Aloha from Memphis

You are Our Ultimate…

Thus commented ETA fan Kristy Wan Lum on Ted Torres Martin’s Facebook page. Although Ted will not be competing this year at the Ultimate competition, fans can catch Ted’s title-worthy ultimate performances at two Memphis venues in August:

On August 10th, Ted will be returning to the place that he has been performing for the last two years, the world famous Hernando's Hide-A-Way.

“A lot of people have been asking me if I will be returning to Hernando's for quite a few months now, so here's your answer! Glad to be back to perform this intimate show for so many great people which always feels like being around family. I will be bringing you a different show where I will be performing lots of Elvis!/Classic Country/Rockabilly/and even some of my original music that I have written and recorded over the last year and a half (to be released in the near future).”

Tickets: https://www.seetickets.us/.../Ted-Torres-Martin.../483284

Also during Elvis Week 2022 in Memphis, on August 12th, Ted will be performing in “Aloha from Memphis” at the Halloran Centre, in celebration of the upcoming anniversary of “Aloha from Hawaii”.

Ted Torres Martin with friends at the showing of the move “Elvis”.

“Hi friends! If you missed the “Aloha from Hawaii” concert being featured in the new movie, “Elvis”, as many of us did, then you won't want to miss our production of "Aloha From Memphis" during Elvis Week 2022 at The Halloran Centre on August 12, 2022, at 3pm. Help us celebrate the upcoming 50th Anniversary of one of Elvis's most acclaimed performances. We will be taking the audience back to 1973 with this fantastic production, an experience everyone will want to be a part of. It will also be the prototype for a brand new production I will be releasing in the near future. Elvis fans will not want to miss this very special production!”

Aloha from Memphis stars World Champion/International performer and Elvis Presley Enterprises "Spirit Of Elvis" recipient Ted Torres Martin.

This is guaranteed to be a very different and special event from anything else going on during Elvis week 2022. filled with some surprises. If you want to be a part of something different—outside the box and out of the norm (in a great way), this is the show for you. Backed by the fantastic "Change Of Habit Tribute Band" Ted will recreate one of Elvis's most acclaimed performances from the groundbreaking "Aloha From Hawaii" concert in honor of the upcoming 50th Anniversary. You won't see this anywhere else! See you at the Halloran Centre in Memphis TN on August 12th. It is the show everyone will be talking about..."Aloha From Memphis"!

To be a part of the experience, purchase tickets at: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1B005CA4C939586D

ETA Ted Torres Martin with SB Mag Editor, Carolyn MacArthur, at the 2022 NFEF.

Editor’s Note: I had the pleasure of interviewing ETA Ted Torres Martin for SIDEBURNS: The Ultimate ETA Fan Magazine in 2018 and seeing him perform in at the 2022 Niagara Falls Elvis Festival. Ted is a fantastic performer; and if I were able to be in Memphis this year, I would be going to both of his shows. Ted took a moment from his busy schedule to answer my question, “What is your favourite song in the “Aloha from Hawaii” concert?” Ted’s answer…

“My favourite song from the Aloha Concert has to be “It’s Over”. As a musician and having studied classical music for years, melodies are very important to me. The melody to this song is very captivating…just beautiful.”

For your enjoyment, I have included the following videos that show why Ted Torres Martin is the “ultimate” ETA. Have a great time at Ted’s two Memphis shows during Elvis Week 2022 in Memphis, you lucky fans that purchased tickets!

Cheers! Carolyn MacArthur, Editor, SIDEBURNS Magazine.

Videos

Summer Reading: "Empty Cradle"...A True Crime Story (Copy)

Summer Reading:  “Empty Cradle”

I just finished reading a fascinating book that my friend Pam lent me because she thought I would find it interesting.  I am a big fan of British mystery series, but this book, based on a real life abduction of a baby that happened on December 23rd, 1993, has struck me to the core like no British mystery ever could—no matter how bloody. 

“Empty Nest” was written by Diana Walsh years after the frightening abduction of her newborn baby.  Writing her book acted as a form of therapy for PTS Syndrome that resulted from the trauma.  I don’t want to give away too many of the surprising details of the book as you may want to read it, but I will say that the Walsh family lived, and still live, in Stoney Creek, ON, the same town where Pam and I grew up.  The author mentions well-known landmarks such as the Attic Restaurant on King St, Orchard Park Secondary School--the same high school from where two of my daughters graduated, and the Escarpment, the scene of many Good Friday hikes.  All are familiar names and places to “Creekers”.   The abduction of Baby Shelby happened at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington—the same hospital where two of my daughters were born years earlier! 

Diana Walsh has done a splendid job of switching back and forth between her story and the abductor’s story until fate brings them together on a cold winter’s afternoon just before Christmas, 1993.  The locations, familiar to everyone in the Stoney Creek/Hamilton/Burlington/Aldershot area, continue to pop up in the book as the story unfolds:  Big V Drugstore, now Shoppers Drugmart, (I once worked at Big V in Hamilton), and the former Town and Country Motel that is a 15 minute drive from my present dwelling where I comfortably sat reading Ms. Walsh’s book this past week, play important roles in this true life crime drama.     

