Mississippi
Chapel Hart is ready to put the country back in Nashville
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Because the police-led motorcade carrying the members of Mississippi nation trio Chapel Hart made its technique to the pavilion at Founders Sq. on the Neshoba County Truthful on July 23, Devynn Hart was stunned by the variety of automobiles she noticed.
However she was really shocked after they lastly arrived, and she or he may see the gang of individuals ready to see her carry out along with her sister, Danica Hart, and cousin Trae Swindle, all childhood associates from Poplarville, on the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour. It’s a second she gained’t quickly neglect.
“Seeing everyone sing the phrases to our songs, [and] not simply ‘You Can Have Him Jolene’—there have been little children there that knew all of the phrases to nearly each track that we carried out—it’s thoughts blowing,” Devynn says.
Danica, who instantly outs herself as “the loud one,” agrees. “It seemed like we have been acting at a stadium, and the one factor that I may suppose was, ‘Mississippi loud and proud, child!’ I used to be proper the place I wanted to be in spite of everything of this. You already know, after the whole lot exploded.”
She’s referring, in fact, to Chapel Hart’s gorgeous televised audition on “America’s Obtained Expertise” simply 4 days earlier, which vaulted them onto the nationwide stage. After performing their authentic track “You Can Have Him Jolene,” a response to Dolly Parton’s signature hit “Jolene,” the 4 movie star judges—Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandell and Sofia Vergara—put their arms on the coveted “golden buzzer,” a unanimous signal of approval ushering them straight to the competitors rounds.
Social media instantly went nuts for the group, particularly after Parton herself weighed within the following morning with a tweet praising their tackle her “Jolene” story. The group’s new followers despatched their 2021 album, The Women Are Again in City, to the highest of the iTunes nation charts the identical day. Even Darius Rucker jumped in, saying they’d sing on his subsequent album.
Three weeks later, the Chapel Hart prepare remains to be rolling sturdy. The group’s “AGT” efficiency has been considered greater than seven million occasions on YouTube—on prime of the seven or so million who watched it dwell on NBC—and their video for “You Can Have Him Jolene,” filmed in Move Christian and launched a 12 months in the past, is clocking views within the thousands and thousands, as effectively.
Seated on a sofa in a Ketchum, Idaho lodge suite, the women of Chapel Hart are beaming with vitality and enthusiasm. They’re on a brief tour, taking part in gigs booked earlier than their breakout second, till they’re due again in Los Angeles to proceed their bid for the “AGT” crown. However they know that irrespective of the end result of the present, they’ve already gained massive. A month from now, they’ll fulfill a dream by acting on the Grand Ole Opry. And the numbers don’t lie; they’ve the eye of nation music followers, and sure the business gatekeepers, as effectively.
Wracked with emotion standing on the “AGT” stage, Danica responded to Cowell by tears when he requested how they’ve been working to determine themselves within the nation music business. “We’ve been attempting to interrupt into Nashville for the final couple of years,” she stated, “but it surely’s been kinda arduous after I suppose nation music doesn’t all the time seem like us.”
Trae picks up her cousin’s prepare of thought, utilizing a pointed anecdote she heard at a latest convention organized by Change the Dialog, a Nashville group established to pursue gender equality in nation music, concerning the unstated guidelines dictating how non-white and feminine artists get pushed in Music Metropolis.
“They highlighted a really particular, pertinent level—and it wasn’t only for minorities, it was for ladies and marginalized communities as a complete—Nashville has ceaselessly had this, ‘simply one by one’ idea,” Trae says. “For some time it was simply Darius Rucker, then they slowly added the Jimmie Allens and the Brelands and the Kane Browns. Mickey Guyton simply acquired pushed to the forefront final 12 months, though she’s been in Nashville and within the music business for over 15 years.”
Equally, the in a single day success of Chapel Hart has been brewing for years, constructed on their mutual love of the nation music that has been omnipresent of their lives since they have been children.
“Rising up in Poplarville, nation music was the music,” Danica says. “For those who’re going within the grocery retailer, the music taking part in overhead’s nation music; when you’re on the varsity bus and the varsity bus driver brings his or her radio, it’s nation music; if in case you have a job and also you’re at work they usually have music that goes on at work, it’s nation music. Even I bear in mind at nap time after we have been little they usually turned on music once you prepare to put down and fall asleep, and it was nation music.”
