Rosanne Cash Comes to MPAC Tonight

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash returns to Mayo Performing Arts Center tonight, February 13, 2015 at 8 pm. Tickets are $39-69

Cash will perform music from her Grammy-nominated release The River and the Thread, and other favorites. Along with the nomination with Best Americana Album for The River and the Thread, she is nominated for Best American Roots Song and Best American Performance for "A Feather's Not a Bird."

With The River and the Thread, Cash has added the next chapter to a remarkable period of creativity. Her last two albums, Black Cadillac (2006) and The List (2009), were both nominated for Grammy Awards; The List-an exploration of essential songs as selected and given to Rosanne by her father, Johnny Cash-was also named Album of the Year by the Americana Music Association. In addition, her best-selling 2010 memoir, Composed, was described by the Chicago Tribune as "one of the best accounts of an American life you will likely ever read."

Cash, who has charted 21 Top 40 country singles, including 11 Number Ones, wrote all of the new album's songs with her longtime collaborator (and husband) John Leventhal, who also served as producer, arranger, and guitarist. Featuring a long list of guests-from young guns like John Paul White (The Civil Wars) and Derek Trucks to such legends as John Prine and Tony Joe White-The River and the Thread is a kaleidoscopic examination of the geographic, emotional, and historic landscape of the American South. The album's unique sound, which draws from country, blues, gospel, and rock, reflects the soulful mix of music that traces its history to the region.
"When we started forming the idea for this record," says Cash, "it felt like it was going to be the third part of a trilogy-with Black Cadillac mapping out a territory of mourning and loss and then The List, celebrating my family's musical legacy. I feel this record ties past and present together through all those people and places in the South I knew and thought I had left behind."

Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2014-2015 season is made possible, in part, by a grant the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as support received from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, F.M. Kirby Foundation and numerous corporations, foundations and individuals. The Mayo Performing Arts Center has been designated a Major Presenting Organization by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.