Sacramento Jazz Festival

Friday Night Zydeco

Featured bands: Tom Rigney & Flambeau, Zydeco Flames, and Gator Beat.

Zydeco (French: "les haricots" or "le zaricot", English: "green beans" or "snap beans") is a form of American roots music (or folk music) that evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th century from Louisiana Creole music.

People of all ages enjoy dancing and partying to the fast tempos of zydeco music, created for social gatherings and dances, and which typically features piano accordion and a type of a washboard known as a "rub-board," "scrub-board," or frottoir. Originally, this style of music integrated waltzes, shuffles, two-steps, blues, rock and roll, and other dance music forms of the past. Today, the tradition of change and evolution in the music continues as zydeco bands integrate R&B, soul, brass band, reggae, urban hip-hop, ska, rock, Afro-Caribbean and other styles, in addition to the traditional forms.

Come out to Freeway Gardens on Friday night for a great start to this party weekend.

Big thanks to all of our sponsors for the 2010 Sacramento Jazz Fest.
& Jubilee! This website is funded in part by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission (SMAC)

The Festival highly recommends these Old Sac establishments:
Courtyard D'Oro (Patio D'Oro), the Firehouse Courtyard, Golden Eagle Room, Ten22, Round Table Pizza, Evangeline's, Stage Nine.