Aiken’s City Billiards supplies hunks of enjoyable for Elvis followers

AIKEN — The lunchtime crowd at City Billiards acquired a double serving to of Elvis Presley-style music and strikes July 9, with entertainers Jason Sikes and Travis Powell pooling their abilities to advertise a first-of-its-kind occasion specializing in essentially the most well-known son of Tupelo, Mississippi. 

Burning Love Fest, that includes quite a lot of tribute artists, is ready for July 23-26 at USC Aiken, with the Etherredge Center because the host website, and Sikes and Powell among the many performers. 

Thursday’s listeners included a minimum of one in all elementary-school age (Presley Jane Johnson, 9, who is called for the famous person) and a minimum of one with teenage recollections of when Presley grew to become a famous person (Janet Johnson, 84, visiting from Mora, Minnesota), in 1955-56.

“It was wonderful,” mentioned Terra Allen Jones, proprietor of City Billiards. “It was amazing, and we had a lot of people tell us that they had such a great time.”

Feedback, she mentioned, included a request to have Sikes and Powell again for an additional go to. 

Powell helped put the upcoming pageant into perspective. “We’re looking to make this an annual event, and this is our inaugural one, so … there’s nothing like the first of anything you do, so we’ve got a lot of other tribute artists coming in to celebrate, in my opinion, the greatest entertainer of all time,” he mentioned.

Sikes, a 48-year-old Graniteville resident, is to be essentially the most native of the bunch and has a long time of Elvis expertise each domestically and across the nation. 

“Thursday is a welcome party,” Powell mentioned. “You get a meet-and-greet with all the headliners … and then we do a competition, also, during the day Friday and Saturday, with the finals being on Sunday, and then we have headlining shows Friday night and Saturday night, with a finale gospel concert on Sunday.”