--- title: Dolly Parton Starred in Her Own Exuberant Grammys Tribute description: At Sunday night's Grammys, Dolly Parton was joined by stars including Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Kacey Musgraves for a tribute performance. canonical: https://time.com/5525784/grammys-2019-dolly-parton/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-11T02:59:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-24T06:56:36.001Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Dolly Parton Starred in Her Own Exuberant Grammys Tribute og:description: She was joined by Katy Perry, Kacey Musgraves, Miley Cyrus and others og:url: https://time.com/5525784/grammys-2019-dolly-parton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt89878c06dca6ffbf/698944eab21a9c96f7500124/dolly-parton-miley-cyrus-grammy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus perform onstage during the 61st Annual Grammy Awards og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dolly Parton Starred in Her Own Exuberant Grammys Tribute twitter:description: She was joined by Katy Perry, Kacey Musgraves, Miley Cyrus and others twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt89878c06dca6ffbf/698944eab21a9c96f7500124/dolly-parton-miley-cyrus-grammy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Dolly Parton Starred in Her Own Celebrity-Filled Grammys Tribute Performance ## Video: This Video Is No Longer Available [Watch (HLS stream): This Video Is No Longer Available](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8) (0:10)  _Published 2026-06-23. Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Kacey Musgraves stepped up_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 11, 2019 2:59 AM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 11, 2019 2:59 AM UTC At Sunday night’s 61st Annual [Grammy Awards](http://time.com/5519020/2019-grammys-predictions/) in Los Angeles, [Dolly Parton](http://time.com/5301241/dolly-parton-netflix-anthology-show/) was honored as the Recording Academy’s MusiCares Person of the Year. The country icon has been a Grammy winner going back decades, with [eight prizes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fawards%5Fand%5Fnominations%5Freceived%5Fby%5FDolly%5FParton#Grammy%5FAwards) and dozens of nominations to her name; she even received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. This year, for her big tribute performance, Parton herself came to the stage as the star attraction. A number of other artists joined her, starting with [Katy Perry](http://time.com/5270322/taylor-swift-katy-perry-olive-branch/) and Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves (who had, moments before, finished a solo performance) for a rendition of “Here You Come Again.” That duo was followed by Miley Cyrus, who shared a powerful duet of the classic song “Jolene” with Parton before country star Maren Morris made it a trio to sing Neil Young’s “After The Gold Rush.” Finally, country quartet [Little Big Town](http://time.com/4553923/taylor-swift-little-big-town-better-man/) and Parton performed a version of “Red Shoes,” a song from the soundtrack of the Netflix movie _Dumplin_‘ — and then the entire collection of artists brought the crowd to their feet with a rousing rendition of Parton’s “9 to 5.” Cameras even caught K-pop [supergroup BTS](http://time.com/5421722/) jiving in the crowd to the exuberant group performance. The onstage medley at the Grammys followed a Friday evening event [dedicated fully](https://www.stereogum.com/2031478/watch-katy-perry-kacey-musgraves-shawn-mendes-miley-cyrus-more-cover-dolly-parton-at-musicares-tribute/video/) to Parton, with even more music and speeches. Parton and her beloved costumes have also recently become the subject of an exhibit at the Grammy Museum, called [“Diamond in a Rhinestone World.”](https://www.grammymuseum.org/exhibits/current-exhibits/diamond-in-a-rhinestone-world-the-costumes-of-dolly-parton) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5525784/grammys-2019-dolly-parton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5525784/grammys-2019-dolly-parton/"},"headline":"Dolly Parton Starred in Her Own Celebrity-Filled Grammys Tribute Performance","datePublished":"2019-02-11T02:59:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:36.001Z","description":"Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Kacey Musgraves stepped up","url":"https://time.com/5525784/grammys-2019-dolly-parton/","keywords":["awards","Newsfeed"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt89878c06dca6ffbf/698944eab21a9c96f7500124/dolly-parton-miley-cyrus-grammy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt89878c06dca6ffbf/698944eab21a9c96f7500124/dolly-parton-miley-cyrus-grammy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus perform onstage during the 61st Annual Grammy Awards","caption":"Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus perform onstage during the 61st Annual Grammy Awards","creditText":"Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/awards/","name":"awards"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5525784/grammys-2019-dolly-parton/","name":"Dolly Parton Starred in Her Own Celebrity-Filled Grammys Tribute Performance"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Kacey Musgraves stepped up","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5525784/grammys-2019-dolly-parton/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5525784/grammys-2019-dolly-parton/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```