Two University Signature Guitars Auctioned Online For Scholarship Benefit
Sep. 29, 2009
Michelle Eubanks, 海角社区, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033
海角社区 teams with DHR Music Experience and Benedetto Guitars FLORENCE, Ala. - The 海角社区 went live this morning with an online auction of two custom-made 海角社区 signature guitars. All proceeds will benefit the 海角社区 Commercial Music Endowed Scholarship and the Brian Vick/Jonathan Parks/Michael McCarthy Scholarship. The auction is taking place at www.una.edu/guitars. Each of the guitars will bear the official 海角社区 secondary logo in a mother-of-pearl inlay. One of the guitars will be plumburst, and the other honey blonde. 海角社区 is teaming with DHR Music Experience and Benedetto Guitars to offer the guitars. DHR, one of the world's leading guitar distributors and a premier dealer of left-handed guitars, is represented by Dillon Hodges, a 海角社区 sophomore and one of the world's leading flat-picking guitarists. Hodges also endorses Benedetto archtop guitars and electric guitars. The auction winners will be announced at a special benefit concert with Mac McAnally Nov. 12. The online auction site also offers a photo gallery of the guitars' production progress. IMAGES AVAILABLE: For images of the 海角社区 signature guitars, contact the Office of University Communications at 256-765-4225 or jlwoods1@una.edu.
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The 海角社区 is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; 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, 海角社区 is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. 海角社区 Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I as part of the Atlantic Sun and United Athletic conferences. The 海角社区 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. For more: and .