The life-style they painting in songs like “Jesus & Alcohol” and “That’s a Redneck Summer season Night time” comes truthfully. Though they have been within the pews on Sunday morning—Danica and Devynn are the daughters of a preacher, and their grandfather was a minister—come Saturday evening, they have been in a subject ingesting beer with associates. Danica characterizes their upbringing as “Insurgent Baptist.” “I’ll pray you as much as heaven and drink a little bit Budweiser afterwards,” she laughs.
As soon as they got here collectively as a musical group, they went by years of woodshedding, networking and pounding the pavement for alternatives. Chapel Hart had been making connections for years, and their progress was regular till the “AGT” rocket journey started. The MuzikMafia hitmakers they sang together with of their youth, like “Redneck Lady” singer Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy and Huge & Wealthy, at the moment are of their telephones; Danica nonetheless will get a thrill when John Wealthy texts her to examine on them.
“We all the time used to say, we wanna convey nation music again to nation radio,” Danica gives. “And so the push is simply good nation music, you understand what I’m saying? It’s the stuff we grew up on it. It’s nineties nation.”
Though the trio has been primarily based in New Orleans for a number of years, they make an effort to point out love for his or her dwelling state. Devynn wore a Mississippi shirt on a latest CMT look, they usually check with her in songs like “4 Mississippi.” Their love of dwelling comes with few asterisks, if any.
“Truthfully, I believe the world wants to grasp that Mississippi is a spot of simply pure love,” Trae says. “I do know that there are many stigmas on Mississippi, being on the backside of the listing for lots of issues, from training to well being to the whole lot else. Danica usually says it in our present, speaking about rising up, lots of people have been too poor to even know the distinction, so everybody got here collectively. And I really feel like seeing us do what we’re doing on such a scale is displaying the ability of that Mississippi hospitality. You will have people who find themselves in utterly totally different socioeconomic courses, utterly totally different culturally, however, like, being introduced collectively all [for] the sake of excellent music.”
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Mississippi
Who should be SBLive’s Mississippi high school player of the week? (Aug. 25-31)
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Here are the candidates for SBLive’s Mississippi high school Athlete of the Week for August25-31. Read through the nominees and cast your vote. The poll will close Sunday at 11:59 p.m. If you would like to make a nomination in a future week, email Tyler@scorebooklive.com. For questions/issues with he poll, email athleteoftheweek@scorebooklive.com.
Editor’s note: Our Athlete of the Week feature and corresponding poll is intended to be fun, and we do not set limits on how many times a fan can vote during the competition. However, we do not allow votes that are generated by script, macro or other automated means. Athletes that receive votes generated by script, macro or other automated means will be disqualified.
Kohl Bradley, DB, George County: Racked up 17 tackles and returned an interception 80 yards for a touchdown in a 33-7 win over East Central.
DaJuan Colbert, DB, Natchez: Recorded 15 tackles, forced one fumble and returned another one 75 yards for a touchdown in a 58-50 win over Hancock.
Garrison Davis, QB, Holmes County Central: Completed 14 of his 21 pass attempts for 375 yards and three touchdowns in a 20-6 win over Vicksburg.
Xzavion Gainwell, DB, Yazoo County: Recorded nine tackles, an interception and an 80-yard interception return for a touchdown in the Panthers’ 20-16 win over South Delta.
Elijah Jones, RB, West Jones: Had 24 carries 226 yards and four touchdowns in a 34-6 win over Laurel.
Kingi McNair, WR, Pearl: Caught four passes for 160 yards and two touchdowns in a 26-20 win over Neshoba Central.
Ashton Nichols, DB, Clinton: Recorded six tackles to go with two big pass breakups, a blocked punt and a return for a touchdown in a 26-20 win over Warren Central.
Ethan Prater, RB, Pisgah: Rushed for 132 yards on 27 carries with three scores and caught a 60-yard touchdown pass in a 33-32 win over North Forrest.
