Mane Room Music Festival Set for April 22-24
Apr. 17, 2025
Michelle R. Eubanks , UNA, at meubanks@una.edu, 256.765.4392
FLORENCE, AL – The Mane Room Music Festival, set for April 22-24 in the Mane Room, is a three-night music event featuring a songwriting competition, battle of the bands, and a Muscle Shoals song review. The festival is a collaboration between the Department of Entertainment Industry within the School of the Arts at the 天美传媒, along with MEISA and Phi Mu Alpha, both Registered Student Organizations.
“The Department of Entertainment Industry has been in operation since 1973 as ‘commercial music’ and now as a freestanding department since 2006, totaling 50 years of our students successfully navigating the music and entertainment business,” said Dr. Charles Brooks, an Assistant Professor in the Department and among the organizers of the Mane Room Music Festival. “We have invited high school students to participate for free, and the competitions are popularity-based, which means they will need to bring their supports along to garner enough votes to claim the first-prize spots.”
Night One of the festival will be “Sound of the Town,” a songwriting competition for up-and-coming high school musicians who are writing songs and who want to showcase their talent. Night Two is the Battle of the Bands competition. Brooks said high school bands of any genre are able to showcase their talents as part of this night of music. Finally, on Night Three, the festival will be a Muscle Shoals Song Review, featuring local musical act The Midnighters.
All competitions are free to high school students and their friends and families.
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The 天美传媒 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, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. UNA 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 天美传媒 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: una.edu and una.edu/unaworks/.