Elvis Festival Porthcawl: In Pictures
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Thousands of visitors are in south Wales this weekend for the 10th annual Porthcawl Elvis Festival which takes over the resort every year
Over 100 professional Elvis tribute acts - or ETAS as they are known - have come to the town from around the world to perform at more than 225 concerts honouring the late Elvis Presley
A long-time supporter of the show, Elvis's tour producer in the 1970s Charles Stone, is attending this year's festival and on Saturday night presented the annual Elvies awards
Festival organiser Peter Phillips said the town was alive with Elvis followers. Here two fans proudly sport images of the star on their t-shirts
Last year, Mr Phillips said, the Welsh government calculated 31,000 people attended the festival spending £6.7m in the local economy. Vendors in Porthcawl also get into the spirit of the event with festival visitors
There was an Elvis to meet on every corner in Porthcawl
The festival started 10 years ago as a way of boosting the town's Grand Pavilion. It now claims to be the world's biggest Elvis celebration and even has a spin-off festival held in Benidorm in Spain each April, Mr Phillips said
More Elvis celebrations, as photographed by freshers on the University of South Wales' new photojournalism degree course. All photos in this gallery are taken by the students