Sacramento Jazz Festival and Jubilee

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The 2010 Sacramento Jazz Festival and Jubilee was fantastic! We had over 70 bands at 24 sites, with nationally-known all-stars and a dozen featured bands. Jazz music of all types permeated Old Sacramento and the area around the Convention Center. For 2011 updates, sign-up for our e-newsletter.

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2011 SAC. JAZZ FESTIVAL & JUBILEE

Festival News: Sacramento, JUNE 2010
May 27-30, 2011 are the dates for next year's festival already in the works. Tom Rigney is our 2011 Emperor, and we've already invited:
Banu Gibson
Black Dogs
Carl Sonny Leyland Trio
Hal Smith's International Sextet
Matt Perrine
Neville Dickie & Danny Coots
St. Louis Rivermen
Uptown Lowdown
Wally's Warehouse Waifs
Yve Evans & Co.

Pre-Festival Events

Thursday Night Kickoff Party! For those who can't wait for the fun to begin, we have a pre-party PARTY with great music, food and dancing. The volunteers especially love this annualevent that gets the energy building for another great festival.

Free concerts! As the festival approaches, we'll post dates and times for a number of free concerts that offer a sampling of some of the bands you'll see at the festival.

Sacramento Jazz Festival Volunteers— nearly 2,000 of them organized months in advance — are the folks who have made the first three decades of our jazz festival possible. Our hardworking and dedicated managers and volunteers deserve a big chunk of the credit. Volunteers construct and manage the sites, provide cleaning and maintenance, electricity; they arrange housing and transportation for musicians, facilitate communications, staff the badge sales locations, conduct demographic and marketing studies, supervise the sound crew and shuttle bus services, and handle the myriad of other duties and details a successful festival requires. (Yes, even the bartenders are volunteers. And no, we are not looking for additional volunteers in that category. We've got some gems already set.) Volunteers wear distinctive shirts and badges at each festival. If you have a question or a problem, ask one of them. You'll find them to be knowledgeable, friendly, and willing to go out of their way to be sure you have a good time.