THE ANNEX SESSIONS RETURN FOR 2025!

The Annex Sessions will resume on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 6-8:30pm at El Cerrito
Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex)

Julio Bravo & Friends- Music from Peru and beyond!

featuring:
Julio Bravo – vocals
with special guests:
Jose Soto – piano & guitar
David Pinto – bass guitar
Alberto Palomino – percussion
and possibly others!

Musician Bios:

Julio Bravo
Celebrating 15 years of fiery live concerts with his Orquesta Salsabor, Peruvian
singer/songwriter/bandleader Julio Bravo continues to be one of San Francisco's favorite
salsa acts. Festive, exotic, and upbeat, this group's buoyant beats have been engaging
crowds and filling dance floors around the Bay Area for years. Sample a few seconds from
their latest CD and you'll hear what we mean. In 2004, Julio returned to Lima to record his
first salsa CD, 10 Años de Salsa, which features 5 original compositions and the
contributions of the talented trombonist Paul Lyons, an original member of Orquesta
Salsabor.

Jose Soto
Music specialist José Soto, a classically trained musician who grew up playing the violin and
learned the art of traditional mariachi music in Mexico. At 15, Soto and his family moved from
Tapalpa, a little village about two hours south of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to Sonoma
County where his passion for music grew. He started a mariachi club at Elsie Allen High School
and after graduating from Sonoma State University, he focused on passing his passion on to
young musicians.That passion came in the form of working with one of the biggest arts centers in Sonoma
County.The program Soto started seven years ago alongside Ashleigh Worley, who is the director of
education and community engagement at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. The Luther
Burbank Center for the Arts is a Santa Rosa nonprofit arts and event center offering education,
art and community programs, is still going strong.

David Pinto
David is a Peruvian native best-known for his work as music director, arranger, and bassist for
Grammy-winner Susana Baca, Diva of Afro-Peruvian song. He was member of Peru Jazz, a group
highly praised for their innovation and fusion of Peruvian roots and jazz.
He has performed at various international jazz and world music festivals, such as WOMAD in
Nice, Paris, Glastonbury, and Montreal. He has toured internationally in theaters, including The
Kennedy Center and The Hollywood Bowl, Theatre De La Ville (Paris), and Royal Festival Hall
(London). David also leads and performs with his own group Syncopated Colors, as well as
teaching at the Jazz School in Berkeley, California.

The Natural Grocery Company is proud to present this series in partnership with SunJams and Javier
Navarrette Music Productions.

SunJams is committed to funding children's music education in underserved public elementary
schools. Your donation will help support this ongoing program.
All of the proceeds will go directly to our network of local musicians, each of whom have been
severely impacted by the lack of events during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Whether you donate $10, $100, or $1000 - any amount helps and will allow us to keep bringing
music to our community! As always, your donation to SunJams 501(c)3 may qualify as tax
exempt.
Javier Navarrette Music Productions continues to bring live music to several venues around the
Bay Area. Javier has been a professional musician and music educator in the Oakland Unified
School District for the past 20 years. Over the past few years Navarrette has produced outdoors
events that have proven instrumental in enabling musicians to deal with some of the fallout of
the pandemic and shutdown that followed.

Follow Javier Navarrette on Facebook , Instagram and YouTube.

COVID RELATED SAFETY MEASURES
Please be safe. Feel free to wear a mask if you prefer.

TICKETS

Tickets are encouraged, we are happy to offer you a reserved seat (limited seating available) if you RSVP with a donation that will go towards paying for the music. Tickets are NOT required for this venue, you can simply come in, order food and beverages at the Annex counter.

The Annex

The Annex is a lively space for shopping, dining and relaxing. As the newest part of The Natural Grocery Company, the values are the same: a passion for vibrant community, healthy organic food and respect for the planet.

"The Annex Sessions" is sponsored by the Natural Grocery Company in its commitment to serve the local community and help in the recovery of the local art scene.

Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days a week, inside the Annex you’ll find: A Cafe, Juice Bar, Deli, Wine & Beer, and more.

The Annex building itself embodies our values: a few of the sustainable features are: extensive re-use of materials from the pre-existing structure, use of recycled materials from local vendors, and reliance on the solar energy we produce here, supplemented with other clean energy sources.

DONATIONS

SunJams is committed to funding children's music education in underserved public elementary schools. Your donation will help support this ongoing program.

In addition, we need to raise funds to continue bringing you this exciting new ( launched in April 2022) live music program. All of the proceeds will go directly to our network of local musicians, each of whom have been severely impacted by the lack of events during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Whether you donate $10, $100, or $1000 - any amount helps and will allow us to keep bringing music to our community! As always, your donation to our 501(c)3 may qualify as tax exempt.

Please DONATE HERE

DURING THE SHOW

We will be taking cash or check donations at check-in, during intermission & at the end of the show.

TIME

The Annex is open every day, please check their website for hours (https://naturalgrocery.com/annex/).

 The show will begin at 6:00 PM and conclude by 8:30 PM.