Good morning from The Seawall. The festival forecast for Saturday is: festivals.
Four of them, across all three counties, in defiance of an 80% rain chance. Free Flowin' Fest in Pascagoula. Second Saturday in Old Town BSL. Taco Fest at Fort Maurepas. The Pass Market at Pass Christian. Plus the Root Beer and Bacon 5K at 7 AM in Long Beach (the finish line is, literally, bacon) and Staind at the Coliseum at night. Bring the rain gear. None of them are calling it.
Then Sunday is Mother's Day — a touch drier, a touch warmer, and the Mary C. closes its Jazz Fest with Los Lonely Boys at 7 PM.
But the marquee picture is bigger than the festivals. Chicago — the band — is at Beau Rivage for three straight nights. Friday, Saturday, and a Mother's Day matinee on Sunday. Alison Krauss & Union Station plays The Sound in Gautier on Friday. And Cedric Burnside, the Grammy-winning North Mississippi blues guitarist, plays a Mother's Day Blues Brunch at 100 Men Hall on Sunday at 11 AM. That last one is the stealth pick of the weekend.
Here's the rundown — events first, then everything live and loud.
Coast Forecast
Thu May 7 — Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 3 PM. High 77 | Wind SW 5–10, NW PM | 60% precip
Fri May 8 — 50% chance showers + storms after 10 AM. High 75 | Low 70 | Wind NE 5–10
Sat May 9 — Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High 78 | Low 72 | Wind S 5–10 | 80% precip
Sun May 10 (Mother's Day) — Showers likely + possibly a storm; partly sunny. High 80 | Low 69 | Wind S 5–10 | 70% precip
Bottom line: Wet weekend, period. Saturday's the loaded day on the schedule but the wettest one on the radar — every festival listed above is running anyway. Sunday is marginally drier and warmer (80°), so if you're picking ONE outdoor block, pick Mother's Day morning. Brunch picks below assume covered or indoor.
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If last week was about introducing ourselves, this week is more about getting into rhythm.
And the rhythm right now looks pretty Coast-like: a little activity, a little local color, and a few reasons to leave the house before the weekend gets away from you.
What's Happening on the Coast
Curated by county. Mother's Day Sunday gets its own mini-section.
🌊 Jackson County
🚨 Free Flowin' Fest — Krebs Avenue, downtown Pascagoula · Sat May 9, 3–8 PM. Free. Annual celebration of the Pascagoula River — the last and largest free-flowing river in the lower 48 — with music (Neon Soul 3–5 PM, The Big Reveal 5:30–7:30 PM), food trucks, vendors, fireworks finale. Hosted by City of Pascagoula, Main Street Pascagoula, and Hancock Whitney.
Taco Fest — 1600 Government St, Ocean Springs · Sat May 9, 3 PM. Ticketed. Annual taco festival with a Taco Creation Competition hosted by Chef D, family activities, music, games.
True Vintage Market — Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Arts Center, Ocean Springs · Sat May 9, 10 AM–3 PM. Free admission. Vintage vendor marketplace. Pairs nicely with Taco Fest later same day if you're in OS.
Mother's Day Sound Bath — Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Arts Center, Ocean Springs · Sat May 9, 2–3 PM. Ticketed. Sonic immersion with singing bowls, flutes, and drums. The pre–Mother's Day relaxation play if Mom wants something different than brunch.
🦀 Harrison County
🥓 Root Beer and Bacon 5K — Harper McCaughan Town Green, Long Beach · Sat May 9, 7–10 AM. Yes — bacon at the finish line. The Long Beach Town Green also hosts Yoga in the Park (8–10 AM) and is the staging ground for Sunday's Mother's Day art market (below). Read that twice; it's true.
Yoga in the Park — Harper McCaughan Town Green, Long Beach · Sat May 9, 8–10 AM. Outdoor community yoga. Stack it with the 5K and the Saturday market run.
