Dolly Parton Announces Six-Show ‘Dolly: Live in Las Vegas’ Residency

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Dolly Parton is going to Las Vegas. On Monday (June 23) the country icon announced a limited engagement concert residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, set for six nights in December.

Parton will perform on Dec. 4, 6, 7, 10, 12 and 13. She’ll be “weaving together seven decades of classic hits and fan favorites including ‘9 to 5,’ ‘Jolene,’ ‘I Will Always Love You’ and ‘Coat of Many Colors,'” says a press release from her representatives.

“To say I’m excited would be an understatement,” Parton herself said in a statement released Monday morning. “I haven’t worked Vegas in years and I’ve always loved singing there. I’m looking so forward to the shows in The Colosseum at Caesars and I hope you are as well. See you there!”

Tickets for Dolly: Live in Las Vegas are scheduled to go on sale via Ticketmaster on Wednesday, June 25, at 10 a.m. PT.

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‘Dolly Parton: Live in Las Vegas’ is set for The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in December 2025.Courtesy of Dolly Parton

Ticket options will include a range of VIP packages, with extras like a personal photo opportunity with Parton, an onstage tour, access to the singer’s Rhinestone Lounge, a deluxe gift set and more.

All shows will begin at 8 p.m.

The concert dates, marking Parton’s first extended run in Las Vegas since a short engagement in the early ’90s — at the then-new, but now-closed, Mirage Hotel, where she performed alongside Kenny Rogers — fall during the week of the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas.

Parton’s most recent full-length album, Rockstar, was released in 2023, earning the No. 1 spot on the Top Country Albums chart and reaching No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200.

In March 2025, she released a heartfelt song in tribute to her late husband, Carl Dean (“If You Hadn’t Been There“).

Since 2024, Parton has featured on a number of projects for fellow artists, from Beyoncé (“Tyrant” and the interlude “Dolly P“) and Post Malone (“Have a Heart“) to Sabrina Carpenter (a remix of “Please Please Please“) and Mötley Crüe (a reimagined “Home Sweet Home“).

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Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis marks turning 50 with playful dog wedding

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Rilo Kiley‘s Jenny Lewis marked her 50th birthday in unusual fashion – by marrying her dog.

On Thursday (January 8), Lewis celebrated her birthday by marrying her cockapoo, Bobby Rhubarb, the dog recognisable to fans of her 2021 single ‘Puppy And A Truck’, in which she sings about the” unconditional love” she feels for him.

According to Stereogum, Morgan Nagler and Farmer Dave Scher performed at the nuptials, while Lewis sang the Postal Service’s ‘Such Great Heights’ alongside Ben Gibbard and Phantom Planet’s ‘California’ with Alex Greenwald for guests at the wedding party.

Later taking to social media to share pictures of her vintage white dress and birthday cake, Lewis shared news with fans by declaring: “i married my dog for my 50th birthday…
BLESS!”.

She went on to repost well wishes from fans, one of whom wished the couple “Muzzle Tov”.

 

 

Last year, Lewis and co. took the ‘Sometimes When You’re On, You’re Really Fucking On Tour’ across the US, marking their first extended run of shows since 2008, although they did play a one-off gig for a livestream benefit in 2021.

The final date in the run came on October 18 at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre, and saw Waxahatchee – aka Katie Crutchfield – serve as the opening act, having been a self-confessed superfan of the group.

Together, they sang ‘With Arms Outstretched’, a fan favourite track from Rilo Kiley’s second album ‘The Execution Of All Things’, released in 2002

News of the comeback followed Jenny Lewis telling NME in 2019 that she was open to getting the band back together. Then, in 2023 the singer spoke to us again about the prospect of a Rilo Kiley reunion, dismissing immediate hopes by saying: “I’ve got a lot on my plate […] We’re not talking about it, but it’s not off the table.”

Although live shows have been few and far between since 2011, Rilo Kiley did reissue their 1999 self-titled debut album in 2020 and made it available on streaming services for the first time.

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