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Nashville’s First ‘Dolly Day’ Set for 9-25 With Music, Giving and Fireworks

Issue #819

September 17, 2026

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👉 Nashville’s First ‘Dolly Day’ Set for 9-25 With Music, Giving and Fireworks

🎤 9/18: Lorrie Morgan Live at The Mulehouse

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🎵 This Week’s Live Music

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Nashville’s First ‘Dolly Day’ Set for 9-25 With Music, Giving and Fireworks

On Friday, September 25, Nashville celebrates Dolly Day, honoring Dolly Parton’s legacy of kindness, generosity, and music. Wear pink, spread kindness, and enjoy “9 to 5” at 5pm, Dolly-inspired specials, pink lights, and Dolly posters across the city. Free buttons, stickers, and bookmarks will be available while supplies last at Visitor Information Centers at Bridgestone Arena and Fifth + Broadway, with fireworks downtown at 9:25pm.

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are helping lead the way, pledging to donate all 9/25 proceeds from their Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk to the Nashville Public Library and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library as part of Dolly Day.

Give Like Dolly – Middle Tennessee will make it easy to support local nonprofits working in areas close to Dolly’s heart, from helping children succeed and neighbors in need to supporting healing, creativity, and a lifelong love of reading. The nonprofits benefiting through each giving pillar, along with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Middle Tennessee, will be revealed soon.

As Dolly often said, “If you can read, you can do anything, dream anything, and be anything.”

Dolly Day Happenings & Special Offers:

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Enjoy free Dolly-inspired activities at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on September 25, including a 9 to 5 screening, rare Dolly footage, a themed photo op, and butterfly coloring. The Museum will stay open until 7pm, with tickets available to explore Dolly Parton: Journey of a Seeker exhibit.

The Escape Game
Play The Escape Game’s Original Nashville game for just $9.25 admission on September 25 in honor of Dolly Day.

Honeysuckle Hill Farm
Explore a Dolly Parton corn maze at Honeysuckle Hill Farm during Dolly Day on the Farm from 3-6pm on September 25. Enjoy pink lemonade, pink kettle corn, and a special butterfly release in her memory.

Music City Archery
Take aim at Music City Archery with $9.25 lane rentals from 2-8pm on September 25. Bring your own bow or rent one, then hit the range to Dolly’s greatest hits with promo code DOLLY.

Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum
Celebrate Dolly Parton on 9/25 at the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum from 11am-3pm with Dolly-inspired activities, live acoustic music, and local vendors. In honor of Dolly’s commitment to literacy, $9.25 from every regularly priced museum ticket sold that day will benefit Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

The Nash Collective
Enjoy 25% off all PINK merchandise. The staff will wear PINK, and Dolly will be playing all day in the store.

Nashville Zoo
Nashville Zoo will honor Dolly Parton with special admission of $19.25 for adults and $15.25 for youth on 9/25. Enjoy Dolly-inspired food and drinks, themed animal enrichment, pink displays, face painting, and plenty of pink and sparkle throughout the Zoo.

At 5pm, participating music venues across the city will mark the occasion with live performances of “9 to 5” on their stages.

And this should be something you can enjoy without going to Nashville…

All Puckett's locations will be offering a free Nana's Peach Cobbler to anyone who wears their Dolly swag.

9/18: Lorrie Morgan Live at The Mulehouse

The daughter of Nashville royalty, Lorrie Morgan proudly drew upon country tradition during her hitmaking streak of the early 1990s and has continued to mine similar territory in the ensuing decades. Following in the new traditionalist footsteps of and making overt allusions to in her visual and musical stylings, Morgan specializes in updated classic country, spiking her tearjerkers with a bit of defiant swagger.

Lorrie Morgan has made more than 40 chart entries on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including three number-one singles: "Five Minutes", "What Part of No", and "I Didn't Know My Own Strength", and 11 additional Top 10 hits. Morgan has recorded in collaboration with her father, as well as Keith Whitley, Jon Randall, Sammy Kershaw, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, Tammy Wynette, The Beach Boys, Dolly Parton, Andy Williams, the New World Philharmonic, and Pam Tillis. She is also a member of the Grand Ole Opry. 

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🎵 This Week’s Live Music

Thursday, September 17
Todd Ciprian - Tito's, 6-9 PM
Steven Gary - Whiskey Alley Saloon, 7:30-9 PM

Friday, September 18
TBA - The Spot: Burgers & Beer, 5-8 PM
Michael Forkuo - Buck & Board, 6-9 PM
Tom Saffell - McCreary's Irish Pub & Eatery, 7-9 PM
Blue Ashes - Southern Bayou Kitchen, 7 PM
Don’t Tell Mom - The Bourbon Gospel (back patio), 7-10 PM
Jami Grooms - Whiskey Alley Saloon, 7:30-9 PM
The Howlin Embers - Puckett's, 7:30-9 PM
Lorrie Morgan - The Mulehouse, 8 PM

Saturday, September 19
Troy Castellano - Keg Springs Winery, 2-5 PM
The Vineyard Sessions - Natchez Hills Vineyard, 2-5 PM
Carson Phillips - Amber Falls Winery & Cellars, 3-7 PM
Open Mic - Grinder's Switch Winery, 3-7 PM
Jane Rose & The Deadends - The Rebel Bar & Grill, 4:30 PM
Sins Country - Hampshire Hills Distillery, 5-9 PM
Curated Writers Round - The Bourbon Gospel, 7:30 PM
Everamarillo - Puckett's, 7:30-9 PM
Pretty Grimm - Fozzy's Bar & Grill, 8-11 PM

Sunday, September 20
Jim Fox Trio - Amber Falls Winery & Cellars, 1-5 PM

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