Wednesday July 5, 2023, 6-8:30 pm will continue our music series held at El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex) – “The Annex Sessions”

The Annex Sessions is excited to bring you Los Bahianatos.

Los Bahianatos (by * ya * NAH * tos) specialize in Colombian dance music featuring the
button accordion, including cumbia, vallenato and everything in between. It's a blend of
early Colombian roots music and popular hits by some of Colombia's most influential artists
of the 20th century, such as Alejo Durán, Andres Landero, Lisandro Meza, Calixto Ochoa,
Alfredo Gutierrez, Enrique Diaz, Miguel Durán, Romualdo Brito, Diomedez Diaz and many
more! Founded in Oakland, California, during the early months of the pandemic, Los
Bahianatos are the premier cumbia and vallenato band en 'La Bahia'.

Musicians:

Jose Rivera - guacharaca and vocals
Chris Reid - accordion and vocals
Brax Chamaco - bass guitar, electric guitar and vocals
Dave Eagle - caja vallenata, conga, tambor, campana and high-hat

We are proud to present this series in partnership with SunJams and Javier Navarrette Music.

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 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 SunJams 501(c)3 may qualify as tax exempt.

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.

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 Music Production on Facebook , Instagram and YouT ube.

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. Reserved tickets are limited, walk-ins are welcome ( some seating is available on a first-come first-served basis, in addition there is plenty of room at the wine bar for standing/dancing).

DONATIONS

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

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.

Since 2015, we have partnered with the California Symphony's Sound Minds program to provide music lessons at EM Downer Elementary, in San Pablo.

In addition, we support students enrolled in other nonprofit music education programs in our community, such as Oaktown Jazz Workshops and Living Jazz.

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.

The Annex Sessions support the community of local musicians and celebrate their commitment to education. Donations from each show are split 50/50 between the musicians and the music education programs that we fund and support in local communities.

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.