Now departon from Nashville!
Dolly Parton lovers are demanding Nashville Worldwide Airport be renamed after the nation music queen following her loss of life — with a year-old petition gaining hundreds of signatures in mere hours because the likes of Sheryl Crow threw their weight behind it.
The Change.org petition — “Rename Nashville Worldwide Airport to Dolly Parton Worldwide Airport” — blasted previous 100,000 signatures Wednesday, gaining greater than 50,000 within the day for the reason that Tennessee native died at 80 on Tuesday.
“On August 25, the world misplaced an angel,” an replace to the petition learn. “It’s tough to think about a world with out our Dreamer-In-Chief. How are we going to be okay with out her magic to maintain us secure? How can we shine with out her gentle?”
“Since her passing, tens of hundreds of further supporters have visited and signed this petition,” it added. “The outpouring of assist has reinvigorated our mission.”
Parton was born east of Knoxville however turned a music famous person in Nashville and lived there for a lot of her life, with the petition evoking her deep Tennessee roots when it was began in Jan. 2025.
It sat at round 53,000 signatures earlier than her loss of life, garnering just a few thousand new signatures over the yr and a half because it was created.
However these signatures doubled within the hours after Parton’s household introduced her passing from a short most cancers battle, with dozens of names being added by the second.
And large names had been quickly giving it large consideration — fellow nation star Sheryl Crow endorsed the motion whereas speaking concerning the late idol throughout an look on Katie Couric’s Instagram livestream Tuesday.
“Individuals are speaking about attempting to get the Nashville airport … modified to the Dolly Parton Worldwide Airport,” Crow mentioned. “I’m like, ‘Sure! I feel we should always.’”
Tennessee state Rep. Todd Warner additionally mentioned he’d assist the measure, vowing in a response on the petition to suggest a invoice requesting the change.
“I’ll undoubtedly introduce laws to rename the BNA airport Dolly Parton Worldwide Airport!” Warner mentioned.
Warner beforehand tried to rename the airport “Trump Worldwide Airport” in Jan. 2025, however that invoice flopped in a 5-12 vote.
He additionally endorsed the Change.org petition to call the airport after Parton when his Trump invoice failed — acknowledging that measure “went down in flames” — saying he’d obtained “quite a few” emails requesting the dedication and that he would assist a change if the chance arose.
And that point might be now, as scores of followers rushed to the petition to voice their assist.
“Dolly Parton represents the guts of Tennessee and the guts of its music,” one signer wrote. “Naming Nashville Worldwide Airport in her honor would welcome guests from all over the world with a reputation that instantly says welcome! Know we love ya!”
“One of many sweetest and dearest singers, and never solely that, a job mannequin to so many. Undeniably an icon and in spite of everything that she has given us, the least we are able to do is identify one thing in her honor,” one other wrote. “Simply as she took us on adventures together with her songs and supported everybody’s journeys, this Dolly airline will do the identical.”
