Sacramento Music Festival

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Schedule of Events

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Jazz music of all types will permeate Old Sacramento and the area around the Sacramento Convention Center. Click on any event, below, for more information. On the youth band stages (Next Generation Band sites), there will be over a dozen bands made up of teenage musicians preserving the jazz tradition.

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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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