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  • Dolly Parton Performs At Glastonbury

    Dolly Parton Performs At Glastonbury

    Dolly Parton recently fulfilled one her lifetime dreams of performing at Glastonbury Festival, one of England’s most anticipated summer events.

    Parton performed several of her songs in front of 150,000 fans at the normally muddy event at Worthy Farm in southwest England.

    “This is a very exciting day for me and we’ve got all kinds of things going on,” Parton said at the pre-show press conference. “Look, I don’t have a bit of mud on me! When I was coming in this morning I was looking at all the mud and thinking, this is not that different from where I grew up in the mud. My daddy was a farmer in East Tennessee and I grew up on a farm — mud is mud wherever you go.”

    Dolly had even penned a song about mud to sing for the occasion, however the day was mostly pretty and sunny. Before the performance began, Parton told reporters that she had to cut some songs to meet the time allotted to her, so she decided to focus more on her upbeat songs rather than the slow, sappy songs.

    “I thought, well, I can’t do a bunch of sad, slow songs because everybody is drunk and high and we don’t want to bring them down that bad, so there are two or three songs that they have to hear like maybe Coat of Many Colors and a few things that are a part of my whole life and my background,” she said. “But we’ve tried to do a set where we can kind of keep it moving pretty good.”

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  • Dolly Parton Plans to Walk Down The Aisle Again

    Country music icon Dolly Parton says she’s ready to walk down the aisle again after 50 years of marriage to husband Carl Dean, and she plans to do it in two years.

    “We’ve talked about that, we might do it all over again,” she said in a story reported by the Tennessean. But this time she plans to exchange vows in her Tennessee home instead of doing it in Georgia like the first go around. We plan to do it “at our big old plantation home [in Tennessee],” Parton noted. “We love it there.”

    Although the 67-year old singer is rarely seen with her husband in public and usually tours without him, she says that’s the way they both prefer it.

    “He’s happy staying home and I’m happy traveling,” Parton explains. “Once many, many years ago, he went with me to Hawaii and he enjoyed that, but he never wanted to go anywhere else. We’re both pretty much old mountain goats,” which means she’ll most likely be traveling without him for Glastonbury 2014, as she’s been selected to play on the festival’s Pyramid Stage.

    One of the concert’s organizers said that Parton was the ideal choice for Glastonbury. “Dolly is perfect for the Sunday Legends slot,” said the insider. “It didn’t take any convincing. She’s always wanted to play Glastonbury.”

    And the ‘I will always love you” singer plans to attend the festival by way of helicopter, as she’ll be already touring in the UK. “She’ll get a helicopter straight down on Sunday or maybe even Saturday night after the show,” the organizer said.

    Besides Parton, attendees of the four day extravaganza will also see acts like the Arctic Monkeys, rapper Dizzee Rascal, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, Mumford & Sons and even Parton’s old time working partner Kenny Rogers, and it’ll be held from June 25, to June 29, 2014.

    Additionally, she’ll begin her Blue Smoke World Tour on Jan. 24, 2014 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. and end it on July 11 in Stockholm, Sweden.

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  • Rolling Stones to Retire? Not So, Says the Band

    Rolling Stones to Retire? Not So, Says the Band

    The Rolling Stones, after several decades of touring, will perform their final concert at Glastonbury sometime next year. Sources close to the band say that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood are officially ending the band after one final blow-out concert for their fans. Since the guys are getting up in age — three of them are pushing 70, while one has already crossed that line — another around-the-world tour just isn’t the cards.

    “All four members have agreed that next year is the right time to have one final hurrah and put on the gig of their lives,” a source said. “It’s as case of now or never, and obviously Glastonbury is the most important festival on the circuit. Everybody’s incredibly excited. It’s a final bow.”

    That’s what The Mirror would have you believe, anyway. This, of course, is news to the band.

    According to The Guardian, The Rolling Stones, who have been performing as a group since 1962, have absolutely no plans to retire next year. A representative for the band explained that these sort of rumors are really nothing new. What’s more, the band isn’t currently scheduled to perform at the upcoming festival at Worthy Farm in 2013.

    “Everybody in the year off thinks they’ve come up with the perfect Glastonbury lineup. But at the moment there isn’t anything to confirm or deny,” a representative explained.

    Take a breath, Rolling Stones fans. Your heroes are still hard at work.