{"id":8957,"date":"2010-08-16T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8957"},"modified":"2010-08-15T21:23:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T01:23:23","slug":"niagara-falls-salutes-elvis-his-actual-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/niagara-falls-salutes-elvis-his-actual-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls salutes Elvis, his actual band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfpress.com\/travel\/2010\/08\/13\/15015996.html\">London Free Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The summer of Elvis sightings continues, shifting to Niagara Falls, in what would have been the &#8220;King of Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll&#8217;s&#8221; 75th birthday year.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Falls Elvis Festival will attract 25 &#8220;tribute artists&#8221; from next Thursday through Sunday (Aug. 19-22).<\/p>\n<p>With an outdoor venue having the Falls as the dramatic backdrop and indoor events, the festival is put on by Niagara-area native William Maurice, an Elvis tribute artist and his company, Universal Media Group International.<\/p>\n<p>Being presented in &#8220;the world&#8217;s most spectacular place,&#8221; the festival pays tribute to the anniversary of Elvis&#8217; birth, he said. Expected to attract 4,000 to 6,000 people, it occurs 33 years after Elvis&#8217; death.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s important is &#8220;the Elvis factor&#8221; &#8212; that is the &#8220;fans that travel extensively throughout the world to relive the life and times of the King of Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll,&#8221; Maurice said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the London Free Press: The summer of Elvis sightings continues, shifting to Niagara Falls, in what would have been the &#8220;King of Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll&#8217;s&#8221; 75th birthday year. The Niagara Falls Elvis Festival will attract 25 &#8220;tribute artists&#8221; from next Thursday through Sunday (Aug. 19-22). With an outdoor venue having the Falls as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[4181,4180,4179,4178,3780,3459,3412,338,4183,4182,3461],"class_list":["post-8957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-75th-birthday","tag-elvis-death","tag-elvis-sightings","tag-elvis-tribute-artist","tag-london-free-press","tag-niagara-falls-elvis-festival","tag-rock-n-roll","tag-tribute-artists","tag-umgi","tag-universal-media-group-international","tag-william-maurice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8958,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}