With just a month to go, organisers of the region's Dolly Parton Festival say they are ready to go as Narromine prepares for up to 1500 Dolly diehards to descend on the town on Saturday 12 October. 

Dandaloo Street will close to traffic from around 9:30am to 1:30pm for the Dolly lookalikes and market stalls to take over.

There will be plenty of time to change into Dolly-wear before the festival gates open at 4pm at Cale Oval, for a concert headlined by Dolly performer Brooke McMullen and hosted by country-bred drag queen Timberlina.

Organisers had cancelled the festival in May this year over rising costs and a lack of government funding.

It was only able to go ahead this year, at a rescheduled date, after it received $150,000 under the NSW Government's Open Streets Program.

"Dolly-lovers, there's heaps of them out there. The demographic's huge," Festival Committee Secretary Skye Rush said.

"Everything's organised. We're feeling very chilled out actually, which is unusual. I think having the funding has really made a big difference to our workloads, so it's been great.

"We've got our food pretty much all booked in, we've got a few market stalls coming in the evening and then we've got all our acts ready to go."

A bar from the 2023 festival. PHOTO: Narromine Dolly Parton Festival

The festival is free, although people still need to book a ticket online.

The winners will be crowned on the day for Best Dressed Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.

Festivalgoers will also be treated to a line up from Tanya Andrew, Ballz n All and Graeme Tool as Kenny Rodgers and Friends before the afterparty begins from 10pm at the Narromine Courthouse Hotel.

"We've had about 1000 people for the last two years. So this year, because the tickets are free, we're hoping to get around 1500," Ms Rush said.

"Can't wait. It's going to be great."

The Dolly Festival, Australia's first, began in September 2022.

They hope it will continue to be a regular annual event.