Bay Saint Louis, MS - The 100 Men Hall hosts its sixth annual Booker Fest to celebrate the musical genius of James Booker on Labor Day weekend (Friday, August 29 through Sunday, August 31, 2025). This year, we honor Booker with a weekend that soars: J & The Causeways New Orleans Suspects River Eckert Band Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rôdailleurs The Quickening Chloe Marie with Sam Forshey, St. Rose Gospel Choir Booker Fest is Bay Saint Louis’ own music festival that happens every year during Labor Day weekend with top musicians and performers, food, libations and this year ends with a fais do do! Tickets are available for each day or for the entire weekend. Hall Pass entry to all Booker Fest shows - $110. Go to NOT SO SILENT AUCTION - here Go to 2025 Fine Art BOOKER FEST Poster - here Go to 2025 BOOKER FEST T-shirt - here James Carroll Booker III (December 17, 1939 – November 8, 1983) was a New Orleans rhythm and blues keyboardist born in New Orleans, LA and raised by an aunt in Bay St Louis where he attended St. Rose de Lima and learned classical piano. Booker's unique style combined rhythm and blues with jazz standards. James Booker […]
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 […]
Bay Saint Louis, MS - The 100 Men Hall is hosting a day of play: games, activities, food, music and laughter for all ages called ONE MISSISSIPPI on Sunday, September 28, 2025. We invite everyone to come ready to play, bring a chair, and an appetite for some good old fashioned fun. The event is free to the community. There will be food for purchase and a cash/credit bar. Sign up to participate and compete for activities at the event. The day starts at the Mockingbird with a Fun Run at 7AM, moves to the 100 Men Hall (inside and out) at 11AM, and ends at 6PM with Grammy nominated Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & The Golden Eagles on the historical stage of the 100 Men Hall. What a day! We are going to show the world what real community looks like. We're going to remind our neighbors, we do not need to wait for a natural disaster to show our unity. We the people are at our best when we come together. The Bay Saint Louis community is going to lead by example and showcase what’s happening here and watch it ripple out across every state. ONE […]
Bay Saint Louis, MS – The 100 Men Hall invites the community to special concert with Blue Mountain Band, a hill country blues and alt-country experience that is free to the community on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 7:30PM. There will be food for purchase by Big Bertha’s Kitchen and Catering and a cash/credit bar. Blue Mountain was formed in 1991 by husband-and-wife team, Cary Hudson and Laurie Stirratt. The duo drew their name from a small town near their home base of Oxford, Mississippi, where the band members first began soaking up the region’s rich hill country blues scene and incorporating their earlier influences while growing up in the south in the 70's and 80’s. Blue Mountain was signed to indie label Roadrunner Records and in 1995 released “Dog Days", an album cut mostly live in the studio with drummer Frank Coutch and producer Eric “Roscoe” Ambel at The Studio, owned by Lou Whitney in Springfield, MO. The album comprised many songs from their first eponymous release and garnered the band critical success in alt-country circles. Two more albums followed on Roadrunner, Home Grown in 1997, and Tales of a Traveler in 1999. An album of all public-domain roots covers, simply titled Roots followed in 2001, before their […]