ROSANNE CASH | PAUL HOLDENGRÄBER

Who is Rosanne Cash?  An American Life

With a career spanning 30 years, 15 albums (earning her four GRAMMY awards), and four books, Rosanne Cash has become a leading voice in Americana and folk music. For the opening night of LIVE’s fall season, she joins Paul Holdengräber to reflect on the music of her life.

One of the country’s pre-eminent singer/songwriters, ROSANNE CASH has released 15 albums of songs that have earned four GRAMMY Awards and nominations for 11 more, as well as 21 top-40 hits, including 11 No. 1 singles. She is also an author whose four books include the best-selling memoir Composed, and whose essays have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Oxford-American, and The Nation. Cash was given the AFTRA Lifetime Achievement award for Sound Recordings in 2012, completed a residency at the Library of Congress in 2013, and received the 2014 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in the Performing Arts. Earlier this year she was chosen as a Perspective Series artist at Carnegie Hall, and is also the 2015 artist in residence at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville.

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