SWAMP(gr)ASS GET DOWN Apr 19, 2025
Swamp(gr)Ass Get Down
presents
The 15th Anniversary of T-Bois
@ 100 Men Hall
Bay Saint Louis, MS – Swamp(gr)Ass Get Down is an annual event at 100 Men Hall, and this year it commemorates the 15th Anniversary of T-Bois, one of the most popular blues festivals in the country. On Saturday, April 19, 2025, the OG’s of T-Bois will come together on the historical 100 Men Hall stage for the biggest and baddest Swamp(gr)Ass experience – Anders Osborne, Honey Island Swamp Band, Alvin Youngblood-Hart’s Muscle Theory, Dave Jordan & The NIA, and Nonc Nu & da Wild Matous. Alligator Mike will be serving food for purchase, and there will be a cash/credit bar. This event is sponsored by Silver Slipper Casino, MS Gulf Coast National Heritage Area, and Martin Electric and is an Alligator Mike promotion.
Tickets:
All-inclusive T-Bois Ticket, $150 – includes admission, food by the Cajun T-Bois cooks, plus draft beer. Also entry into Friday night’s social ($10) at the Hall that includes past T-Bois videos shown on the big screen, plus a guaranteed purchase option for ticket to T-Bois 2026: The Final Chapter.
Saturday ticket, $80 – entry in to Saturday's music from 2-9pm, food and drink for purchase.
Friday ticket, $10 – a gathering of old and new at the 100 Men Hall, complete with footage from 15 years of T-Bois. Cash/credit bar.
Anders Osborne
Anders Osborne was born in 1966 in Uddevalla, Sweden and at a young age knew that he spoke the language of music and poetry well. He fell in love with everything from Vivaldi, Chopin and Black Sabbath to Robert Johnson, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and Cat Steven’s to John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and Bob Marley. “Blues connected everything together for me," Osborne recalls. "The early rock, the R&B, the jazz, the singer-songwriters. Blues was like a thread running through everything."
After living and performing there for almost four decades Osborne has become a fixture of the New Orleans musical community. Guitar Player called him “the poet laureate of Louisiana’s fertile roots music scene.” New Orleans' Gambit Weekly has honored Osborne as the Entertainer of The Year. OffBeat named him the Crescent City’s Best Guitarist on three occasions, and the Best Songwriter twice. He has appeared at Jazz Fest for 35 years.
Honey Island Swamp Band
Honey Island Swamp Band is a tremendous live band with superb musicianship. They are a thrilling, eclectic band that defies genre conventions, renders song structures elastic, and wholeheartedly stresses that the song reigns supreme. Since they formed in 2005 in San Francisco after their displacement from New Orleans via Katrina — and subsequently relocated back home — the band has evolved to embody contemporary roots music. If you’re wondering where the numerous streams of American sounds coalesce and commingle in the modern scene, look no further.
Alvin Youngblood-Hart’s Muscle Theory
Grammy nominated Alvin Youngblood Hart's life is deceptively simple. In the central Mississippi town Youngblood calls home, the man enjoys family, fishing, and horseback riding. But beyond this rather prosaic life, the gentle Hart makes beautiful music. Refusing to be pigeonholed into a blues-only niche, this dreadlocked, well-traveled cross between Howlin' Wolf and Link Wray can kick out the jams. Be it his intricate repertoire as a soloist bluesman, an arsenal of American roots music, or the occasional foray into jazz territory, Alvin is always in control. It’s an even bigger treat from this "musician's musician" is when he's backed by the Muscle Theory band.
Dave Jordan & The NIA
Dave Jordan is an award winning, critically acclaimed musician, singer/songwriter & bandleader from New Orleans. Americana storytelling and south Louisiana roots music. He spins lyrical tales with a similarly world-weary twang and finger-picks an acoustic guitar. From the Northern Lights in Alaska to the southernmost point in Key West, for nearly 3 decades Dave has traveled the highways of America, sharing his music and the culture of New Orleans and south Louisiana. Along the way he has visited all 50 states and played every kind of gig imaginable- from world renowned festivals like the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Telluride Blues & Brews Festival; to smoky dive bars and American music institutions the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and the Fox Theater in Boulder.
Nonc Nu & da Wild Matous
One of Houma's favorite bands from down the bayou, Nonc Nu & da Wild Matous claim their music is seasoned with humor and a dash of Cajun French. The five-piece group from Thibodaux looks to bring Cajun music to a whole new audience, one that perhaps views the style as a relic of the past. Mike Collins, who plays accordion in the band, said that the rock flavor they bring to Cajun music stems from their early years. Nonc Nu and Da Wild Matous plays mostly original songs, but will sprinkle in covers for especially long shows.
Food for purchase (included in the T-Bois all-inclusive ticket) by Alligator Mike and his T-Bois Cajun cooks. Hailing from LaRose, LA, Alligator Mike has been cooking over a pot, usually a very large black pot, for decades on his family’s alligator farm, and for over 15 years at T Bois Blues Festival, and more recently at 100 Men Hall. Alligator Mike’s Louisiana cooking includes redfish court bouillon all the way to his very special Cajun gumbo. Louisiana cooking is a diverse cuisine influenced by many cultures, including French, Spanish, African and Native American.
The historical 100 Men Hall, a famed stop on the Chitlin' Circuit, a Must See Venue by Rolling Stone Magazine, winner of the 2024 MS Governor’s Award for Excellence for Arts in the Community, a rare site on the MS Blues Trail, is maintained and preserved under a 501c3 nonprofit organization (Hundred Members Debating Benevolent Association, est. 1894). The Hall is supported by its membership organization 100 WOMEN DBA, as well as from the generosity of sponsors and donors. The 100 Men Hall is the only endowed African American landmark in Mississippi. Additional information about the venue’s history and other activities can be found on https://100menhall.com or by emailing 100menhall@gmail.com.