Events & Activities

This year's Wide Open Walls mural festival will feature local, national, and international artists who will transform the streets of Sacramento. Sac Running Tours's walking, running, and biking tours will explore several of these new murals with opportunities for tour guests to see the artists in action. Guests will learn about the artwork, artist inspiration, as well as the history of street art in Sacramento and the evolution of street art around the world.

Visit the Coral Reefs of Hawaii to the shores of California and beyond in a multi-media show featuring regional award-winning artists. Mystery, discovery, and limitless adventure await audiences at this month's “Oceans Alive” exhibit at the Kennedy Gallery. Discover rare treasures from fantastical mermaids and sea creatures to beautiful realistic underwater landscapes. Showcasing works from Bartolomeo, Davidson, Harp, Johnson, Kennedy, Loder, Matranga, Peasenell, Raines, Riedell, Tieseler, and Voldstedt.

This free all-levels vinyasa yoga class is accessible to everyone! Do what you can, and take rest when you need to. Show up as you are!

Bring a yoga mat and a water bottle. Wear clothes that allow for comfortable movement.

Yoga Moves Us makes yoga available by organizing free vinyasa yoga classes in the Greater Sacramento area and beyond.

*They will have a limited amount of yoga mats available to borrow for people without a mat.

In partnership with Yoga Moves Us, the Midtown Association is pleased to present free MiYo yoga classes on Tuesday and Thursday evenings now underway at Fremont Park.

Midtown’s new yoga classes are free and open to guests of all ages and ability levels. Attendees are encouraged to bring yoga mats, water bottles and a friend or two if they choose.

At the height of the cold war, neighbors Sul and Efran decide to build a shared bomb shelter for their families. As the world around them changes, both families are forced to ponder their place in the shifting landscape.

Established as one of the prime contemporary interpreters of the Great American Songbook, Pizzarelli has expanded that repertoire by including the music of Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and The Beatles. His themed shows, often performed with his wife Jessica Molaskey, suggest there is no limit to Pizzarelli’s imagination or talent.

The Toronto Star pegged him as “the genial genius of the guitar,” and the Seattle Times saluted him as “a rare entertainer of the old school.”

All local, all fresh - THIS Tuesdays features Rossy with support from DJ Nord and Hartbeatz.

Geoff is regarded as one of the most skilled vocalists in the genre with hundreds of modern, popular artists citing him and his band as a major influence. Combining social consciousness and expertly crafted lyrics with high-energy, melodically complex music, Geoff and his band have become internationally recognized as the thinking man's rock band. The band's first three albums -- their self-titled EP (1983), The Warning (1984) and Rage for Order (1986) -- all hit gold status selling over 500,000 units each. With the release of their landmark concept album Operation: Mindcrime (1988) -- which won critical and popular acclaim and comparisons to the Who's Tommy and Pink Floyd's The Wall -- Queensrÿche went on to bring their progressive music to sold-out audiences the world over.

Dutch musician and producer Nicolay (of Grammy-nominated alternative soul duo The Foreign Exchange) and Raleigh NC trio The Hot At Nights (Chris Boerner, Matt Douglas and Nick Baglio) have been playing and touring together in various guises for years, refreshing their curriculum at every opportunity. There is always groove and lilt and a slick, knowing humor in their music, but it is always carried and earned through powerful musicianship.

Supporting Band: Mino Yanci

Casey Abrams is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist from Idyllwild, California, who finished in sixth place in the tenth season of American Idol, five weeks after being saved from elimination by the judges

Known for his blistering guitar licks and mastery of a broad musical palette, Jorgenson has earned a reputation as a world-class musician and guitarist who has collaborated with the likes of Elton John, Luciano Pavarotti, Bonnie Raitt and Bob Dylan.

Guitar fans will have the rare opportunity to hear Grammy Award-winning master guitarist John Jorgenson play electric guitar with a world-class band that easily moves between rock, country, blues, and many other styles giving Jorgenson a solid platform to exhibit the virtuosity that earned him a Grammy award in 2008, ACM Guitarist of the Year three consecutive times, inclusion in Guitarist Magazine’s “100 Guitar Heroes” and “100 Most Influential Guitarists”, and Guitar Player Magazine’s “Album of the Year” with the Hellecasters.

Jorgenson is well-known as a preeminent gypsy jazz guitarist, and bluegrass mandolinist, but it’s his eclectic electric guitar playing that will be featured on this tour, so expect some amazing tones and dazzling fretwork on his signature Fender model guitars.

Los Angeles-based Grateful Shred manages to channel that elusive Dead vibe: wide-open guitar tones, effortless three-part vocal harmonies, choogling beats, and yes, plenty of tripped out, Shredded solos. The look, the sound, the atmosphere.

