A Sacramento Valley city's historic western festival will be riding off into the sunset, sort of.

Elk Grove Western Festival organizers announced earlier in August that they were changing the name of the previously long-running event to the Elk Grove Spring Palooza.

It would be a return, of sorts, for the spring-summer celebration in Elk Grove, which last held its western festival in 2019.

The new name is a reflection of the changing community of Elk Grove, now the Sacramento region's second-largest city by population. When the Western Festival was first held in 1957, only about 2,000 people lived in the Elk Grove area. Now, nearly 180,000 people call the City of Elk Grove home (as of the 2020 Census).

"Over time, our community has changed and now it is time for our annual spring celeb

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