⚓ Hancock County
🌟 The Pass Market — War Memorial Park, Pass Christian · Sat May 9, 9 AM–2 PM. Free. Recurring outdoor market — vendors, food, Pass Harbor browsing. Saturday-morning anchor for the Pass.
🌟 Second Saturday in Old Town BSL — Bay St. Louis Old Town + Depot District · Sat May 9, 10 AM–7 PM (peak 4–7 PM). Free. May edition of the monthly merchants/music/art walk. The Hancock anchor of the weekend. Pair with Spring for Art Without Walls running concurrent.
Roots to Rockets Documentary Screening — 100 Men Hall, Bay St. Louis · Fri May 8, 7 PM. Free, RSVP required, food provided. Documentary honoring the communities displaced by the Stennis Space Center construction. Powerful local-history piece — and the right Friday-night call given Friday's a wet one. Indoor, free, food, and a film that matters.
Spring for Art Without Walls — Old Town Bay St. Louis · Sat May 9, starts 10 AM. Original art, live music, kids' art activities. Folds into the Second Saturday stroll.
The Writing Room @ 100 Men Hall — 100 Men Hall, Bay St. Louis · Sat May 9, 10 AM–1 PM. Writing workshop with author Ellen Morris Prewitt on place-based storytelling. Niche but on-brand if you write.
🌷 Mother's Day on the Coast — Sun May 10
Cedric Burnside Blues Brunch — 100 Men Hall, Bay St. Louis · Sun May 10, 11 AM. $25 advance / $35 door. Grammy-winning North Mississippi blues guitarist on Mother's Day morning in BSL. The stealth pick.
Los Lonely Boys at the Mary C. — Ocean Springs · Sun May 10, 7 PM. (Closes the Mary C. Jazz Fest. Listed in Music below — but this is the Mother's Day evening play if Mom likes a Texas-blues triplet show.)
Art and Artisan Market — Harper McCaughan Town Green, Long Beach · Sun May 10, 10 AM–3 PM. Free. Local makers market on Mother's Day morning. Stroll-with-Mom pitch.
Beau Rivage Buffet Mother's Day Brunch — Biloxi · Sun May 10. 8–10 AM brunch $32.99 / 10 AM–10 PM holiday menu $49.99. Prime rib, shrimp boil, gumbo, bananas Foster. Kids 4 & under free.
Palace Casino — Mignon's — Biloxi · Sun May 10, noon–6 PM. À la carte holiday menu, reservations 228-432-8888. (Or Palace Buffet 11 AM–9 PM, $45 / $43 Players Club.)
Hollywood Casino Mother's Day Brunch (Epic Buffet) — Bay St. Louis · Sun May 10, 10 AM–2 PM. $49.99.
Hilton Garden Inn Pascagoula Mother's Day Brunch — 2703 Denny Ave, Pascagoula · Sun May 10, 11 AM–3 PM. $5 mom-osas confirmed.
Scarlet Pearl — Sunday Jazz Brunch — D'Iberville · Sun May 10, 10 AM–2 PM. Live singer.
🔜 Coming up — pencil these in
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
🎸 Music This Week on the Coast
Pulled Wed AM across ~75 venues. Six ticketed marquee bookings this weekend — most we've ever surfaced in one issue.
🎟 The Marquee — six ticketed bookings worth planning around
Fri May 8 · 7 PM — Alison Krauss & Union Station feat. Jerry Douglas (with Theo Lawrence) · The Sound Amphitheater, Gautier. Touring marquee.
Fri May 8 · 8 PM — Get the Led Out (Zeppelin tribute) · Hard Rock Live, Biloxi. Doors 6:30.
Fri/Sat/Sun May 8–10 · 8 PM each night — Chicago · Beau Rivage Theatre, Biloxi. Three-night residency. The Sunday matinee is a Mother's Day fit.
Sat May 9 · 7 PM — Staind / Sleep Theory (CPR Fest) · MS Coast Coliseum, Biloxi.
