Country music icon Dolly Parton has announced summer 2016 tour dates, including Grand Rapids!

 

Dolly will be here Saturday, August 6, 2016 at 7:30 PM at Van Andel Arena with ticket prices ranging from $55, $75, and $125. Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 20 at 10:00 AM. Tickets will be available at the Van Andel Arena and DeVos Place® box offices, all Ticketmaster outlets, online at Ticketmaster.com, and by phone at 1-800-745-3000. A purchase limit of eight (8) tickets will apply to each order and prices are subject to change. VIP packages are available on Ticketmaster.com.

Dolly, who has sold a staggering 100 million records worldwide, has 25 RIAA certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards, along with 25 songs that reach No. 1 on the Billboard Country charts, a record for a female artist.

Dolly has garnered 7 Grammy Awards, 10 Country Music Association Awards, 5 Academy of Country Music Awards, 3 American Music Awards and is one of only five female artists to win the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year Award. Making her film debut in the 1980 hit comedy “9 to 5,” Dolly earned rave reviews for her performance and an Oscar nomination for writing the title tune, along with her second and third Grammy Awards. Roles in “Steel Magnolias,” “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” “Rhinestone,” and “Straight Talk” followed.

In addition to all her music and awards, Dolly has her own theme park, Dollywood, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. She also founded the Dollywood Foundation which funds Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library across America and in Canada by giving every preschool child a book each month from the time he or she is born until the child reaches kindergarten. Currently 60,000,000 books are mailed to children in the US, Canada and throughout the UK.

Dolly is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2004, the U.S. Library of Congress presented her with their Living Legend Award for her contribution to the cultural heritage of the United States.

And, she'll be singing to us in Grand Rapids in August. I can't wait!

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