This past Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005 the UTM students for The American Red Cross hosted a concert featuring Kenny Presley to raise money.

The concert was held in the Watkins Auditorium in the Boling University Center. The concert was dazzling as different performers opened up for Presley and displayed their talent.

Jonathan McGrew performed “Fireman” which got the crowd into the show with the old country western sound. Then there was Eric Cantrell, who is a part of the River Band and really got the audience involved. As his band was setting up he went around and talked to some of the people in the audience to get a vibe of what the crowd was like. He said a couple of jokes to loosen the crowd up, then performed a song entitled “Ring of Fire”. During the song he grabbed a young lady out of the audience and began to dance with her as his band kept playing. Then after that song he found out who was from where as he went into his next song entitled” Big City”.

Now it was time for the King to make his appearance. Kenny Presley, an Elvis impersonator, really rocked the house. He made his way onto the stage dressed in an all black leather suit with a guitar. Presley really looked like The King himself, from the sideburns all the way to the costume. He even had the dance moves down. Presley opened up with “Blue Suede Shoes” followed by “Teddy Graham”. The audience was singing right along with Presley as if it was The King himself.

Presley dazzled the audience with his voice and energy. He really brought the house down when he performed “Heartbreak Hotel”.
All the proceeds from the concert went to benefit the Red Cross.