Party in the Park is sponsored by Express Employment Professionals of Eastern Arkansas.

The Wings Over the Prairie Festival Committee is thrilled to announce the addition of free live music to the downtown festivities thanks to our generous sponsor, Express Employment Professionals.  The concert will be held in the brand new Rotary Centennial Park in downtown Stuttgart! Join us beginning at 5:00 p.m. for performances by Anna Brinker and Cam Shelton followed by Midnight South!  Located at 319 S. Main Street, the park will be the perfect outdoor venue to start your Friday night! A cash bar will be available.



About Midnight South:

In September of 2021, friends Matt Sammons, Jeremy Castaldo, and J.L. Jones began writing and playing music together, along with other close friends. The group spent many late nights writing, jamming, and brainstorming ideas, organically forming into the country band Midnight South. Less than two years later, they were named “Vocal Group of the Year” by the Arkansas Country Music Awards Association.

In April of 2022, the band got its first big breakout show opening for Easton Corbin at TempleLive in Fort Smith, Arkansas. After an incredible reception from the home state crowd, things quickly took off from there. An increasingly busy schedule necessitated some personnel shifts, leading to the addition of drummer Darin Davis (Cabot, Arkansas) and lead guitar player Billy Lowe III (Russellville, Arkansas).  

Since that first big show, Midnight South has shared the stage with many country music mainstays, some of which include Dylan Scott, Randy Houser, Colt Ford, Tyler Farr, The Josh Abbott Band, Frank Foster, Chris Cagle, Jon Langston, and Texas Hill.  

Perhaps the band's crowning achievement, however, came in May of 2023, when they were selected as one of the eight Jim Beam session artists, performing at the 2023 Gulf Coast Jam in Panama City Beach, Florida. Competing in a “battle of the bands” for a chance to open for Kenny Chesney at the festival, the band won decidedly and got to share the stage with the likes of Lily Rose, Bailey Zimmerman, Chase Rice, and most notably, Kenny Chesney. This marked Midnight South’s biggest show to date as they played for upwards of 25,000 country music fans. 

2023 also saw the band nominated for “Entertainer of the Year” and “Vocal Group of the Year “by the Arkansas Country Music Awards Association. Riding high from the stellar performances at Gulf Coast Jam, the band traveled back home on little to no rest – in a van with no air conditioner – bound for the Arkansas Country Music Awards. At the ACMA ceremony, Midnight South performed its first single, “Better Than A Country Song,” and took home the Vocal Group of the Year award, just two days after their monumental performance in Panama City; it was truly a week to remember.  

Midnight South is an American country band, that utilizes shades of rock, pop, and old time country.