The Archive
Sac Setlist
Archive
Sacramento’s music history, sourced and cited. A field guide to the venues, artists, events, and institutions that shaped the scene.
Researched by Jason Pierce · Updated continuously
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InstitutionpresentSacramento Brass Band Collective
An umbrella organizing body for Sacramento's second-line ecosystem, drawing musicians from Element Brass Band, City of Trees Brass Band, Dirty Chops Brass Band, Bigger Than Us Arts Brass Band, and the All-Female Brass Band to present community parades and performances rooted in New Orleans tradition.
Institution2016–presentSacramento Jazz Cooperative
Sacramento's premier jazz nonprofit, founded in 2016 by Carolyne Swayze. Presents concerts, produces the "From the Living Room" YouTube series, and serves as the organizational backbone of the contemporary Sacramento jazz scene — doing the curatorial work a dedicated jazz club would normally do.
Institution1980s-2020sSacramento Music Archive
The Sacramento Music Archive (sacramentomusicarchive.com) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Shayne Stacy that preserves and freely shares primary-source audio, video, photographs, and ephemera documenting Sacramento-area…
Institution1989-presentSacramento News & Review (SN&R)
Sacramento News & Review (SN&R) was — and, in significantly reduced online form, still is — the defining alternative newsweekly of Sacramento from its founding in 1989 through the suspension of its print edition in January 2021.
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