Supporting Band: Mapache

"Midnight at the Oasis" received several Grammy nominations, and enshrined her forever in the hearts of Baby Boomers everywhere; but despite her considerable pop music success, her 52-year career could best be described a long and adventurous odyssey through the various forms of American Roots Music. During the folk revival of the early ’60s, she began exploring and singing early Blues, Bluegrass and Appalachian “Old Timey” Music, beginning her recording career in 1963 with the Even Dozen Jug Band and shortly thereafter, joining the very popular Jim Kweskin Jug Band, touring and recording with them throughout the ’60s.
In the 42 years since “Midnight at the Oasis,” Maria has toured extensively worldwide and has recorded 40 solo albums covering all kinds of American Roots Music, including Gospel, R&B, Jazz and Big Band (not to mention several award-winning children’s albums).

"Sacramento's own second line marching band, Element Brass Band, is out with a new album. "Cali's Got a Brass Band" continues the group's tradition of horn-driven, high-energy marching music and features album art from local Shaun Burner" - Sacramento News & Review

Attending an MJ’s Brass Boppers shows is the next best thing to following a brass band down New Orleans’ famed Claiborne Ave. The swinging and singing brass-line is the Bay Area’s only New Orleans-style brass band whose founding members were born and raised in New Orleans itself.

Sacramento’s first all-female improv group uses true stories from the audience and cast members to create a long-form improv show with smart humor, unexpected characters, and guaranteed laughs. After the cast and audience tell stories on a monthly theme, the cast of Lady Business does a series of improvised scenes inspired by the stories.

Anti-Cooperation League is a crazy, weird, high-energy, fast-paced improv show. Each week, the cast interviews a special guest and then creates scenes inspired by the interview. Guests range from Hollywood players to Sac Comedy Club friend Emily, who is just darn interesting. Join them for the longest-running comedy show in Sacramento, entertaining the masses since 2007!

Longtime friends and collaborators, Lauren Morgan and Jordan Shih, have been known as SALES since 2013 when they released their first single, “renee”.

After self-releasing a string of singles online (“chinese new year”, “getting it on”, “vow”), the duo self-released their eponymous debut EP in September 2014 and were named “Ones to Watch” by Hype Machine + BBC 6. The EP also featured a remix track with electronic producer, XXYYXX. Their debut album SALES LP was self-released in April 2016 and it featured the singles “big sis”, “ivy”, and “jamz”.  Their highly anticipated second LP will be self-released in July 2018 and it features the singles “talk a lot” and “off and on”.

Supporting band: No Vacation

No Vacation began in early 2015 and quickly received attention for the nostalgic bedroom-pop sounds off of their debut mixtape, Amo XO, and surf-rock single, Dræm Girl. A few months following the release of their second mixtape, Summer Break Mixtape, No Vacation went on an indefinite hiatus. Sabrina Mai, Marisa Saunders, Nat Lee, and Harrison Spencer officially reassembled in 2017 after playing shows under various names and a few line-up changes.

From patient access to taxation to consumer legal rights, this year's California legislative session has been incredibly busy for the cannabis industry.

Come hear the latest intel and what bills are likely to hit Governor Brown's desk from two leading cannabis lobbyists in Sacramento. The discussion will also focus on impacts to you and your family/friends.

Brad Terrence Jordan better known by his stage name Scarface, is an American rapper. He hails from Houston, Texas and is a member of the Geto Boys. In 2012, The Source ranked him #16 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time, while About.com ranked him #10 on its list of the 50 Greatest MCs of Our Time (1987-2007). Scarface broke through to broader recognition on the national rap scene in 2000 with his album Last of a Dying Breed, considered by some critics to be his most accomplished work to date. The album won for him the Lyricist of the Year award at the Source Awards in 2001. Also in 2000, Scarface became a businessman, going to work as head of the Atlanta office of Def Jam Records South. In this capacity, he signed the label's first recording artist, a former radio deejay calling himself Ludacris. Scarface himself continued his career as a recording artist with Def Jam, releasing his first album on the Def Jam label in 2002.

Also performing: Kidd Doxx, WurdPlay Official

Devastatingly powerful vocals and retro-rock guitar, with lyrics that run the gamut between vulnerable to all-out venomous: siblings Jocelyn and Chris Arndt are creating a new generation of authentic album rock.

Stories on Stage Sacramento is thrilled to present two extraordinary writers at its August event: Tommy Orange and Vanessa Hua. Tommy Orange's debut novel, There There, a polyphonic telling of the lives of twelve urban Native American characters on one fateful day, was published in June and is a New York Times bestseller, and has garnered  superlatives from The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and many, many others: it's an Amazon Best Book of the Year: Entertainment Weekly calls it "the year's most galvanizing debut novel."  Tommy Orange grew up in Oakland and lives in Angels Camp. Vanessa Hua’s powerful debut novel, A River of Stars, will be published August 14, but it’s already gathering honors: the online literary site The Millions named it one of their most anticipated books of 2018, and it was selected by August LibraryReads as a Top 10 new release. A modern story of motherhood, immigration, and identity, A River of Stars follows a pregnant Chinese woman as she makes her way to California and a stake in the American dream. Vanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Selected excerpts from both novels will be read by actors. Copies of both books will be for sale, and both authors will be present to sign your copy.