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The Graduate hotel to celebrate Dolly Parton’s birthday




Dolly Parton turns 76 on Jan. 19.Wade Payne / Invision / ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dolly Parton turns 76 on Jan. 19.Wade Payne / Invision / ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Nashville hotel has a week of activities planned in anticipation of Dolly Parton’s 76th birthday.

The Graduate is already home to the Parton-inspired, all-pink, disco ball bedazzled “9 to 5” suite sporting a neon “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” sign. The hotel also has a rooftop bar named after her 29th album, “White Limozeen,” but it will soon take its love of country’s undisputed queen a step further.

Its upcoming birthday festivities will both benefit and be held in partnership with Dolly’s Imagination Library, which mails books to 1.3 million kids monthly.

Beginning on her birthday Jan. 19, from 2 to 5 p.m., The Graduate will host a kickoff event featuring pop-ups representing Pandy Cotton Candy, the Tilly Goose and the Cookie Cart, as well as a photography station under a balloon arch installed by Rock Paper Scissors.

Then, on Jan. 22, the hotel will partner with the Imagination Library for a live reading of the children’s book “Sir Drake the Brave” by author Joy Jordan-Lake at noon.

 

 

The reading will be followed by a clay craft activity led by illustrator Susan Eaddy.

Additional pop-ups including Frosted in Franklin, Pandy Cotton Candy, the Tilly Goose and Joanna Dee will be on-site for that event as well.

Tickets are $10 per family, plus an optional $5 for a clay craft activity.

In 2021, Parton used the stage presented by her birthday to publicly call for kindness, compassion and generosity.

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