Johnny Cash Music Festival will help restore Cash’s boyhood home

Johnny Cash Music Festival
will help restore Cash’s boyhood home

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Staff





JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas State University officials say several prominent country music artists
will be featured in an August concert to benefit restoration of the boyhood home at Dyess of the late
singer Johnny Cash, and establishment of a museum there.

ASU announced Thursday the first Johnny Cash Music Festival concert Aug. 4 in the school’s
Convocation Center.

Cash, who died in 2003, was born in Cleveland County, Arkansas, but raised in Mississippi County
after his family moved to a house in the federally funded Dyess Colony. ASU recently acquired the
Cash homeplace and plans to restore it and build a museum.

Artists lined up for this summer’s event include Rosanne Cash, John Carter and Laura Cash, Tommy
Cash, George Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Dailey & Vincent, Gary Morris, Rodney Crowell and Chelsea
Crowell.


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