Sun May 10 · 11 AM — Cedric Burnside Blues Brunch · 100 Men Hall, Bay St. Louis. The Mother's Day stealth pick. $25 adv / $35 door.
Sun May 10 · 7 PM — Los Lonely Boys · Mary C. O'Keefe, Ocean Springs (Jazz Fest closing).
🆓 Free four-night blocks (anchor your day-by-day)
Silver Slipper, Hancock County — Thu Regulators (Beach Bar 6–9) · Fri Stacy Weaver Band (Stage Bar 7–11) · Sat 3HG (Stage Bar 7–11) · Sun TBD (Beach Bar 1–3)
Ground Zero Blues Club, Biloxi — Thu Lloyd "Hurricane" Munn 5 PM · Fri Derrick Dove & The Peacekeepers 7 PM · Sat Sugarcane Duo brunch 11 AM (free) + Stephen Hull eve ($) · Sun Jordan Bell Brunch 11 AM
Island View Casino, Gulfport — Fri/Sat Mishee 7–10 PM (Sunset Bar) + Lisa Lee Albritton Band 8–11 PM (Beach View Stage)
🗓 Thursday, May 7
Hard Rock Biloxi · DJ Shimmer (Center Bar)
EIGHT75, Biloxi · Live music 8 PM–1 AM
Celtic Irish Pub, Pascagoula · Karaoke w/ DJ Marty 8 PM
Silver Slipper, Hancock · The Regulators (Beach Bar)
Ground Zero, Biloxi · Lloyd "Hurricane" Munn 5 PM
🗓 Friday, May 8
The Sound, Gautier · Alison Krauss & Union Station 7 PM $
Hard Rock Live, Biloxi · Get the Led Out 8 PM $; Center Bar DJ Doc Roc 9 PM
Beau Rivage Theatre, Biloxi · Chicago 8 PM $
The Shed BBQ, Ocean Springs · Sugarcane Jane 6 PM
Murky Waters, Gulfport · Galen Martin 6:30–9:30 PM
Coastal Daiquiri, Long Beach · D. Jr and the Shinesoul Band 7–11 PM
Lazy Magnolia Brewing, Kiln · First Friday party (live band TBA, $15 glass + 3 drinks)
100 Men Hall, Bay St. Louis · Roots to Rockets documentary 7 PM. Free, RSVP.
Walter Anderson Museum / Downtown Funk, Ocean Springs · Anderson Domingues 6–9 PM (free)
Silver Slipper, Hancock · Stacy Weaver Band
Ground Zero, Biloxi · Derrick Dove
EIGHT75, Biloxi · Live music 9 PM–2 AM
Island View, Gulfport · Mishee + Lisa Lee Albritton Band
🗓 Saturday, May 9
MS Coast Coliseum, Biloxi · Staind / Sleep Theory 7 PM $ (CPR Fest)
Beau Rivage Theatre, Biloxi · Chicago 8 PM $
The Shed BBQ, Ocean Springs · Sammy QaDan & The Second Hand Smokers
Free Flowin' Fest, Pascagoula · Neon Soul 3–5 PM + The Big Reveal 5:30–7:30 PM (free)
Coastal Daiquiri, Long Beach · Louisiana Landfall Band 7–11 PM
Ground Zero, Biloxi · Sugarcane Duo brunch + Stephen Hull eve
Silver Slipper, Hancock · 3HG
Hard Rock, Biloxi · DJ Doc Roc 10 PM, Jukebox Supernova 9 PM–1 AM, Karaoke w/ MC Angie 9 PM–1 AM
EIGHT75, Biloxi · Live music 9 PM–2 AM
Island View, Gulfport · Mishee + Lisa Lee Albritton Band
Old Town BSL Second Saturday — Ugly Pirate (Michael Vincent Band, blues), Mockingbird Café (outdoor music), Art Without Walls (Brook Bougerous drum circle 11 AM)
Margaritaville, Biloxi · Music at Margaritaville 7–10 PM
🗓 Sunday, May 10 (Mother's Day)
100 Men Hall, Bay St. Louis · Cedric Burnside Blues Brunch 11 AM $
Mary C. O'Keefe, Ocean Springs · Los Lonely Boys 7 PM $
Beau Rivage Theatre, Biloxi · Chicago 8 PM $ (closing the residency)
Ground Zero, Biloxi · Jordan Bell Sunday Brunch 11 AM
Scarlet Pearl, D'Iberville · Sunday Jazz Brunch 10 AM–2 PM (live singer)
Silver Slipper, Hancock · TBD Beach Bar 1–3 PM
Salute Italian, Gulfport · Brunch with live music
Know a show we missed? Reply and tell us — we'll add it next week.
