For Immediate release:

The sixth installment of the new live music series “Jazz Fest in OS” is set.

A trio of critically acclaimed singer/songwriters that have spent the spring on many occasions at “The Fairgrounds” will combine for this edition, as Lynn Drury, Cary Hudson and John Fohl will combine for an incredible evening of music at The Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs on Sunday, Feb. 1st.

The three have combined for more than 40 appearances over the past two decades at the greatest music festival in the world, and now their combining their talents and will converge for the first-time ever together in Jackson County.

Tickets are already on sale at grandmagmusic.com. Showtime is 7 p.m.

A native of the Magnolia State, Lynn Drury spent her youth in Pearl River County riding horses before realizing her true love was music as a young adult. Now based in New Orleans, she’s been a regular at French Quarter Fest and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for several decades now.

With her distinctive voice, this is definitive New Orleans Americana created in a city that moves to it’s own groove. Over the past two decades, that meticulously cultivated style – NOLAmericana® – has brought Drury’s original music to stages all over the world.  

And on stage, her sultry, sweet songs turn funky, and it’s all in the same neighborhood. Drury brings her soulful voice and heartfelt songwriting to every stage she graces.

Hudson is a native of the Mississippi Pine Belt who has performed along the coast for over 25 years. He was a founding member of the band Blue Mountain and has appeared at many festivals across the country including Jazz Fest in 2016.

Hudson has played guitar for Bobby Rush, RL Burnside, Big Jack Johnson, Shannon MacNally, Dayna Kurtz and many others in his close to thirty years on the road. He was chosen as one of the Top Ten Alternative Country Guitar Players by Gibson magazine, and his songs have appeared in TV shows and movies including the George Clooney film “Up in the Air”.

He has also opened for the legendary Southern Rock band Wet Willie as well as Mac McAnally among others. He was also named in the Gibson magazine’s list of Top 10 Alternative Country Guitarists several years back.

The Grammy Award winning Fohl was the longtime lead guitarist for the legendary Dr. John in his band the Lower 9/11 and has also been the lead guitar player for Johnny Sanson for many years. He toured the world extensively in the past 25 years with both bands, and has made numerous stops in several different facets at the Fairgrounds in late April and early May over the years.

He brings impeccable guitar work and songwriting to any stage he graces, and is one of the most in-demand musicians in New Orleans and beyond. Fohl’s blues-inflected originals cover the realm of the human experience with precision.