Tennessee native Dolly Parton plans to start out a enterprise in her residence state’s capital.
In a current interview, the nation icon introduced her dream to construct a enterprise — dubbed a “Dolly Heart” — within the Music Metropolis within the close to future.
“I’m going to have a museum right here [in Nashville] fairly quickly, inside the subsequent couple of years,” Dolly Parton, 76, instructed the Tennessean in a current interview.
Though the nation legend already has a museum in Tennessee at her eponymous theme park in Pigeon Forge, she’d wish to create one other — together with different companies — in Nashville, which feels nearer to her coronary heart.
“We now have the museum at Dollywood, after all, however I might like to have one thing right here since that is actually my residence,” she defined. “And I could have a restaurant or a bar and grill. Proper now, although, I’ve acquired so many issues going. I can do with out that for the second. However sometime I’ll have a enterprise right here.”
She photos the museums as a key characteristic of “a bigger advanced” to incorporate a museum. “That’s type of the place my considering is,” she stated.





Nashville has been dominating her desires of late, because the songwriter has felt an intense tug towards spending time within the state the place she was born and raised — particularly, she spent her childhood in East Tennessee’s Nice Smoky Mountains area.
“I don’t see as a lot touring or touring as I see performing,” she instructed her hometown publication. “I’ll be doing particular issues right here and there, however I don’t need to tour that a lot anymore. I’ve finished that. I don’t like being gone 4 to 6 weeks a yr as a way to do an abroad tour … And that’s just a bit lengthy.”
A kind of particular issues could also be acting at Manchester, Tennessee’s annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Competition, the place followers have been begging for her to do a set “for at the very least a decade,” based on the Tennessean.
“That’s the type of factor that I might do,” she stated. “Reveals right here and there, particular occasions like that. And, hopefully, at some point I’ll do Bonnaroo.”