Originally the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee, this Memorial Day weekend festival ran from 1974 until 2017, when declining attendance and rising costs brought its 43-year run to a close. At its peak in the 1980s it drew roughly 85,000 fans to Old Sacramento for traditional jazz, swing, ragtime, and later blues, country, and rock.
It gives Sacramento a stronger music-festival row beyond the state fair.
This was, for over four decades, one of the country's major traditional jazz gatherings: founded in late 1973 by Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society leaders Ozzie Belmore and Bill Borcher, the first Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee in 1974 drew 3,000 attendees to seven venues and 21 bands, and by the 1980s peak attendance reached roughly 85,000
In 2011, facing a shrinking traditional jazz audience, organizers broadened the lineup to include blues, country, and rock and renamed the event the Sacramento Music Festival, but attendance continued declining, and the festival presented its final edition in 2017 after 43 years
The festival grew out of the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society's mission to preserve Dixieland and traditional jazz performance
a tradition it maintained for decades before broadening its musical scope in 2011 in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to sustain attendance against competition from larger for-profit music festivals
Dates TBA · Usually May
Downtown Sacramento is airport-accessible.
Not applicable, as the festival is discontinued; historically, Memorial Day weekend riverside venues called for warm-weather casual clothing and comfortable shoes for walking between...
Keep phone power, water, and a clear meeting point sorted before the main crowd arrives.
Downtown Sacramento
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Sacramento Music Festival is listed for May · Spring. Always re-check the official or local source close to travel.
The festival is listed in Sacramento, United States. The map coordinate is a planning reference, not a guarantee of a ticket gate or exact venue.
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