The Parkes Elvis Festival is celebrating its 30th year. The event draws visitors from around the world, is half festival, half pilgrimage to the high altar of Elvis worship in Australia. Our photographer @mikepbowers followed the king of rock’n’roll’s disciples to find out more. 1. Toki Toyokazu during his performance in the festival’s Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest 2. Elvis tribute artist Victor Trevino Jr, one of the headline acts of the 2023 Parkes Elvis festival, performs to a sellout audience at the town’s leagues club. 3. Kingsley Rock entertains the crowd at Sydney’s Central station as the Elvis Express train prepares to travel to Parkes 4. Alfred Vaz, known as the Bollywood Elvis, and his cape at Central station ready to board the Elvis Express 5. 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 6. Janette Taylor and Bob Turner dance in the main street of Parkes 7. Local politician Michael McCormack, the federal member of parliament for Riverina, and Catherine McCormack during Saturday’s Elvis festival street parade 8. It’s Blue Hawaii in the NSW central west as the street parade heads down the main street of Parkes #elvis #elvispresley #rocknroll #music #musicfestival