1. 2012 Lineup Announcement
Rosanne Cash announced that she will host the second Johnny Cash Music Festival on Friday, Oct. 5, at ASU. According to Bill Carter, the festival’s executive producer, the talent lineup will be announced at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 24, at ASU’s Cooper Alumni Center.
2. 80th Birthday Tribute
The Johnny Cash Birthday Tribute to celebrate the 80th birthday of the late singer will be held on February 26th at the Dyess (Ark.) Community Center, State Highway 297 at East 4th Street. The event, hosted by Arkansas State University,...
3. Cashing in JCMF Memories
It’s not unusual for his neighbors to see the ambulance pull into this 87-year-old's driveway. He’s battled pneumonia eight times while also fighting a terminal disease. So when the limousine pulled into his driveway on August 4, the neighbors were a bit taken aback.
4. Thank You!!!
A sold out crowd for the inaugural Johnny Cash Music Festival on August 4th. By SARA MCNEIL On Thursday, Aug. 4, Arkansas State University’s Convocation Center was the scene of a sold-out concert—the first-ever Johnny Cash Music...PRESENTED BY:
JCMF Merch Now Available!
Select merchandise from the inaugural Johnny Cash Music Fest is now available for purchase. To order, call the Arkansas Heritage Sites office at (870) 972-2803. As usual, all proceeds benefit the Johnny Cash...
Back by Popular Demand
Gary Morris’ voice is the only instrument needed to move the listener’s heart and soul. He is best known for his original recording of “Wind Beneath My Wings,” which won both the CMA and ACM Song of the Year Awards. At the height of his...
Project Update – 10/07
Since acquiring the Johnny Cash Boyhood Home in April 2011, all materials added by occupants after the Cash family have been removed. Fortunately, most of the original building materials remain and have been...
A New Deal
The address of the small clapboard house we were looking for was 4791 W. County Road 924 in Mississippi County, Arkansas—just a mile or so west of the small town of Dyess. From a distance, as you turn off State Route 77 onto the washboard gravel of 924 and see the house sitting on its own, there’s not much to distinguish it from other weathered, aging houses that still stand along the lonely rural roads of northeast Arkansas.
Johnny Cash Celebrated by Family, Friend...
Thursday night, the Johnny Cash Festival paid tribute to the legendary singer with a nearly four-hour long show of performances by Cash's siblings Tommy and Joanne, daughter Rosanne, son John Carter Cash and wife Laura, former son-in-law Rodney Crowell, and granddaughter Chelsea Crowell at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
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