Penticton chooses champion for Memphis\u2019 Ultimate Elvis competition<\/p>\n
Published 5:00 pm Monday, June 29, 2026<\/p>\n
After three days celebrating the music of the King of Rock and Roll, Penticton\u2019s annual Elvis Festival wrapped up with its final show on June 28 and the selection of a champion.<\/p>\n
The annual event, the longest running Elvis Festival in Canada, marked its 24th year over the weekend with a packed house at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre.<\/p>\n
The Elvis Tribute Artists (ETA) showcased the best of the King of Rock and Roll, from his most tender moments to his most iconic rock\u2019n\u2019roll songs.<\/p>\n
Artists young and old, new to Penticton and familiar faces, all got on stage to pay tribute to the musical legend.<\/p>\n
This year saw three truly young ETAs take to the stage, and despite their size, they didn\u2019t seem intimated at all by the crowd as they powered through a song apiece.<\/p>\n
The winner of this year\u2019s festival in the professional category, with the door now open to August\u2019s Ultimate Elvis competition in Memphis, was Angel Saucedo.<\/p>\n
The non-pro division crowned Jesse Lamont as the top performer, earning him the right to enter as a pro in future events.<\/p>\n
After the final performances, the headliners returned to the stage, including 2024\u2019s Penticton pro champion Moses Snow, joined by Emilio Santoro and Bruno Nesci.<\/p>\n
Tickets are already on sale for the 2027 Penticton Elvis Fetsival, which will mark a milestone of 25 years celebrating the King of Rock and Roll, alongside the commemoration and 50th anniversary of Elvis\u2019 death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penticton chooses champion for Memphis\u2019 Ultimate Elvis competition Published 5:00 pm Monday, June 29, 2026 After three days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-770299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}