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Bailey Coats Essay

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Tuesday night Bailey Coats held a concert at Rounders Bar to benefit hurricane relief and also to release her new music video. It was a crisp fall night, as dozens gathered on the roof to attend the benefit concert. It was $5 a person to get into the concert, and all the money went directly to the Red Cross to help the hurricane victims from Texas to Florida to Puerto Rico. By the end of the night more than $1300 were raised for the Red Cross.

Coats is a 19-year-old marketing full-time student at the University of Alabama while pursuing a career in the music industry at the same time. According to Coats she has been singing since she was a toddler and has fully been in the music industry for about six years. “Music has always been my passion and it is the one thing in my life that I know without a doubt that the Lord called me to do,” she said. She …show more content…

It was also the public release of her new music video for her single “American Girl”. Anna Slawson, an attendee and one of Coats’ sorority sisters said, “It was really cool to see my pledge sister performing at such a popular bar in Tuscaloosa and doing what she loves”. Another concertgoer Tara Henderson said, “I think because Bailey sang a lot covers of songs that people already knew it really let the crowd engage and sing along with her which made it more fun and entertaining. Coats closed out the night with her rendition of “Sweet Home Alabama” saying that she couldn’t leave the stage without paying homage to the state that means so much to her. Overall Coats felt that, “The concert went better than I could've ever expected. The turnout was truly remarkable, and the show was put on in a whole new manner than I have ever done before. It was incredible to share my new performance with my college peers and more importantly make a difference by giving back to such a worthy

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