AUSTRALIA (CBS) Thousands took the streets of a regional Australian metropolis on Saturday to celebrate the life and tune of slack musician Elvis Presley.
Participants donned wigs and bejewelled jumpsuits to bounce down the main avenue of Parkes, Australia while others joined the parade in vintage autos.
For first-time competition attendee, Victor Dunstan, the competition was a possibility to relive the tune.
“It’s valid unbelievable stuff in some unspecified time in the future of, valid bringing of us collectively to have faith in ideas him,” he told Reuters.
The Parkes Elvis Festival is in its 29th one year and attracts end to 25,000 to the metropolis some 222 miles west of Sydney.
The competition was cancelled in 2021 and delayed from January to April in 2022 attributable to COVID-19 concerns, and the Parkes Shire Mayor, Ken Keith, was unsure how that would possibly maybe maybe well likely affect the celebration.
“We didn’t know how issues would spin put up COVID nonetheless of us were so excited to safe some distance from COVID and spin and celebrate the king’s shapely tune and moreover they’ve turned up in droves right here at Parkes this one year.”
This years’ festivities closes on Sunday after 5 days of frivolities and Elvis-impressed occasions.