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country MUSIC PEOPLE MAY 2020 Volume 51 Number 5 Issue 603 News Walt Trott in Nashville Duncan Warwick in London GoodNight with dolly Editor Duncan Warwick Contributors David Allan, Janet Aspley, Donnie Ayers, Craig Baguley, Tony Byworth, Larry Delaney, Don Cusic, Julie Flaskett, Michael Hingston, Stan Hitchcock, Tony Ives, Spencer Leigh, John Lomax III, Adrian Peel, Paul Riley, Alex Rossi, Wayne Smart, Chris Smith, Tom Travis, Walt Trott, Dave Watkins, Jack Watkins New release consultant: Steve Tidbury Assistant editor / Special projects coordinator Kelly Gregory Photographers Patricia Presley, Barry Dixon, Billie McAleer Advertising Major Media Sales Adrian Major - [email protected] Printed by Micropress www.micropress.co.uk Distributor Seymour International Press Distributors Ltd. 2 East Poultry Avenue London EC1A 9PT Telephone [phone] Country Music People is published the last Thursday of each month by KICKIN’ CUTS LIMITED 24 Darley Close, Wittering, Peterborough PE8 6EQ, UK Telephone [phone] - 783689 [email protected] www.cmpcountry.com ©2020 Kickin’ Cuts Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the prior written permission of the Publisher. The Publisher accepts no responsibility for statement of fact or opinion expressed by contributors. The views of the contributors are not necessarily those of Country Music People or its editor. 4 cmp - MAY 2020 D olly Parton launched a ten-week series called Goodnight With Dolly, of videos in which she will read a bedtime story for kids to help aid parents in entertaining the younger members of their families during lockdown. Streaming live on Facebook every Thursday, the series will feature stories from her Imagination Library charity that gives Eric Church won’t tour again unless there’s a vaccine Speaking to the Associated Press, country star Eric Church has said that he won’t tour again until a vaccine has been found for coronavirus as he wants his fans to feel safe and to experience his live music “the way it’s meant to be experienced.” He alludes to this being Summer or Fall of 2021 with many experts predicting that mass gatherings are likely to be forbidden until then. Quite where this leaves Church’s appearance at C2C next year is another matter. The Springsteen singer was scheduled to headline the event this March and the promoters have announced it going ahead next year with the same line-up. They had previously postponed this year’s festival until late December 2020. free books to children, it began with The Little Engine That Could, one of the ten-time Grammy-winning singer’s favourites. “This is something I have been wanting to do for quite a while, but the timing never felt quite right. I think it is pretty clear that now is the time to share a story and to share some love,” said Dolly in a statement on the program’s website.