Glen Singleton, RB, Madison Central: Rushed for 174 yards on 18 carries with all four touchdowns in a 27-20 win over Ocean Springs.
Damarius Yates, RB, Kemper County: Rushed for 193 yards on 17 carries and returned a kickoff 75 yards for a touchdown in a 38-15 win over Kosciusko.
Mississippi
‘If they cannot play Thalia Hall, they cannot play in Mississippi at all’: Broadway in Jackson speaks out about possible show cancellations
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JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – It’s been one month since Thalia Mara Hall closed its doors due to a mold outbreak.
Innovation Arts and Entertainment is the company responsible for bringing Broadway productions to Jackson.
Representatives from the company visited Jackson after hearing the building had been closed.
CEO Adam Epstein says the City of Jackson did not inform them of the news.
“We did not find out from anybody within the city. We found out by reading news clippings forwarded to us by other people in Jackson,” Epstein said.
Certified Industrial Hygienic Testing reported visible dirt, debris, and suspected mold growth on many surfaces.
Epstein fears this could change the possibility of bigger shows coming to the capital city.
“They’re going to skip over us because of this mess. We need to show as a community that Jackson cares about this valuable asset and that we demand our elected leaders to support and treat this really, incredibly valuable asset with the TLC it deserves,” he said.
Thalia Mara Hall is the only venue in the state that can host a Broadway production due to the technical needs and accommodations required.
“Touring theatrical shows. If they cannot play Thalia Hall, they cannot play in Mississippi at all,” he said.
Broadway in Jackson is not only a great source of entertainment in the city, but it’s also beneficial economically.
“Those other businesses don’t benefit. The city doesn’t earn tax revenue from events that we present. They don’t earn rental income from the events we present. They don’t earn facility fees from the events we present. This is a real tragedy. It’s unacceptable.”
The well-being of the potential audience is the company’s main priority.
“I will not risk our ticket buyers’ health and safety and comfort. Our shows can and will cancel before we’d ever put somebody in jeopardy. We’ve issued a 100% guarantee of a full refund if the venue is not given a clean bill of health,” Epstein said.
All shows will be canceled on a case-to-case basis.
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Tire failure suspected in deadly Mississippi bus crash, NTSB says
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Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are conducting a probe into Saturday’s crash that killed seven and injured 36 people.
The deadly bus crash in Mississippi that killed seven people and injured dozens of others early Saturday occurred after the vehicle experienced a tire failure, causing it to run off the road and overturn, officials and authorities said.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board, in coordination with the Mississippi Highway Patrol, are conducting a probe into Saturday’s crash that left seven people dead and another 36 people injured. The collision occurred at about 12:40 a.m. on Interstate 20 near Vicksburg, Mississippi, when the bus left the roadway and overturned.
The bus, which authorities described as a 2018 Volvo commercial passenger bus, traveled westbound when its left front tire failed, NTSB member Todd Inman said at a news conference Sunday. The bus then moved onto an embankment and rolled over on its left side.
Inman added that investigators will be at the scene for at least another week and are looking into several factors of the crash, including the vehicle’s mechanical condition, motor carrier safety, the condition and experience of the driver, and environmental factors.
According to U.S. Department of Transportation records, the bus was operated by Autobuses Regiomontanos. Records show that in the 24 months before Saturday, the transit company’s vehicles were involved in one fatal crash, two injury collisions, and a crash requiring a tow truck.
The transit company has over 20 years of experience and provides trips between more than 100 destinations throughout Mexico and the United States, according to Autobuses Regiomontanos’ website.
“Everyone at the NTSB sends their expressions of sorrow for everything that the survivors and victims of this crash went through,” Inman said.
7 killed, 36 injured in bus crash
The bus carried a total of 41 passengers and two drivers, according to authorities. It was traveling from Atlanta to Dallas when the incident occurred.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash, according to Master Sergeant Kervin K. Stewart with the Mississippi Highway Patrol. Six people were pronounced dead at the scene and another person died later at a hospital, Stewart said.
Another 36 people were transported to area hospitals.
Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said two victims killed in the crash were identified by their mother as a 16-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy, according to The New York Times. Authorities were working to identify the other victims.
Contributing: Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY
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