Good morning from The Seawall. Moss Point is throwing itself a 125-year birthday at Riverfront Park this weekend — a two-day run of free pontoon rides, a Trash Pot Cookoff, a brand-new Moss Point Idol contest, classic cars, kids zones, and Gulf Coast bands. It's the centerpiece of one of the loudest weekends the Coast has put up this spring.
It's also a weekend with weather. Friday afternoon turns wet. Saturday opens stormy and stays cool and breezy with gusts to 30. Sunday is the only sun day — bookmark it for the Pass Christian Tour of Homes, the Muttley Mayhem fundraiser at HSSM, or whatever brunch you've been avoiding because it's been too gorgeous outside on weekends.
Music-wise, Collective Soul plays Margaritaville Saturday night, and Kathleen Madigan brings her Day Drinking Tour to the Beau Rivage Theatre the same night. Plus the usual run of house bands and brunch jazz — Ground Zero is going four days deep again.
Here's the rundown — events first, then everything live and loud.
What's Happening on the Coast
Curated by county. The whole weekend is anchored by River Jamboree in Moss Point — and Sunday is the only weather window for anything outdoors that isn't covered.
🌊 Jackson County
🚨 River Jamboree 2026 — Downtown Riverfront Park, Moss Point. Fri May 1 + Sat May 2. Free admission. Two-day expansion celebrating Moss Point's 125th anniversary (incorporated 1901) and America's Semiquincentennial. Headliners: the new Moss Point Idol competition, the legendary Trash Pot Cookoff, free pontoon boat rides on the river, classic + custom car expo, live music from Gulf Coast artists, kids zone, senior zone, train rides, museum exhibits, vendors. Possible weather delay to Sunday May 3 if Saturday gets washed. Info: Parks & Rec at (228) 475-7887.
Ocean Springs Fresh Market — L&N Depot Plaza, 1000 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs · Sat May 2, 9 AM–1 PM. MS-certified, producer-only farmers market. Every Saturday rain or shine.
🦀 Harrison County
POP UP on Rue Magnolia — Derby Day Pre-Party — Downtown Biloxi, Rue Magnolia · Sat May 2, 10 AM–2 PM. Vendors, hats, and pre-Derby energy in the heart of downtown.
Pass Christian Plant Swap — Pass Christian Library, 111 Hiern Ave · Fri May 1, 10 AM–1 PM. Bring plants, cuttings, or seeds; leave with new ones. Community event, no fee.
Pass Christian Historical Society Tour of Homes — Historical Society HQ at 201 E Scenic Dr · Sun May 3, 2–5 PM. Self-guided tour of four historic Pass Christian homes with refreshments and vintage music at Society HQ. $35 advance / $40 day-of. Sunday's clear-weather pick if you want a slow afternoon move.
Charles R. Hegwood Farmers Market — Under the I-110 overpass at Howard Ave, downtown Biloxi · Thu Apr 30, regular Tue/Thu schedule.
⚓ Hancock County
Beads, Birdies, & Bogeys Golf Tournament — The Bridges Golf Club, 711 Hollywood Blvd, Bay St. Louis · Fri May 1, 12–3 PM. Krewe of Nereids charity event with shotgun starts at noon, contests for longest drive + closest-to-pin, 50/50 raffle, putting comp. Lunch at 11 AM, registration 10 AM.
Trout de Mayo — Bay St. Louis Municipal Harbor, 778 Malie Pl · Sat May 2, 6 AM–1 PM. Charity speckled trout tournament benefiting Camp Able. Open to kayak and powered vessel teams.
Under the Flower Moon Outdoor Art Exhibition — 22591 Rue La Terre, Kiln · Sat May 2, 5–9 PM. Stroll a winding moonlit trail through 25 artist-created sites with music and food. Suggested donation $15–$25. The Hancock weekend's most photogenic ticket — and a smart Saturday play if Friday's downpour scared off the rest of the calendar.
Kentucky Derby Watch Party — Anthony's Ristorante, Bay St. Louis · Sat May 2, 2–6 PM. Raffles, hat contest, themed food and signature cocktails. Run for the Roses with a martini.
3rd Annual Wake the Coast — Bay St. Louis area · Sat May 2, 5–10 PM. Live music from Troy Ladner, Brother Red, and Lil Danny. Food provided. BYOB.
🐶 Coast-wide
Muttley Mayhem at HSSM — Humane Society of South Mississippi, 2615 25th Ave, Gulfport · Sun May 3, 1–3 PM. Inaugural festival with live music, food, and brews on the HSSM grounds. $10 adults · kids and furry friends free. Pairs nicely with this Thursday's Pet Adoption section if you're in a "go meet some dogs" mood.
