‘Elvis’ was in the building

There was a whole lotta shakin’ going on at the Park Theater Saturday night as Cote Deonath and Riley Jenkins saluted the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley.

A crowd of nearly 400 from eight states including attendees from as far away as California, Massachusetts and New York, filled McMinnville’s historic theater for The Ultimate Elvis Concert, a tribute to the legendary showman.

Jenkins, from Clarksville, Tenn., making his second appearance at the Park Theater alongside Deonath, opened the show with a variety of Elvis hits from the ‘50s before going off for a costume change and launching into many of Presley’s Hollywood hits.

After an intermission, Deonath, the winner of the 2023 Ultimate Elvis title awarded during Elvis Week in August at Graceland, took the stage and led the crowd through many of Elvis’ most-beloved Vegas-era hits. Deonath rocked and wowed the crowd with three different Elvis jumpsuits throughout the show, which was structured around Baz Luhrmann’s “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” film.

The appearance was Deonath’s fourth year to play the Park and Jenkins’ second. The pair was backed by the Infinit-E Tribute Band. Deonath announced plans to return to the Park Theater in late November 2027 for an Elvis Christmas show.

For more on the show, see the Main Street Journal’s previously published story here.