Widespread Panic’s JoJo Hermann has shared that he will pay tribute to Professor Longhair on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 21, at Proud Larrys in Oxford, Miss. The one-night stand will see the keyboardist jam alongside Jim “Fish” Michie as a part of the Mardi Gras festivities.
The impending musical tribute will happen in the same Mississippi town where Hermann’s career accelerated post-college. Oxford, Miss., is where the keys man started writing songs and performing in 1983–garnering a historical connection between the artist and the city.
Hermann’s Fat Tuesday performance lands days before his previously announced appearance at Ardmore Music Hall outside Philadelphia. The show, which will occur on Feb. 25, is a tribute to the late-Allen Toussaint and is billed to include an all-star set with Hermann, George Porter Jr., second-generation player Johnny Kimock, Cris Jacobs, Maggie Koerner, in addition to The Rebirth Horns. Read more.
