NEW YORK – 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