Sacramento Jazz Festival and Jubilee

2010 Performance Sites and Locations

Music will be performed at 24 sites—and in the streets—from "Old Sac" to the Convention Center. Sites vary from small, cozy rooms holding about a hundred people, to a huge lot in Old Sac where more than 1,500 fans can let loose and boogie. New in Old Sac: the Whistle Stop and Patio D'Oro Ragtime. You'll find music in four of Sacramento's luxurious hotels: Holiday Inn, Sheraton Grand, Hyatt Regency, and Embassy Suites. View MAP JPG or PDF. FOOD vendors!

Old Sacramento Area

"Old Sac" is a National Historic Landmark District and State Historic Park with world-renowned museums focusing on railroad history and the Gold Rush era. Performance sites in Old Sacramento range from the charming precincts of the refurbished Delta King riverboat (afloat on the Sacramento River), to the highly improbable Freeway Gardens— a parking lot under Interstate 5. Music is performed outside the majestic California State Railroad Museum, in canvas tents along the Sacramento River, in the foliated courtyard of the Firehouse Restaurant (and their cozy banquet room), in world-class hotel ballrooms, and even below street level in the brick-covered Round Table Pizza Parlor. They're all within the perimeter of Old Sacramento, an easy walk from venue to venue, so that visitors may sample any of the festival's lively musical styles all in one area. Outdoor venues are covered from the sun but open to fresh breezes off the Sacramento River — and perhaps even infused with the spirit of Old Sacramento's Wild West heritage, making it conducive for thousands of attendees to get down and get crazy.

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Convention Center Area

The Convention Center Area consists of venues in sophisticated ballrooms in two luxury downtown hotels, the Hyatt Regency and the Sheraton Grand, just two blocks apart. Between them lies Sacramento's modern and gleaming Convention Center with four additional venues. Venues at Sacramento's luxe hotels are in ballrooms and, to make the point, the festival managers have installed capacious dance floors so that festival-goers can satisfy their urge to trip the light fantastic. In the Convention Center Area, it is possible to sample most of the festival's many types of jazz just by walking a block or so. And the Convention Center Area offers many of Sacramento's most sophisticated restaurants; even (should a festival-goer decide to take a break from jazz) the spectacular IMAX theater just around the corner. You'll also find the California State Capitol, with expansive lawns and leafy, manicured gardens — perfect for a leisurely walk. You never know what's going to happen in May, but should Sacramento be in the middle of one of its heat waves, every site here is air-conditioned.

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Next Generation

Puppy chilling out at the SacJazz Festival The three youth band sites — on the dock alongside the historic Delta King Riverboat, on a grassy sward on the apron of the California State Railroad Museum, and in the downstairs Round Table Pizza — are where tomorrow's jazz musicians develop their talents. The festival annually presents over a dozen groups of young people (high school age and younger) as a way of fulfilling its mission to preserve classic American jazz and develop a new generation of musicians to play it. All of the Next Generation sites are free of charge to the general public.