who was previously announced<\/a>, as one of this year\u2019s honorees. <\/p>\n\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe at the Americana Music Association have long admired Ms. Parton\u2019s work as a singer, songwriter, entertainer and one of the greatest ambassador\u2019s music has ever known,\u201d Executive Director of the Americana Music Association Jed Hilly said in a statement. \u201cWith all of her extraordinary accomplishments\u2014from philanthropy to television, film and business\u2014our desire is to honor Dolly for what has always been at the heart of her legacy: a definitive songwriter and artist whose songs have shaped generations.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tDespite some health challenges that have forced Parton to scale back her public activities this past year, she did make an appearance<\/a> at the opening of her Dolly\u2019s Tennessean Travel Stop in Cornersville, Tennessee back in June. And the Parton empire is nowhere near slowing down: her Nashville hotel, the SongTeller, is opening in September and will house two venues (one called Jolene\u2019s) and museum, the Dolly\u2019s Life of Many Colors Museum. Her life story, A True Original Musical, is also headed to Broadway, opening January 19th at the St. James Theater in New York City \u2013 a day which is also Parton\u2019s 81st birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The country legend, who has been focusing on some health challenges this year, will accept her honor virtually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[42007,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-560917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-dolly-parton","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}