Arkansas Music

“Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon” is screening nationwide through Wednesday.

Approval has been given for the Bates statue to be cast, while the sculptor making the Cash statue has finished a clay model.

The show will be on Sept. 22 in North Little Rock. The new season begins on Oct. 1 at Robinson Center.

Hutchinson, who strongly supported replacing Arkansas' two statues, on Thursday got his first look at a clay model of the Cash statue.

The brash rockabilly star from Arkansas became a patron of the Canadian music scene and recruited a group of musicians later known as the Band.

The singer-songwriter will receive an honorary doctoral degree for her assistance in the restoration of Johnny Cash's boyhood home in Dyess.

Benjamin Victor is working on a clay model of the civil rights leader this week at UA Little Rock. Statues of Bates and singer Johnny Cash will eventually represent Arkansas in the U.S. Capitol.

The public can watch work being done on the Bates statue, while approval has been given for the design of the Cash statue. Both will represent Arkansas in the U.S. Capitol.

Nesmith, best known as a member of the made-for-TV band the Monkees, died Friday at the age of 78.

Connie Hamzy, a rock ‘n’ roll groupie from Arkansas who was immortalized as “sweet, sweet Connie” in the 1973 Grand Funk Railroad hit “We’re an American…