It’s Elvis Week. Are you ready?
On Saturday, August 8th, from 8 p.m. to midnight, the Elvis Presley
Car Museum will be bumping, as a DJ cranks out the King and transforms
the place into Club Elvis. Sunday will bookend the affair appropriately
with a gospel breakfast, also at the car museum. Elvis’ gospel will
spill out and videos will air on the drive-in theater screen.
Monday, August 10th, will feature another Club Elvis, and Tuesday
will offer Elvis Film Fest 6 at Malco’s Studio on the Square (see Film
Clips, page 52). Also on Tuesday: the Peabody Duck March with 2009
Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist contestants at 5 p.m. at the downtown
hotel; and Shawn Klush in concert at the Cannon Center at 7 p.m. Klush
won the 2007 tribute artist contest.
The tribute gladiators will get to battling proper starting on
Wednesday, August 12th. There will be a contestant meet-and-greet at 11
a.m. at the Hard Rock Café on Beale and then contest semifinals
at 7 p.m. at the Cannon Center. Attendees from around the world will
duke it out for the coveted prize.
Elvis Week, of course, continues into the next weekend. Pace
yourself out there, okay? Drink plenty of fluids and wear comfortable
shoes.
