Dolly Parton will be joined by Brett Eldredge and Carly Pearce for Pandora Live's special virtual celebration on Friday (Dec. 4th) at 9 p.m. ET. The event will originate from a Nashville studio where each artist performs classic holiday tunes backed by Dolly’s longtime band members. Listeners can RSVP for the free event.
Pandora Live will also feature exclusive interviews with the guest artists where they will recall their favorite memories of Dolly and talk about their favorite holiday traditions. Children around the country will serve as the evening’s interviewers, asking the legendary icon about her holiday traditions in a special “Dear Dolly” segment.
For her Pandora Live performance, Dolly will be performing tracks from her newly-released A Holly Dolly Christmas album.
In other Dolly news, she has become the new namesake of a 460 million-year-old moss which may have been among the first plants to grow on land. Forbes reports that University of Oregon geologist Greg Retallack discovered the fossil imprints of Dollyphyton boucotil in 460 million-year-old rocks from eastern Tennessee. The rocks which held the fossils once lay nearby Dolly’s Dollywood theme park in Sevier County, Tennessee.