ST. JOHNSBURY – Rosanne Cash returns to St. Johnsbury Academy’s Fuller Hall, on March 20, at 7 p.m. One of the country’s singer-songwriters, Cash has released 15 albums of songs that have earned four Grammy Awards and 12 additional nominations, as well as 21 Top-40 hits, including 11 chart-topping singles.
Born to country legend Johnny Cash, Rosanne joined her father’s tour as a wardrobe assistant and background singer in 1973. After stints in London and Nashville (and a year studying method acting in California), she launched her solo career in 1978. Though often classified as country, her music draws from folk, pop, rock, blues, and Americana. In the 1980s, she had a string of genre-crossing singles, most notably her 1981 breakthrough hit “Seven Year Ache,” which topped the country charts and reached the Top 30 on the pop charts.
Cash is also the author of four books including the best-selling memoir “Composed,” which the Chicago Tribune called “one of the best accounts of an American life you’ll likely ever read.” Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Oxford American and more.
In addition to touring, Cash has partnered in programming with Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Library of Congress. Cash was awarded the SAG/AFTRA Lifetime Achievement Award for Sound Recordings in 2012 and the 2014 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in the Performing Arts. She was a Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist in 2015-16 and was a 2015 Artist-In-Residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Cash is one of only a handful of women to be elected to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2017-18, she was a Resident Artistic Director at SFJAZZ and, in 2018, she received an honorary doctorate from Berklee and was awarded the “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech Award by the American Music Awards. In 2021, Cash was the first female composer to receive the MacDowell Medal, awarded since 1960 to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to American culture.
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