Four major buildings in Old Sacramento
Old King[edit]
Besides Sutter's Castle the oldest part of the town is Old Sacramento, which is paved with cobblestones It has streets and numerous historic buildings, several from the 1850s and 1860s. Buildings have been preserved, restored or rebuilt, and the district is now a sprawling tourist attraction, with rides on steam-hauled historic trains and paddle steamers.
Historic buildings include the Lady Adams Mansion, built by passengers of the ship Lady Adams and the ship's carpenters. [42] Having survived the great deflagration of November 1852, it is the oldest surviving building such as Fort Bisutter in Sacramento. [ 42 ]
California’s first permanent theater, the Eagle Theater (Sacramento, CA) was rebuilt
Another surviving landmark is the BF Hastings building, built in In 1853, it was the early home of the California Supreme Court and the offices of Theodore Judah, which was the western terminus of the Pony Express. [43]
The "Four Buildings", built in 1852, were the home offices of Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker. The Central Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad were founded. The original building was destroyed in 1963 for the construction of Interstate 5, but was recreated in 1965 with original elements. It is now a National Historic Landmark. Also of historical interest is the Eagle Theater (Sacramento, California), California's first permanent theater rebuilt in its original location.
Theatre Arts[edit]
The Community Center Theater (foreground)
There are several major theater venues in Sacramento. The Sacramento Convention Center complex governs two community center theaters and the Memorial Auditorium. The Phu Quoc Pavilion is the latest addition. It is the foundation upon which the old music circus tent was built. Next to it is the McClatchy Main Stage, originally built as a television studio, which was renovated at the same time as the pavilion was built. It is the smallest venue and offers seating for only 300. The Sacramento Ballet, Sacramento Philharmonic, and Opera Sacramento perform at the Community Center Theater.
Professional theater companies are represented by several companies in Sacramento. California Musical Theater and its stock summer theatre, Music Square, draw many directors, actors and artists from New York to Los Angeles to work on large local staff productions at the Wells Fargo Pavilion.
Wells Fargo Pavilion, Music Plaza
In the fall, winter and spring Broadway Sacramento brings bus and truck tours to the Convention Center Theater. The Sacramento Theater Company offers non-musical works as a benefit to the House Theatre, which performs on the McClatchy Main Stage. The B Street Theatre, where smaller, more intimate professional productions are performed, as well as a children's theater company, will soon open in the heart of a larger theater complex in the heart of downtown in 2014. Rounding out the professional company's Capital Arena, this team performed on board the Delta Kings until the end of the 2010-2011 season and is, according to its marketing materials, taking up residence in its own venue along the J Street corridor. The Sacramento area has one of the largest collections of community theater in California. Some of these include Thistle Dew Dessert Theater and Playwrights Workshop, 24th Street Theatre, Davis Musical Theater Co. Eldorado Musical, Runaway Stage Productions, River City Theater Company, Flying Monkeys Productions, Actors' Theater, KOLT Run Productions, Kookaburra Productions, Big Idea Theatre, Celebration of the Arts, LAMBDA Players, Sacramento's Operetta Theatre, Synergy Stage and the Historic Eagle Theatre.
Sacramento Theater Company's Main Stage
The Sacramento Shakespeare Festival provides entertainment under the stars at William Land Park each summer. Many theaters compete annually for the Erie Awards overseen by the Sacramento Area Regional Theater Alliance, or SARTA.
On Wednesday, June 13, 2007, it was announced that new studios for the performing arts will be built alongside the Sacramento Theater Company and Wells Fargo Pavilion.
The new multi-million dollar building will be named the "E. Claire Reilly Studio for the Performing Arts" and will house four of the region's major arts groups - the Sacramento Ballet, the American Musical Theater of California, Opera Sacramento and the Sacramento Philharmonic Rehearsal spaces are provided in the most concentrated of the city's arts institutions.
Visual Arts[edit]
The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Council was established as the Sacramento Arts Council in 1977 as an organization for several arts programs in the city. These include arts in public spaces, arts education, grants and cultural programs, poet laureate programs, arts stabilization programs and other resources and opportunities.
Sacramento Second Saturday Art City is a local art gallery open late every second Saturday of every month, providing a unique experience for local residents, as well as visitors to view original art and meet the artists themselves program.
Museums[edit]
Crocker Museum of Art
Sacramento has several major museums. The Crocker Art Museum, the oldest public art museum west of the Mississippi River, is one of the finest. On July 26, 2007, the museum broke ground to more than double the museum's floor space. The modern architecture is very different from the museum's original Victorian-style architecture. The project was completed in 2010.
Equally interesting is the Governor's Mansion State Historic Park, which is the Victorian mansion where the family grew up on 13 Californians. Leland Stanford Mansion National Historic Park, which was completely restored in 2006, serves as the nation's official address for diplomatic and business receptions. Guide public tourism. The California Museum of History, Women, and the Arts, home to the California Hall of Fame, is a cultural destination dedicated to telling California’s rich history and its uniqueness
CHARLES CHRISTIAN NAHL, SUNDAY MORNING AT MINES , 1872, part of the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum
Influence the world of creativity, innovation, art and culture. The museum educates tens of thousands of schoolchildren through inspiring programming, shares California's rich artistic, historical and cultural traditions with a global audience through dynamic exhibits, and serves as a public forum and international meeting place. The California State Railroad Museum features historical exhibits in Old Sacramento and a live locomotive that diners can ride on. The California Automotive Museum, located just south of Old Sacramento, is filled with automotive history and automobiles from 1880 to 2006 and is the oldest non-profit automotive museum in the West. Its mission is to preserve, promote and teach about automotive culture and its impact on our lives, past, present and future. Additionally, the Sacramento Historical Museum, in the heart of Old Kings, focuses on the history of Sacramento from the area's pre-gold rush history through today's history.
