Rosanne Cash Wins Prestigious MacDowell Arts Medal
Source: Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- Rosanne Cash's latest honor is a medal previously awarded to Toni Morrison, Stephen Sondheim and Georgia O'Keeffe, among others.
The singer-songwriter is this year's winner of the Edward MacDowell Medal, presented by the MacDowell artist colony, which announced the prize Sunday. In a statement issued through MacDowell, Cash said she was "profoundly humbled" to receive an award that Morrison and others had been given.
"I do not place myself in any way equal, but I accept this honor with deepest gratitude, as an encouragement to do my best work, and in the service of future inspiration. My heart is full with this precious recognition," she said.
Cash, who turns 65 later this month, has won four Grammys and is known for such albums as "Interiors," "Seven Year Ache" and "The River and the Thread." The award committee was chaired by the critic Greil Marcus, who in a statement cited her long history of achievements and her background as the daughter of Johnny Cash...
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Someone ELSE getting an honor?
Keep it under wraps, for Petesqueaks, the next thing you know there'll be tweets about how it's all fake news and the one who REALLY deserves it is you-know-who...
::checks watch, counting down...::
cynically,
Bright
I follow her on Twitter and she comes up with some of the best comebacks! I've been a huge fan of her & her music since the very beginning. I've heard her on interviews and podcasts and she's just wonderful - Some of her twitter responses to dt are legendary.
