David and I just got home from the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. What a great day, and special thanks to KVIE for the free tickets!!
This event is always a blast, and this year was no different. Taking place in the Old Sacramento “zone” (and additional activities over at the convention center this year), the Jazz music hits Sacramento with a vengeance. Vendors are spread across the landscape, music pours out from tents that blanket the parking lots and open spaces, and even the saloon in the Delta King gets a taste of up and coming jazz greats.
As soon as we arrived we found a bead vendor and loaded up on colour for the day. You really can’t beat 2 beads for $5 (especially when you don’t have to flash anything to get them). After that we made our way to the heart of the jazz festival and got some food! You can’t beat the festival food either – I mean let’s be honest, it’s not food you’re going to eat every day, but somehow a corn dog, kielbasa, and a plastic cup of beer tastes darn good when you’re walking around listening to music and people watching.
And let me tell you, there was plenty of people watching to be had. Crazy people. People who sometimes shouldn’t be seen in public, and people who should be seen in public every single day.
We also saw some folks who were way more into the event than we were, as can be seen here with the guy I’m going to call “Bead Man“. You really can’t get much more excited than this can you? Nope, you can’t. I hope he took some ibuprofen for his back, because…damn.
The music was great – especially the Ophir Prison Kazoo Band. They have so much energy, so much excitement, and they really work the crowd. Thankfully they weren’t religious like one of the first groups we saw that couldn’t sing or talk about anything other than god the entire time we were there. Sorry – I didn’t go to the jazz festival to go to church, I went to hear some sounds of debauchery (or at least that’s what people thought of jazz back in the day).
The weather was perfect, the tunes were exciting, and we had a great time. You can see the rest of the pictures I took on my flickr collection. Have a great weekend!
