“The Annex Sessions” will continue our music series held at El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex) on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 6-8:30pm with
Mónica María & Katiana Vilá
& friends
Mónica María is a vocalist, multi instrumentalist and composer. She has been a performing artist in the Bay Area since 2002 and released her debut album of original music “Nuevos Caminos” in 2020. She is an alumni of SFSU with a BA in Vocal Jazz and World Music. After many years of studying and performing salsa, cuban son, latin jazz and other Latin music genres, she developed a love for son jarocho (traditional music from the south of Veracruz, Mexico) which has become the genre music which she is most dedicated to. Mónica María’s original compositions are a blend of these musical and cultural influences, yet also reflect her Californian roots. She has had the joy and honor of collaborating with many musicians here in the bay and in Mexico such as John Calloway, Anthony Blea, Jesus Diaz, Jackie Rago, Laura Rebolloso, Pablo Emiliano Garcia and Jeronimo Gonzalez. MonicaMariaMusic.com
Katiana Vilá is a vocalist, percussionist, songwriter and producer from the California Bay Area. Her sound serves as a bridge between her ancestral roots and her Californian upbringing. She enjoys creating and interpreting songs on the Colombian Cuatro, and plays a variety of Latin and Spanish percussion instruments sparked by her passion for traditional and popular songs from these regions and her years spent studying and traveling. All these elements come together to create a unique world that reflects on the past and provokes the future. She is a recent graduate from the Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain where she received her Master’s in Music Production and Performance and with her newfound skills is ready to keep creating more music and learning how to fine tune her capabilities as a self-producing and performing artist all over the world.
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.
COVID RELATED SAFETY MEASURES
Please be safe. Feel free to wear a mask if you prefer.
TICKETS
Tickets are NOT required for this venue, you can simply come in, order food and beverages at the Annex counter and pay at the register.