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Sac. Jazz Jubilee
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What is the Sac. Jazz Jubilee? Every Memorial Day Weekend since 1974, Old Sacramento and other downtown venues have drawn a horde of jazz fans to the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, the top jazz festival in the West. Sponsored by the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, the event features a lineup that includes more than 100 bands from all over the country—and all over the stylistic map: Beyond the traditional jazz, there's blues, Western swing, ragtime, salsa, zydeco, barbershop, and just about every other jazz-influenced music genre imaginable. The event kicks off with a parade on Friday morning and runs through Monday, propelled by a number of unique shows along the way: children's concerts; a Sunday morning "Celebration of Faith" with upbeat gospel; almost a dozen youth groups; and a "Swing Dance Extravaganza" featuring hundreds of top swing dancers, from around the country, in competition. Free shuttles transport concertgoers between the event's myriad venues. Visit the Jubilee Web site: www.sacjazz.com
Office Volunteers
Office help is always needed, especially in the months leading up to Jubilee. Please contact us if you can be of help. Thanks! We appreciate you.
Pre-festival Events
"Styles of Traditional Jazz" is a free concert series that takes place in the weeks leading up to the Jubilee. The series has presented, jointly by the Sacramento Public Library and the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, every year since 1995. Concerts take place in the Tsakopoulos Galleria in side the Sacramento Main Library at 828 I Street (8th and I St.). All bands performing in the series are included in the lineup for the Jubilee. Some of the styles featured in past years: "Ragtime," "Early Swing," and "West Coast Style" Jazz.
Thursday Night Kickoff Party—For those who can'twait for the fun to begin, there is always a great party on Thursday night before the Jubilee. It's a chance to have a sneak-peek at some of the great bands, all in a lovely setting with food and drink available for purchase. Tickets are sold in advance at the STJS Office or (for a few dollars more) at the door.
Jazz Ambassadors travel throughout Northern California to provide informative entertainment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner meetings for hundreds of schools and organizations. If you're looking for a great program for your group, contact the STJS office at (916) 372-5277.
Sacramento Jazz Festival Volunteers—nearly 3,000 of them—are the folks who have made the first three decades of our jazz festival possible. And if we are lucky enough to go a few more years, the volunteers deserve a big chunk of the credit. Volunteers construct and manage the sites, provide cleaning and maintenance, electricity, arrange housing and transportation for musicians, facilitate communications, staff the badge sales locations, conduct demographic and marketing studies, supervise sound 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. Don't even ask.) 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.
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