Currently held annually in Sacramento, the Museum Day event offers free admission to 26 museums in the greater Sacramento area. The 2009 Sacramento Pavilion Days brought over 80,000 people, the largest crowd ever gathered for an event. The Sacramento Pavilion Days event is held annually on the first Saturday in February.
Music[edit]
Tower Records began and was based in Sacramento until its closure. [ 44 ]
Widely used in classical music. The Sacramento Philharmonic, Sacramento Baroque Soloists, Sacramento Chorale and Orchestra, Sacramento Youth Symphony, Sacramento Master Singers, Sacramento Boys Choir, and Camellia Symphony each present a full season of concerts.
Each year, the city hosts the Sammies, the Sacramento Music Awards. Sacramento also has a reputation as the jazz center of the South, because of the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee which is held every Memorial Day weekend. Events and performances are held at multiple locations throughout the city. Every year thousands of jazz fans from all over the world visit for this weekend.
Sacramento is home to the Sacramento French Film Festival, a cultural event held every July that features American screenings of French films and the Sacramento Japanese Film Festival, [45] also held in July. Additionally, Sacramento is home to the Trash Film Festival, a summer film festival celebrating absurdity, B-movies, horror, monsters, and exploitation; and the Home Sacramento Horror Film Festival, showcasing feature-length and short films, as well as live musical and theatrical performances in the horror and macabre genres.
More and more hardcore and metal bands hail from the Sacramento area, including Deftones, Wilhaven, Trash Talk, [46][47][48]Gavin Dance, Like Not Birds, and the Far East. Alternative Rock Band Cake,! , and Pilgrimage from Sacramento hails rock bands like Tesla, Oleander and Steel Breeze plus some other famous musicians like record producing and recording artists Charlie Peacock, Bob Stubbs of Social Aberration and The Jeffersons Craig Chaquico of Spaceship.
The Road Scottish pop band Mercy Sacramento sang their 1972 European hit song "Sacramento". Experimental groupings such as Hela, Death Grip, and Tera Milos also come out of Sacto.
Food[edit]
In 2012, Sacramento began a marketing campaign as "America's Farm-to-Fork Capital" because the Sacramento Kings source local food from numerous surrounding farms. [49] In 2012, In the Kitchen was nominated for Outstanding Restaurant by the James Beard Foundation. [50] Sacramento is also known for its beverage culture, with Keystone events including California State Fair's Grape and Food, Sacramento Beer Week, and Sacramento Cocktail Week. Sacramento is home to famous cookbook authors, Lemongrass and Ginger Star's Biba's Restaurant and McFan's Biba's CAGGIANO. [ 51 ]
Sports[edit]
Raley Field, home of the Sacramento Rivercats
Main article: Sports in Sacramento
Professionals Teams[edit]
Sacramento is home to the National Basketball Association's Sacramento Kings. The Kings came to Sacramento from Kansas City in 1985. On January 21, 2013, controlling interest in the Sacramento Kings was sold to Seattle-based investor, Chris Hansen. The sales agreement was confirmed by the Maloof family, Chris Hansen, and the NBA. Hansen planned to move the franchise to Seattle for the 2013–2014 NBA season and rename the team the Seattle SuperSonics. [52] The Seattle ownership group then submitted the franchise to the NBA for relocation. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson moved on to form a Kings ownership group in Sacramento led by Vivek Ranadive. On May 16, 2013, the NBA Board of Governors voted 22-8 to keep the Kings in Sacramento. [ 53 ]
In 2000, Class AAA minor league baseball returned to Sacramento with the Sacramento River Cats, an affiliate of the Oakland Athletics. The river cat played recently [when? ]Building Raleigh Field, located in West Sacramento. The Sacramento Heat of the American Basketball Association currently plays for Folsom High School.
Sacramento was also formerly home to the now-defunct Sacramento Monarchs of the Women's National Basketball Association. The Monarchs were one of the eight founding members of the WNBA, starting in 1997. The Monarchs won the WNBA championship in 2005 and became the first professional sports team to do so in Sacramento; [citation needed] However the Monarchs folded in November 2009 .
Club League Stadium Establishment Championship
NBA Basketball Sleep Train Arena 1945 (1985) Sacramento Kings 1 NBA, 2 NBL (as Rochester Royals)
Sacramento River Cats PCL Baseball Rayleigh Field 1978 (2000) 2 Triple-A Championships, 4 League Championships
F.C. Sacramento Pride Wheelock Properties Football Lincoln High School 1995
Sacramento** *And FC USL 2012 Pro Football California Expo
Other Sports[edit]
View the city skyline from Raleigh Field
Sacramento hosted the regular The NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and the first and second rounds of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships. The California International Marathon (est. 1983) attracts a field of international elite runners who compete for a share of the $50,000 prize pool. The Fast course is popular among runners and fitness runners seeking to achieve Boston Marathon qualifying times.