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Just in: The working schedule for the Jackson Lounge tent at the JAM. Check back or at the tent for schedule changes/updates. See you out there. It’s a *very* good time

Saturday

10:45 – 11:20 a.m. – Percival. This band consisting of high school students is along the lines of Fletcher. (alt. rock)

12:40 – 1:20 – Allison and Christy Jenkins will win you over with their melodic, self-written duets.

2:40 – 3:20 – Scott Albert Johnson (singer/songwriter/harmonica)

4:40 – 5:20 – Eric Stracener (acoustic/roots rock)

6:50 – 7:20 – Ryan Rumfelt (singer/songwriter)

8:50 – 9:30 p.m. – Brian Fuente (pop/rock)

9:45 – 10:30 p.m. – Questions in Dialect (art-prog)

11:10 – 12 a.m. or so – Ezra Brown and friends, presented by OffiSource (jazz and funk)

Founding Editor Donna Ladd is a writer, journalist and editor from Philadelphia, Miss., a graduate of Mississippi State University and later the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was an alumni award recipient in 2021. She writes about racism/whiteness, poverty, gender, violence, journalism and the criminal justice system. She contributes long-form features and essays to The Guardian when she has time, and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press. She co-founded the statewide nonprofit Mississippi Free Press with Kimberly Griffin in March 2020, and the Mississippi Business Journal named her one of the state's top CEOs in 2024. Read more at donnaladd.com, follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @donnerkay and email her at donna@mississippifreepress.org.