Get ready for an afternoon of rockabilly, country, gospel and pure 1950's rock and roll with “One Night in Memphis” Sunday, January 19 at 2pm!
One Night in Memphis is a high energy concert that takes you back to December 4, 1956, the night when four of the biggest names in early rock and roll -- Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash gathered together for an impromptu jam session at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, August 30 at 10am at the BVC Box Office or online at bridgeviewcenter.com.
There will be a Pre-Show Lunch prior to the concert starting at 12pm. For more information and to reserve your table, please call 641-684-7000.
Created and directed by John Mueller from the highly acclaimed show, “Winter Dance Party,” this show has met with the same accolades, sell out shows and audience standing ovations. The show gets off to a rocking start with Carl Perkins performing hits like “Honey Don’t,” “Brown-Eyed Handsome Man,” and “Blue Suede Shoes,” while offering up anecdotes about life as a sharecroppers’ son and his musical influences. Midway through his set, Carl invites session musician Jerry Lee Lewis to join him and the Killer seizes the opportunity to front the band and lead the audience on a musical journey from New Orleans to Nashville and eventually into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame.
As Jerry puts the finishing touches on a set which includes “High School Confidential”, “Breathless, “Whole Lotta Shaking Goin' On,” and “Great Balls of Fire,” the audience will have an opportunity to catch their breath as Johnny Cash is welcomed to the stage with his signature “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.” And then the musical journey through Cash’s timeless catalog begins – including smash hits like “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,” and “I Walk the Line.”
Next up…Elvis Presley, who electrifies the audience and transports them back to his beginnings where he went from driving a truck to delivering eleven #1 hits between 1956 -1959. Hits like “Shake, Rattle & Roll” to “All Shook Up,” “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Don’t be Cruel,” and “Hound Dog.”
Cobblestone Hotel & Suites Main Street is located adjacent to Bridge View Center. For more info and to make reservations, please visit https://www.staycobblestone.com/ia/ottumwa.
