Aftershock kicks off 2 weekends of music pageant for Sacramento

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento is thought by many names like “The Metropolis of Timber” and “The Farm to Fork Capital,” however over the following couple of weekends, it’s going to be the Metropolis of Festivals.

Aftershock is rocking out at Discovery Park for the following 4 days, and subsequent weekend, an inaugural pageant will take stage, including a lift to the native financial system.

Aftershock is again for its tenth yr, and it’s greater than ever with 4 levels and greater than 100 bands from all over the world performing over 4 days. Headliners embrace Slipknot, My Chemical Romance and Rob Zombie. The biggest rock and heavy metallic pageant within the western United States is attracting followers close to and much.

“I drove down from Vancouver, Washington as a result of Evanescence and me on the rail has received to occur immediately!” mentioned Kimberlee Ghent.

Since day one, Ghent has by no means missed an Aftershock Competition in its 10 years. She says it’s a household reunion along with her heavy metallic brothers and sisters.

“Everyone, being at one with simply the music is the very best expertise you may ever have,” Ghent mentioned. “Sacramento Discovery Park is the house of Aftershock. It simply is.”

Ghent is amongst greater than half of the 160,000 pageant goers who aren’t from Sacramento however who traveled a great distance for the expertise.

“Oh dude, I do know once we come, we pay a fairly penny for our motel room and the meals’s not low-cost and neither is the fuel. Gasoline is just not low-cost proper now, however we’d not miss it,” she mentioned.

The financial impression for the pageant is roughly $30 million {dollars}, in response to Go to Sacramento.

Mayor Darrell Steinberg says Sacramento is changing into generally known as town of festivals.

Subsequent weekend, on the identical park and on the identical levels, it’s spherical two with the Golden Sky Nation Music Competition.

“I believe the following two weekends are actually going to point out the folks of Sacramento and folks coming from everywhere in the world that this can be a nice vacation spot. I imply constructing our artistic financial system is big a part of our financial future,” Steinberg mentioned.

Go to Sacramento’s Mike Testa mentioned Sacramento’s financial system is bouncing again from the pandemic sooner than different massive cities due to its rising pageant scene.

“The objective is to develop Golden Sky to the extent of Aftershock. I’d like to let you know in a few years that Sacramento hosts the biggest nation pageant within the nation,” Testa mentioned.

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