41ST Annual American Eagle Awards Honoring Rosanne Cash

One of the country’s pre-eminent singer-songwriters and music education advocates, Rosanne Cash has earned 4 Grammys and  is also the author of four books including the best-selling memoir “Composed,” which the Chicago Tribune called “one of the best accounts of an American life you’ll likely ever read.”  Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Oxford American, and more.  A new book, “Bird on a Blade,” combines images by artist Dan Rizzie with Cash’s lyrics.

Among her many honors, Ms. Cash has been awarded the SAG/AFTRA Lifetime Achievement Award for Sound Recordings and the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in the Performing Arts.  She has also served as a Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist, was an Artist-In-Residence at the Country Music HOF and Museum, and is currently Artist-in-Residence at New York University.  Rosanne is likewise one of only a handful of women to be elected to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, a number she hopes to see increase in the near future.  Ms. Cash is similarly the first female composer to receive the MacDowell Medal, awarded since 1960 to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to American culture.   In 2018, Rosanne  was awarded the “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech Award by the AMA and received an honorary doctorate from Berklee.  NMC is proud to honor her for all these notable achievements and much more, including her extensive work with young music creators and in support of wounded war veterans.

By this honor, she will be joining a stellar list of past American Eagle Award recipients, including Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Clive Davis, Van Cliburn, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Morton Gould, Dave Brubeck, Marian Anderson, Max Roach, Lena Horne, Roy Clark, Emmylou Harris, Kenny Rogers, Suzanne Vega, Roberta Peters, Odetta, Stephen Sondheim, and Kris Krisofferson.