Jesse Cook’s Forever Live Tour brings the Canadian guitarist to Sacramento’s Crest Theatre on Wednesday, January 20, 2027, at 7:30 PM. It’s a midweek show at one of the city’s most intimate seated music venues, and for anyone who follows Cook’s flamenco-influenced guitar work, it’s worth planning ahead.
About Jesse Cook
Cook is a Montreal-born guitarist whose sound blends flamenco, rumba, and jazz with global influences from Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. He’s been recording and touring since the mid-1990s, with a catalog that includes albums like Tempest, Gravity, Free Fall, and Vertigo. His live shows are built around the guitar — intricate, rhythmic playing with a band that tends to cover a lot of ground stylistically in the course of a single set.
The Forever Live Tour is his current run, named for recent material from his ongoing recording work. The Sacramento stop is one of his California dates on the tour’s west coast stretch.
About the Crest Theatre
The Crest Theatre at 1013 K Street is Sacramento’s main mid-size seated rock and world music venue. The room holds around 1,000 people, with a main floor and balcony. The sight lines are good from most seats, and the acoustics suit an act like Cook well. Street parking is available on K Street and surrounding blocks; the downtown parking garages off J and L Streets are within a short walk.
The Details
- What: Jesse Cook: Forever Live Tour
- When: Wednesday, January 20, 2027 at 7:30 PM
- Where: Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street, Sacramento, CA
- Tickets: Via jessecook.com/tour (Ticketmaster); limit 8 per order
Bottom Line
January in Sacramento is a quieter month for live music, and this is one of the more distinctive shows on the calendar. Cook’s guitar style doesn’t fit neatly into one genre, which makes for a show that tends to draw a room that knows exactly why it showed up. The Crest is a good fit for the format — the space works well for a seated acoustic-adjacent set, and K Street is easy to get to by light rail. If you’re looking for something to anchor a midweek January evening, this is worth the ticket.
For more Crest Theatre shows this season, see Kamasi Washington at the Crest on December 6 and Maria Bamford on December 11. For the full picture of live music in Sacramento this winter, the Sacramento Holiday Events calendar covers what’s on through the end of the year.
