{"id":24504,"date":"2017-08-18T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T00:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24504"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:10:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T00:10:26","slug":"festivals-all-shook-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/festivals-all-shook-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Festivals All Shook Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/allshoo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fans of Elvis \u00a0who visited Graceland (graceland.com) recently for the annual candlelight vigil commemorating his death Aug. 16, 1977 were all shook up, having to pay over $25 after enjoying decades of free attendance and admission. Californians are all shook up for another festival event which is free &#8212; the annual Elvis Festival on Historic Main Street in Garden Grove. This year\u2019s event also honors the 40th anniversary of Elvis Presley\u2019s death. California has a long history of being shook up with the Presley presence in Hollywood, Palm Springs, Idyllwild and Beverly Hills, where ex-wife \u00a0Priscilla Presley revealed that she will never move out of her Beverly Hills home because it reminds her of Elvis. California has a longer history of shaking as the nation&#8217;s Earthquake Capital, which is also celebrated at a festival in Winters.<\/p>\n<h2>All Shook UP!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>GARDEN GROVE: Annual Elvis Festival on \u00a0Main Street \u00a0August 27, \u00a02017, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. features Kirk Wall (pictured). An Elvis themed art contest, stilt walking Elvis and Priscilla, Abbit the Average Elvis, Elvis Fan Clubs: The Jailhouse Rockers of California and Blue Suede Shoes of California, Elvis memorabilia and collectibles, and special Elvis food items are featured. Info:\u00a0elvisfestival@yahoo.com<\/li>\n<li>WINTERS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/winters-earthquake-festival.html\">Earthquake Festival<\/a>\u00a0August 25 on Main Street, declares It&#8217;s Our Fault and We&#8217;re Proud of It! The free event celebrates its\u00a0devastating earthquake of 1892.<\/li>\n<li>SAND CITY: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sand-city-west-end.html\">West End Celebration<\/a>\u00a0(pictured) is an annual street festival combining music, dancing, art and \u00a0good times August 25-27.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Elvis \u00a0who visited Graceland (graceland.com) recently for the annual candlelight vigil commemorating his death Aug. 16, 1977 were all shook up, having to pay over $25 after enjoying decades of free attendance and admission. Californians are all shook up for another festival event which is free &#8212; the annual Elvis Festival on Historic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}