Dolly Parton

 

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated country singer, songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist. She could be considered the most successful country act in history.  She toured extensively from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. Since the early 1990s, her concert appearances were primarily limited to one weekend a year at her Dollywood theme park benefiting her Dollywood Foundation. After a decade long absence from touring, she decided to hit the road in 2002 with an 18-city, intimate club tour to promote the "Halos & Horns" CD. The House of Blues Entertainment, Inc. produced show sold out all of its U.S. and European dates (her first in two decades). In 2004, she returned to mid-sized stadium venues in 36 cities in the US and Canada with her "Hello I'm Dolly" tour, a glitzier, more elaborate stage show than two years earlier. With nearly 140,000 tickets sold, the "Hello I'm Dolly" tour was the tenth-biggest country tour of the year and grossed more than $6 million. In late 2005 she completed a 40-city tour with "The Vintage Tour" promoting her new album, Those Were The Days. In the late months of 2006 she scheduled mini concerts throughout the U.S. and Canada, as a gear up to her European tour in early March 2007. This is her first world tour in many years and will be hitting 17 cities in 21 dates and will run from March 6 through April 3, before Parton returns state side in time for summer of 2007.  See Dolly Parton LIVE!  Purchase your Dolly Parton tickets today!