TUPELO — The Tupelo Elvis Festival returns for its 26th year on Wednesday with a sold-out opening night gala to kick off several days of events scheduled through Sunday. Competitions, concerts ...

ELVIS PRESLEY's 1956 Tupelo concert has seen an eyewitness share her memories of the "very exciting" show from The King's early career. By George Simpson, Senior Film and Arts Reporter.

In January 1945, Gladys Presley took her son Elvis into Tupelo Hardware Company in his Mississippi hometown to pick out a gift for his eleventh birthday. He tried to talk her into a .22 caliber ...

For casual listeners like myself, the experience of just three days in Tupelo during Elvis Week borders on overload. The last night was a huge concert featuring the North Mississippi Symphony ...

TUPELO — The 27th annual Tupelo Elvis Festival is set for June 4 through 7 at the historic Lyric Theatre in downtown Tupelo, along with a lineup of other events around the city, the Downtown ...

If you're an Elvis fan who's been to Memphis but not visited his birthplace in Tupelo, Jennie Bradford of the Tupelo Convention and Visitors Bureau says you're missing out.

Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo in 1935 and lived the first 13 years of his life here before moving to Memphis with his parents. Forty-one years after Elvis’ untimely death in 1977 at his ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Living the legend means more to an Elvis fan than taking the Graceland mansion tour. Granted, touring the mansion and a ...

That’s in Tupelo, a town of about 35,500 in northwest Mississippi. This one-time railroad hub is a four-time winner of the All-American City Award. And of course, it’s the birthplace of Elvis ...

George Booth III manages Tupelo Hardware Company, a fourth-generation family business and major stop on the city’s Elvis Presley Birthplace Trail. What happened on that fateful day in 1946 when ...

The excursions are the latest in Graceland's efforts to expand the Elvis legacy. One of those efforts, a planned 6,200-seat concert hall, ran into problems because of a non-compete agreement with ...

Living the legend means more to an Elvis fan than taking the Graceland mansion tour. Granted, touring the mansion and a pausing at Elvis’ gravesite is a prerequisite for any ...