{"id":297646,"date":"2026-05-03T06:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297646\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:52:19","slug":"photos-free-summer-concert-in-downtown-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297646\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Free summer concert in downtown Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alternative rock was the theme Friday night as Sacramento kicked off its Concerts in the Park<\/a> series of free summer shows in downtown Sacramento across from City Hall.<\/p>\n

The longtime Friday night series has thematic groupings this year. Next week\u2019s show will feature EDM, followed by Latin artists on May 15. This year\u2019s series concludes on June 26 with a reggae-themed show headlined by Arden Park Roots.<\/p>\n

Friday night\u2019s show was headlined by Edgehill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The shows traditionally take place in the park across from City Hall, known since the 1990s at Cesar E. Chavez Plaza. The city is in the process of renaming the park<\/a> after sexual abuse allegations surfaced against the late civil rights and labor leader Cesar Chavez.<\/p>\n

Gates for the shows open at 6 p.m. and the final band\u2019s set ends at 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"Mika Mika Faye and Courtney Hoang dance to the music played by Ashley Jaguar at Concerts in the Park across from Sacramento City Hall on Friday. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"Bryan Bryan Nelson, left, and Dennis Farrell cheer as Ashley Jaguar finishes their set at Concerts in the Park across from Sacramento City Hall on Friday. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"Concert Concert attendees cheer during a performance at Concerts in the Park across from Sacramento City Hall on Friday. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"Concert Concert attendees cheer during a performance at Concerts in the Park across from Sacramento City Hall on Friday. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"Liam Liam McKean-Craig and Silas McKean enjoy family time during Concert in the Park across from Sacramento City Hall on Friday. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"Alt Alt rock group Rainbow City Park, with Danielle Judith on lead vocals and guitar, performs at Concerts in the Park across from Sacramento City Hall on Friday. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com \"Alt Alt rock group Ashley Jaguar performs at Concerts in the Park across from Sacramento City Hall on Friday. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com May\u2019s Concerts in the Park shows with themes<\/p>\n

(Headliner in bold)<\/p>\n

May 8 \u2014 EDM: Dirty D, Shroomi, 2dy4, beastboi<\/p>\n

May 15 \u2014 Latin: My Cousin Vinny, Megan Claire, Sol Peligro, Andrea Bejar<\/p>\n

May 22 \u2014 indie rock: DJ Genetixx, bloodsugar, Rosemother, In Color<\/p>\n

May 29 \u2014 rock: Nesss, Nothing Special, Say It Backwards, Tarnish<\/p>\n

\"The The nine-show 2026 lineup for Concerts in the Park Downtown Sacramento <\/p>\n

This story was originally published May 2, 2026 at 12:40 PM.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Luis Villegas<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Award-winning visual journalist Jos\u00e9 Luis Villegas first joined The Bee in 1992. He has shared a general news Pulitzer Prize for Bay Area earthquake coverage, and teamed with Bee colleague Marcos Bret\u00f3n for two books on Latino baseball players.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alternative rock was the theme Friday night as Sacramento kicked off its Concerts in the Park series of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-297646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}