Dolly Parton's Imagination Library UK Partners With Country To Country Festival

Country To Country Festival (C2C) has partnered with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library UK to celebrate Give Like Dolly Day on September 25th.

To honour the late icon’s legacy, the partnership will help support the book gifting programme, which makes books accessible to children around the UK and helps to foster a love of reading.

C2C 2027 will add £1* to its day tickets and £2* to their weekend tickets, ensuring all proceeds go directly to Imagination Library. This contribution will help support the delivery of free age-appropriate books to children aged 0-5 every month.

“We are absolutely delighted that C2C has chosen to support Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Dolly’s music means so much to the country music community, and it feels incredibly special to have C2C and its fans helping to continue another important part of her legacy,” says Clare Cook, Director of Fundraising and Communications, The Dollywood Foundation UK, home of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is an international, early childhood book gifting programme devoted to inspiring a love of reading in the hearts of children everywhere. With help from Dolly’s estate, The Dollywood Foundation UK, and Local Programme partners, the first Imagination Library book was gifted in the UK in 2008 and the programme has grown every year since then and currently reaches almost 90,000 children per month.

C2C is Europe’s biggest country music festival and will take place from 12 to 14 March 2027 at The O2 in London, the OVO Hydro in Glasgow and Manchester’s AO Arena. Across the three-day festival, the events are expected to welcome nearly 90,000 country music fans.

* Subject to taxes and performing rights society. Charity number is 1121917.