{"id":774922,"date":"2026-07-21T01:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774922\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:13:08","slug":"elvis-returns-to-cape-girardeau-to-mark-71st-anniversary-of-arena-building-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774922\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Elvis\u2019 returns to Cape Girardeau to mark 71st anniversary of Arena Building performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) &#8211; \u201cElvis\u201d will make a return to Cape Girardeau on Monday, July 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/visitcape.com\/event\/elvis-returns-to-highway-61\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/visitcape.com\/event\/elvis-returns-to-highway-61\/\">Impersonator Finley Watkins will perform<\/a> at the AC Brase Arena Building to mark an historic anniversary: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kfvs12.com\/2026\/06\/25\/we-people-highway-61-marks-100-year-anniversary\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kfvs12.com\/2026\/06\/25\/we-people-highway-61-marks-100-year-anniversary\/\">71 years ago on Monday<\/a>, the King himself performed at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to ElvisConcerts.com, tickets for the show that night were just $1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Cape Girardeau concert happened about 6 months before Elvis Presley made his national TV debut on CBS.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFVS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) &#8211; \u201cElvis\u201d will make a return to Cape Girardeau on Monday, July 20. Impersonator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[330565,300744,1075,57158,330564,88,2250,216,3],"class_list":["post-774922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-arena-building","tag-cape-girardeau","tag-community","tag-elvis","tag-elvis-impersonator","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}