Johnny Cash
's boyhood home in Dyess, Ark., will be restored with funds
from a music festival scheduled for Aug. 4 in Jonesboro, Ark. Located in a Depression-era farming colony, the home will be
purchased by Arkansas State University. Festival proceeds will also benefit a Johnny Cash Boyhood Museum in the New Deal Era
Administration Building at Dyess. The Johnny Cash Music Festival will be a family affair, with concerts by his daughter
Rosanne Cash, his son and daughter-in-law
John
Carter Cash and Laura Cash, his brother Tommy Cash and his granddaughter Chelsea Crowell. Additional performers will include
Rodney Crowell,
George
Jones,
Kris Kristofferson,
Gary
Morris and bluegrass duo
Dailey & Vincent. Cash died in
2003.
