Annual Events

The Elvis Presley Birthday Celebration

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Bears on Tour - Scavenger Hunt at Graceland
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Starting at the Graceland Ticket Office. Guests are invited to tour Graceland Mansion (no audio tour) and the Elvis Presley Automobile Museum while simultaneously participating in a trivia scavenger hunt. Adult and junior versions of the scavenger hunt will be available. Prizes for both adult and junior versions to be announced. Admission: $30.00 Adults; $13.00 children 7-12. Ticket on sale date tba.

Club Elvis at Graceland
8:00 p.m. - 12:00 Midnight. Elvis Presley Car Museum, Graceland Plaza. Come hang out and enjoy a private party with your fellow Elvis fans. A disc jockey spins Elvis records for your listening and dancing pleasure. Cash bar featuring adult beverages (ID's checked) and soft drinks. Outdoor smoking area designated, no smoking inside. Admission $25.00. Ticket on sale date tba.

Elvis Presley Day Ceremony
9:30 a.m. North lawn of Graceland. Enjoy a ceremony with Graceland/EPE officials, a birthday cake cutting and a proclamation of Elvis Presley Day by Memphis and Shelby County officials. Free admission. Complimentary birthday cake and coffee served at the Chrome Grille restaurant across the street from the mansion following the ceremony.

Live Entertainment in Ticket Pavilion by Terry Mike Jeffrey
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Graceland Ticket Pavilion. After enjoying Elvis birthday cake, enjoy live Elvis music performed by Terry Mike Jeffrey inside the ticket pavilion at Graceland. Free.

Official Elvis Insiders Reception and Graceland Tour
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. An event exclusively for members of the Elvis Insiders. A private evening tour of Graceland Mansion in all its holiday splendor and a reception across the street in Graceland Plaza. The reception will not be a seated "theater-style" event but will be a progressive event moving about the plaza area and will include Elvis's airplanes, The Elvis Presley Automobile Museum, Elvis in Hollywood exhibit in the Sincerely Elvis Museum and Elvis Lives exhibit. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres and cash bars will be available. Guest tba. Everyone wins a door prize. As has become tradition, just for the dates of the Elvis Birthday Celebration, special Elvis exhibits from the Graceland Archives will be in place inside the residential area of the mansion. The special evening tour of the mansion includes the audio tour presentation, plus Elvis Christmas music playing in the background. Decorations for the 2009/2010 holiday season will be in place. Because of space limitations, Elvis Insiders may purchase only one guest ticket in addition to their own. Admission $48.00 adults, $26.00 children 7-12, children under 7 free. Parking in the main Graceland parking lot is free beginning at 4:30 PM. Ticket on sale date tba.

Fan Club Presidents' Event
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon. Location tba. Join Elvis Presley fan club presidents from independent Elvis fan clubs from around the world at this special event to learn about the amazing work that fan clubs do to continue on Elvis's name and memory. All fans are invited to attend this event where they can learn more about what official Elvis Presley fan clubs do, while also enjoying a program of EPE company updates and special announcements. Special guest speaker tba. Tickets for additional fan club members and the general public are $10.00. Ticket on sale date tba.

Conversations on Elvis
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Location tba. Hear from Elvis' friends and associates as they share their stories and memories of Elvis. More details on special guest tba. Tickets are $20.00. Ticket on sale date tba.

The Elvis Presley Birthday Pops
8:00 p.m. The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 255 North Main Street in downtown Memphis. Celebrate the king of rock 'n' roll as the Memphis Symphony presents its annual Elvis Birthday Pops concert. Ticket on sale date tba.

Southern Gospel Celebration at Graceland with The Imperials
8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Graceland. Join The Imperials for a live concert in the ticket pavilion at Graceland. Enjoy classic gospel songs performed by one of Elvis' favorite groups while enjoying the beauty of Graceland in the early morning. Tickets are $25.00. Seating will be very limited.Ticket on sale date tba.

Graceland Tours
Tours of Graceland Mansion, the Elvis Presley Automobile Museum, Elvis's personal jets, the Sincerely Elvis Museum and Private Presley available daily. Click here for tickets and details. Graceland Mansion is decorated in all its traditional splendor indoors and out through January 10th. Especially for fans coming in for the Elvis Presley Birthday Celebration, special additional exhibits will be in place throughout the mansion January 8-10. Click here to purchase tickets online. To order tickets over the phone, call from all parts of the world (901) 332-3322. Or, from the USA and Canada, call toll-free 800-238-2000.

Free Walk-Up Times for The Meditation Garden
Daily throughout the year there is a period of time for free-admission walk-up visits to the Meditation Garden at Graceland, where the grave sites of Elvis and members of his family are located. Then the area becomes part of the regular ticketed Graceland Mansion tours for the rest of the day. The winter hours for free walk-up visits are 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. daily. During the Elvis' Birthday Celebration, there will also be nightly walkups from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. on January 6, 7 and 9.

Elvis Bingo
Times and dates tba.
Heartbreak Hotel Dining Area. Play bingo for great Elvis prizes. Admission is FREE, but you need at ticket. Free tickets are available at the entrances into the dining area at least 30 minutes before the games start. Available on a first come, first serve basis.

NOTE: All event information is subject to change.

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