Picture it: you’re out for a pre-holiday drink at an unassuming bar in Dallas, Texas, when suddenly, someone takes the karaoke stage to sing Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” and their voice sounds really familiar…like, really familiar…almost like Kacey Musgraves.
Well, if you were at the Round-Up Saloon in Dallas, Texas, on Christmas Eve Eve, December 23, 2024, you weren’t just imagining things. The country star paid an impromptu visit to the gay nightclub, likely ahead of visiting family and other loved ones in her home state.
Kacey Musgraves Gives Impromptu Dolly Parton Performance
“Deeper Well” singer Kacey Musgraves is from Golden, Texas, about an hour and a half away from Dallas, so there’s a good chance she was already in the area getting ready to visit family and friends over the holidays. Musgraves stopped by the Dallas LGBTQ+ nightclub, the Round-Up Saloon, on December 23, 2024, to enjoy some pre-holiday cocktails and a karaoke song or two.
Musgraves stayed true to her country roots, opting to sing Dolly Parton’s 1980 working woman anthem, “9 to 5.” The title track from the comedy film starring Parton, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda has become one of Parton’s most well-known songs, garnering her multiple awards, including an Academy Award for Best Original Song and Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
Clad in festive red pants, Musgraves performed her rendition of Parton’s “9 to 5” to a relatively empty bar (at least, empty compared to what it might have been had people known Musgraves was planning to stop by). The bar goers who were there to experience this sweet Christmas surprise dance in front of the stage as Musgraves belts out the song’s iconic chorus.
An impromptu, free performance by a Grammy Award-winning musician is certainly an incredible holiday gift from the universe—one that Abigail Cummings, the TikTok user who captured this rare moment, almost missed. “I literally have been up since 3 am, took 2 flights to get here, and was dragging myself out to be social,” Cummings wrote in her video.
For their sake and the sake of all of us living vicariously through their TikTok video, we’re glad that they decided to go to the bar after all.
