GALLERY: Music for the soul to blossom

Sol Blume festival returns for first time since 2019

Jorja Smith performs on the Blume stage at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Saturday, April 30, 2022. Smith is an English singer-songwriter who was one of four women headliners at Sol Blume festival this year. (Photo by Laura De la Garza Garcia)

Keyshawn Davis, Laura De la Garza Garcia, and Dylan McNeill
May 2, 2022

Echoes of dulcet R&B tones could be heard from the Jibboom Street Bridge as attendees walked across it ready for the festivities.

Sunny days and the sound of wind in the trees entered the festival grounds for two days at the Sol Blume music festival starting Saturday, April 30.

Sol Blume in Sacramento returned for the first time since 2019 in Discovery Park. The festival was a two-day event that had all women headliners.

Jorja Smith and 2022 Grammy award winner for best R&B album, Jazmine Sullivan, headlined Saturday night and Jhené Aiko and Summer Walker headlined Sunday night.

The weekend featured mostly R&B artists mixed with some hip-hop. Fans came to support the musicians and dressed aesthetically for the event.

Sol Blume Day 1

Sol Blume Day 2

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Keyshawn Davis, managing editor

Keyshawn Davis is the managing editor for The State Hornet. He is minoring in film and majoring in journalism. Davis is a freelance writer, published in Comstock’s Magazine, Sacramento Magazine, The Record in Stockton, The Sacramento Observer and Sacramento News & Review. Davis was also the previous diversity, equity and inclusion editor for The State Hornet and former sports editor for Sacramento City College campus news-site, The Express.

Laura De la Garza Garcia, spanish editor

Monterrey, Nuevo León Mexico native Laura De la Garza Garcia is the spanish editor for The State Hornet. She is a fourth-year student double majoring in Nutrition and Food, and Journalism. She joined The State Hornet in spring 2022 as a general rotational staffer reporting on news, arts and entertainment and sports. De la Garza Garcia has worked with KCRA 3’s Estrella TV, wrote a few columns for ‘El Heraldo’ city newspaper in Saltillo Mexico and established a National Association of Hispanic Journalists student chapter in Sacramento. Currently, she interns for the Sacramento Bee and hopes to graduate in Spring 2023.

Dylan McNeill, sports editor

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Dylan McNeill is a senior working on his second semester as a sports editor at The State Hornet. Previously with The Hornet Dylan has worked as an arts and entertainment staffer as well as the baseball beat writer. McNeill is from Humboldt County, California.