Name: Vasti Jackson
Start: 2025-09-05T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Brewsky's

EARLY SHOW - 8pm Start Time - Limited seating will be available. Want a table? Email [email protected] JACKSONHattiesburgs Own Multiple Grammy nominated world renowned guitarist, vocalist, composer, producer, actor, musical director Vasti Jackson returns to USM. Mississippi Cultural Art Ambassador, 2022 JMA Lifetime Achieve recipient, 2019 Polar International Music Award (Playing for change) 2016 recording artist Grammy nominee (The Soul of Jimmie Rogers) 2015 Albert King Lifetime Guitar Award, 2014, 2012 Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame inductee, and 2011 Mississippi Living Blues Legend Award recipient.Vasti (pronounced Vast-Eye) Jackson is the consummate professional, with more than fifty years in the music industry. From his early beginnings performing churches, and juke joints in, and around McComb, Mississippi, to festivals, Concerts, and theaters in thirty eight foreign countries. What do BB King, The Doobie Brothers, Bobby Bland, Jimmy Buffet, ZZ Hill, Harry Connick, Jr., Martin Scorsese, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Rush, Dr. John, Cassandra Wilson, and Mississippi have in common? Vasti Jackson!As an actor Vasti performed the roll of Ike Turner in the international musical Simply The Best The Tina Turner story, Old Lucas in the New Stage Theatre presentation of Hell In High Water, also serving as composer, and musical director, the lead role as Robert Johnson in the theatrical presentation Robert Johnson: The Man The Myth The Music, and as Hobo Bill in the stage play Jimmie Rodgers: Americas Blue Yodeler.Vasti is guest artist, and composer with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.As an educator, Vasti communicates with enthusiasm, compassion, patience, and an innate ability to connect with each audience member. From elementary school age children to adults in masters degree programs. Vasti utilizes oral history traditions, humor, vocalization, instrumental virtuosity, and interactive participation through the medium of music. With the Playing For Change Foundation Creating Positive Change Through Music, and Arts Education Vasti has help develop twenty music schools in fifteen countries with more than two thousand students. Vasti Jackson is the only Mississippian to have two recordings nominated for the Grammy Award in the same category, with one win in the same year.
Sale Dates and Times:
Public Onsale : Wed, 27 Aug 2025 at 05:30 PM