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Una Alumnus John Paul White '99 Slated To Play Benefit Show At Shoals Theatre For Album Release

Mar. 01, 2019



Michelle Eubanks, UNA, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033

By Bryan Rachal
University Communications

FLORENCE, Ala.-Grammy Award winner and University of North Alabama alumnus John Paul White, '99, will host an album release show at the Shoals Theatre, Friday, April 12 at 8 p.m.

The event, which is being sponsored by UNA's Department of Entertainment Industry, will serve as kick-off for White's latest albumThe Hurting Kind,and as a benefit concert for the John Paul White Entertainment Industry Endowed Scholarship.

"I'm an incredibly lucky person to be able to do what I love for a living," said White. "I've seen the world. I've done things I didn't even have on my bucket list. I know that these things were made possible by my good friends, instructors and co-conspirators at the University of North Alabama."

Tickets are $25 and will be available for purchase March 8 at the Shoals Theatre Box Office or online athttps://www.theshoalstheatre.org/

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For more information:https://www.una.edu/entertainment/

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA

The University of North Alabama is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate and graduate degree programsthrough the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business,Education and Human Sciences, and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions.Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Tuscumbia, Sheffield and Muscle Shoals. UNA Athletics, a renownedcollegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of the NCAA Division I's ASUN and Big South Conferences.The University of North Alabama is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age or national origin.

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