As the autumn leaves begin to change color and the cool breeze fills the night air, every Elvis fan gears up for a great time at The Montreal Performers Showcase. We are thrilled most folks have become aware this is an event not to be missed, as each year the attendance is bigger than the previous . Montreal and out of town fans didn’t want to chance not having a seat, so they purchased their tickets early and our ETAs enjoyed performing for a very excited, over capacity filled house!
Our seventh annual Showcase saw two sets of stars - the Elvis entertainers and the wonderful audience who came to support them. Everyone was appreciative of each other, making this such a special event. It was like an “old home weekend” with friendly people talking and catching up with other fans they had met at previous Showcases. Many had followed the ETAs during the summer Festivals and were eager to see and talk to them in Montreal, with many fans traveling quite a great distance to do so. We had three entertainers from Quebec who were befriended by our cast of US, Ontario and New Brunswick performers , and all they could say was “wow - what a gentlemanly group of guys” . Well friends, to Montreal, they were all fantastic and all paid homage to the memory of the King on this the 30th year of Elvis’ passing. We’ve got to include little “Elvis Boy” Jackson Begley in our kudos, because he certainly lit up the faces & hearts of everyone in the house on both nights!
Among the fantastic crowd, were 60 very enthusiastic ladies from four different branches of the “Red Hat Society”, groups from the Montreal & Hull Casinos, visitors from the US, Ontario and of course many Montrealers (on and off the island). Boy could they party and boy did the ETAs get a kick out of their being there! Thank you Elvis fans, thank you ETAs, thank you LLM crew, you’ve made our 7th annual another huge success! God Bless and adios until next year, when we’ll present our Eighth Annual on October 3 & 4, 2008. We hope you will enjoy some of the wonderful photos souvenirs from the show, which were taken by LLM photographer, Doug McCready - Joanna
"Hats Off To The Entertainers"
I would like to thank each entertainer for joining us in Montreal, you all did such a marvelous job and the people really loved you! Bill McGrath & Joe Ramsey from New York, Sammy J from Philly, David Muggeridge from North Carolina, Mike Bravener from New Brunswick, Larry Tschekalin from Sudbury, James and Jackson Begley from Oshawa and the three artists from Quebec Elvis Gauthier, Robert Baggio and Jacques Millette. Each one of you had an "extra special something" reminiscent of Elvis, that truly made the audience happy. Good work boys, it was a pleasure being your host and we all hope you'll come back to visit us soon, God bless.