A bedazzled crowd gets a good dose of Dolly at the Marquee

The sun shone like one of the many rhinestones at the Marquee in Cork as the rather mixed crowd strolled down the Monaghan Road.

At 68, Dolly is the darling of all age groups, it seems. Five ladies of a very fine vintage pottered in new-looking blue jeans and Stetsons in front of us, while a group of cowgals in their 20s linked arms and let out a few yee-haws. It’s a Dolly-mixture audience, no doubt about it.

I last reviewed the five-foot fountain of frothy fabulousness in June 2008. Then, it lashed rain through a leaky roof. Ever-the pro, our Dolly half-joking said: “Hell, I always wanted to die on stage in front a crowd,” as she fluffed her hair and side-stepped a puddle.