She’s only ever wanted to make music and bring people joy, she told the rapt audience at ACL Live at the Moody Theater, where Parton performed to celebrate the launch of the Dollyverse . If she sees someone without a smile, she says, "I just give them mine."
BLOCKCHAIN CREATIVE LABS AT SXSW: L-R: Dolly Parton and James Patterson at ACL Live during Blockchain Creative Labs’ Dollyverse event at SXSW. © 2022 FOX Media LLC. Cr: Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup for BCLgave us all NFTs, should we wish to scan the BCL-provided QR code and claim ours. What’s an NFT? Well, A), it’s a "non-fungible token," and B), I cannot possibly explain what that means because I don’t understand it myself.
BLOCKCHAIN CREATIVE LABS AT SXSW: Dolly Parton performs on stage at ACL Live during Blockchain Creative Labs’ Dollyverse event at SXSW. © 2022 FOX Media LLC. Cr: Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup for BCLAnd maybe even that was intentional. Inching closer to the stage from my seat in the mezzanine gave me a better view of the crowd standing below. They were dappled in rainbow light, as though we’d been transported from Austin to a church in Tennessee, bathed in stained-glass sunbeams.