Elvis Presley performance this evening was in the large meeting room of the Hope City Hall in Hope, Arkansas. Also on the bill were Whitey "The Duke Of Paducah" Ford, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, Jimmie Rodgers Snow, Charley Steward, and Uncle Dudley.
The show was produced by Carroll A. Wynn of KXAR radio, who was one of the few women promoters at this time. The show may have been co-sponsored by Holsom Bread, as one teen recalled getting in free with a bread wrapper. In any event, the show did not draw anything close to a full house.
This night Elvis Presley faced an extremely tough country audience, composed largely of country purists. Nevertheless, Elvis Presley charmed the crowd with renditions of "Uncle Pen" and "Old Shep".
Lura Mitchell wrote in the T. Tommy Time newsletter in 1955, ''On February 22, we had a big Elvis Presley show here. He featured his two men, Scotty Moore and Bill Black; also Charley Stewart, Jimmie Rodgers Snow, and Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters. I have never seen so many people. Believe me, there couldn't have been anyone left without a headache. I've never heard such screaming in all my life as the people did when Elvis came out. Sounded like the building was going any minute. Quite a guy''.