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Welcome to the SIXTH annual City of Trees Parade & Mardi Gras Festival!! Our 100% nonprofit Mardi Gras event will take place on Saturday, February 27th, 2027. The City of Trees Parade is a dazzling showcase of Sacramento’s rich diversity and culture! Last year’s event included more than 1,600 performers from 55 different groups, and this year’s event will be even bigger!! Follow us @cityoftreesparade on FB and IG to keep up with all the latest details or visit our website www.cityoftreesparade.orgJoin in on the all-afternoon festival beginning at 3pm, right on Capitol Mall. Kids enter free with RSVP! There will be live performances, interactive exhibits, food trucks, local vendors, and a beverage garden to wet your whistle and help us raise funds for this non-profit event. Bring your lawn chair or blanket and you’ll be able to watch our fantastic parade as it rolls past the festival toward tower bridge, culminating in Sacramento’s only evening-time parade, featuring light-up art cars from Burning Man! From 7 to 9 PM you'll be able to see all of these light up art cars in all their glory, parked right inside the festival grounds.
Parade Riders can see the parade and then catch a ride on a fabulous art car into Old Sacramento to throw beads to the public! Our ticketed Parade Riders will board floats in the staging area and then ride down Capitol Mall in style throwing 100% recycled Mardi Gras beads that we'll provide for you. THEN the entire, light-up parade returns to the festival grounds for our signature City of Trees Parade electric dance party until 9PM. Our Aristocrat VIPs get the absolute best experience, because they can board our very best floats right inside the festival grounds!
Last Year's Lineup Included...
Sac Quad Squad • Peter J. Shields Unicycle Club • City of Trees Animal Hospital • Anthem Blue Cross • Citrus Heights Community Marching Band • McClatchy Dance Team (CKM Dance) • CKM Lionettes • Grant Drum Line • Haus of Comedy • Sac Town Majorettes • Natomas Junior Nighthawks Football and Cheer • Agricultural Aristocracy
Sacramento Roper Romp • The Black Hat Society | Sacramento • River City Grizzlies • Magical Mama Cat • NorCal Resist • con·nec·tion DANCE |PROJECT • Health Professions High School Cheer Team • Noon the artist • Balance Dance Project • Tambores e Samba • Fortune Marching Band • Kennedy High School Cheer and Dance
Kinetic Sculpture Race • The New Traditionalists (TNT) • California Automobile Museum • Sacramento Lowrider Commission • Three Wheel Unity • Samba Da Terra • Beat Box Beverages • Tina B and The Sacramento Soul Line Dancers • Brazilian Rhythms Workout • Hundreds Unit • NOLACAL Second Liners • Bigger Than Us Arts • Teng Fei Lion Dance • League of Heroes Inspired • SambaDrop • Death and Taxes Swing Band • Sacramento Ghostbusters • UC Davis Marching Band
Sidequest (Sacramento Flow Artists) • The Cuttlefish by Dust Works • Marti the Angel of Gras • Cluck Norris • Titus the Turtle & Kitty the Snail • Natomas Navy • Rainbow Sunrise • Anubis by Burning Egypt • The Sphinx Artcar by Burning Egypt • Odo the Dragonfly • Tri-Mule MKIII • Uncle’s Art Magical Locomotive • Foxy the Art Car • The Giving Tree Art Car • BikeParty Sacramento • J Beezy Stage Truck featuring THE SNARES
More Details and our Agenda Still to Come!
Together we will illuminate Sacramento with floats, art cars, marching bands, poi spinners, brass bands, dancers, beads, and so much more! Be sure to follow us @cityoftreesparade on Facebook and Instagram for all the news.
So grab all your purple, green, and gold and come join us for our third annual outpouring of Sacramento love through the format of Mardi Gras!
We can’t wait to see you AGAIN, Sacramento!
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700 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, CA 95814-4703, United States
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