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Thirty years of Burning Love: fans flock to Parkes Elvis festival in Australia – in pictures
Guardian Australia photographer Mike Bowers travels to the 2023 Elvis festival in the NSW central west town of Parkes as the king of rock’n’roll’s disciples celebrate its 30th anniversary. The event, which draws visitors from around the world, is half festival, half pilgrimage to the high altar of Elvis worship in Australia
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Kingsley Rock entertains the crowd at Sydney’s Central station as the Elvis Express train prepares to travel to Parkes
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Alfred Vaz, known as the Bollywood Elvis, and his cape at Central station ready to board the Elvis Express
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The VIP performers carriage begins to fill up at Central station
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Seeing double as the Elvis Express train begins to roll out of Sydney
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An Elvis fan carries a Gottfried Helnwein Boulevard of Broken Dreams poster through the streets of Parkes
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The headline acts for the festival. From left, newly crowned Miss Priscilla 2023 Nickyra Burley, Dean Z, Diogo Light and Victor Trevino Jr at the famous Parkes telescope, the Dish
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Damian Mullin gets a little help from seven-year-old Memphis and five-year-old Octavius, who stepped on stage from the crowd. Mullin recognised the boys, shouting ‘you stole my show in Geelong’, before performing the hit Suspicious Minds to the crowd at the Parkes leagues club
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Janette Taylor and Bob Turner dance in the main street of Parkes
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One of the headline acts of the festival, Elvis tribute artist Victor Trevino Jr, on stage at the Parkes leagues club
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Local politician Michael McCormack, the federal member of parliament for Riverina, and Catherine McCormack during Saturday’s Elvis festival street parade
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It’s Blue Hawaii in the NSW central west as the street parade heads down the main street of Parkes
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Toki Toyokazu during his performance in the festival’s Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest
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