Songs of Hope, the concert tour resulting from a six-week youth performing arts project in St. Paul, MN, stops in Zumbrota for the tenth time, on Thursday, July 21, at 7:00 pm.

The free concert is at the Zumbrota State Theatre.  Crossings and the Zumbrota Area Arts Council are sponsoring the performance.

The young vocalists sing songs from their own homelands mixed with U.S. songs chosen because together they offer the perfect entertainment for a warm summer’s night. This year participating children are from countries such as India, Turkey, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Guatemala, Argentina, and the United States.[read more…]

He looks like Cash. He sounds like Cash. He moves like Cash. Nobody does Johnny Cash like Terry Lee Goffee!

Terry Lee Goffee "World's Premier" Johnny Cash Tribute

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Goffee does more than play the music or “impersonate” Cash: like an actor in a play, he becomes his character from the moment he walks on stage until the end of the show. He plays the music so well that audiences and reviewers rave. He plays the man so well, that he was chosen to provide the moves for a Cash character on the Guitar Hero 5 video game.

Cash – The Man in Black – is widely considered one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century. His music is primarily thought of as country, but his deep bass-baritone voice lent itself equally well to the genres of rock and roll, blues, folk, rockabilly, and gospel.[read more…]