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Johnny Cash Tribute Concert Cancelled | ||||||||||||
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| Wendy Aron, 01.09.2008, 10:16 AM | ||||||||||||
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| (EZ-Tracks) - A concert to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Johnny Cash’s landmark performance at Folsom Prison in California has been scrapped because concert promoters and prison officials could not come to terms, according to an Associated Press report. The tribute concert, scheduled for Sunday, was to have been staged in the same prison cafeteria where Cash performed before inmates on January 13, 1968. That historic performance later became a chart topping live album. Prison officials called off the show late Monday, citing problems over filming rights, media access and security concerns. But the concert promoter claimed that the cancellation was just the final insult in a string of broken promises by the powers that be at the prison. "I was in tears when I found out," Jonathan Holiff said. The show, which would have been streamed worldwide over the Internet, was to have been underwritten by four nonprofit groups that were to share in the event’s profit. The executive director of Prison Fellowship Ministries, one of the non-profits involved, said Cash fans and the inmates are the losers in this conflict. "Johnny was wild at heart, just like these men," Joe Avila said. "But just like him, they can change. They can walk the line." | ||||||||||||
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