Music venue Goldfield Trading Post to close in midtown, focus on Roseville club
Midtown music venue Goldfield Trading Post is closing its doors on Sacramento’s J Street and focusing on its successful sister site in downtown Roseville.
The decision follows the expiration of the venue’s lease at 17th and J streets, Rushing said in an email to The Sacramento Bee.
“Our lease was up and we had opened a new location in Roseville a few years ago that is doing really well,” Rushing said. “We are going to put our focus and attention on this room.”
What began as a country-themed venue when it opened in 2014 on the site of the old Hamburger Mary’s on J at 17th Street, Goldfield in the years since had broadened its Sacramento billings before the most recent news. Shows are booked at the midtown corner through Nov. 23, according to its website.
Goldfield owners Bret Bair and Rushing opened a second Goldfield in downtown Roseville in 2021, purchasing the building at 238 Vernon St., in 2024, the Sacramento Business Journal reported. The publication in May reported that Bair and Rushing had scaled back its hours at the Sacramento venue citing slower business on nights without bookings.
Bair and his wife, Karen, own or have owned a number of Sacramento venues and nightspots including 8-Track and The Cabin; while Bair and Rushing helmed R Street mainstay Ace of Spades, opening the venue in 2011 before selling to LiveNation in 2016.
Rushing in June took over the building that once was home to Purple Place in El Dorado Hills with plans to open a restaurant in the one-time nightspot, according to reports.
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