Chris Willman Music WriterDolly Parton is hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards tonight for the first time since 2000.
In the interim, she has hosted the primary rival show, the Country Music Association Awards, twice as well. But clearly the demand for Dolly outstrips the supply she’s been willing to deliver, and she’s never allowed herself to become an annual figurehead on the awards circuit.
So why is she returning to the role now?It’s not a great mystery: She will always love synergy.“They ask me all the time to host these shows,” she told Variety in a brief Zoom chat leading up to the ACMs. “I decide what’s going on at the time.
And if I’m able actually to do it, physically, and if there’s things going on in my life … but this time you really try to connect those things.
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