Crescent City to the Crossroads Gala

GRAMMY^®-winner and multi-time GRAMMY-nominee Trombone Shorty will be the recipient of the seventh annual Crossroads of American Music Award at GRAMMY Museum^®  Mississippi’s 2025 Gala, which will take place at the Museum in Cleveland, Miss, on Thursday, Oct. 30, at 6 p.m.

Tickets to the 2025 Gala will go on sale to GRAMMY Museum Mississippi Members on September 16^tand can be purchased at grammymuseumms.org, or by calling the Mississippi Museum’s Box Office. Pending availability, tickets will go on sale to the public on Oct. 2.

Trombone Shorty is one of New Orleans’ most celebrated cultural ambassadors, and just released a new album with fellow GRAMMY-nominees New Breed Brass Band entitled Second Line Sunday.  Released twenty years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the album is an homage to the music and culture that Trombone Shorty grew up on: the distinct and vital Crescent City traditions of brass band music and second line parades.

GRAMMY Museum Mississippi’s Red Carpet Guild, an organization of committed volunteers whose mission is to promote, support and sustain the Mississippi Museum, is currently developing plans for the Museum’s 2025 Gala. The theme for this year’s Gala is “Brass & Bayou: Crescent City to the Crossroads”. The event will take place on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 6 p.m. at GRAMMY Museum Mississippi and will feature a reception, dinner and cocktails, live music, and a silent and live auction. The event will also feature the presentation of the 2025 L.U.C.Y. Award, which honors a k-12 educator from the state of Mississippi who embodies the educational mission of GRAMMY Museum Mississippi.

The Museum will be closed Wednesday, October 29th, through Friday, October 31st, at 1 pm.