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This new Australian show, touring through Victoria in July and August, recreates the electrifying day in 1956 when four of America’s top recording artists met and forever changed the face of popular music.

Blundell is joined by Nick Barker and Dave Larkin (Dallas Crane), Ezra Lee and the Sun Studio Trio,

The original group of musicians known as 'The Million Dollar Quartet' recorded together for the first and only time in a jam session on December 4, 1956, at Sun Records in Memphis.

It was by pure chance that that Presley, Cash, Lewis and Perkins were in the tiny Tennessee recording studio at the same time and, being musicians, it was perhaps inevitable that they indulged in some music making.

This developed into hours of impromptu jamming, each competitively trying to top the others, and produced some of the best music you’ll ever hear.

'Ghost Riders in the Sky', 'Blue Suede Shoes', 'Heartbreak Hotel', 'Great Balls of Fire', 'Folsom Prison Blues' and 'See You Later, Alligator' are just some of the massive hits that are performed in the new production, starring James Blundell, that commemorates that ultimate jam session.

This theatrical event - created and produced in Australia by the same team who created The Man In Black show which starred Tex Perkins -  will premiere in five leading suburban venues ahead of a season in Melbourne later this year, followed by an Australia-wide tour.

Tags: 

• tour
• tribute

Event Type: 

• Festival Guides

More about: 

• James Blundell
• Nick Barker
• Dave Larkin
• Ezra Lee
• Johnny Cash
• Elvis Presley
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Carl Perkins

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