🔜 Coming up — pencil these in
Sat May 9 — Second Saturday in Old Town Bay St. Louis · merchants, music, art all over Main Street
Sat May 9 — Free Flowin' Fest in Pascagoula
Sat May 9 — Taco Fest in Ocean Springs · 1600 Government St, 3 PM
Sun May 10 — Jazz Fest at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Arts Center · Los Lonely Boys, 7 PM
Thu May 14 — Taste of Ocean Springs Food & Wine Festival · 1000 Washington Ave, 6 PM
Fri–Sat May 15-16 — Pirate Day in the Bay · Bay St. Louis
If you’ve got something happening in Jackson, Harrison, or Hancock that should be on the radar next week, send it over. The goal is to make this sharper every issue.
🎸 Music This Week on the Coast
Everything we could confirm — small venues first, casino rooms in their own block below.
Heads up: Collective Soul at Margaritaville Saturday at 8 PM is the big-name booking on the Coast this weekend (ticketed). Same night, Kathleen Madigan headlines the Beau Rivage Theatre. Beneath the headliners, Ground Zero Blues Club is going four days deep — a different act every day from Thursday dinner through Sunday brunch.
🗓 Thursday, April 30
Ground Zero Blues Club — Biloxi — 4 PM · Dinner Show with Emily Sholes-Smith of Della Memoria
Silver Slipper (Beach Bar) — Bay St. Louis — 6–9 PM · Witness
Hard Rock Biloxi (Center Bar) — Biloxi — evening · DJ Shimmer (Thirsty Thursdays)
EIGHT75 — Biloxi — 8 PM–1 AM · live local act (rotating; venue programs music nightly)
Margaritaville (Lost Key Bar, 10th floor) — Biloxi — evening · live local act (Thursday house slot)
200 North Beach — Bay St. Louis — evening · piano bar (Thursday house slot)
The Juke Joint — Ocean Springs — evening · comedy open mic (Thursday house slot — confirm on FB)
100 Men Hall — Bay St. Louis — 5–7 PM · Lava Lounge
🗓 Friday, May 1
Ground Zero Blues Club — Biloxi — 7 PM · Rockin' Dopsie Jr & The Zydeco Twisters
Murky Waters Blues & BBQ — Gulfport — 6:30–9:30 PM · Michael Vincent
Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co. — Kiln — evening · First Friday live music (band TBA on FB)
EIGHT75 — Biloxi — 9 PM–2 AM · live local act
Margaritaville — Biloxi — evening · karaoke night (Friday house slot)
Trax Bar & Grill — Long Beach — evening · karaoke + bands often added (check FB)
Glory Bound Gyro Co. — Ocean Springs — evening · live music (Fri/Sat house slot — IG closer to date)
The Blind Tiger — Bay St. Louis — evening · live music on the patio
The Juke Joint — Ocean Springs — evening · live music
Mosaic Restaurant & The Beer House — Ocean Springs — evening · live music daily
Shaggy's Pass Harbor — Pass Christian — evening · live music
🗓 Saturday, May 2
Ground Zero Blues Club — Biloxi — 11 AM · Smooth Jazz Brunch with C. Richaude Dorsey
The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint — Ocean Springs — evening · Karley Nichols & The Common Cents
Captain Al's Steak & Seafood — Gulfport — 11 AM–2 PM · brunch live music
Margaritaville Café — Biloxi — 7–10 PM · live local tunes
EIGHT75 — Biloxi — 9 PM–2 AM · live local act
Trax Bar & Grill — Long Beach — evening · live music (band TBA on FB)
Glory Bound Gyro Co. — Ocean Springs — evening · live music
The Blind Tiger — Bay St. Louis — evening · live music on the patio
Government Street Grocery — Ocean Springs — evening · lineup posted to FB closer to date
Neon Moon — Ocean Springs — evening · band/DJ (FB closer to date)
Mosaic — Ocean Springs — evening · live music
Shaggy's Pass Harbor — Pass Christian — afternoon/evening · live music
Shaggy's Biloxi Beach — Biloxi — afternoon/evening · live music daily
Lost Spring Brewing Co. — Ocean Springs — evening · live music (FB closer to date)
Chandeleur Island Brewing Co. — Gulfport — afternoon/evening · weekend live music
Jack's by the Tracks — Pascagoula — evening · live music (IG @jacksbtt)
River City Cafe — Moss Point — evening · live music (FB closer to date)
🗓 Sunday, May 3
Ground Zero Blues Club — Biloxi — 11 AM · Sunday Brunch with Jon Marc Burge
Captain Al's Steak & Seafood — Gulfport — 11 AM–2 PM · brunch live music
Chandeleur Island Brewing Co. — Gulfport — Sunday afternoon · live music (house slot)
The Juke Joint — Ocean Springs — afternoon/evening · open jam (Sunday house slot)
Shaggy's Pass Harbor — Pass Christian — afternoon · live music
Shaggy's Biloxi Beach — Biloxi — afternoon · live music
Mosaic — Ocean Springs — evening · live music
Note: Bay St. Louis Old Town's monthly Second Saturday is next weekend (May 9), not this one.
