February 28th is a special Sunday. Yerevan's Stop Club is featuring Narek Markarian's new show ELVIS BLUES. The show is a tribute to blues roots and blues legacy of Elvis Presley, that were so crucial on his path to stardom. Elvis was the first white man to sing the blues right, he opened show business doors for a great number of extremely talented African American entertainers and was highly influenced by many great blues artists. In 2004 Elvis Presley was among first white artists to be inducted to Blues hall of Fame.

Blues will be the dominating genre of the evening but not the only one. There is no Elvis tribute without some rock'n'roll, some ballads and gospel too.

For reservations beforehand contact 560780 Stop Club

Great news for all Elvis fans in Armenia. August 9 at 21:00 Narek Markarian puts on an Elvis Tribute show Here's what he told us:

"Hi everyone, I worked very hard for this show and I really hope you will like it.
This is a Tribute Concert to Elvis Presley. August 16 is the International Elvis Day and it is also the day Elvis left us 32 years ago.
The show couldn't take place on 16th, for technical reasons, so we will do it 1 week before. I hope you will enjoy it.
Narek"

Call Stop Club for reservations. 560780 or drop by 37, Moskovyan st

Latest issue of "Yerevan" magazine had an article by your humble servant.

In the article I tried to sum up the relations Elvis had with my compatriot Las Vegas tycoon Kirk Kirkorian. The article touches upon the COlonel's negotiations wth the International Hotel before it was constructed, Elvis first and following enagements in the Hotel and of course the golden belt ELvis received from the hotel.

Hope those of you who can read Russian will enjoy this article as much as I enjoyed writing it.

The title of the article is Kings of Vegas.

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Narek Markarian will be performing Elvis songs at a picture day for children that is a part of Save The Nature Campaighn

The event's gonna take place on Sunday, September 14th starting 10:00, Narek's appearence is scheduled for about 11:00 o'clock. It also happens to be Narek's Birthday :)

Bring your kids, it's gonna be fun.

On April 21st the Concert Hall of Historic Museum of Kyrgizstan in Bishkek was rocked, then rolled, and rocked again.

Narek Markarian, The Armenian Elvis gave a an 70 minute tribute to the King. The concert was aimed to raise money for Children's Department of Nationa Oncology Hospital in Bishkek, to help buy medications for children suffering from cancer.

The show was divided in three parts 50s, 60s and 70s. Narek came out on stage wearing the gold lame suit, then the GI uniform and for the third part he came out on stage wearing national Kyrgiz outfit, underneath which was the red TTWII rehearsal costume.

FLEX program alumnis helped to organize the show. The audience really enjoyed the show. One of the main organizers, Keneshbek Saiznazarov, cam up with the idea of a tour in Kyrgizstan, including 15 concerts, one in each region of the country.

The event was covered in Kyrgiz press and is now being covered by Armenian press. To see the articles, photos from the show and donation of the medications click here. New articles will be added.

...Kerkorian is known as one of the most important figures in shaping the city of Las Vegas, Nevada and, with architect Martin Stern, Jr. the "father of the megaresort."
In 1967, he bought 82 acres (33 hectares) of land on Paradise Road in Las Vegas for $5 million and built the International Hotel, which at the time was the largest hotel in the world. During the construction of the Hotel Kerkorian signed a contract with Elvis that became the beginning of the Vegas era in Elvis’ career.  First performer to appear at the hotel's enormous Showroom Internationale was Barbra Streisand because Elvis didn’t want to do the first gig. Elvis brought in some 4,200 customers (and potential gamblers), every day, for 30 days straight, breaking in the process all attendance records in the city's history.

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He was the world's first rock star. How well do you know him?

This musical show will lead you trough the life of Elvis Presley. The life of the King of Rock'n'Roll will come alive. You'll see how Elvis made his first record Sun Studio, how he became popular and conquered show business, you'll follow Elvis to the US Army, hear his songs form Hollywood movies, see the dramatic story behind his Comeback Special and follow him to Las Vegas.

Your guide will be Elvis' manager the guru of show business Colonel Tom Parker (Sergey Sargsyan) and of course Elvis (Narek Markarian)

Rock'nRoll, Blues, Gospel, Country, Jazz, Ballads and more in one amazing performance. Live sound, exciting script and good time. Show starts at 9:00 pm at Stop Club. 37, Moskovyan St.

As you may know Armenia is in the state of Emergency, althogh that shouldn't prevent us doing this show. Long live the King.

Another show is scheduled scheduled at "Stop" club in Yerevan, famous for rock and jazz live music shows on September 26th, 2007 at 21:00. Elvis Tribute artist Narek Markarian, known as "The Armenian Elvis" will be appearing at the event. It is going to be a two hour live concert featuring many Elvis songs from all eras.Everyone is welcome to join the party! Dont miss the fun!

Two weeks ago Armenian Iravunk newspaper printed an article entitled "Culture Desert". The article was condemning rock music in satanism and calling Elvis Presley the person who started all that. The article accused Elvis in spreading anti-Christianity. Not able to bear all those lies a counter article was sent to the editors. And today I'm very glad to see the article printed. It would've been very sad if some people got an impression about Elvis, from articles like that.

Incompetent journalist, who know nothing about Elvis' art and biography should spend a little more time investigating the topic, before writing these kind of articles. The new article in "Iravunk" indicates a number of inaccuracies by previous author Ruben Adamyan. The answer article mentioned Elvis' love to Gospel music and the great role Elvis played in popularization of that style. To read the article in Armenian click here.

Elvis. Am would like to express deepest consideration to the team of "Iravunk" newspaper for their unbiased and just approach to Elvis Presley.

The article presented here is written By Narek Markarian and the copyrights fully belong to "Iravunk" newspaper.

The First Armenian Elvis page appeared online way back in 2001. It enjoyed popularity among Elvis fans from ex-USSR countries. However time had come to broaden the audience and create a resource that would please fans from around the world. So once the www.elvis.am domain became free it was purchased and a new site was launched on August 16th, 2007. We hope that the resource will become useful for all the fans. We will try to offer most interesting information and downloadables, not found on other sites.

And please give us time fill in all the sections.

Sincerely,

Elvis.Am Team