Some of you may remember new stories and reports of the abduction that reached beyond local and national print and broadcasts; but reading the words of the distraught mother telling her own story goes beyond the capability of anything you would read in a newspaper or see on TV.  While the story is predominantly hers to tell, she also shares relative real life stories of children gone missing, whether supposed or actual fact, which reminded me of a time when I thought my youngest daughter was missing from the Ponderosa Restaurant in Hamilton, ON.  Thankfully, my little 1 ½ year old, who had slid from the booth where she was sitting with her sisters to unknowingly follow me, was e found standing at the end of the food line watching diners place their orders.  Small as she was, she could see me, but I couldn’t see her; so for a few minutes when I realized she was not with her sisters, I ran around the restaurant and out to the parking lot hysterically asking startled strangers, “Have you seen my baby?”  Telling this story to you now stirs up the same feelings that I felt that day, so many years ago. My heart goes out to Diana, her husband and their family for the unbearable pain they must have suffered. 

My friend Pam and I at the Village Restaurant in Stoney Creek, ON.

If you want a great book for your summer reading, one that you won’t want to put down until you know the outcome of the story, I recommend “Empty Nest”.  I suggest you do not search out articles, or flip to the back of the book where you will find copies of articles from 1993, if you want the story to remain a mystery.  Not knowing all the details certainly increased my anticipation.  I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next!

Thank you to my friend, Pam, for lending me one of the most intriguing books I have read in a while—definitely a page-turner. 

 Carolyn MacArthur, Editor, SIDEBURNS Magazine

Summer Reading: "Empty Cradle"...A True Crime Story

Summer Reading:  “Empty Cradle”

I just finished reading a fascinating book that my friend Pam lent me because she thought I would find it interesting.  I am a big fan of British mystery series, but this book, based on a real life abduction of a baby that happened on December 23rd, 1993, has struck me to the core like no British mystery ever could—no matter how bloody. 

“Empty Nest” was written by Diana Walsh years after the frightening abduction of her newborn baby.  Writing her book acted as a form of therapy for PTS Syndrome that resulted from the trauma.  I don’t want to give away too many of the surprising details of the book as you may want to read it, but I will say that the Walsh family lived, and still live, in Stoney Creek, ON, the same town where Pam and I grew up.  The author mentions well-known landmarks such as the Attic Restaurant on King St, Orchard Park Secondary School--the same high school from where two of my daughters graduated, and the Escarpment, the scene of many Good Friday hikes.  All are familiar names and places to “Creekers”.   The abduction of Baby Shelby happened at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington—the same hospital where two of my daughters were born years earlier! 

Diana Walsh has done a splendid job of switching back and forth between her story and the abductor’s story until fate brings them together on a cold winter’s afternoon just before Christmas, 1993.  The locations, familiar to everyone in the Stoney Creek/Hamilton/Burlington/Aldershot area, continue to pop up in the book as the story unfolds:  Big V Drugstore, now Shoppers Drugmart, (I once worked at Big V in Hamilton), and the former Town and Country Motel that is a 15 minute drive from my present dwelling where I comfortably sat reading Ms. Walsh’s book this past week, play important roles in this true life crime drama.     

Some of you may remember new stories and reports of the abduction that reached beyond local and national print and broadcasts; but reading the words of the distraught mother telling her own story goes beyond the capability of anything you would read in a newspaper or see on TV.  While the story is predominantly hers to tell, she also shares relative real life stories of children gone missing, whether supposed or actual fact, which reminded me of a time when I thought my youngest daughter was missing from the Ponderosa Restaurant in Hamilton, ON.  Thankfully, my little 1 ½ year old, who had slid from the booth where she was sitting with her sisters to unknowingly follow me, was e found standing at the end of the food line watching diners place their orders.  Small as she was, she could see me, but I couldn’t see her; so for a few minutes when I realized she was not with her sisters, I ran around the restaurant and out to the parking lot hysterically asking startled strangers, “Have you seen my baby?”  Telling this story to you now stirs up the same feelings that I felt that day, so many years ago. My heart goes out to Diana, her husband and their family for the unbearable pain they must have suffered. 

My friend Pam and I at the Village Restaurant in Stoney Creek, ON.

If you want a great book for your summer reading, one that you won’t want to put down until you know the outcome of the story, I recommend “Empty Nest”.  I suggest you do not search out articles, or flip to the back of the book where you will find copies of articles from 1993, if you want the story to remain a mystery.  Not knowing all the details certainly increased my anticipation.  I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next!

Thank you to my friend, Pam, for lending me one of the most intriguing books I have read in a while—definitely a page-turner. 

 Carolyn MacArthur, Editor, SIDEBURNS Magazine