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Stephanie Gardiner

Elvises give quiet country town a little more action

Riley Jenkins, Emilio Santoro and Cote Deonath are shaking up the 2025 Parkes Elvis Festival. (Stephanie Gardiner/AAP PHOTOS)

On the streets of a sleepy rural town, children on summer holidays ride bikes, families walk their dogs and elderly couples load groceries into their cars.

Freight trucks rumble through the farming town of Parkes, in the centre of NSW, on roads lined with crepe myrtles resplendent in pink and purple.

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