Friday, March 6, 2009, 7:30 pm | Cooper-Moore Returns: Link Centre presents New York City's multi-instrumentalist, composer, story-teller, and master musician. Come experience a super-charged, melting pot of musical influences, improvised within a single, dynamic performance--a stream of stories unfolding through the language of sound. Featuring Chad Anderson on drums. Tickets $10. For more information or tickets, call 662.690.4011. In the Reception Hall.

Saturday, March 7, 2009, 5pm to 7pm | Pre-Symphony Gourmet Dinner Catered by Mac McAllister, Clete Brekke, and the Link Culinary Arts students. MENU: Mixed Garden Salad with Walnuts and Apples, French Bone Lamb Chops with Mint Jelly, Seasoned Potato Fingers,
Baby Asparagus with Lemon Dill Sauce, Dinner Roll, Hot Apple Cobbler with Caramel Sauce. Dinner includes access to a reserved seating area for the 7:30 pm Symphony Performance. Dinner served in the Reception Hall, $30 per person. For more information or reservations call 662.690.4011. (Concert Tickets Purchased Separately from TSO. Made in America and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, featuring the MSU Chorus. At the Civic Auditorium.

Friday, february 20, 2009, 7 pm |
Glenis Redmond, Artist-in-Residence.  This internationally acclaimed poet, performer, counselor, and teacher caps off her week in Tupelo with a public performace featuring poems by local students and music by the Tupelo High School Black History Month Choir. For tickets or information, call 662.690.4011.