A stage performance photograph by Carl Beust showing Dolly Parton plays Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island on July 27, 2019. Captured in a medium shot from a low angle under bright daylight, Parton stands on stage with styled, volumetric blonde hair, wearing a vibrant yellow long-sleeved jacket heavily embellished with red floral rose embroidery and rhinestones over a bright red corseted bodice. She sings into a dark microphone mounted on a stand in front of her while gesturing expressive, open-handed poses with both hands adorned with rings and red manicured nails.
Dolly Parton plays Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island on July 27, 2019. Credit: Carl Beust / Shutterstock

We can’t cry over Dolly Parton forever, and Shuffle, a bar that the late American icon would’ve loved, is going to help us dry these useless tears this Friday, which is Sept. 25, aka 9/25—and if you don’t get it by now, well, god bless you.

Four hours of Dolly, and Dolly-adjacent tunes, will blare while the vagina-forward bar hosts a Dolly costume contest, runs Dolly on the TVs, and offers Dolly drink (sweet tea shots) and dinner specials (“fried chicken + potatoes, mostly,” wrote organizers). There’s even a Dolly open mic with just one rule: “Just make Dolly proud.”

Of course, that’s not the only Dolly Parton tribute happening on Friday, and you can see a short list below.

There’s no cover for Dolly day happening Friday, Sept. 25 at Shuffle in Tampa.

Dolly Party at Shuffle

Time Fri., Sept. 25, 7-11 p.m. 2026

Location Shuffle, 2612 N Tampa St., Tampa

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...