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Johnny Cash Show @ Ballina RSL Bowling Club

JOHNNY CASH THE LEGEND
A Music Theatre Production
With Dr Baz, Ilona Harker & the Tennessee Two

Superstar Johnny Cash was a music industry legend for over half a century, with an instantly recognisable voice and style. The hit movie ‘I Walk the Line’ introduced his dramatic life story and his unmistakeable, tough music to a younger generation of music lovers. Johnny Cash fans now cover three generations. Even people who might confess to hating Country Music are nevertheless enthusiastic about his legendary up-tempo hits such as Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, Get Rhythm, I Walk the Line – there are just so many great and unique songs in the Johnny Cash repertoire.

Those familiar with the highly successful bio-pic will know of the enduring love story between Johnny Cash and June Carter. A member of the iconic country music group The Carter Family, June grew up in showbiz and became an accomplished comedienne. singer, and song writer – a true music professional. Together they were a towering force in American Music.

Vocalist and writer Barry Ferrier has brought together a team of talented musicians to create an immersive show based on the interaction between these two gifted and unique music artists. Barry has the vocal depth to emulate the unique Johnny Cash sound and the vivacious Ilona Harker ‘hoots and hollers’ her way through this toe-tapping, side slapping mix of great songs and stories. Johnny covered songs by many of the greatest 20th Century songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Kris Kristopherson, and Willie Nelson and in later life he brought his unique authority to a later generation of song writers such U2 and Tom Petty, so the repertoire is extremely broad and interesting, including some of the greatest popular songs written over the past 60 years.

‘I Hear That Train a-Comin’:

The Johnny Cash Story’, featuring Barry Ferrier & Ilona Harker with authentic rockabilly backing by the Tennessee Two, is great entertainment that appeals across the generations and is just plain fun!

THE SHOW
a journey through the life & songs of Johnny Cash

The contrasting voices of Barry ‘Dr. Baz’ Ferrier and vivacious songstress Ilona Harker combine to present a musical tribute to the legendary country superstar Johnny Cash, his epic life story and love affair with partner June Carter, threaded through with a tongue in cheek look at Johnny Cash’s wild side and their stormy off stage and on stage relationship.

The show captures Johnny looking back on his rise from humble conditions as a child on a poor cotton farm soaking up gospel and country music, to tough times on work gangs, enlistment during the Korean war as a US airman, which got him to the honky tonks of Germany where he began to hone his characteristic style and began writing his unique songs, and on to his rise as a music sensation and a recording artist for the legendary Sun records alongside Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis.

The show strings together all Johnny Cash’s great hits and signature tunes as the story unfolds, and woven through this rich musical journey is a fascinating glimpse into the darker side of his life, his outlaw image and the Prison Concerts, and the epic love story with lifetime soul mate June Carter, a child star and golden haired girl of the famous country music icons
‘the Carter Family’. Looking back on his tough origins, his rise to fame, and his drug addiction, they laugh, they joke, they fight and they harmonize, as they bring so many great
songs to life, accompanied by the rockabilly rhythm of the Tennessee Two (with lush backing vocals from Slim Pickens on Bass and Neil McCann on twangy Fender guitar). It’s a polished and entertaining upbeat musical.