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Dolly Parton Fifty years at Grand Old Opry
Dolly Parton was on the Grand Old Opry, Friday and Saturday night to celebrate her 50th anniversary as an Opry member. "I’m just grateful for all of it. Who knows when you’re starting how you’re going to turn out? Now, here I am at 73 years old looking back on my life and thinking, ‘I’m still here, and they’re still allowing me to feel like I’m important in the business.’It’s a beautiful wonderful thing." Over the weekend a slew of musicians, including Margo Price, Dierks Bentley, Emmylou Harris, Toby Keith, and Hank Williams, Jr., honored Parton from the Opry’s wooden circle. The Friday and Saturday night shows were filmed for an NBC television special to be called, "Dolly Parton: 50 Years at the Grand Ole Opry," that will air at 8 pm November 26. "It’s been a great honor to be a part of the Grand Ole Opry all these years," Parton said. "It was always my dream. To have a whole celebration and to have it televised, it’s really a wonderful thing to round out my life like that." Parton wowed the crowd with songs that span her decades-long career. "I’ve been writing songs since I was a little ole bitty thing. I used to love to write songs because back in the early days we didn’t have a lot of television, and we didn’t get to go to the movies. I’d write stories and paint pictures, and I’d sing them to my family. We felt like we were going to the movies. Some of them are true. Some of them are false, and some of them are based on a thread of truth like this one."
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