Wednesday June 7 6 PM to 8:30 PM will continue our music series held at El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company on first and third .

The series is co-produced by Javier Navarrette, SunJams, and the Annex.

Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 6-8:30pm will continue our music series held at El Cerrito
Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex) - “The Annex Sessions"

The Javier Navarrette’s Latin Jazz Trio, playing danceable Latin Jazz music with infectious “Charanga Grooves”!

Javier Navarrette ~ percussion
Anthony Blea ~ violin
Marco Diaz ~ piano

Javier Navarrette is a professional percussionist, musician, composer, arranger and
educator living in Oakland, California, specializing in Afro-Caribbean music. Javier’s
performance and recording career spans over three decades.
Amongst the many greats he has played with are: Poncho Sanchez; Los Van Van; the
Conga Kings: Francisco Aguabella, Carlos “Patáto” Valdez, and Milton Cardona; as well
as with jazz, Javier received the artist scholarship award with Plaza Cuba Travels to
study music at La Escuela Nacional de Arte in Habana, Cuba.
Javier has been teaching with Living Jazz Children’s Music Project in the Oakland
public schools and at the summer Jam Camp for Children.
Javier produces Modúpue Sundays with Arts at the Basin, Rocky's Market, Brooklyn
Basin, Oakland, and the Neighborhood Sessions at The Annex in El Cerrito, both
musical events presenting the Bay Area’s legendary musicians in the Afro-Latin music
Scene.

Anthony Blea's skill on the violin landed him work with many international legends such
as Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Ray Charles, Boz Scaggs and Leonard Bernstein to name a
few. Most notably Anthony has played with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra.

Marco Diaz is an accomplished recording musician who has shared the stage with
Grammy Award winning artist, Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Nelson Gonzales, Jimmy Bosch,
Pete “El Conde” Rodriguez, Ska Cubano (Europe), Tito Rojas, Nino Segarra, Anthony
Cruz, Anthony Blea, Jovino Santos Neto, Joe Santiago, and is an integral member of
the John Santos sextet and the musical director for Bobi Cespedes. while also co-
leading Vission Latina, an Afro-Caribbean dance band, VL Trio, and his own group.

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

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 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 2 years Navarrette has produced outdoors events that have proven instumental in enabling musicians to deal with some of the fallout of the pandemic and shutdown that followed. Most recently he has been curating "Modúpue Sundays at the Brooklyn Basin.” These musical productions ran from June–November 2021 at the new Oakland hot spot, the Brooklyn Basin, with internationally known, Bay Area musical legends. 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.

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 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.

Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 6-8:30pm will continue our music series held at El CerritoNatural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex) - “The Annex Sessions"The Javier Navarrette’s Latin Jazz Trio, playing danceable Latin Jazz music with infectious “Charanga Grooves”!

The Annex

Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 6-8:30pm will continue our music series held at El Cerrito
Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex) - “The Annex Sessions"

The Javier Navarrette’s Latin Jazz Trio, playing danceable Latin Jazz music with infectious “Charanga Grooves”!