On Wednesday, July 1, 2026, 6-8:30pm “The Annex Sessions” music series will continue at The Annex (El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex), 10387 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito with
Chris Trinidad’s Chroma Tonic
Naima Shalhoub: vocals, synthesizer
Alex Heigl: guitar
Cy Thompson: percussion
Scott Oshiro: flute
Chris Trinidad: bass guitar, synth bass
Drawing inspiration from ambient music pioneers Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, the late sixties avant-garde space psychedelia of Pink Floyd, the progressive improvised electronic rock of King Crimson’s ProjeKcts series, the adventurous electric hybrid experimentations of early seventies Miles Davis, the aim of this group is to blend these explorations with the unique musical sensibilities of the players. Naima Shalhoub provides vocal and synthesizer textures, Alex Heigl plays ambient and looped guitars, Cy Thompson brings an array of Afro-Caribbean percussive elements, Scott Oshiro performs on flute and programs the quantum (!) electronic improvised live interactions, while bandleader Chris Trinidad keeps things buoyant on bass guitar and synth bass.
Their self-titled debut album is now available on Iridium Records via Bandcamp!
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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 the proceeds will go directly to our network of local musicians, each of whom has 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 registers.