) delivered in a range of styles by a fine collection of crooners that included Jully Black, Beau Dixon, Sarah Farb, Hailey Gillis and Andrew Penner.
It was Kelly Holiff, however, the musical-theatre artist on the bill I was least familiar with, who stole the show with her heroic and heartfelt rendition ofthat kept getting bigger and bigger like Parton’s wigs in the 1980s. I’ll be getting tickets to the just to hear it again – assuming it didn’t make all the video cameras trying to record it explode with its intensity.right before the pandemic hit, impressed again here with a paranoid cover ofthat featured backup from Gillis and Holiff. The arrangement, which like all the others is by Reza Jacobs, swirled around her like a fever dream.Mule Skinner BluesThe short but satisfying evening was interspersed with nuggets of Parton’s wit and wisdom.