The undisputed Queen of Country, Dolly Parton, comes to Molson Amphitheatre on Friday 9th September 2016 in support of her two-disc LP, Pure & Simple, which is due this summer! The veteran singer, songwriter, actress and bombshell will be performing tracks from the new album, as well as a panoply of hits from her illustrious career, such as "9 to 5" and "I Will Always Love You!"

"We don't have a lot of electric instruments," Dolly said, of the tour. "We don't have a lot of video; we don't have any, really. In the bigger places where we play we'll have to have some video cameras, where you'll see me – because I'm so little. But actually, I'm doing a lot of songs really scaled-down. . . but, of course, I do a lot of talkin'. What else would I do, right?"

Dolly Parton is an American singer-songwriter, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, and is best known as the most honoured woman in country music of all time. Parton has achieved 25 RIAA certified gold, platinum, and multi-platinum awards, and she has had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard Country charts, a record for a female artist. Another record she has achieved is 41 career top 10 country albums, and she has 110 career charted singles over the past 40 years. Earning eight Grammy Awards, two Academy Award nominations, ten Country Music Association Awards, seven Academy of Country Music Awards, three American Music Awards, Parton is one of only seven female artists to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award. She has received 46 Grammy nominations, tying her with Bruce Springsteen for the most Grammy nominations and placing her in tenth place overall. Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999, she has composed over 3,000 songs, including her most famous hit, "I Will Always Love You" (a two-time U.S. country chart-topper for Parton, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston). She is also one of the few to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, and Emmy Awards.