For Immediate Release:

Four-time Grammy Award Nominee Deana Carter is bringing her hit songs, including her mega hit “Strawberry Wine”, to Ocean Springs for the first time ever.

Carter will play The Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center on Saturday, March 14th. Show time is 7:30 p.m., and tickets are already on sale at http://www.grandmagmusic.com.

Her initial album, “Did I Shave my Legs for This”, is celebrating its 30th anniversary later this year and anchored by the dreamy super hit ”Strawberry Wine”, which was named “Single of the Year” by The Country Music Association. The song also garnered nominations for “Song of the Year’, “Video of the year” and “Female Vocalist of the Year”.

The album “Did I Shave My Legs For This?” boasts six songs co-written and co-produced by Carter and was released to strong reviews in late summer 1996. Plans for a 2026 anniversary tour are expected later this yea, but South Mississippi will get a jump on that with this show.

Rolling Stone said that it was one of the greatest country music albums of all time, and that “with over five million sold, the album remains one of the best-selling of all-time from a female country act.”

By the end of 1996, the record had climbed to the top of both the country and pop charts, quickly achieving multi-platinum status, with three number one singles in a row. A “first” for the genre, Deana’s celebrated debut album held this distinction and many groundbreaking achievements for more than five years and has become one of Country Music’s most treasured classics of the 90’s.

Overall, Carter’s albums have accounted for 14 singles, including three which reached Number One on the Billboard country charts. In addition to “Strawberry Wine”, “We Danced Anyway” and “How Do I get there” also topped the charts. “Did I Shave my Legs for this” and “Count Me In” are also among Carter’s most popular songs as well.

She also co-wrote “You and Tequila”, which became a big hit for Kenny Chesney and Grace Potter. That song was nominated as The Country Music Association “Song of the Year”, as well as two Grammy nods, including the coveted “Song of the Year”. It also received a nomination as The Academy of Country Music Association’s “Song of the Year”.

The appearance by Carter at The Mary C. will kick off the “Spring Fling” convert series for Grand Mag Music, which has been bringing nationally renowned Grammy Award winning artists to Jackson County for over 15 years now.

The series continues with Sister Hazel on April 24th and also include Los Lonely Boys on May, 10th.

Including Carter, over 40 artists have stood on stage at the world-famous Grand Ole Opry and also played in Jackson County over that span.