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September 24, 2016 by Bill MonahanRelive the unique greatness of Johnny Cash at Meaford Hall with “We Walk The Line”, a tribute starring Ward Cornforth as the Man In Black. The show takes you back to the early days with the Tennessee Three, represented by Joey Ace as Luther Perkins, Jim Perry as W.S. Holland, and Andre Gignac as Marshall Grant. The irrepressible June Carter is portrayed by Shanya Lynn Dawson. They may be gone but the music of Johnny and June lives on.
Meaford Hall Arts and Cultural Centre
We Walk the Line | A Johnny Cash Experience
Saturday September 24, 2016 7:30pm
Saturday September 24 @ 7:30pm
We Walk The Line is a true Johnny Cash Experience that celebrates the music and lives of 'The Man In Black' and his fun loving wife, June Carter. The performance features Ward Cornforth as a 1960's era Johnny Cash with the signature 'Boom-Chicka-Boom' sound of his long time touring band the Tennessee Three. The show also includes a dynamic performance by Shanya Lynn Dawson as "June Carter".
The concert covers the entire career of Johnny Cash from the 1950's at Sun Records to 2003 with the American Recordings label and includes Johnny's biggest hits 'Ring of Fire', 'Boy Named Sue', 'I Walk The Line', 'Folsom Prison Blues', 'Hurt' and the famous duet with June Carter 'Jackson' amongst other classic songs.
The Rockabilly Pioneer, Country Legend and American Poet left his mark upon many millions of fans. Don't miss this Johnny Cash show when it comes to Meaford!
Presented by WWTL Productions
Tickets
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$29.00 |
September 2015
We are bringing a little bit of Old Time Country Rock to the Marsh with 'We Walk The Line - A Tribute to Johnny Cash' Featuring Ward Cornforth as Johnny Cash and Ginger St. James as June Carter-Cash. The show is a musical tribute covering Cash's entire musical career from the 1950's at Sun Records to 2003 with the American Recordings label. The concert performance featuresWard Cornforth as a 1960's era Johnny Cash with the signature "Boom-Chicka-Boom" sound of his long time touring band the Tennessee Three. The show includes a performance of the many classic duets by Johnny Cash and June Carter.
"This a definite MUST for all Johnny Cash fans!!! Don't miss this amazing tribute to Johnny Cash through his long and illustrious career!!! We Walk The Line is the very best Johnny Cash Tribute in all of Ontario. " - The Linsmore Tavern
We Walk the Line comes to Kingston just in time for Mother's Day
musician Johnny Cash and during that decade countless performers have set out to imitate his sound and pay tribute to the "man in black". One of these performers is Ward Cornforth, and he is bringing his band and tribute show, 'We Walk the Line', to the Grand Theatre just in time for Mother's Day.
Cornforth started singing Johnny Cash songs out of a love for music and because his voice was too low for many other songs. After studying Cash's songs for a number of years, he decided to start a band and from there 'We Walk the Line' was born.
"I put a band together about three years ago and the show has been progressing steadily," said Cornforth. "We added June Carter to the show and we've been playing a lot of festivals and performing in a few theatres and it has been kind of a gradual process to this point. We've performed about 40 to 50 shows and we did about 18 last year. It is part time but we are hoping to perform at more theatres as we progress and maybe do a bit more."
The show includes selections from throughout Cash's long career and Cornforth tries to focus on a bit of everything including the later comeback stuff. Cash's catalogue is very diverse and that is part of what Cornforth loves.
"There is a lot of variety in the material and that is what keeps it interesting for me and the whole band," explained Cornforth. "When I started out I went to see a pretty famous Johnny Cash performer named Shawn Barker and he does a lot of theatre shows and has been really successful with it. He performs shows four or five nights a week and continually sells out and we kind of tailored our show after his a bit. We try to keep it
upbeat like his and focus on the duets between Johnny and June."
The band has seen great success with this formula and Cornforth is always amazed to see the reach that Cash has, even today.
"His comeback years really made him appeal to a younger audience, too. We play some shows and there are teenagers in the audience who want to hear Hurt. It is fascinating to see a crowd of people in their 80s and then teenagers mixed in."
While Cornforth and his band have yet to play a show in Kingston, he is really looking forward to it and the vibe of the Grand Theatre. He encourages people to come check it out just to see the variety of songs that Cash created and to enjoy the classics too. He hopes to add the newly released Cash material to the show in the future.
"It's funny because one of the new songs on the record that was just released is called 'Call Your Mother' and that would have been very appropriate for this show and to remind people to do that."
We Walk the Line will be at the Regina Rosen Auditorium, Grand Theatre on Sunday May 11 at 7:30 p.m. for tickets phone 613.530.2050 or go to the Grand Theatre website at http://kingstongrand.ca/event/we-walk-line-tribute-johnny-cash
Reporter, Kingston Heritage/Frontenac Gazette
‘Johnny Cash Experience’ in Uxbridge Nov. 1
UXBRIDGE -- Ajax's Jace Prohaska as June Carter Cash and Ward Cornforth as Johnny Cash perform in We Walk the Line. The Johnny Cash tribute show comes to the Uxbridge Music Hall on Nov. 1.
