Location

Capitol Mall
Capitol Mall
Sacramento, California 95814
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About this event

Now announcing the fourth annual City of Trees Parade & Mardi Gras Festival!! Our 100% nonprofit Mardi Gras event will take place on Saturday, February 22nd, 2025. The City of Trees Parade is a dazzling showcase of Sacramento’s rich diversity and culture! Last year’s event included 1,300 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.org

Join 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.

VIPs 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, VIP riders will jump aboard floats at the festival grounds at the Mardi Gras bus stop and ride in style down Capitol Mall 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 dance party until 9PM. Our VIPs get the absolute best experience, children and adults of all ages are welcome!

Our 2024 Lineup Included...

Sacramento State Marching Band | CKM Lionettes | Tina B and the Sacramento Soul Line Dancers | con·nec·tion DANCE PROJECT | Peter J. Shields Unicycle Club | Noon the Artist | Sacramento Juneteenth Fest | Stay Tuned Chorus | Sacramento Lowrider Commission | COA Elite | Raw Brass | Krewe of Kings and Queens |  California Automobile Museum | Green Valley Theatre Company | Balance Dance Project | Arthur Murray Sacramento | Kinetic Sculpture Race | Zombie Club | City of Trees Pet Parade

UC Davis Marching Band | Sac City Dance Team | CKM Dance Team | Cal Middle Spirit Squad | Eastern Ways Martial Arts | C.I.E CONFIDENCE IS EVERYTHING  | Golden Harvest Parade | League of Heroes Inspired | Sacramento Ghostbusters | Bay Area Bounty Hunters | Sacramento Steampunk Society | Brazilian Rhythms Workout | Quirky Corky | Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus | Capital Tuk Tuk | Sac Dance Lab | BTU Arts Youth Brass Band | Sacramento Youth Band | NOLACAL Second Liners | Deco Fish Art Car | Cluck Norris | Jewells of the Night | Uncle’s Art | Pirate Ship Fun | J Beezy Stage Truck | Sepia the Cuttlefish | Sac Quad Squad | Abu the Horsefly |
Trilene Art Car | King Mahtusahn | Project Empire | Bike Party Sacramento

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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