Last Neighborhood Session of 2022! Don’t miss out!

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 5-7:30pm will continue our music series held at El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex)  – “Neighborhood World Music Sessions at The Annex.”

John Santos and Trio Colibrí (John Santos, Jose Roberto Hernandez, Manuel Constancio) with Special Guest Vocalist, Marina La Valle

Gorgeous Latin American classics and originals. Trio Colibri is comprised of three stalwart Bay Area musicians drawn together by a common passion for the lyrical and poetic music of Latin America. Using guitars, Afro-Latin percussion and beautiful vocal arrangements, they transport audiences to other countries, realms and eras, always with an element of originality while honoring profound musical traditions and innovators. Mambo, bolero, son, joropo and guaracha are some of the rhythms they use, igniting dancers and daring concert audiences to stay still in their seats.

Multi-Grammy nominee and San Francisco Latino Heritage Arts Awardee, John Santos, is one of the foremost bandleaders, composers, producers, percussionists, and educators in Afro-Latin music. Throughout a 50-plus year career based in the Bay Area, he has worked with acknowledged masters including Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Cachao, Eddie Palmieri, and Omar Sosa, and has lectured and taught throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America.

Jose Roberto Hernandez is a highly respected multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, arranger, producer, musical educator, and ethnomusicologist. He was born in the city of Cardenas, Tabasco, Mexico, surrounded by master folklorists. He is a unique artist whose devotion, creativity, and studies in the genres of traditional music from México, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Argentina have earned him great recognition and fan appreciation. Throughout a 25 year career, he has collaborated with countless respected artists from all over Latin America including Orestes Vilato, Jesus Diaz, Bobi Cespedes, Manuel Constancio, Marina Lavalle, Lalo Izquierdo, Kat Parra, Edgardo Gambon, Felipe Pumarada, Ernesto Oviedo, Pedro Rosales, Peta Robles, John Santos, Greg Landau, and Los Cenzontles. JOSEROBERTOMUSIC.COM

Manuel Constancio Jr. is an accomplished and versatile guitarist/vocalist originally from San Jose, CA. His 25-year association with the Navy Band found him directing the NATO band in Naples, Italy, as well as director at Treasure Island in San Francisco and in San Diego. He was the Navy’s first “minority” band director. He co-directs the band Sabrosito with his brother José.

Afro-Peruvian singer Marina Lavalle is one of the most distinctive performers in the Bay Area and one of the great voices of modern Peruvian music. An important figure in the resurgence of Afro-Peruvian music, Marina Lavalle nurtures a carefully crafted blend of contemporary and traditional sounds.

We are proud to present this series in partnership with SunJams and Javier Naverrette Music.

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.

Javier Navarrette Music 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 instrumental 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.

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.

A SPECIAL NOTE FROM SUNJAMS

This series, Neighborhood World Music Sessions started at the #elcerritonaturalgrocerycompany’s Annex, in El Cerrito in April. It has been bringing shows by world class musicians to this community and has brought us a lot of joy to produce. With support from The Annex, a $1000 donation from one of our board members, and donations from the audience, we are very proud to have been able to share the gift of live music with so many.

Our funds are running low, and we need a few generous donors to step up.

We need to raise $9,600 to continue this series for a year. We will be applying for grants to continue beyond that as long as the series is of value to the community.

Our mission is to support music education in public elementary schools. We believe in supporting local musicians who are involved in music education and who have to make so many sacrifices to survive in the Bay Area with its many challenges to lower income and minority groups. There is no music education without dedicated musicians in our community, and we believe in fostering the live music scene to keep our communities healthy.

Please share this post if you have attended these shows, and please donate to our program.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 5-7:30pm will continue our music series held at El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex), 10387 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, on first and third Wednesdays  – “Neighborhood World Music Sessions at The Annex.”

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

Javier Navarrette’s Modúpue 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 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.

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.

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.

“Neighborhood World Music Sessions at The Annex.”

Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 5-7:30pm will continue our music series held at El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex) 10387 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito

Trio Zincalo

We are proud to present this series in partnership with Javier Navarrette Music and SunJams.

Javier Navarrette Music 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 instrumental 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.

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.

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.

“Neighborhood World Music Sessions at The Annex.”

Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 5-7:30pm will continue our music series held at El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex) 10387 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito

Mark Hummel and The Deep Basement Shakers

Mark Hummel – harmonica master, blues singer

Aaron Hammerman – piano and guitar

Dave Eagle – local percussion legend on washboard, spoons, suitcase, train whistles, animal calls, etc.

A new collaboration is taking place between Mark Hummel & the Deep Basement Shakers, as the two entities have locked forces to commit themselves to rockin’ away the pre-war blues & boogie-woogie styles in this piano, acoustic harmonica/vocal & washboard trio.

Grammy-nominated, two-time Blues Music Award winner, harmonica master, blues singer, bandleader, author, and entrepreneur Mark Hummel has been active since the early 1970s, when he moved to Berkeley from LA. Hummel has over thirty CDs to his credit and also is the creator of the Blues Harmonica Blowouts, which he started in 1991.

Hummel’s mastery of the blues genre, mixed with a knowledge of where the music comes from, is rare in this idiom. Mark has recorded/toured with Snooky Pryor, Lowell Fulsom, Eddie Taylor, Brownie McGhee, Barbara Dane, Jimmy Rogers, Charlie Musselwhite, Billy Boy Arnold, Huey Lewis, Lazy Lester, Anson Funderburgh (his co-partner in his latest project, Golden State-Lone Star), Charles Brown, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith & many more. Hummel has been steadily touring around the world since 1984.

Mark Hummel started playing harmonica in 1970 and is considered one of the premier blues harmonica players of his generation. Thanks to over thirty recordings since 1985, including the Grammy nominated 2013 release Blind Pig recording Remembering Little Walter (part of the Blues Harmonica Blowout CD series). Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout™ started in 1991 and have featured every major legend (Mayall, Musselwhite, Cotton, etc.) on blues harp as well as almost every player of note on the instrument – a who’s who of players.

Specializing in primal, joint-rockin’ barrelhouse blues n’ boogie, the Deep Basement Shakers are an East Bay trio with a stripped down but powerful sound, featuring local traditional American music specialist Aaron Hammerman on piano and guitar, and local percussion legend Dave Eagle (the Right Time, Rusty Zinn, Zamico) on washboard, spoons, suitcase, train whistles, animal calls, etc.

We are proud to present this series in partnership with Javier Navarrette Music and SunJams.

Javier Navarrette Music 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 instrumental 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.

SunJams is committed to funding children’s music education in underserved public elementary schools. Your donation will help support this ongoing program.

Our events are fundraisers, we support childhood music education in public elementary schools. We have partnered with the California Symphony’s Sound Minds program, providing music education in San Pablo since 2012.

In addition, we need to raise funds to continue bringing you this exciting new live music program. We are committed to paying musicians fair compensation for their performance, and the Annex has pledged to help us do that with an ongoing donation that covers some of those needs. Our donors and audience members are an essential part of this support. 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 $1, $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.

We thank BAY AREA NEUROINTENSIVISTS ( Dr. Moussa Yazbeck) for their generous unrestricted grant to support this series.

SunJams will be taking cash or check donations at check-in, during intermission & at the end of the show.

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.

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.

Time: 5-7:30pm

Presented by

Modupue Productions ( Javier Navarrette)

Music at Sunjams ( Amer Budayr )

The Annex (The Natural Grocery Company, Employee Owned since 2002)