The Mississippi Country Music Trail Commission will honor five people with new trail markers during a ceremony at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 19 at 431 Center Ave. in Philadelphia.

The markers will honor Steve Azar, Jerry Lee Lewis, Marty Gamblin, Johnny Cash’s “Starkville City Jail” and Jimmie Rodgers’ Bristol, Tennessee music sessions.

Azar, a songwriter, recording artist and music producer, is the state’s official music and culture ambassador of Mississippi; Lewis, a Nesbit native, is known for his innovative and flamboyant piano playing style; Gamblin is a noted music manager and publisher; Cash’s “Starkville City Jail” was written after the county music icon’s arrest in Starkville in 1965; and Rodgers’ Bristol, Tennessee music sessions, are known as an important event in the history of country music.

Gov. Phil Bryant will join Philadelphia native Marty Stuart to announce the recipients. Expected to attend are inductee Marty Gamblin, Jerry Lee Lewis’s son, Lee Lewis, Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill and Leah Ross, the executive director of Birthplace of Country Music.

“Mississippi’s unparalleled musical legacy lives on as we make plans to dedicate five new markers on the Mississippi Country Music Trail,” Bryant said in a news release. “From past to present, Mississippi has remained instrumental in molding and inspiring country music icons, and these new markers will celebrate their contributions to the genre.”

“Mississippi has such a profound legacy pertaining to the culture of country, not just the past, but the present as well as the future,” Stuart said in the release. “This class of inductees furthers that point, with everyone from Jimmy Rodgers the father of Country Music, to the contemporary sounds of Steve Azar, and everyone in between. That is the beauty of Mississippi country music.”

Founded in 2010, and conceptualized by Stuart, the Mississippi Country Music Trail recognizes the state’s contributions to country music. Stuart will further honor Mississippi’s country music legacy with the future Marty Stuart Congress of Country Music, a state-of-the-art country music museum and performing arts center in Philadelphia. The facility will house more than 20,000 country music artifacts Stuart has collected over the years while also offering space for live musical performances and educational programming.