Schedule of Events
Opening Day Parade
SATURDAY (new day) • 10 a.m. • Front St. in Old Sacramento
NOTE: The route has changed. Reviewing Stand will be near the Delta King, and the parade will run in the opposite direction in 2012. Bands will line-up on Neasham Circle (near Tower Bridge).
Arrive early! Bring the kids and start lining Old Sacramento's streets at around 8:30 a.m. just to get a good vantage point for watching our parade of musicians and entertainers as they wind their way around Old Sacramento's storied streets.
You'll see marching bands, of course, but that's only part of it. Fire trucks, antique cars and limousines, colorful costumes, military color guards and various dignitaries, all will be in motion.
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
- Big bands / Orchestras
- 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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