Parkes Elvis Festival

The Parkes Elvis Festival is a highlight in the community calendar, and Northparkes is proud to be a major sponsor of the annual event.

The festival brings around 25,000–30,000 visitors to the region and is recognised as one of the top three festivals in Australia. The largest crowd drawing event of the festival is the Northparkes Street Parade which involves our workers and their families parading through Parkes on Elvis themed floats. Additionally, our employee pipeline made up of graduates, apprentices, scholarship holders and vacation students, are given the opportunity to get involved by designing and building the Northparkes float which will lead the parade. This year the Elvis festival was held the 21st through 24th of April and was the 29th year it is has run, celebrating the theme of Speedway. The parade had a great turnout of Elvis themed floats, classic cars, motorbikes and close to 100 employees and their families participating in our speedway float.