[Dixielandjazz] Sacramento Music Festival

[Robert Ringwald]

Sacramento Music Festival

Music festival to pay tribute to Dixieland roots

Sacramento Business Journal

by Mark Anderson, Staff Writer

Date: Thursday, December 27, 2012, 7:45am PST



Dixieland band Cornet Chop Suey will be one of the headliners at the Sacramento Music

Festival. The festival, with its origins in Dixieland, has gone through a couple

of name changes, but plans to revisit its roots as it celebrates its 40th anniversary.

Mark Anderson

Staff Writer-

Sacramento Business Journal



The Sacramento Music Festival marks the event’s 40th anniversary, and it is reaching

back to its roots with a Dixieland headliner.

Born as the Dixieland Jazz Jubilee, the event’s organizers last year changed the

name of the long running Sacramento Jazz Festival to the Sacramento Music Festival.

The name change was a bid to draw a larger crowd and younger fans by featured more

styles of music descended from jazz, such as rockabilly, blues and country swing.

There certainly will be a mix of music this year, but one early confirmation so far

of headlining bands is as Dixieland as it gets: Cornet Chop Suey.

The St. Louis-based Cornet Chop Suey band tours internationally and is named after

a 1926 Louis Armstrong song.

The festival is one of Sacramento’s signature events, and it attracts thousands to

the city and fills hotels and restaurants.

The festival runs over the four days of Memorial Day weekend with more than 400 performances

on 20 stages in downtown Sacramento and Old Sacramento.

Other bands invited to the festival so far — thought not yet confirmed — include

acts as varied as rockabilly pioneer Wanda Jackson and rockabilly revivalists the

Blasters, to blues players such as John Lee Hooker Jr., Mick Martin and Big Moma

Sue, and zydeco acts such as Tom Rigney & Flambeau and the Zydeco Flames.

Western swing sensation Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks is on the early roster, as are

several gypsy jazz bands.

Discount tickets are available through Jan. 31. For information, go to the Sacramento

Music Festival website,

sacmusicfest.com

.

Mark Anderson covers technology, banking, finance, restaurants and tourism for the

Sacramento Business Journal.



-Bob Ringwald
www.ringwald.com
Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
916/ 806-9551


-Bob Ringwald
www.ringwald.com
Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
916/ 806-9551