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Rosanne Cash to be Featured at Fundraising Event at Governor’s Mansion

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Grammy-award winning singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash will perform next month at the Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock, part of a fundraiser for her father Johnny Cash’s boyhood home in Dyess.

The March 3 benefit will be hosted by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, his wife Susan and Arkansas State University.

The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a reception and photo opportunity, followed by “Memories, Music and More,” including Rosanne Cash’s reflections on helping restore her father’s home and the music inspired by her reconnection to the South.

Rosanne Cash began working with ASU in 2011 to acquire and restore the home and has remained actively involved in the project.

Tickets are $150 per person and sponsorship opportunities also are available.

Tickets are available by calling (870) 972-2803, e-mailing pmiles@astate.edu or going to AState.edu/donations.

The next phase of the restoration will include re-creating Cash farmstead buildings, including the barn, smokehouse, chicken coop and outhouse.

When her album, “The River and the Thread” was released in 2014, Rosanne Cash talked about the boyhood home restoration project’s influence on her music during appearances on nationally televised programs such as “CBS Sunday Morning” and the “Katie Couric Show,” and in interviews in The Guardian, the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine and other media.

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