Elvis Presley’s Graceland Holiday Festivities to include Christmas Tours, Festive Concerts, and More
September 17 2024 - 2:30PM
Business Wire
Christmas season officially kick-offs on
November 21-23 with annual Holiday Lighting Weekend
Elvis Presley’s Graceland will celebrate the holiday
season this year with Christmas tours, live concerts, the one-year
anniversary of the opening of the Enesco Gallery and Gift Shop
(home to the world’s largest collection of Department 56 villages),
and more. Holiday festivities begin with the annual Holiday
Lighting Weekend November 21-23 and continue through Elvis’
Birthday on January 8.
Each year, Elvis Presley’s Graceland celebrates the King of Rock
‘n’ Roll’s love of the holiday season by continuing his tradition
of decorating Graceland’s lawn with hundreds of blue Christmas
lights, a life-size nativity scene, Santa and his reindeer, and
more. The interior of Graceland is filled with seasonal décor that
includes Elvis’ traditional red velvet drapes, multiple Christmas
trees, and artifacts from Presley family Christmases past.
Guests who visit November 21 through December 23 will be
able to enjoy limited-time afternoon Graceland Christmas
tours featuring live tour guides sharing holiday stories of
what it was like to spend Christmas with the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
On select nights during the season, Graceland will also offer
evening Christmas Ultimate VIP Tours for guests who desire
an elevated, small group experience with a personal tour guide and
special photo ops.
Holiday Lighting Weekend on November 21-23 is the official
kick-off to the season with three days of live concerts, festive
events, and our official lighting ceremony. On November 21 at 6:00
pm, Graceland invites the public to join Elvis’ close friend
Jerry Schilling at the annual Holiday Lighting
Ceremony. Jerry will “flip the switch” on Elvis' holiday lights
and decorations, officially starting the holiday season at
Graceland. For those who can’t attend in person, the ceremony will
be livestreamed.
Following the lighting ceremony, Santa will be available for
photos at the Enesco Gallery and Gift Shop featuring Department
56, located on the Graceland campus. The gallery’s
collection is a winter wonderland that leads visitors on a
nostalgic trip through the collectibles inspired by their favorite
movies, music, books and comics from 1976 through today.
Additional weekend festivities include a Christmas Candlelit
Concert at Graceland’s Chapel in the Woods, a Jingle Bell
Brunch featuring music from The Paiges, an Archives
Show and Tell featuring artifacts from Graceland’s new
Christmas book and two live Christmas concerts at Graceland
Soundstage. On Friday, November 22, it is A Rockin’ Memphis
Christmas concert featuring holiday and rockabilly hits
inspired by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis
Presley. Then, on Saturday, November 23, Dean Z will take
the stage with his high-energy Ultimate Elvis Christmas show
featuring the best of Elvis’ hits and Christmas classics. Plus,
exclusive to Holiday Lighting Weekend there will be a special guest
joining all of the new Presley for a Day tours!
Holiday tour experiences, various package and individual ticket
options are available now for purchase online at Graceland.com. The
Holiday Lighting Weekend packages offer the best seats to events,
can’t-buy experiences, special photo opportunities, and more. See a
list of packages here.
The Guest House at Graceland resort hotel is also offering a
special Graceland Christmas Hotel Package throughout the
holiday season featuring two nights hotel accommodations, afternoon
Christmas tours and a Graceland Christmas ornament. The Guest
House, decorated throughout the entire holiday season, is home to
world-class amenities, live lounge entertainment, free movies in
the Guest House Theater and complimentary shuttle service
throughout the Graceland campus.
The Christmas at Graceland festivities will close with Elvis’
90th Birthday Celebration on January 8 – 11, 2025.
Highlights include Elvis’ Birthday Proclamation Ceremony on January
8, plus panels, concerts and parties. More information to be
announced soon.
A complete list of Christmas at Graceland events and offerings
is available at Graceland.com/Christmas.
About Graceland and Elvis Presley
Enterprises, Inc.
Elvis Presley’s Graceland, in Memphis, is music’s most important
and beloved landmark, with hundreds of thousands of fans from
around the world visiting the historic home each year. Elvis
Presley Enterprises, Inc. (EPE) manages the operations of Graceland
and its related properties, including Elvis Presley's Memphis,
Graceland's entertainment and exhibition complex over 200,000
square feet in size; the new 80,000 square feet Graceland
Exhibition Center featuring rotating exhibits; the AAA Four Diamond
Guest House at Graceland 450-room resort hotel; and the Graceland
Archives, featuring thousands of artifacts from Elvis’ home and
career. EPE also produces and licenses Elvis-themed live events,
tours, and attractions worldwide. Graceland Holdings LLC, led by
managing partner Joel Weinshanker, is the majority owner of EPE.
Graceland is the only attraction worldwide to ever receive 11 USA
Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards including “Best Holiday
Historic Home Tour,” “Best Tennessee Attraction and Iconic
Landmark,” “Best Musical Attraction,” “Best Historic Southern
Attraction,” and the #1 “Iconic American Attraction.” The
TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards named Graceland the most
popular attraction in Tennessee and one of the top 25 landmarks in
the world and Rolling Stone named it one of 10 Great American Music
Landmarks. For more information on EPE and Graceland, visit
www.graceland.com
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Channel 76
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