Monthly concerts, Jazz in the Park, and the Youth Scholarship Program all highlight this citys everlasting love for jazz. The piano lounges and blues clubs are all tucked away in cozy little corners throughout the city, where some of the most talented amateur musicians and established artists perform.

If you are interested in classical music, there are plenty of exciting programs and events in store for you in Sacramento. The Camellia Symphony Orchestra is recognized all over the country for producing and presenting programs that are high in artistic merit, which include world premieres, rarely performed and basic repertoire works. If you are interested in studying classical music, then it is offered in Sacramento in association with some of the local universities.

In the eighties, bands like Club Nouveau, Tesla, Steel Breeze and Bourgeois Tagg made big news in the music scene, and each of them had national hits. Tesla continued to make big money until the nineties before they broke up temporarily, and then got back together over the millennium. Also, in the nineties, the local artists that went on to become national musical successes included DRS, Deftones, Papa Roach, Cause & Effect and Oleander. Indeed, the history of music in Sacramento includes various artists that either came close to making it or made it to stardom. From Lynn Anderson to Mark Curry, Kevin Sharp to Timothy B Schmit, these artists were based in Sacramento before, during or after signing up for a record label for national distribution.

What is more, the Memorial Auditorium, the Crest Theatre, the Arco Arena and the Sleep Train Amphitheater are all known for hosting big names and rock concerts, and even national pop-tours. The Amphitheater is particularly famous because it is brand new and has state-of-the-art, open-air concert facilities in its 18,500 seater space. It also has an exceptionally good sound system and three large video screens.

On weekends, the locals head towards the Cesar Chavez Plaza and J Streets for the free Friday night music concerts. For a little over two weeks, local bands perform here, attracting more than 5,000 people each week. Blues, country, alternative music, and rock and roll are performed at this Friday night event. Everything, from beer to wine, food vendors to soda gardens and great music form the essence of this tradition.

The 24th Street Theatre is home to the Light Opera Theatre of Sacramento, which offers light opera works of Gilbert and Sullivan. The Sacramento Theatre Company has its own resident company, which offers classical as well as modern plays. The B Street Theatre, which happens to be Sacramento Professional New Works Theatre Company, produces excellent contemporary theatrical works. The Garbeau Dinner Theatre is housed in a renovated winery. In all, there are more than 80 groups that present live theatrical performances in Sacramento.

The Camellia Symphony season starts in October and goes on till mid-May. It includes 6 different concerts and many other special fundraising concerts. The Sacramento Opera has produced and performed over 40 operas, and the opera season starts in September and goes on till March. The Sacramento Philharmonic features 5 concerts from November to May. The Sacramento Ballet is made up of 22 artists, 4 trainees and 8 apprentices, who perform classical as well as contemporary ballet.

When visiting Sacramento you must not forget that it is home to one of the oldest art museums in the West. The Crocker Art Museum has a permanent collection of European paintings by masters like Bruegel and Rembrandt. It also includes a famous collection of drawings, along with Persian and Indian paintings. From American paintings to decorative arts, to ceramics and photography, the museum has it all. The California State Railroad Museum showcases the history of the railroads in its premises. The museum displays over 21 railroad cars and locomotives, as well as roughly 46 exhibits. The Discovery Museum features science, technology and interactive history exhibits. The Towe Auto Museum features the history of the car and automotive culture, and has over 150 vintage models on display. The State Indian Museum showcases jewelry, clothing, baskets, art and other artifacts of the Native Americans.

The Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, which is also the largest gathering of jazz bands in the world, starts during the Memorial Day weekend and features over 100 bands. The Bridge to Bridge Waterfront Festival is in July and features boating, boat races, wakeboard and coast guard demonstrations. The California State Fair starts in August and goes on till September and is one of the largest fairs in the whole country. The four-day long Gold Rush Days Festival starts over Labor Day weekend, and the Gold Rush era is recreated in Old Sacramento. The California International Marathon is in December, and the starting point is at Folsom and it ends at the Sacramento State Capitol building.

From the Chinese to the Japanese, the Koreans to the Philippines, the Europeans to the African Americans and even the Native Americans, Sacramento has now become a cultural hot spot. The Chinese came to Sacramento in the Gold Rush days of the 1800s, and once the gold ran out, most of them stayed back to work as cooks, laborers, merchants and farmers. In the West End, lies Sacramento small but important Japantown. A strong sense of Japanese heritage survives here and there is an annual Japanese Food and Cultural Bazaar that starts in August.

But if you want to go for a unique date in Sacramento then why not tour the city in style? Hire a carriage drawn by a horse and take your date to a tour of the Sacramento town. Don’t forget to have your camera ready because you and your date would not want to miss the opportunity to brag about this experience when you get home.

Riding a carriage drawn by a horse can be an exhilarating experience especially for the city-bred. Dating and roaming the town of Sacramento while on a carriage ride would be doubly exciting.

If you and your date are bikers then you can go bike-dating in Sacramento. The bike trail stretching from the Old Sacramento is a good venue for biking while basking under the sun and the view of a serene river is great. You can rent the bikes right at your hotel or in any park in Sacramento.

To make your date more memorable, why not visit the Jelly Bean Factory in Sacramento? This company is well known for the over a hundred jellybean candies and gummies that it sells to people. It’s more like visiting a candy factory and what can be a better date than in a factory that produces sweet things?

Even former President Ronald Reagan got hooked on jelly beans when he was still governor. Reagan apparently wanted to quit his pipe habit and only the jelly beans got him off sucking on his pipe!

It would be a fun place to go to and your date would surely enjoy the day with you and will definitely look forward to spending more time with you again.

If you want to go for a unique date in Sacramento then why not tour the city in style? Hire a carriage drawn by a horse and take your date to a tour of the Sacramento town. Don’t forget to have your camera ready because you and your date would not want to miss the opportunity to brag about this experience when you get home.

Riding a carriage drawn by a horse can be an exhilarating experience especially for the city-bred. Dating and roaming the town of Sacramento while on a carriage ride would be doubly exciting.

If you and your date are bikers then you can go bike-dating in Sacramento. The bike trail stretching from the Old Sacramento is a good venue for biking while basking under the sun and the view of a serene river is great. You can rent the bikes right at your hotel or in any park in Sacramento.

To make your date more memorable, why not visit the Jelly Bean Factory in Sacramento? This company is well known for the over a hundred jellybean candies and gummies that it sells to people. It’s more like visiting a candy factory and what can be a better date than in a factory that produces sweet things?

It would be a fun place to go to and your date would surely enjoy the day with you and will definitely look forward to spending more time with you again.