CMA Presents I Will Always Love You: A Celebration of Dolly Parton

Description

This music documentary retools the concert-tribute format by pairing staged performances with short onstage conversations that trace Dolly Parton's songwriting, career milestones and philanthropic work. It gathers performers from country, bluegrass, Broadway and pop to present collaborative arrangements, duet features and interview segments that specify why particular songs were chosen and how they were reworked for different vocal ranges and ensemble formats. Release year: 2026. The cast includes Lainey Wilson, Kristen Bell, Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Reba McEntire. The film sequences show introductions to songs, artists explaining compositional details, and collaborative passages where arrangements are altered or shared between singers. It records when participants name charitable initiatives connected to Parton and when they deliberate practical choices about repertoire and presentation. The final shots leave the performers onstage facing concrete decisions—which songs each will keep in their setlists and how they will present Parton's music and associated causes going forward—without resolving those choices.