New Year's Eve Mockingbird Music Series -Featuring Steve Azar

1 Devonshire Way, Flora MS 39071

12 February, 2021

Description

Songwriter Music Series The Mockingbird Music Series, founded and hosted by Steve Azar, began in February 2019 with its first show in Greenville, Mississippi. Since then there have been many Mockingbird Music Series shows including venues in Oxford and Hernando featuring some of Nashville’s best and prolific award winning singer-songwriters as they entertain and tell the stories behind their hits performing them as originally written. Co-founder and host, Steve Azar, will be taking the stage on this New Year's Eve edition! The ticket includes a catered dinner. Limited to 100 seats.  $100 per person plus tax and fees BYOB -Set-ups provided We will be following all social distancing guidelines. In case of Covid-19 or weather related issues, the event will be rescheduled. ABOUT STEVE AZAR• Three chart topping #1 music videos • BMI Three-Million Broadcasts award • Azar has released 6 critically acclaimed studio albums • “I Don’t Have to be Me (‘Til Monday)” is one of the top 5 most played country songs since year 2000 • Oprah Magazine’s The Favorite Things Issue featured the album Slide On Over Here in 2011 • Taylor Swift was quoted in People Magazine that “Sunshine” was her favorite song • The #1 video for “Waitin’ on Joe” featured academy award winner Morgan Freeman • Chosen by Bob Seger as opening act for his Face The Promise Tour, Pollstar’s #1 tour of the year • Named as the Music & Culture Ambassador of Mississippi by Governor Phil Bryant • Creator and host of the radio show and podcast called In a Mississippi Minute on SuperTalk MS • 2018 Recipient of Mississippi Arts Commission’s Governor’s Choice Award • Official Steve Azar day in both the states of Mississippi and South Dakota • Penned songs for artist such as Reba McEntire, Danny Gokey and many others • Penned and recorded feature songs in major motion films, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 and Here Comes the Boom • Wrote, recorded and performed the official song for the 2015 Alpine World Ski Championships • Co-Founder of Ride Records • Co-founded The Steve Azar Saint Cecilia Foundation in 2006 and The Delta Soul Celebrity Golf & Charity Event in 2012 which has donated almost “one million dollars” to various art programs and supported many scholarship recipients emphasizing and promoting the arts in the Mississippi Delta • Co-founded the multiple award-winning Mighty Mississippi Music Festival in 2013 • Has been ranked numerous times by Golf Digest as one of the top 5 best musician golfers • Recorded the album Down At The Liquor Store with Steve Azar & The Kings Men in 2016, which included band mates of B.B. King, Elvis Presley and other musical Kings. The feature documentary, Something In The Water, which chronicles the making of the record in Legendary Club Ebony in Indianola, Mississippi. The film was released in August of 2018 on Stingray/Qello and GoUSA Channels. • Named to the 2019 Class of Mississippi Top 50 #MSTop50 in the Business, Media and Culture category • Co-founded the Mockingbird Music Series in 2019, a musical dinner series in Greenville, Oxford and Hernando Mississippi featuring intimate performances with some of Nashville’s best and prolific award- winning songwriters, telling the stories behind their hits and performing them as originally written. • Received a Country Music Trail Marker in 2019 in his hometown of Greenville, Mississippi along with other recipients Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Marty Gamblin and Jimmy Rodgers. • Wrote, recorded and released the bicentennial anthem “One Mississippi" and video in 2019 after a request from then Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant to write the official song to commemorate the state's bicentennial anniversary. • Co-founded The Mighty Roots Music Festival to be held October 1-2, 2021 on historic Stovall Farms, just outside of Clarksdale, MS and 70 miles south of Memphis, TN. • Released 7th album, My Mississippi Reunion, in October 2020.