Keyshawn Davis

3 days ago | capradio.org | Keyshawn Davis

Will your soul blossom at Sol Blume this year? No one knows. It’s been a whole year since Sacramento’s independent hip-hop and R&B festival, Sol Blume, announced they’ll be postponing the festival until August 15-17, 2025, due to significant site damage and safety concerns at Discovery Park. The festival was slated to take place from May 3 to 5, 2024, and was the second consecutive year it had to be canceled due to unsafe conditions from flooding at Discovery Park.

6 days ago | capradio.org | Keyshawn Davis

A summer of mental health and wellness activities for free is almost upon us in the City of Trees. The Midtown Association has announced a new season of Fresh Air: Midtown Parks, a series offering free health and wellness activations. The activities will be held across five Midtown parks every weekday from May through September. Fresh Air: Midtown Parks offers a wide range of fitness classes that include sound meditation, running classes, yoga and for the first time this year, dance.

1 week ago | capradio.org | Vicki Gonzalez |Keyshawn Davis

It’s the dawn of a new era for Sacramento State athletics. After disappointing seasons in men’s basketball and football, the school hired new head coaches. Former Sacramento Kings legend Mike Bibby was recently hired as the next men’s basketball head coach. In December, the school hired Brennan Marion, a former offensive coordinator from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, after former head coach Andy Thompson resigned.

2 weeks ago | capradio.org | Keyshawn Davis

Free concerts in the City of Trees will be returning every Friday starting May 2 at Cesar Chavez Park, the Downtown Partnership announced last week. This is the 32nd annual Concerts in the Park series that celebrates the community and downtown in the summer. The events will run from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The series will only run for nine weeks instead of 12, finishing early this year, so participants don’t have to deal with intense heat in July.

2 weeks ago | capradio.org | Keyshawn Davis

In the 1980s, concert promoter Brian McKenna entered the music scene by managing his friends' band in high school. McKenna started booking the band at different venues around Sacramento, which ultimately led him to promote shows himself at the age of 17. By 19, he was booking national, international and local acts at the Cattle Club, an old venue on Folsom Boulevard near 65th Street, along with fellow concert promoter Jerry Perry in 1989 under New View Productions.