by Tricia Walker | Sep 8, 2022
Americana singer/songwriter Billy Maines grew up in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in a village on the Hudson River near Woodstock, New York. He started taking guitar lessons at an early age and played in various rock bands during high school. While attending...
by Tricia Walker | Sep 8, 2022
Alanna Mosley is a performing songwriter from Carrollton, Mississippi. Her diverse influences include Shawn Colvin, Gram Parsons, and Patty Griffin, and it shows in the wide variety of music she sings while always applying her own unique spin. She is a previous winner...
by Tricia Walker | Sep 8, 2022
Vocalist Neshun Holmes from McComb, Mississippi, is a recent graduate of the DMI Entertainment Industry Studies program at Delta State University. She performed with the DMI All-Stars in Los Angeles as part of the GRAMMY Museum’s ‘Mississippi Night’ in 2019. She is...
by Tricia Walker | Sep 8, 2022
Fronted by brothers Marcus and Lewon Payne of Renova, MS, The Gran Boiz have been playing across the region for decades. They began their musical careers early by singing in their church choir, but, Marcus remarks humorously, they “eventually figured out a way to get...
by Tricia Walker | Sep 8, 2022
Vocalist/pianist Mary Claire Rackley from Gulfport, Mississippi, is a recent graduate of the DMI Entertainment Industry Studies program at Delta State University. She performed with the DMI All-Stars in Los Angeles as part of the GRAMMY Museum’s ‘Mississippi Night’ in...