Venue owners: Email your weekly lineup to [email protected] by Wednesday noon for Thursday's issue. No charge.
Real Estate on the Coast
Rates pulled Wed AM from Freddie Mac PMMS, week ending Apr 30, 2026 (next release lands after our send).
This week's rates (Freddie Mac PMMS, week of Apr 30, 2026):
30-year fixed: 6.30% (▲ 7 bps week-over-week)
15-year fixed: 5.64% (▲ 6 bps week-over-week)
Both rates ticked up slightly off last week's three-year spring lows. Year-over-year still ~46 bps cheaper than May 2025.
House of the Week
[PLACEHOLDER — Rob to provide MLS pick + photo. Mother's-Day-weekend angle: a covered-porch home with a kitchen worth cooking brunch in is the natural this-weekend pitch.]
Reader Question of the Week
"Mother is in town for the weekend and we want to walk through a couple of houses with her — but every open house I see is Sunday afternoon. Do agents do private showings on Mother's Day, or am I better off rescheduling?" — J.K., Gulfport
Short answer: yes, agents work Mother's Day — and the morning is your window.
Three things to know. One, listing agents on the Coast are absolutely available for private showings on Mother's Day weekend, especially before noon. The half-day before brunch (9 AM – 11 AM) is the sweet spot — agents can fit you in before they pivot to their own afternoon, and sellers have usually staged for showings since Saturday. Two, ask your buyer's agent to bundle three or four properties into a single 90-minute window the same day. Coast inventory is at a three-year spring high, which means you can be picky about the cluster. Three, if Mom is the one you're shopping for, time the route so the last walk-through ends near a brunch you've already booked — covered porch, kitchen island, view of the Sound. The home sells the lifestyle when the timing matches it.
The move: text your agent today, ask for a 9 AM Sunday window with three picks within ten minutes of each other, and put brunch at 11.
Got a Coast real-estate question? Reply to this email — we'll answer one a week.
PET ADOPTION OF THE WEEK
Meet Sky — four years of striking-blue-eyed husky-mix calm.
A housetrained adult dog at the Jackson County Animal Shelter, Sky is the easy pitch in a shelter currently holding 101 adoptable pets. Husky mix, four years old, female — past the chew-everything puppy stage, settled enough that what you see is what you get, photogenic enough that her listing photo does most of the work.
Four years is the sweet spot for the household that's done the puppy thing once and would rather skip it the second time. She's housetrained — the single biggest variable for a smooth first week — and a husky mix means she's wired to be social, food-motivated, and walkable.
📍 Jackson County Animal Shelter — Audubon Lane, Gautier (off Hwy 90).
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.
There is no weather condition that cancels Second Saturday in Old Town Bay St. Louis. The ponchos come out, the tacos come out, and the crowd shows up. This week's Low Tide Laughs was there.
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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.
Four festivals running into 80% rain. Six ticketed marquee bookings across three nights. A Mother's Day morning with Cedric Burnside playing blues at 100 Men Hall, a Mother's Day evening with Los Lonely Boys at the Mary C., and a four-year-old husky mix at JCAS hoping you've got a couch.
Bring the umbrella. Pick a tent.
Rob
The Seawall