Bay Saint Louis, MS - Second Sunday Summer Blues Brunch at 100 Men Hall
features Jason Ricci & the Bad Kind on Sunday, June 8, 2025 from 11am to 1pm.
Tickets are $25 in advance and go up at the door to $35.
Food for purchase by Big Boyz BBQ, along with a cash/credit bar.
Multiple award winning jazz, funk and blues harmonica player, singer, songwriter Jason Ricci has played with, toured and recorded with some of the world’s most esteemed blues, jazz, rock and New Orleans musical legends. Jason is included in nearly every top ten and top twenty lists of harmonica players in magazines and all over the internet. His fascinating career and life has led him up to the highest musical mountain tops such as performing at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, recording a Grammy winning record with Johnny Winter, winning three Blues Music Awards and numerous nominations from The Blues
Foundation only to fall all the way down to the lowest valley of addiction, homelessness, jails and back up again. Today his sincere recordings, shows, songs and incendiary harmonica playing continue to tell the story of life and garner new fans to add to an emotionally devoted following of dedicated music lovers. (NY State Blues Festival) “Ricci played the Hall in our Harps on Fire show last year, to say I was in a state of rapture would be an understatement as to how Ricci’s playing affected me,” said Rachel Dangermond, Director of 100 Men Hall. “We are thrilled to have Jason Ricci and the Bad Kind on stage for our June blues brunch!”
Food available for purchase from Alligator Mike. Hailing from LaRose, LA, Alligator Mike has been cooking over a pot, usually a very large black pot, for decades on his family’s alligator farm, and for over 15 years at T Bois Blues Festival, and more recently at 100 Men Hall. Alligator Mike’s Louisiana cooking includes redfish courtbouillon all the way to his very special Cajun gumbo. Louisiana cooking is a diverse cuisine influenced by many cultures, including French, Spanish, African and Native American.
The historical 100 Men Hall, a famed stop on the Chitlin' Circuit, a Must See Venue by Rolling Stone Magazine, winner of the 2024 MS Governor’s Award for Excellence for Arts in the Community, a rare site on the MS Blues Trail, is maintained and preserved under a 501c3 nonprofit organization (Hundred Members Debating Benevolent Association, est. 1894). Located at 303 Union Street, Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, the Hall is supported by its membership organization 100 WOMEN DBA, as well as from the generosity of sponsors and donors. The 100 Men Hall is the only endowed African American landmark in Mississippi. Additional information about the venue’s history and other activities can be found on
https://100menhall.com or by emailing
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