Marcia Ball extends the Mardi Gras in Pascagoula with March 4 concert

Even though Mardi Gras season is just beginning, get ready to keep the good times rolling when it ends.

Marcia Ball, a Fat Tuesday and Jazz Fest icon in New Orleans, is coming to Jackson County for the first time. Ball will appear at The Hilton Garden Inn Ballroom in Pascagoula on March 4th, just three days after Mardi Gras day.

The show is part of the ongoing Grand Magnolia Music live music series, and tickets are already on sale at both www.grandmagmusic.com as well as in person at Scranton’s Restaurant in Pascagoula.

Ball, who has played more than 20 times at Jazz Fest, was described once by USA Today as  “a sensation, saucy singer and superb pianist… where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet.”

The Boston Globe said her music is “an irresistible celebratory blend of rollicking, two-fisted New Orleans piano, Louisiana swamp rock and smoldering Texas Blues from a contemporary storyteller.”

She is also a member of The Austin City Limits Hall of Fame, and she’s coming to Jackson County.

The new season for Grand Magnolia Music kicks off this week with the legendary duo The Bellamy Brothers on Thursday in Jackson County.

One week after Ball plays, ultra successful pop music product John Ford Coley is coming to the Grand Magnolia on March 11.

A portion of the proceeds from every Grand Magnolia Music show benefits Dixie Adoptables Animal Rescue in Lucedale.

Sponsors for Grand Magnolia Music are The Horn Island Grill in Gautier, Burnham Drugs and Riverside Dental in Moss Point, as well as Liquors Unlimited of Pascagoula and Mark Cumbest of Cumbest Realty, also The Grand Magnolia Ballroom and Suites, Scranton’s Restaurant and Catering, Dane Maxwell the Southern District Public Service Commissioner of the State of Mississippi, The Hilton Garden Inn, Cathead Vodka, Beau Rivage Resort and Casino and Lagniappe Weekly of Mobile.