{"id":885516,"date":"2026-10-17T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885516\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:44:10","slug":"miley-cyrus-honors-dolly-parton-at-hollywood-bowl-with-jolene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885516\/","title":{"rendered":"Miley Cyrus Honors Dolly Parton at Hollywood Bowl With Jolene"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMiley Cyrus<\/a> broke down in tears at her Hollywood Bowl<\/a> performance Friday night during a moving tribute to her godmother, the late Dolly Parton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe singer projected a photo of the country music icon as the beginning notes of her iconic song \u201cJolene\u201d played. The Grammy winner told the crowd that one of the things that inspired her to play the venue was the memory of the only time she was able to sit and enjoy a Parton show at the Hollywood Bowl. <\/p>\n

\n\tShe recalling telling her \u201cAunt Dolly\u201d that for once, she just wanted to sit in the crowd and enjoy her like everyone else. Cyrus began, \u201cIf she had it her way, and she was playing a show, I\u2019d be standing right beside her in a matching costume. And so when I was coming to the show at the Bowl to see her, I said, you know, \u2018I would love a night where I can just experience you. I can just enjoy you like the rest of the world has gotten to.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cFlowers\u201d singer said her godmother responded by saying, \u201cOkay, Miley,\u201d but Cyrus joked \u201cthat never means okay.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tInstead of having Cyrus onstage to perform alongside her, Parton instead opened the show with \u201cThe Best of Both Worlds,\u201d Cryus\u2019 hit track from Hannah Montana: \u201cAll of a sudden, Dolly enters, but I hear \u2018The Best of Both Worlds.\u2019 Yeah, Dolly opened performing Hannah Montana.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut that\u2019s just not the end of that story,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd she goes, like a proud aunt, \u2018I don\u2019t know if y\u2019all know this, but my goddaughter is Hannah Montana, and she\u2019s actually here tonight, but she\u2019s sitting out in her seat. She didn\u2019t want anyone to bug her. She said she just wanted to watch the show,\u2019 which defeated the entire purpose of the conversation that we had just had, because absolutely no one was aware that I was at the concert until she drew an obnoxious amount of attention to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut like so many things Dolly did, I didn\u2019t understand at the time,\u201d Cyrus said, adding that she could feel Parton\u2019s presence with her during her Hollywood Bowl performance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSitting here with you all right now, feeling her all around me, knowing that she\u2019s right here beside me, every day, more than she could be when she was here; I feel her more now than ever,\u201d she said. \u201cKnowing that I get to share this story with you all, it makes that night very worth it. This memory is gold to me. Me and Dolly, we are eternal. Nothing in this life could ever tear us apart, and I\u2019m gonna see her again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd I can\u2019t fucking wait because I miss her,\u201d Cyrus said in between tears. \u201cSome of the greatest music that we have today was written, produced, performed by my Aunt Dolly, and this is one of those songs,\u201d she concluded before launching into a rendition of \u201cJolene.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tParton died<\/a> Aug. 25, after a \u201cbrief battle with cancer,\u201d<\/a> a rep announced. She was 80. Many celebrities paid tribute to the queen of country music after her death, including Cyrus who penned a tribute<\/a>, writing on Instagram, \u201cThe feeling of losing my Aunt Dolly is beyond what feels right to share.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have an angel by my side. I always have. One of our last conversations was about music and metamorphosis. I will always love her and want to make her proud,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy heart breaks for the world, her family and friends who will miss her deeply. We\u2019re in this loss together and we will see her in all of the most beautiful things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring Cyrus\u2019 Friday night show, she also clutched a frame in the shape of a heart with an image of Parton during \u201cWrecking Ball,\u201d as that was one of her favorite songs. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Grammy winner played her first of two shows at the Hollywood Bowl<\/a> on Friday. Her next performance will be on Sunday. Cyrus recently dropped her 10th studio album Bass Persuades on Sept. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miley Cyrus broke down in tears at her Hollywood Bowl performance Friday night during a moving tribute to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,7399,88,40063,36575],"class_list":["post-885516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dolly-parton","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood-bowl","tag-miley-cyrus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}