{"id":49122,"date":"2015-08-20T20:55:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T00:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=49122"},"modified":"2015-08-20T20:55:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T00:55:52","slug":"concert-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/concert-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis closes out Concert in the Park season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/elvisth.jpg\" alt=\"elvisth\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49124\" \/>August 26 season finale<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Concert in the Park audiences who&#8217;ve loved Matt King&#8217;s Elvis Presley Tribute Show the past six seasons will be pleased to know that the &#8220;Hound Dog&#8221; is back again. King &#8220;is&#8221; Elvis in the Aug. 26 season finale at the St. Johns City Park Performance Shell. The show begins at 7 p.m.; no admission charge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/elvis.jpg\" alt=\"elvis\" width=\"337\" height=\"361\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49126\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re pleased to have Matt King back again as Elvis,&#8221; says Performance Shell Committee Chairperson Bill Tennant. &#8220;Our audiences love him, and his appearance is a perfect ending to the summer schedule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Michigan resident, King has travelled all over the United States and Europe entertaining audiences with his unique ability to bring to the &#8220;King&#8221; to life via his moves, mannerisms, looks and costuming &#8211; and, of course, that distinctive voice. He took first place at the 2014 Windsor King Festival, and also captured first in the 2014 Midwest Elvis Competition. Those honors are in addition to numerous similar top-place finishes at Elvis events around the U.S. during the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>King has also performed at a variety of casinos including the MGM Grand, Harrahs, The Little River, Bluffs Run and Soaring Eagle. He is a co-founder of the largest Elvis Festival in the United States, the Michigan Elvis Fest.<\/p>\n<p>Concert in the Park is sponsored by the Clinton County Arts Council and the city of St. Johns, with support from the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>For information on Concert in the Park visit the CCAC web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clintoncountyarts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.clintoncountyarts.org\/<\/a> and check out the St. Johns City Park Performance Shell page on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 26 season finale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}