Overview
- The Americana Music Association announced Thursday that it will present Parton with its Lifetime Achievement Award and that she will accept by prerecorded video at the Sept. 16 Americana Honors & Awards ceremony at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.
- The association cited her six-decade career, songwriting and cultural impact as the basis for the honor in a statement from executive director Jed Hilly praising her artistry and charitable work.
- Parton’s long list of credentials includes 10 Grammys, inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, two No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits and songs in the Grammy Hall of Fame.
- Although she has scaled back public appearances this year for health reasons, she made a June appearance at the opening of a travel stop and is continuing major projects, including the SongTeller hotel and Dolly’s museum opening in September and a life‑story musical set to open on Broadway in January.
- The award places Parton among past Americana lifetime honorees such as Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson and Bonnie Raitt and is likely to renew attention on her businesses and philanthropy, which include Dollywood, the Imagination Library and recent donations to the children’s hospital bearing her name.