Uxbridge Times Journal
DURHAM -- Johnny Cash fans can take a walk, er, drive up to Uxbridge on Nov. 1.
We Walk the Line is described as “a true Johnny Cash Experience” at the Uxbridge Music Hall.
“The show covers the entire length of Cash’s musical career from the 1950s at Sun Records through to his American Recordings label (2003),” states the website. “The Rockabilly pioneer, country legend and American poet left his mark upon many millions of fans. The concert performance features Ward Cornforth as a 1960s era Johnny Cash with the signature ‘Boom-Chicka-Boom’ sound of his longtime touring band, the Tennessee Three. The show includes a dynamic performance by Jace Prohaska as June Carter singing lead and many classic duets with Johnny. The musicians in the show are seasoned musicians who replicate the stylings and sounds of Cash’s original recordings. The show features a variety of Johnny Cash’s styles including rockabilly, country and gospel.”
Prohaska is an Ajax resident and lead guitarist Sean Harrington lives in Pickering.
For tickets, visit www.cashtributeshow.com.
The Uxbridge Music Hall is at 16 Main St. S.
Show time is 7:30 p.m.
We Walk the Line
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UXBRIDGE -- Ajax's Jace Prohaska as June Carter Cash and Ward Cornforth as Johnny Cash perform in We Walk the Line. The Johnny Cash tribute show comes to the Uxbridge Music Hall on Nov. 1.
Toronto Moon Magazine
www.torontomoon.ca
December 21, 2013
We Walk The Line a sure-fire hot winter solstice night at Linsmore
Based on what I saw at Linsmore Tavern on Danforth Ave. a few steps from the Greenwood subway station a few months ago, I’d wager heavily that the Saturday, December 21 show there by We Walk The Line is going to be one metaphorical ‘Ring of Fire’ of a night.
The band, fronted by lead singer Ward is band on true to the Johnny Cash experience, in ways that are far more endearing than just doing spot-on reincarnation versions of his biggest hits.For more than simply pulling off tunes like ‘Ring’ and “A Boy Named Sue”, “I Walk The Line” and “Folsom Prison Blues” with virtuoso veracity, the group also includes a wide range of collaborations that Cash did with other artists, not to mention renditions of cover songs that he did later in life of other artists’ material.
Another thing I liked about We Walk The Line, aside from their musical excellence and interesting repertoire, which will make it a hit with any mainstream audience, is that, for the real Johnny Cash too, it’s a kind of refresher course in what made him so unique –it was a lot more than just having a manly voice and “posing good”. And the intros that Ward shares, sometimes with quick witty anecdotes, help anyone to understand and appreciate Cash all the more.
By Gary 17
Staff at east Toronto’s Linsmore Tavern are bracing for a stampede tonight as one of Country music’s most revered icons will seemingly rise from the dead to appear live in the old-fashioned style room with a wooden dance floor that’s seen plenty of hoe-downs over the 79 years of its existence.
We Walk The Line, a primo Johnny Cash tribute band, has already sold over 80 advance tickets for tonight’s 9:30 show in the room at 1298 Danforth Ave. at Linnsmore Crescent a stone’s throw from the entrance to the Greenwood TTC subway station.
If you don’t have an advance ticket then get there early, plunk down a sawbuck at the door and get ready to hoot and holler along with a crowd that ranges in age from lively and fetching party-goers in their early twenties who live in this emergingly hip neighbourood to some regulars who seem like they could have been born in the early Twenties!
Christmas in Nashville - Ward Cornforth as Johnny Cash
Blyth Memorial Hall, Blyth, Ontario. - November 30, 2013
Buy Tickets $49.00
Age limit: All ages
“Christmas in Nashville” is a tribute to the wonderful world of country music that began in Nashville Tennessee almost 100 years ago. With radio broadcasts over WSM in Nashville, this show business phenomenon has entertained millions of fans over the years. “Welcome to Nashville” will re-create for you some of country music’s finest moments, starting way back at it’s earliest beginnings in Nashville. The show features many stunning impersonations of some of the biggest stars ever to grace that most famous stage in Nashville, the Ryman Auditorium. Join us as we take you back in time to Nashville, Tennessee and a matinee with Minnie Pearl – Patsy Cline – Hank Williams Sr. – Dolly Parton – Loretta Lynn – Johnny Cash and June Carter – Garth Brooks – Alan Jackson – Country Comedian & Host, Jethro Hicks – Comedian Bobby-Jo and lots of fiddlin’ and banjo playin’, to get your toes a tappin’... Y’ALL COME DOWN NOW, Y’HEAR?