On Wednesday, August 5, 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 TWO BANDS!!!!!
6:00pm-7:00pm
Oaktown Jazz Workshops’ Performance Ensemble
Max Ehrhardt – trumpet
Richard Howell – tenor saxophone
Paulos Thomas – tenor saxophone
Max Nguyen – keyboard
Anthony Mills-Branch – bass
Mark Lee – drums
Plus Oaktown Jazz Workshops’ young musicians
7:30pm-8:30pm
The Shadow Band – Arabic Free Groove
Tarik “Excentrik” Kazaleh — oud and guitar
Naima Shalhoub — keys and vocals
Chris Trinidad — bass guitar and bass synth
Michael Reed — drums
The Shadow Band is an Arabic Free Groove group that formed in the wake of the Gaza genocide to perform at various events and fundraisers with beautiful, energizing and cathartic live compositions. Drawing from previous decades of their own music projects with sounds including oud, guitar, bass, synth, drums, darbouka, rhodes and others, they are collectively fueled by the spirit of improvisation as an ode to liberation, healing and resistance.
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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 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 registers.