“We ain’t just singing a song. We’re singing her story.” Twenty-two years to the day their mother passed, Dolly Parton, 79, and her sister Stella held hands under the amber lights of the Ryman. Dressed in colors their mama said “matched the mountains,” they didn’t just perform “Coat of Many Colors”—they poured two decades of love into a trembling, tearful tribute that fell over the audience in silent reverence, turning a country classic into a daughter’s sacred memory.
A Sacred Silence: Dolly and Stella Parton’s Poignant Ryman Tribute to Their Mother On the evening of July 31st, just…