{"id":45861,"date":"2018-04-16T15:11:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=45861"},"modified":"2018-04-17T09:41:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:41:47","slug":"grammy-museum-mississippi-to-honor-elvis-with-weekend-long-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/grammy-museum-mississippi-to-honor-elvis-with-weekend-long-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy Museum Mississippi to Honor Elvis with Weekend-Long Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Elvis-Rack-Card-front-SIZED.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-45867\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Elvis-Rack-Card-front-SIZED.jpg?resize=500%2C1099\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"1099\" \/><\/a>GRAMMY Museum\u00a0Mississippi<\/strong>\u00a0presents\u00a0<strong>From Gospel to Rock n\u2019 Roll: A Weekend Honoring Elvis<\/strong>,\u00a0April 20\u201321, 2018\u00a0at the Museum in <strong>Cleveland<\/strong>, <strong>Mississippi<\/strong>.\u00a0The weekend will feature special performances, film screenings, and intimate conversations\u00a0with close friends, band mates, and associates of <strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong>, including <strong>James Burton<\/strong>, <strong>Andy Childs<\/strong>, <strong>Gene Chrisman<\/strong>,<strong> Glen D. Hardin<\/strong>, <strong>Hal Lansky<\/strong> of <strong>Lansky Bros.<\/strong>,<strong> Norbert Putnam<\/strong>, <strong>Jerry Schilling<\/strong> and <strong>Graceland<\/strong>\u2019s<strong> Jack Soden<\/strong>.\u00a0The special guests will lead discussions on Presley\u2019s personal life, music legacy, and the importance of his Mississippi roots. <strong>Tom Brown<\/strong>, host of <strong>Tupelo Elvis Festival<\/strong> and <strong>Elvis Week<\/strong> at <strong>Graceland<\/strong>, will serve as moderator during the panel discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Elvis is a Mississippi native and beloved by so many people that we could take a whole year honoring him,\u201d said <strong>Emily Havens<\/strong>, executive director of GRAMMY Museum Mississippi. \u201cThis will be a special weekend for us and fans alike because we are fortunate to have some of Elvis\u2019 close friends, band mates and associates share their personal experiences with the King of Rock &amp; Roll.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Events during the weekend celebration include:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A sneak peek of video clips from the HBO documentary\u00a0<em>Elvis Presley: The Searcher<\/em>, with Executive Producer, Jerry Schilling<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A glimpse\u00a0behind the scenes of Graceland and\u00a0Elvis Presley Enterprises with Jack Soden, CEO of Elvis Presley Enterprises<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A film screening of\u00a0<em>He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A live concert with <strong>A Band of Legends<\/strong>, a group of studio musicians that Elvis worked closely with<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">And more<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">GRAMMY Museum Mississippi is located at 800 West Sunflower Road in Cleveland.\u00a0Ticket packages for the weekend celebration range from $70 to $200. An early bird special with packages ranging from $50 to $175 will run through April 6. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at the museum box office or\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammymuseumms.org\/events\/detail\/elvis-presley-from-mississippi-to-graceland\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.grammymuseumms.org\/events\/detail\/elvis-presley-from-mississippi-to-graceland&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1523995894300000&amp;usg=AFQjCNELiwW8X6SIkbP4rTAyqc_qiEe1Rg\">online<\/a><\/strong>. Proceeds\u00a0From Gospel to Rock n\u2019 Roll: A Weekend Honoring Elvis will benefit the Museum\u2019s education programs.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAMMY Museum\u00a0Mississippi\u00a0presents\u00a0From Gospel to Rock n\u2019 Roll: A Weekend Honoring Elvis,\u00a0April 20\u201321, 2018\u00a0at the Museum in Cleveland, Mississippi.\u00a0The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":45865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[12200,57,7599,12217,12216,12215,12201,12202,12206,9030,9031,8580,12203,12218,12207,12199,12205,5,642,12204,3,753,10378],"class_list":["post-45861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southern-culture","tag-andy-childs","tag-cleveland","tag-elvis-presley","tag-elvis-presley-the-searcher","tag-elvis-week","tag-from-gospel-to-rock-n-roll","tag-gene-chrisman","tag-glen-d-hardin","tag-graceland","tag-grammy","tag-grammy-museum","tag-grammy-museum-mississippi","tag-hal-lansky-of-lansky-bros","tag-he-touched-me-the-gospel-music-of-elvis-presley","tag-jack-soden","tag-james-burton","tag-jerry-schilling","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-norbert-putnam","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv","tag-tupelo-elvis-festival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-16-elvis-honor.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}