Elvis Presley News

Back by popular demand, the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza presents Chris Isaak at the Fred Kavali Theatre on Friday, November 29, 2013 at 8:00 p.m.

Dubbed 'a contemporary Mark Twain' by author Dr. Larry Dossey, award-winning 'transformational humorist' and songwriter Greg Tamblyn brings his irreverent humor and sideways view of life to Norwalk on Sunday, October 27th, 1:00 pm at Unity Center, 3 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Norwalk, CT 06851. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

GRAMMY award-nominated and Songwriters Hall Of Fame Inductee, Gordon Lightfoot performs his '50 Years on the Carefree Highway Tour' at The Colonial Theatre on Friday, November 8 at 8pm.

Nationally prominent performers with Illinois roots will kick off the March on Springfield for Marriage Equality today, Oct. 22 with a free one-hour concert live near the steps of the Illinois State Capitol. The diverse entertainment bill includes reality TV stars from 'The Voice,' 'American Idol,' and 'America's Got Talent;' a national poetry slam winner; a world champion & MVP quarterback who is also a pre-Grammy nominee; and a 2013 Trans 100 honoree fighting violence against transgender people.

The oft-attempted rocky road to country music success is met with tears, rivalry and intense scrutiny in the all-new Lifetime docu-series Chasing Nashville, premiering tonight, October 22, at 10:00pm PT/ET. Through extensive access to the home and budding professional lives of four ambitious teen singers from Appalachia, the series will follow the high drama and competition they encounter like no other singing show as they, and their equally determined families, lay everything on the line in pursuit of fame and fortune in country music.

Willow Books is pleased to announce the publication of Lilies In The Valley, a debut collection by poet Cedric Tillman.

The Lake Worth Playhouse opens its 61st season with a young and vibrant new musical, All Shook Up, a tribute to the life, songs and rock-and-roll style of the music king.

The national tour of the Broadway musical "Million Dollar Quartet," inspired by the true story of a rock 'n roll jam session featuring Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, is coming to the Gallo Center for the Arts for five performances, Friday through Sunday, November 15 - 17.

Twin Cities' singer-songwriter and multiple Minnesota Music Award winner Mick Sterling, leads an all-star local lineup with MEMPHIS AND THE MEANTIMES, in a musical salute to songs of the Grand Old Opry and Sun Records. Sterling leads MEMPHIS AND THE MEANTIMES through the songs proven to be the pillars of popular music as part of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' 2013 Concert Series for two evening performances on Thursday, October 24 and Friday, October 25th.

The date is Thursday, November 7, and the evening begins at 5:30p.m. with hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. At 6:00p.m. is a special tastings of Aleathea's specialties, like last year, and at 7:00p.m., the competition begins! The MCs for the evening are Mark Lang and James Rana.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC), the Mid-South's professional classical theatre, launches its new schools touring show this week with the Memphis-inspiredShake(s), Rattle & Roll.

Today in 2009 the first Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie opened at Henry Miller's Theatre (now the Stephen Sondheim Theatre), where it ran for 117 performances. Originally titled Let's Go Steady, the satire on American society is set in 1958. The story was inspired by the phenomenon of popular singer Elvis Presley and his draft notice into the Army in 1957. The original Broadway production was a Tony Award-winning success. It spawned a London production and several major revivals, a sequel, a 1963 film and a 1995 television production.

For the first time in over fifty years, Harbinger Records will release 'Ballads for the Age of Science,' the most successful educational recordings of all time, as a six-CD box set. Featuring more than four dozen original songs written by Hy Zaret, co-author of the iconic popular song 'Unchained Melody,' and Lou Singer between 1959 and 1961, the albums introduced scientific concepts and terms using catchy, easy-to-learn lyrics and music to grade school students across America in the early 1960s.

Teaming up three decades after their last hit 'Islands in the Stream', country legends Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton are collaborating once again, this time on a new duet, 'You Can't Make Old Friends' which appears on Rogers' new album.

GRAMMY-winning superstar Bruno Mars has announced the world premiere of his eagerly anticipated new video, 'Gorilla.' Mars will debut the video directly to his fans on his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/brunomars (over 41M fans) at 3pm ET on Monday, October 14th, as part of Facebook's new #NowPlaying program for exclusive premieres. Mars made this announcement today via his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/brunomars/posts/10151977447782244. Mars will also be giving fans a sneak peek by releasing a teaser via Instagram every day leading up to the premiere starting Friday, October 11th. The video was co-directed by Mars with his longtime video collaborator, Cameron Duddy.

Mary Bridget Davies provides powerful full-throated vocals and an empathetic performance in Randy Johnson's concert-style bio-musical.

On one fateful winter evening, a few weeks before Christmas in 1956, producer Sam Phillips managed to get all of his stars in one room. The recording session of Carl Perkins and Jerry Le Lewis soon turned into an impromptu jam session when Johnny Cash and breakout star Elvis Presley showed up too. This was to be the first and the last time all four men were in the same room together and goes down in history as one of the greatest spontaneous rock and roll collaborations of all time

The Grove Theatre announces the opening of BYE BYE BIRDIE on October 25th. BYE BYE BIRDIE is one of the most captivating musical shows of our time. It tells the story of a rock and roll singer who is about to be inducted into the army. The singer, Conrad Birdie, an Elvis Presley type, has a pompadour and thick sideburns; wears gaudy gold costumes and speaks in a rugged voice.

Get in the spirit this holiday season with Praise 102.7 for the inaugural Praise Holiday Concert hosted by Radio One Detroit with headliner Kirk Franklin at the Fox Theatre on Thursday, December 12 at 7pm. The concert also features performances by Mary Mary and Marvin Sapp.