delight the masses and points to challenge the so-called blues purists. Alvin Youngblood Hart is one of the world’s foremost practitioners of country blues, and a faithful torchbearerfor the 1960s and 1970s guitar rock. He was born in Oakland, California, in 1963, and spent part of his youth in Carroll County, Mississippi, where he was influenced by the Mississippi country blues performed by his relatives. Bluesman Taj Mahalonce said about Hart: "The boy has got thunder in his hands." Food for purchase by Nolan’s Catering. Nolan’s Catering has over 35 years of experience specializing in original […]

Bay Saint Louis, MS - The 100 Men Hall welcomes the incredible singer songwriter Sunny War back to the historical stage on Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 7PM! Tickets are $25 online in advance and $35 at the door. Food for purchase by Nolan’s Catering and a cash/credit bar. Sunny War - the Los Angeles-based street singer, guitarist, and roots music revolutionary grew up in Nashville, where she searched for her own roots, looking first to the blues she heard from her mother’s boyfriend and then learning from a local guitarist. Moving to Los Angeles in her teens, she searched for herself in the LA punk scene, playing house shows with FIDLAR and shoplifting DVDs from big box stores to trade at Amoeba Records for 80s punk albums. But here, too, she found herself on the outside, working to bridge her foundation in country blues and American roots guitar traditions with the punk scene she called home. She first made her name with this work, bringing a wickedly virtuosic touch on the fingerstyle guitar that sprang from her own self-discoveries on the instrument.  Sunny War played the historical 100 Men Hall at its annual Booker Fest in 2021 then went onto […]

Performance of To Kill a Mockingbird at Bay St. Louis Little Theatre