This 12 months’s CMA Fest in Nashville launched with music icon Dolly Parton spilling the main points on a number of tasks she has within the works — particularly, a Broadway musical in addition to a resort.
“It’s true, I’m going to have a resort proper right here in Nashville, and a museum too,” Parton informed the group.
The nation icon formally revealed her upcoming Songteller Lodge in Nashville, which will probably be situated on third and Commerce in downtown Nashville. The resort will even embrace a Dolly Parton museum that can characteristic memorabilia from her profession and plenty of of her trendy outfits, together with a duplicate of Parton’s “Coat of Many Colours,” which impressed her signature music of the identical identify.
The identify of the resort takes its identify from Parton’s 2020 guide Songteller: My Life in Tune, written with author-journalist Robert Ok. Oermann.
“After we have been trying on the property, you know the way generally you’re feeling you get slightly divine signal,” Parton stated in the course of the occasion, which was hosted by Leisure Tonight‘s Rachel Smith. “We have been strolling by and it was an empty room. There was a desk and of all issues, there was the guide Songteller and we thought that should be an indication and we thought that will be an excellent identify.”
Parton, in fact, isn’t any stranger to launching lodges — the singer, songwriter and enterprise mogul’s Dollywood theme park contains the Dreammore Resort, which opened in 2015, and the Heartsong Lodge and Resort, which opened in 2023.
Parton additionally introduced her upcoming Broadway musical, Howdy, I’m Dolly: An Authentic Musical, set to open in 2026. Parton says she affectionately calls it “a Grand Ole Opera.”
“I attempted for years, do my life story and make it make sense. I wanted to put in writing some unique music. I’m hoping you’re gonna snigger and cry,” Parton stated.
The musical will hint Parton’s life story from rising up within the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee earlier than making her method to Nashville to pursue music. The musical will chronicle her early solo hits, her work with Porter Wagoner and her rise as to turning into an internationally, Nation Music Corridor of Famer, with 25 No. 1 Billboard Sizzling Nation Songs hits. in addition to a multi-faceted artist by her work in motion pictures and tv.
The musical will probably be produced by Parton, Adam Speers (ATG Productions) and Danny Nozell (CTK Enterprises), and takes its identify from Parton’s first studio album, which launched in 1967. Howdy, I’m Dolly will characteristic a rating by Parton that can embrace a few of her largest hits in addition to new songs she has written particularly for the musical, and a guide by Parton and Maria S. Schlatter.
As well as, Parton revealed the launch of Dolly Wines (which begins with a Dolly 2023 California chardonnay) and the cookbook Good Lookin’ Cookin’, which she created together with her sister Rachel. Good Lookin’ Cookin’ releases Sept. 17.
These enterprise ventures increase on Parton’s current teaming with Duncan Hines to launch a line of cake and muffin mixes, in addition to Parton’s current partnership with Krispy Kreme for the limited-time Dolly Parton Southern Sweets Doughnut Assortment.
Parton additionally lately revealed her upcoming family-oriented album Smoky Mountain DNA–Household, Religion and Fables, out in November.
Within the meantime, Parton informed Smith that she has no plans to decelerate anytime quickly.
“Not at the moment,” Parton quipped. “Perhaps sometime I’ll need to. I’ve at all times stated if my husband was in unwell well being and wanted me, I’d pull again — and the identical with my very own well being. However I form of dreamed myself right into a nook and I must be chargeable for that. I’ll pull again slightly every now and then, however not at the moment.”
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