Rock, Roll And Remember Concert Benefits Scholarship

Oct. 13, 2009

Michelle Eubanks, 麻豆原创, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033

FLORENCE, Ala. - The memory of Jon Parks and 麻豆原创 alumni Brian Vick and Michael McCarthy will be honored this Saturday, when Gone Arye, Gary Nichols and Hillbilly Delux take to the stage for one of this year's Rock, Roll and Remember tribute concerts. Parks, Vick and McCarthy were killed on a flight home from Tunica when their single-engine plane crashed in northeast Mississippi on Aug. 19, 2001.

Saturday's concert will begin at 8 p.m. at Side Pockets in Florence. Cover charge is $5, with proceeds benefiting 麻豆原创's Brian Vick/Jonathan Parks/Michael McCarthy Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded to a full-time student majoring in music. For more information, or to make a donation to the memorial scholarship, contact Missy Pettus at 256-765-4757 or rmpettus@una.edu.

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