{"id":36491,"date":"2026-09-02T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=36491"},"modified":"2026-09-01T11:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:09:50","slug":"dolly-partons-estate-announced-a-global-festival-called-dollyfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/dolly-partons-estate-announced-a-global-festival-called-dollyfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton&#8217;s Estate Announced A Global Festival Called DollyFest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dolly Parton&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0Estate is bringing DollyFest: The Celebration of a Lifetime to Nashville and London next year.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;ll be a\u00a0music festival\u00a0held on two consecutive weekends.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dolly originally planned DollyFest as part of her 80th birthday celebration last year.&nbsp; She was set to host and perform, but had to take a step back due to health challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her longtime manager\u00a0<strong>Danny Nozell<\/strong>\u00a0said a venue was booked and an announcement was ready to go.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhat Dolly started, we will ensure is brought to life. Many people behind the scenes know that DOLLYFEST is a dream of Dolly\u2019s that was intended to take place on her 80th birthday in Nashville. We had the venue booked and we had the announcement ready to go. And then, in August 2025, Dolly had to take a step back after her initial health challenges. A lot of people always say, WWDD (What Would Dolly Do?), and, well, at this moment, DOLLYFEST is WDWD (What Dolly Would Do!).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Estate acknowledges the anticipated events, shows, and programs this fall that will honor Parton, DOLLYFEST will be the party of a lifetime she wanted to share with the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe are not discouraging people from celebrating Dolly in the ways they choose,\u201d says Nozell. \u201cHowever, as far as a traditional memorial goes, that is not something Dolly wanted. So, instead, it feels more appropriate for us to take a beat, let all the tributes that immediately make sense occur naturally, and then, see through this festival-style concept that was truly dreamed up by Dolly. This is something that is authentic to her, something that feels right to me, and something that artists and fans around the world can participate in, while also giving everyone time to grieve, and giving everyone time to plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Details haven&#8217;t been shared yet, like dates, ticket information, even the lineup.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other Dolly\u00a0news, the Tennessee Volunteers will honor her all football season long with a special orange butterfly sticker on their helmets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For Dolly. \ud83e\udd8b<br><br>A commemorative helmet sticker will be worn to honor Dolly Parton for every game this season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A1mBw9ZqxZ\">pic.twitter.com\/A1mBw9ZqxZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Vol_Football\/status\/2094462441769865612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton&#8217;s\u00a0Estate is bringing DollyFest: The Celebration of a Lifetime to Nashville and London next year.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be a\u00a0music festival\u00a0held on two consecutive weekends.\u00a0 Dolly originally planned DollyFest as part of her 80th birthday celebration last year.&nbsp; She was set to host and perform, but had to take a step back due to health challenges.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":36492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7674,3011,102,7675,7676,4254,235,62,810],"class_list":["post-36491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-danny-nozell","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-dollyfest","tag-dollyfest-the-celebration-of-a-lifetime","tag-england","tag-london","tag-nashville","tag-tennessee"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-09 23:43:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/dolly-partons-estate-announced-a-global-festival-called-dollyfest\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36497,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions\/36497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}