Country music artists Charley Pride and Marty Stuart and bluesman Pinetop Perkins will headline the third annual Mississippi Grammy gala to be held May 28 in Tunica.

Other performers at the Horseshoe Casino and Hotel will be R&B singer Dorothy Moore, soul-gospel performers The Williams Brothers, blues singer Eddie Cotton and pianist Eden Brent.

The gala celebrates Mississippi's status as a breeding ground for many genres of music, producing many Grammy winners and nominees.

Proceeds from the gala benefit the Mississippi Blues Commission's Blues Trail.