Smokies Guide

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Dollywood to Host 2008 Dolly Parton World Tour

Dolly Parton brings her 2008 Backwoods Barbie World Tour to her Dollywood theme park on August 16 and 17, 2008, with three concerts to benefit her Imagination Library program. Parton performs at 2 PM and 7 PM on August 16 and at 2 PM on August 17. Concert ticket holders may enter Dollywood one hour prior to showtime for each concert. Tickets prices are $75, $60 and $35 each. Tickets are limited to a maximum of six per person. The Dollywood concerts benefit Parton’s Imagination Library, a program that provides a book a month to participating preschool-ages children in 890 communities in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Since the program’s inception in 1996, 13 million books have been distributed. The program currently mails books to 475,000 children each month.

Don’t Miss Gatlinburg’s July 4th Midnight Parade!

Lighted floats, giant helium balloons, lively marching bands and more make up Gatlinburg’s Fourth of July Midnight Parade, which beings promptly on July 4th at 12:01 AM – making it the first Independence Day parade in the country each year.