Dolly’s first hotel opens downtown on June 10, 2026, a short walk from Lower Broadway, with two live-music rooms and a 20,000-square-foot museum devoted to her life. Here is what is actually inside.
The hotel and the museum open together on June 10, 2026. Reservations and pre-sale tickets are already live, so the rooms around opening week are the first to disappear. If you want to be there in the first wave, book early. A Dolly Parton hotel in the middle of Music City is going to pull a crowd from day one, and opening weekend will be the hardest to get into all year.
The SongTeller Hotel sits at 211 Commerce Street, near the corner of 3rd Avenue and Commerce, right in the heart of downtown. That puts it a short walk from the honky-tonks of Lower Broadway and an easy stroll to the river. If you are building a weekend around live music, the address does a lot of the work for you, with Broadway in one direction and the Cumberland in the other.
There are 245 rooms and suites, and the naming leans hard into Dolly’s story:
Bachelorette groups, take note. The larger suites are built for exactly the kind of crew that already fills Broadway on the weekends, and being able to sleep six in one suite a few blocks off the strip is hard to beat for a big party.
This is the part that matters most for a Bars on Broadway crowd. The SongTeller is the first Dolly-owned property in Nashville with nightly live music, and it splits that across two distinct rooms.
A second-floor lounge built for songwriter sessions and rising-star showcases, with shareable plates, desserts, and seasonal cocktails. Expect the kind of in-the-round writers’ nights Nashville is known for, in a more intimate setting than the big Broadway stages.
The top-floor music venue, named after Dolly’s 1973 classic, decked out in hot-pink rose decor with banquettes and elevated cocktails. The lineup rotates between emerging and established Nashville artists, so the room changes night to night.
Two dining names are confirmed so far. First Watch handles breakfast and lunch daily, and Black Tap brings its burgers and oversized milkshakes for something heavier. More food and drink details usually land closer to opening, and we will add them here as they are announced.
The entire third floor, more than 20,000 square feet, is given over to Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum. Dolly’s team calls it the largest exhibit on her life anywhere in the world, walking through every decade of her career from the Smoky Mountains to the top of the charts. Museum pre-sale tickets are available alongside room reservations, and you do not have to be a hotel guest to visit.
A Dolly Parton hotel with two live-music rooms and a museum, dropped a few blocks off Lower Broadway, is going to be one of the most searched openings in Nashville this year. Rooms starting around $421 put it in the splurge tier, so this reads less like a budget pick and more like the centerpiece of a special trip or a group weekend. For the night-out crowd, the appeal is simple: you can catch a writers’ round at Parton’s Live or a set at Jolene’s without leaving the building, then walk straight onto Broadway. We will keep this guide updated as opening-week details, menus, and lineups get announced.
The SongTeller will book up fast around opening and big event weekends. If it is full or over budget, these downtown options sit within walking distance of the same stretch of Broadway:
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Sources: Dolly Parton’s official announcement and the SongTeller Hotel. Opening details can change, so confirm rates, hours, and lineups before you book. Last updated June 2026.
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