Sacramento Jazz Festival

Opening Day Parade

Start time is 11:45 a.m.  2010 Emperor Bob Draga will declare the 2010 Festival officially in session.

Bring the kids and start lining Old Sacramento's streets at around 10 in the morning just to get a good vantage point for watching our parade of musicians and entertainers as they wind their way around Old Sacramento's storied streets.

You'll see jazz bands and marching bands, of course, but that's only part of it. Fire trucks, antique cars and limousines, clowns, dancing ladies and cakewalk strutters, military color guards and various dignitaries, all will set the 2010 jazz festival in motion.

Before the parade begins, joyful noise kicks off at 10:45 as several jazz bands perch on Old Sacramento balconies to unlimber their chops. Then, precisely at 11:45, the parade emerges from under Intestate 5 at the north end of Old Sacramento, rumbles down 2nd Street, past the reviewing stand, to turn onto L, then shudders back up along the cobblestones of Front Street. It makes a final turn onto J Street, and (ideally) heads back under Interstate 5 just as the back end of the parade gets out of its way.

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.