Sacramento Jazz Jubilee
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The Sacramento Jazz Jubilee is held every Memorial weekend in Sacramento, CA. It is organized and put on by the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, usually sponsored by Raley's and Bel-Air supermarkets, and features some of the most noted jazz musicians in the world. With the 2007 edition, the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee will celebrate 34 years of existence.
It is the diversity of this festival that regularly brings thousands of people from all over the world out of their early-summer doldrums to get down with us. We present lots of traditional jazz, but in addition, you can hear swing, blues, zydeco, barbershop, ragtime and mainstream jazz, along with a number of specialty acts that defy description.
The Jubilee features a vast array of performers in Old Sacramento's concert venues as well as dozens of special performances, including a big opening parade, Sunday jazz gospel services, specialty concerts for pianists, banjoists, and programs to honor America ’s men and women in uniform. Also present at the Jubilee is a wide variety of youth bands from across the nation. Some of these youth bands have even come from as far as Canada to play at the event.
