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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

Memphis replaced the hall where Elvis played with a room tuned note by note. The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts at 255 North Main Street opened in January 2003 on the site of the Ellis Auditorium, the 1924 civic hall that hosted Elvis Presley, Baryshnikov and seventy years of Memphis gatherings before closing in 1996 and falling to the wreckers in 1999 - though dozens of Ellis seats and its terra cotta medallions were salvaged into the new building's east concourse. Named for the Bob and ...