Posted August 5, 201113 yr Elvis Week 2011 Events: ! EPE are finalising all the events for this year's schedule, including the autograph signing with photographer Alfred Wertheimer. - The Elvis Presley Fan Club Presidents’ Event in honour of the 55th anniversary of 1956, will now feature the special guest D.J. Fontana. EIN says make sure not to miss... - 'Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll' Documentary Screening Hosted by Peter Guralnick and Knox Phillips - 10:00am AUGUST 13 - Conversations on Elvis. 1:00 p.m. The Orpheum, AUGUST 14 with John Wilkinson, Alfred Wertheimer, Joe Guercio. - Elvis Presley LIVE - The King in Concert - the main 2011 concert at The Orpheum. Hosted by Joe Guercio, Elvis' musical conductor and close friend for many years, this is a rare opportunity to experience something completely new and different in Memphis, the city known around the world as the Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll. The $89.00 VIP tickets have now sold out. Get your regular tickets ASAP. Tickets for all Elvis Week events are on sale now! EPE points out that .. - The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest VIP Package has SOLD OUT - Elvis Presley LIVE – The King in Concert VIP Package has SOLD OUT - Official Elvis Insiders Event - Rollin’ on the River has SOLD OUT Make sure you get your Ultimate ETA and Elvis Presley LIVE – The King in Concert regular tickets before they sell out as well. http://www.elvis.com/elvisweek/ew2011schedule.aspx (News, Source;EPE/ElvisInfoNet) Special Guests for "Elvis Presley Live: The King in Concert": Plenty of Elvis fans heading to Elvis Week will be surprised that the TCB Band will NOT be taking part in the heavily advertised event 'Elvis Presley Live: The King in Concert', the main 2011 concert at The Orpheum. Elvis Presley LIVE - The King in Concert will be hosted by Joe Guercio, Elvis' musical conductor and close friend for many years and also feature Elvis' Imperials. The band will however be, according to EPE, a "hot studio session band" Is this the future of 'Elvis In Concert'? The 2011 Elvis Week celebration will feature an exciting new multi-media music event on Saturday, August 13! "Elvis Presley Live: The King in Concert" will put a hot studio session band and back up vocalists on stage at The Orpheum in downtown Memphis as the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll is projected, larger than life, on state-of-the-art screens. Click here to meet all the performers at this special event. http://www.elvis.com/news/detail.aspx?id=5677 (News, Source:EPE/EIN) Bit disappointing that the TCB Band won't be there :(
August 5, 201113 yr Elvis Week 2011 Events: ! EPE are finalising all the events for this year's schedule, including the autograph signing with photographer Alfred Wertheimer. - The Elvis Presley Fan Club Presidents’ Event in honour of the 55th anniversary of 1956, will now feature the special guest D.J. Fontana. EIN says make sure not to miss... - 'Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll' Documentary Screening Hosted by Peter Guralnick and Knox Phillips - 10:00am AUGUST 13 - Conversations on Elvis. 1:00 p.m. The Orpheum, AUGUST 14 with John Wilkinson, Alfred Wertheimer, Joe Guercio. - Elvis Presley LIVE - The King in Concert - the main 2011 concert at The Orpheum. Hosted by Joe Guercio, Elvis' musical conductor and close friend for many years, this is a rare opportunity to experience something completely new and different in Memphis, the city known around the world as the Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll. The $89.00 VIP tickets have now sold out. Get your regular tickets ASAP. Tickets for all Elvis Week events are on sale now! EPE points out that .. - The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest VIP Package has SOLD OUT - Elvis Presley LIVE – The King in Concert VIP Package has SOLD OUT - Official Elvis Insiders Event - Rollin’ on the River has SOLD OUT Make sure you get your Ultimate ETA and Elvis Presley LIVE – The King in Concert regular tickets before they sell out as well. http://www.elvis.com/elvisweek/ew2011schedule.aspx (News, Source;EPE/ElvisInfoNet) Special Guests for "Elvis Presley Live: The King in Concert": Plenty of Elvis fans heading to Elvis Week will be surprised that the TCB Band will NOT be taking part in the heavily advertised event 'Elvis Presley Live: The King in Concert', the main 2011 concert at The Orpheum. Elvis Presley LIVE - The King in Concert will be hosted by Joe Guercio, Elvis' musical conductor and close friend for many years and also feature Elvis' Imperials. The band will however be, according to EPE, a "hot studio session band" Is this the future of 'Elvis In Concert'? The 2011 Elvis Week celebration will feature an exciting new multi-media music event on Saturday, August 13! "Elvis Presley Live: The King in Concert" will put a hot studio session band and back up vocalists on stage at The Orpheum in downtown Memphis as the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll is projected, larger than life, on state-of-the-art screens. Click here to meet all the performers at this special event. http://www.elvis.com/news/detail.aspx?id=5677 (News, Source:EPE/EIN) Bit disappointing that the TCB Band won't be there :( It is very disappointing :(
