Dolly Parton Green-Lights Symphonic ‘Threads’ Production

Dolly Parton is virtually coming to a concert corridor close to you.

The Rock Hall-inducted nation legend is not backing down on her selection to give up entire-scale touring, although she has environmentally friendly-lit a new, traveling encounter that will pick out her tunes about the atmosphere.

Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony is explained to be an “innovative multimedia experience” featuring Dolly on show, and supplying audiences a “visual-musical journey of her tracks, her existence, and her stories.”

That undertaking will get underway Thursday, March 20, 2025 at Schermerhorn Symphony Heart, with the Nashville Symphony. Guest vocalists and musicians selected by Parton will execute at that exhibit, and other people. Schirmer Theatrical and Sony Audio Publishing are co-producers, and far additional towns with regional orchestras will be declared in for the reason that of course.

Be expecting to listen to the classics “Jolene,” “Coat Of Lots of Colours,” and “I Will Constantly Appreciate You,” plus Dolly’s “personal favorites” and an as-however unreleased variety from her future Broadway musical.

Parton, now 78, is not minimizing down on her workload, which incorporates recordings, reserve launch and projects for the tiny and huge screens, nonetheless in 2022 she uncovered that entire-fledged touring was a challenge of the previous. “I do not feel I will ever tour again, but I do know I’ll do specific shows below and there, now and then. It’s possible do a extensive weekend of demonstrates, or just a handful of displays at a competition. But I have no intention of going on a complete-blown tour any longer,” Parton told the Pollstar. (Billboard independently confirmed the news.)

Parton’s most present tour was her 2016 Pure & Simple Tour, which bundled 60 exhibits in the United States and Canada.

In advance of Dolly Parton’s Threads hits the highway, the state icon will launch Great Lookin’ Cookin’ on Sept. 17, a cookbook on which she’s partnered with her sister, Rachel Parton George.

On the tunes aspect of Dolly empire, her 49th and most current solo studio album Rockstar blasted in at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top rated Album Gross sales chart extremely final year, for her very first leader on the 32-yr-old tally. The star-studded assortment was promoted as Parton’s 1st rock album, and its recording was encouraged by Parton’s induction into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2022. The 30-hold track of assortment also debuted at a occupation-superior No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200, surpassing Parton’s earlier massive of No. 6 for 2014’s Blue Smoke.