{"id":1077,"date":"2009-03-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/article\/bransons-elvis-festival-features-the-ultimate-elvis-tribute-artist-contest-"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"bransons-elvis-festival-features-the-ultimate-elvis-tribute-artist-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Branson&#8217;s Elvis Festival features &#8220;The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Branson Missouri, the live music show capital of the world is not without the sounds of &ldquo;Elvis.&rdquo; But even in a town where Elvis is portrayed on a daily basis by Dean Z and others in the &ldquo;Legends in Concert The World&rsquo;s Greatest Live Tribute Show,&rdquo; Dave Ehlert in &ldquo;Elvis and the Super Stars&rdquo; and Tony Roi in &ldquo;Tony Roi&rsquo;s Elvis Experience&rdquo; April 18 will be a special day for Elvis fans. <\/p>\n<p>On April 18 the Legends in Concert and Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. will present Branson&rsquo;s 3rd &ldquo;The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest&rdquo; in the Dick Clark&rsquo;s American Bandstand Theater, starting at 7:00 p.m. The contest is one of only about 20 preliminary contests in the world sanctioned by Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to other prizes, the Branson winner earns the right to compete in the semi finals of &ldquo;The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest&rdquo; which will be held at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Memphis, TN on Wednesday, August 12 during Elvis Week. The finals and the selection of the &ldquo;Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist&rdquo; will take place in the same theatre on Thursday, August 13. <\/p>\n<p>Melody Byrd, Group Sales and Marketing Manager, Legends in Concert, said that Branson&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest&rdquo; will be limited to 15 competitors and that all the contestants would be introduced during the 8:00 p.m. performance of the Legends in Concert show on April 17. The winner of the contest willbe performing at the 8:00 p.m. Legends in Concert show on April 19. <\/p>\n<p>Byrd said the &ldquo;The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest&rdquo; is just one of the events that will be held at the theatre complex in conjunction with the &ldquo;Branson Elvis Festival&rdquo; April 17-19. The festival will include an Elvis meet and greet dinner April 17 at 5 p.m. at the Dick Clark&rsquo;s Grill, and Elvis karaoke at Club 57 starting at 10:30 p.m. on April 17and 18. <\/p>\n<p>On April 18, in addition to the &ldquo;The Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest&rdquo; at 7:00 p.m., the festival will include an Elvis Vendor Village from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a free showing of the movie &ldquo;Speedway&rdquo; staring Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra in &ldquo;the auditorium&rdquo; starting at 10:00 a.m. On April 19, the &ldquo;Grand Old Gospel Hour,&rdquo; held at 10:00 a.m. at Dick Clark&rsquo;s America Bandstand Theater will feature Elvis gospel music and the performance of the contest winner at the 8:00 p.m. performance of the Legends in Concert show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even in Branson where Elvis is portrayed on a daily basis by Dean Z and others in the &#8220;Legends in Concert The World&#8217;s Greatest Live Tribute Show,&#8221; Dave Ehlert in &#8220;Elvis and the Super Stars&#8221; and Tony Roi in &#8220;Tony Roi&#8217;s Elvis Experience&#8221; April 18 will be a special day for Elvis fans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows-attractions-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}