🎰 Casino Row
Thursday, April 30
Silver Slipper (Beach Bar) — Bay St. Louis — 6–9 PM · Witness
Hard Rock Biloxi (Center Bar) — Biloxi — evening · DJ Shimmer
No major theatre headliner confirmed across Beau Rivage / Hard Rock Live / IP Studio A / Hollywood Gulf Coast / Island View tonight. Lounge slots run their usual Friday house bands (EIGHT75, IP Chill, Hard Rock Center Bar, Margaritaville, Hollywood, Silver Slipper) — check each casino's entertainment page Thursday for posted bookings.
Saturday, May 2
Beau Rivage Theatre — Biloxi — 8 PM · Kathleen Madigan: The Day Drinking Tour · ticketed
IP Casino — Studio A — Biloxi — evening · Texas Headhunters · ticketed
Margaritaville Casino — Biloxi — 8 PM · Collective Soul · ticketed
Venue owners: Email your weekly lineup to [email protected] by Wednesday noon for Thursday's issue. No charge.
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Real Estate on the Coast
Rates pulled Wed AM from Freddie Mac PMMS. The next weekly release publishes Thu May 1 at noon ET — after our 8 AM CDT send — so we lock with the Apr 23 numbers below.
This week's rates (Freddie Mac PMMS, week of Apr 23, 2026):
30-year fixed: 6.23% (▼ 7 bps week-over-week)
15-year fixed: 5.58% (▼ 7 bps week-over-week)
Both rates remain at their lowest spring level in three years per Freddie Mac.
House of the Week — 200 Carroll Avenue, Bay St. Louis · circa 1895-1900 · $1,450,000
The cottage you've already admired on the BSL Holiday Home Tour — on a street that's been on the National Register since 1977.
200 Carroll Avenue is one of those addresses you'd recognize before you'd recognize the street name — a meticulously restored late-1800s cottage on Carroll's live-oak-lined boulevard. One block off the Bay, three blocks from the marina and boat launch, a comfortable walk to the Old Town shops and the Depot entertainment district. Three bedrooms, three baths, 2,496 square feet, listed on Compass for $1.45 million. The house has been featured multiple times on the BSL Holiday Home Tour and written up in the Sun Herald and nola.com — that combination of provenance, location, and walkability is what makes it a cornerstone of the historic district whenever it's on the market.
Listing: Redfin / MLS #3106647
Coast Forecast
Thu Apr 30 — Mostly cloudy, 50% chance of showers + thunderstorms. High 77 | Low 63 | Wind NE 5–10 mph
Fri May 1 — Showers likely, possible PM thunderstorm. High 75 | Low 57 | Wind NE→SE, gusts to 20. Night: 90% storms, breezy E 15–20.
Sat May 2 — 50% storms before 1 PM, then partly cloudy. Cool and breezy. High 69 | Low 52 | Wind N 15–20 mph, gusts to 30.
Sun May 3 — Sunny. High 73 | Low 54 | Wind N 5–10 mph.
Bottom line: Friday afternoon's wet, Saturday morning's wetter, and Saturday all day is cool and breezy. If you've got one outdoor card to play this weekend, Sunday is the day.
🐾 Pet Adoption of the Week — Jackson County Animal Shelter
Tater Tot
Meet Tater Tot — 10 weeks old, female, Labrador Retriever, currently roughly the size of an actual tater tot. She just landed at JCAS in Gautier (less than a day in the kennel as of this writing), and her file is still mostly question marks: good with cats? Unknown. Good with other dogs? Unknown. House trained? Unknown. That's the rest of her story to write with whoever takes her home.
The shelter put her bottom line right on her own card, and it's worth quoting straight: "By adopting me today you will save the life of two pets — you'll save me, and that will make room for the Shelter to rescue and save another pet." Two for one.
Animal ID: A2026171 · Adoption fee: $50 (covers spay, vaccinations, worming, a vet exam, and a name tag).
📍 Jackson County Animal Shelter — Audubon Lane, Gautier (off Hwy 90). JCAS on Petfinder · Adoptable Animals of JCAS on Facebook · Jackson County official.
LOW TIDE LAUGHS
A Coast newsletter should probably make room for at least one thing that doesn’t ask anything from you except a smirk.
So we are.
Cinco de Mayo on the Gulf Coast looks a little different down at the harbor. This week's Low Tide Laughs finds two locals marking the occasion in their own way.
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A FEW LOCAL LINKS WORTH KEEPING HANDY
If you want to go deeper by county, keep these local sites handy:
Jackson County MS
https://www.jacksoncountyms.com
Harrison County MS
https://www.harrisoncountyms.com
Hancock County MS
https://www.hancockcountyms.com
That’s part of the larger idea here too. The Seawall shouldn’t just point at itself. It should help connect people to the broader local web that already exists across the Coast.
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That's the weekend.
A 125-year-old town throws a two-day birthday at the riverfront, the rain shows up uninvited, and Sunday quietly carries the day. If you've got one outdoor card to play, save it for the back nine.
Short. Local. Useful.
— Rob The Seawall