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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 ӣ 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 ӣ."

Tickets are $25 and will be available for purchase March 8 at the Shoals Theatre Box Office or online at

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The ӣ 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 ӣ 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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