Tennessee native Dolly Parton plans to start a business in her home state’s capital.
In a recent interview, the country icon announced her dream to build a business — dubbed a “Dolly Center” — in the Music City in the near future.
“I’m going to have a museum here [in Nashville] pretty soon, within the next couple of years,” Dolly Parton, 76, told the Tennessean in a recent interview.
Although the country legend already has a museum in Tennessee at her eponymous theme park in Pigeon Forge, she’d like to create another — along with other businesses — in Nashville, which feels closer to her heart.
“We have the museum at Dollywood, of course, but I would love to have something here since this is really my home,” she explained. “And I may have a restaurant or a bar and grill. Right now, though, I’ve got so many things going. I can do without that for the moment. But someday I will have a business here.”
She pictures the museums as a key feature of “a larger complex” to include a museum. “That’s kind of where my thinking is,” she said.
Nashville has been dominating her dreams of late, as the songwriter has felt an intense tug toward spending time in the state where she was born and raised — specifically, she spent her childhood in East Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains region.
“I don’t see as much traveling or touring as I see performing,” she told her hometown publication. “I’ll be doing special things here and there, but I don’t want to tour that much anymore. I’ve done that. I don’t like being gone four to six weeks a year in order to do an overseas tour … And that’s just a little long.”
One of those special things may be performing at Manchester, Tennessee’s annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, where fans have been begging for her to do a set “for at least a decade,” according to the Tennessean.
“That’s the kind of thing that I could do,” she said. “Shows here and there, special events like that. And, hopefully, one day I will do Bonnaroo.”