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Dolly Parton
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Awards
Nashville and California name 25 September Dolly Parton Day for the late singer
The date nods to 9 to 5. Venues across Nashville play the song at 5 p.m. and fireworks follow downtown at 9:25 p.m.
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Business
ABC sets a two-hour Dolly Parton tribute concert special for 21 October
The live show comes from Belmont University's Fisher Center in Nashville, with a share of proceeds going to the Imagination Library.
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Business
Dolly Parton accepts an Americana lifetime award in a video taped before her death
Emmylou Harris introduced the clip at the Ryman, and Brandi Carlile and I'm With Her led a performance of Coat of Many Colors.
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Tours
Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol books 25 cities of holiday tour dates
The musical recasts Scrooge as a mining company owner in 1930s Tennessee, and opens in West Virginia on 14 November.
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Awards
Dolly Parton wins the Americana Music Association's lifetime achievement award
It is the trade group's top honor for the year, and Dolly Parton is 2026's recipient.
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Business
Nashville airport set to be renamed for country singer Dolly Parton
A Change.org campaign sat at about 50,000 names before her death and has since climbed past 160,000.
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Business
Dollywood plans new attractions honouring the singer Dolly Parton
A Dream Maker character, memory kiosks and a walking tour are in development.
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Lineup change
Bad Wolves guitarist AJ Rebollo quits over the band's Dolly Parton cover
He later walked the criticism back after it emerged Parton had blessed the Jolene recording before she died.
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Tours
Kacey Musgraves brings out Troye Sivan for a Madison Square Garden tour stop
The pair played their 2020 collaboration Easy live for the first time.
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Business
Nashville park dedicates a historic bench in memory of the singer Dolly Parton
Centennial Park marked the spot where a 1975 photo session caught her in the Sunken Garden, and tied the plaque to her literacy work.
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Festivals
Dolly Parton's estate sets the DOLLYFEST music festival for Nashville and London
The two weekend event in 2027 revives a plan she had made for her 80th birthday before her health forced her to step back.
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Charts
Five Dolly Parton songs enter the Billboard Global 200 after her death
Luminate logged 79.7 million on-demand audio streams worldwide on August 26, and Ultimate Dolly Parton re-entered the album chart at No. 5.
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Tours
Harry Styles opens a 30-night Madison Square Garden concert residency
The run to October 31 closes the US leg of Together, Together, with fans telling NPR resale seats hit about $1,200.
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Festivals
Dolly Parton's DollyFest set as a two-weekend festival in Nashville and London
Dolly Parton's estate says the festival replaces a traditional public memorial for the singer, who died on Aug. 25.
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Tours
Grand Ole Opry dedicates a Saturday night concert to Dolly Parton
Carly Pearce, Kathy Mattea and a surprise Jelly Roll walk-on closed the Aug. 29 bill with 9 to 5.
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Tours
The Killers singer Brandon Flowers covers Islands In The Stream for Dolly Parton
A hometown warmup show in Salt Lake City, a week after his first solo album in 11 years, with two backing vocalists brought centre stage.
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Obituary
Dolly Parton has died at 80
The country music icon, songwriter and philanthropist has died at 80.
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Releases
Leftover Salmon and Lindsay Lou play 9 To 5 for Dolly Parton at a Michigan festival
Vince Herman introduced it from the main stage at Billy Strings' Ionia Freak Fair, calling her a giving, loving soul.
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Tours
Kacey Musgraves dedicates the song Rainbow to Dolly Parton at TD Garden in Boston
She introduced the Golden Hour song with one of Parton's own lines about putting up with a little rain.
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Tours
Tedeschi Trucks Band debut a Wildflowers cover for Dolly Parton at Wolf Trap
Susan Tedeschi, Alecia Chakour and Gabe Dixon sang it as a trio on both nights of a two-show stand in Virginia.
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Releases
Margo Price sings 9 To 5 for Dolly Parton three times at the Minnesota State Fair
A bandshell set, a surprise karaoke turn and a backstage video, plus a guest spot on Delta Dawn with Tanya Tucker.
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Tours
Brandi Carlile closes her first Bridgestone Arena headline show with Dolly Parton songs
Gregory Alan Isakov and Sarah Jarosz joined the encore for Coat Of Many Colors, and images of Parton played behind I Will Always Love You.
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Releases
Bad Wolves release the Jolene cover that cost the band its guitarist
Dolly Parton had agreed to sing on the track and was preparing to record when she died, and proceeds go to her Imagination Library.
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Awards
Nashville airport will be renamed for the country singer Dolly Parton
A petition passed 168,000 signatures and Governor Bill Lee announced the plan five days after her death.
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Business
Rapper Juicy J on the letter Dolly Parton sent after Three 6 Mafia beat her to an Oscar
She lost Best Original Song to the Memphis group in 2006, cheered from the crowd, and wrote to them a week later.
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Business
Tennessee moves to name Nashville's airport for the country singer Dolly Parton
Governor Bill Lee and the airport authority take the renaming proposal to a board meeting on September 17.
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Tours
Zac Brown Band play their Dolly Parton duet at Forest Hills Stadium
Butterfly, cut with the singer for the 2025 album Love & Fear, got its tour debut two days after her death, opened solo on piano.
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Legal
No charges for the man who defaced a Dolly Parton mural
The vandal, who splattered black paint on the East Nashville piece Monday, says it wasn't about hate.
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Business
Country singer Dolly Parton offered herself for cancer drug trials
Stella Parton says the singer would have taken experimental treatment to help future patients, as AMC schedules tribute screenings.
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Tours
John Mayer plays a solo Dolly Parton tribute at a SiriusXM Hamptons concert
He performed I Will Always Love You before Gravity at the Stephen Talkhouse; the set airs Saturday on Radio Andy.
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Business
Dolly Parton's team says unreleased records will carry her personal stamp
Danny Nozell said she picked the people handling her legacy, and asked fans to trust only official channels.
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Awards
National R&B Hall of Fame will induct singer Dolly Parton in its 2027 class
LaMont Robinson's Detroit foundation named her two days after she died in Nashville at 80.
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Tours
Geese honour Dolly Parton and air Disco across two sold-out Glasgow gigs
Cameron Winter played Here You Come Again from his phone hours after her death was announced, before the band's Reading and Leeds sets.
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Business
Dolly Parton left a queue of records, shows and products for after her death
The list runs from a Broadway musical previewing in December to a coffee brand, a museum, a hotel and a song locked at Dollywood until 2045.
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Business
SiriusXM gives Dolly Parton a full-time channel of her own music
Channel 105 carries her catalogue and her collaborators, with extra programming across The Highway, Outlaw Country and Bluegrass Junction.
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Tours
Orville Peck opened his London concert with I Will Always Love You for Dolly Parton
He sang it alone on acoustic guitar at Rough Trade East, and Chris Stapleton reached for the same song at Jones Beach the next night.
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Tours
Jack White brings Jolene back into his concert set to honour Dolly Parton
The White Stripes singer had not played the song live since 2007, and Parton once praised the band's raucous take on it.
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Business
Dolly Parton built her book charity to outlast the singer herself
The count reaches 336,004,951 books in September, and the Dollywood Foundation's president says the mission has not changed.
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Business
Dolly Parton misses a Dollywood appearance over health problems
Her doctor told her not to travel this week, so she joined the theme park's new coaster opening virtually from Nashville instead.