August 16, 201113 yr Author Well, another anniversary has come and it's hard to believe that it's been 34 years since we lost Elvis, but Elvis will never truly 'leave the building.' :wub: A Message From Lisa Marie Presley At Candlelight Vigil The following message below from Lisa Marie Presley was read tonight to fans who gathered at the gates of Graceland for the annual Candlelight Vigil during Elvis Week 2011: Dear Friends: Thank you so much for being here and continuing to honor the legacy of my father. Your ongoing love and support mean very much to me and my family. My father always said he had the best fans in the world, and he was right. The fact that you are here to celebrate his life 34 years after his passing is a testament to that. I hope you've enjoyed our new exhibits at Graceland and I look forward to being involved personally with a very special exhibit called "Elvis Through His Daughter's Eyes" opening in the Spring of next year. Before we know it, it will be Elvis Week 2012, which as you all know as the 35th anniversary will be special time. I look forward to being there with you, my mother and entire family. Thank you all and I'll see you next August. LMP Source: Elvis.com / Updated: Aug 16, 2011 Fans flock to Graceland to remember Elvis Presley: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/Elvis_Candlelit_vigil2011bx.jpg Silent mourners with heads bowed and yellow-orange candlelight leading the way paid their respects to Elvis Presley at his grave at Graceland, to remember the 34th anniversary of his sudden death. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/Elvis_Candlelit_vigil2011x.jpg An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 devotees from all over the world gathered at Presley's home overnight, slowly walking through the Graceland family cemetery and leaving flowers and other mementos at the singer's gravesite. Thousands of Elvis devotees with candles in hand, walked in the humid night, many of them some wiping away tears as they filed past. Flower arrangements and heart-shaped wreaths decorated the burial site as "If I Can Dream" and other songs played softly in the background. The vigil was to extend past midnight and into Tuesday morning, marking the anniversary of the King's death on Aug. 16, 1977. Fans like 60-year-old Joe Makowski — who claims he saw Elvis in concert 81 times — and his girlfriend, Pamela Hembree, were among the first in line and waited for hours along Graceland's outer brick wall. A New Jersey native who owns four of Elvis' concert-worn scarves and has attended several vigils, he said it was time to introduce her to the Elvis Week experience honoring the life and career of the rock `n' roll star. "I get to meet new fans and meet new people, so that's why I line up here early in the day," said Makowski, who went to Las Vegas twice a year between 1971 and 1976 to see Elvis perform. "The biggest thing I get out of it is seeing the young fans that weren't even born until years after he passed away." Makowski said he admires Elvis because of his singing, generosity and performing prowess, of course, but also for what he called the singer's overall coolness. Temperatures were in the high 80s much of the day, sharply down from the suffocating 100-degree heat that greeted Elvis fans last August. While around 18,000 people attended, it is nothing near the 75,000-strong crowd that's expected to flock to Graceland in 2012 for the 35th anniversary of the singer's death. (News, Source;Various) Graceland this morning: flowers from Lisa and Priscilla http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/1_20110816152403.jpg Every August 16th, before the Meditation Garden opens to the public, workers at Graceland place flower arrangements of Priscilla en Lisa Marie near Elvis's grave. This year was no exception. The arrangements usually stay at the Meditation Garden until some time after September. Some bouquets from fans and fanclubs are even kept until Winter, depending on how good and fresh they still look. Published: August 16th 2011 03:31 PM. Source: ElvisMatters If I Can Dream :wub: 9CMlYVu9J4g Edited August 16, 201113 yr by Tilly
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