River and Roses

Four-time GRAMMY®-winning singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash will be the recipient of the sixth annual Crossroads of American Music Award at GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi’s 2024 Gala, which will take place at the Museum in Cleveland, Miss, on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 6 p.m. The 2024 Gala is presented by Quality Steel Corporation with additional support provided by platinum sponsors Cannon Motors of Mississippi, Kirk Auto, and Whole Cellars Package Store. Additional details will be announced soon.

Established by the Museum’s Board of Directors, the Crossroads of American Music Award honors an artist who has made significant musical contributions influenced by the creativity born in the cradle of American music. Past recipients of the Crossroads of American Music Award are GRAMMY winners the late Charley Pride and Jerry Lee Lewis, Bobby Rush, Keb' Mo', and Marty Stuart.

The annual GRAMMY Museum Mississippi Gala is the Museum’s signature fundraising event. Proceeds from this year’s Gala will benefit the Museum’s education programs, which seek to use music as a gateway to learning by inspiring and cultivating creativity, critical thinking, and self-expression.

ABOUT ROSANNE CASH One of the country’s pre-eminent singer-songwriters, Rosanne Cash has released 15 albums of extraordinary songs that have earned four GRAMMY Awards, 3 for her acclaimed 2015 album, The River and The Thread. Cash is also an author whose four books include the best-selling memoir Composed. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Oxford American, The Nation, and many more print and online publications. In addition to regular touring, Cash has partnered in programming collaborations with Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, NYU, SFJAZZ, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Library of Congress. She is also an inductee of The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and The Austin City Limits Hall of Fame. In 2021 she received the 2021 Edward MacDowell Medal, awarded since 1960 to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to American culture. She is the first woman composer to receive this prestigious honor.