About Sacramento Jazz Jubilee
What is the Sacramento Music Festival?
Every Memorial Day Weekend since 1974, Old Sacramento and other Downtown venues have been home to one ofthe area's biggest parties of the year.Originally the Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee, the event has evolved with the changing times, and is now called the Sac. Music Festival to reflect the incorporation of other styles of music in addition to classic jazz and swing, still the primary focus of this four-day event. Sponsored by the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, the event supports the preservation of traditional jazz—America's greatest original art form—through STJS Jazz Education Programs.
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PHOTOS and INFO
For promotional purposes, the Media can access photos of last year's Festival at here at Flickr.
For Media information, contact Jim Caselli at <caselli@sacjazz.com> or call and leave a message for Jim at the
STJS Office: (916) 372-5277.
For all music lovers
From all over the stylistic map: (Click here to view list of performing artists)
- Traditional Jazz
- Classic Jazz and Swing
- Jazzy Blues and Rockin' Blues
- R&B / Soul / Funk
- New Orleans 2nd-line (street beat)
- Western Swing
The event kicks off with crowds lining the street for a colorful parade on Friday morning,
then sparkles with Mardi Gras beads all day long and throughout the weekend into
Monday, propelled by a number of unique shows along the way: marching bands, tribute
concerts, a Sunday morning gospel sets, over a dozen youth groups,
and a "Swing Dance Contest" featuring hundreds of top swing dancers competing for cash.
Shuttle buses transport concertgoers between the event's 20 venues located throughout Old Sacramento, Midtown, and
the Convention Center.
Click here for more travel info.
Those with festival badges get free entry into all five history museums in Old Sac:
• California State Railroad Museum - 125 I Street - (916) 445-6645
• California State Military Museum - 1119 Second Street - (916) 442-2883
• Sacramento History Museum - 101 I Street - (916) 264-7057
• Schoolhouse Museum - 1200 Front Street - (916) 483-8818
• Old Sacramento Wells Fargo History Museum - 1000 2nd Street - (916) 440-4263
Featured Music
- Now presenting a full range of
great music while still
honoring our jazz tradition:
BLUES, ROCK, JAZZ, DANCE BANDS - Soulful blues and rockin' blues
- Swing and Western swing
- Cajun and zydeco
- Country, rockabilly and bluegrass
- Latin and Mariachi music
- New Orleans 2nd-line & street beat
- Straight-ahead & mainstream jazz
- Ragtime and early jazz
- Marching bands
- Youth bands
- Banjo performances at the
CA State Railroad Museum and
on excursion trains - all in addition to Traditional jazz,
also known as Dixieland or
classic jazz, inspired by the great Louis Armstrong.
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Volunteers
Interested in volunteering at the Sacramento Music Festival? Click here!
Learn more about STJS (Sac. Trad. Jazz Society), presenter of the annual
Sac. Music Festival.
Sponsors
