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Dolly’s Homecoming Parade in Pigeon Forge, the annual salute to hometown superstar Dolly Parton, regularly attracts tens of thousands of spectators, but this year’s potential audience could be exponentially larger because it will be one of the first live stream feeds presented on Facebook.
Facebook launched live video streaming earlier this month, and this event will feature one of the world’s most recognized personalities.
Dolly will lead the parade atop a float themed for her new theater in Pigeon Forge, Dolly Parton’s Lumberjack Adventure Dinner & Show, and the live stream will chronicle the entire event.
The parade steps off at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 6, 2016 on a route that covers three miles of the famous Parkway through the heart of Pigeon Forge. The live stream will be from Dolly’s float and will show Dolly, the crowds along the Parkway, and views of the city and the surrounding Great Smoky Mountains.
This will be the 31st presentation of Dolly’s Homecoming Parade in Pigeon Forge and the first time it will be streamed live on the Internet.
The stream will be on the Facebook page of Dolly Parton’s Lumberjack Adventure Dinner & Show. Streaming information is at LumberjackAdventure.com and DollyParton.com.
Every year, the parade adds a Norman Rockwell atmosphere to Pigeon Forge, a gateway city to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It features high school marching bands, equestrian units, veterans’ groups, twirlers, antique tractors and much more. There are 125 groups in the 2016 parade.
This year’s high school bands are from Sevier County High School (Dolly was a member in her high school days), Pigeon Forge High School, Fyffe High School from Fyffe, Ala., and Cheatham County Central High School from Ashland City, Tenn.
