THE ANNEX SESSIONS RETURN FOR 2025!

 

The Annex Sessions will resume on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 6-8:30pm at El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex)

 

Julio Bravo & Friends

featuring:

Julio Bravo – vocals

with special guests:
Jose Soto – piano & guitar
David Pinto – bass guitar
Alberto Palomino – percussion

and possibly others!

Music from Peru and beyond!

 

Musician Bios:

 

Julio Bravo

Celebrating 15 years of fiery live concerts with his Orquesta Salsabor, Peruvian singer/songwriter/bandleader Julio Bravo continues to be one of San Francisco’s favorite salsa acts. Festive, exotic, and upbeat, this group’s buoyant beats have been engaging crowds and filling dance floors around the Bay Area for years. Sample a few seconds from their latest CD and you’ll hear what we mean. In 2004, Julio returned to Lima to record his first salsa CD, 10 Años de Salsa, which features 5 original compositions and the contributions of the talented trombonist Paul Lyons, an original member of Orquesta Salsabor.

 

Jose Soto

 Music specialist José Soto, a classically trained musician who grew up playing the violin and learned the art of traditional mariachi music in Mexico. At 15, Soto and his family moved from Tapalpa, a little village about two hours south of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to Sonoma County where his passion for music grew. He started a mariachi club at Elsie Allen High School and after graduating from Sonoma State University, he focused on passing his passion on to young musicians.

That passion came in the form of working with one of the biggest arts centers in Sonoma County.

The program Soto started seven years ago alongside Ashleigh Worley, who is the director of education and community engagement at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. The Luther Burbank Center for the Arts is a Santa Rosa nonprofit arts and event center offering education, art and community programs, is still going strong.

 

David Pinto

David is a Peruvian native best-known for his work as music director, arranger, and bassist for Grammy-winner Susana Baca, Diva of Afro-Peruvian song. He was member of Peru Jazz, a group highly praised for their innovation and fusion of Peruvian roots and jazz.

He has performed at various international jazz and world music festivals, such as WOMAD in Nice, Paris, Glastonbury, and Montreal. He has toured internationally in theaters, including The Kennedy Center and The Hollywood Bowl, Theatre De La Ville (Paris), and Royal Festival Hall (London). David also leads and performs with his own group Syncopated Colors, as well as teaching at the Jazz School in Berkeley, California.

 

Alberto Palamino

Is a percussionist.

 

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.