The performance will mark the country singer’s first onstage appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards in five years <\/p>\n
\n\tKacey Musgraves<\/a> will honor and celebrate Dolly Parton<\/a> with a special tribute performance set for the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards<\/a>. Set for Sept. 27, the performance will mark the country singer\u2019s first onstage appearance at the VMAs in five years.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe world feels a lot less sparkly all of a sudden,\u201d Kacey Musgraves wrote<\/a> on X following Parton\u2019s death<\/a> in August. \u201cDolly. This really really hurts.\u201d Musgraves found comfort in imagining Parton reuniting with her husband, Carl Dean, who died in March 2025. \u201cSo glad she\u2019s with her Carl Dean,\u201d Musgraves said. \u201cNo one talk to me today.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCurrently in the middle of her Middle of Nowhere tour, Musgraves paid tribute to Parton during the Boston and New York stops with performances of \u201cHere You Come Again\u201d<\/a> and \u201c9 to 5.\u201d <\/a>\u201cI\u2019m not over it, and I\u2019m never gonna be over it,\u201d Musgraves told the crowd at Madison Square Garden. \u201cThe world definitely lost a light, and it\u2019s hard for me to talk about. And I know how much Dolly meant to everybody also in this room. I think why it feels so dark is it\u2019s already hard to navigate these times right now, and then we lose a matriarch like that. It\u2019s the closest thing we\u2019ve ever had to royalty.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n