On Wednesday, October 7, 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

 

Danilo’s Trio Universal

Danilo Paiz: guitar

Olga Vinnik: percussion, vocals

John Christensen: trumpet

 

Singing in six languages and playing a dozen different rhythms, Danilo’s Trio Universal truly have a repertoire with something for every musical taste.

 

In his extensive musical career, Danilo has performed as a percussionist with internationally known musicians such as Carlos Santana, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, and Mary Wilson of The Supremes. With his guitar trio, Danilo demonstrates his mastery of guitar/bass, looper, and vocals. He is accompanied on percussion and lead vocals by Olga Vinnik and on trumpet by John Christensen, plus special guests!

 

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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.

The Annex Sessions will continue Wednesday, September 30, 6-8:30pm at The Annex (El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex) 10387 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito with

 

Rhonda Benin & Soulful Strut

featuring:

Rhonda Benin: vocals

Lorenzo Hawkins: keyboards

Gregory Simmons: bass

Eddie Hall: drums

Rhonda Benin and her band return to The Annex for an evening of mellow soul music. With Lorenzo Hawkins, Gregory Simmons, and Eddie Hall.

 

RHONDA BENIN – Vocalist, Producer, Artist Teacher

“Benin’s got a coolly hip vocal, with a bit of hush and sugar and an undercurrent of big booming power. She can bend notes with a bass, talk serenade with a piano and steam the kettle from the drums”.                                                                     Ran Pacifica Tribune

 

San Francisco Bay Area vocalist, Rhonda Benin has earned a reputation for not just a good voice but showmanship, magnetic stage personality, humor, and of course her great dancing.  Rhonda’s impressive resume includes performances at SF Jazz, Yoshi’s, MOAD, The Healdsburg, Sonoma, Burlingame, Sausalito, Filmore, and Calistoga Jazz Festivals.  In the summer of 2012 Rhonda traveled to Hangzhou, China for a 3 month engagement at the JZ Jazz Club and was 2014 USA headliner for The Kigali Up Music Festival in Kigali, Rwanda.  In addition to singing, Rhonda is producer and founder of the annual Women’s History Month show “Just Like A Woman” a tribute to Bay Area Women In Music. Benin is a 26 year member of The GRAMMY nominated vocal ensemble Linda Tillery and The Cultural Heritage. She appears on the CHC’s 7 Cd’s and has toured 30 countries performing and recording with legendary artists such as Taj Mahal, Wilson Pickett, Richie Havens, Odetta. Al Green, Keb Mo, Santana, Patti Austin, Janis Ian, Jackson Brown, Hugh Masekela & Sweet Honey In The Rock.

 

In 2006 Rhonda produced her first solo CD, A Matter of the Heart a classic mix of jazz, blues, and soul and is currently working on her 2^nd CD.

Rhonda is on the teaching staff of Healdsburg Jazz ‘s Operation Jazz Band, San Francisco Arts Project, LEAP, California Conservatory of Music, Cal Performances and conducts her own school assemblies and workshops, “The Voice, The Hands The Feet”  “Twist and Shout” and “Love Letters Make Me Misty Blue”.

www.rhondabenin.com

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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.

On Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 6-8:30pm “The Annex Sessions” will continue our music series held at El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex) with

Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto & Brian Mitsuhiro Wong

Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto – Koto, Japanese Zither

Brian Mitsuhiro Wong – Koto and Shakuhachi, Japanese Zither and Bamboo Flute

Come discover traditional instruments of Japan! Shirley and her son, Brian, will play koto and shakuhachi, Japanese zither and bamboo flute.  They play a range of contemporary Japanese pieces to jazz on these instruments, meditative to western sounds in an innovative way.

 

Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto – Koto musician, teacher, band leader, filmmaker, event producer

Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto, is a teacher and performer on the Japanese koto. Shirley received her Shihan with honors and DaiShihan master koto credentials from the Chikushi Kai in Fukuoka, Japan. She has expanded the repertoire of traditional koto music through her jazz fusion group, the Murasaki Ensemble, collaborating, arranging and composing music for the koto in various styles and genres. Shirley has collaborated with many artists and performed with amazing musicians, and performed for celebrity notables starting from childhood with her mother, and later in her own presentations for over 60 years.  Shirley researched Japanese traditional performance arts in the World War II concentration camps, inspired by her mother’s experience learning to play the koto from koto teachers at Topaz and Tule Lake camps.  In 2012, her project was awarded a National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites grant to turn her decades-long research into a documentary film.  Hidden Legacy: Japanese Traditional Performance Arts in the World War II Internment Camps premiered in 2014 and aired on public TV and PBS stations in the U.S. and universities here and in Japan. She was awarded the Bunka Hall of Fame (Japanese cultural arts) in 2012, and in 2021 curated a program of Japanese koto music with the SF Symphony for their virtual CURRENTS series. Shirley is a recipient of the Taproot Fellowship 2024, supported by the Mellon Foundation and Alliance for California Traditional Arts. For the past three years and ongoing she leads the module “WWII Japanese American incarceration” with the Golden State of Song teaching 4^th graders about this history through music of that time, administered by the Freight and Salvage education program.

 

Brian Mitsuhiro Wong, an American of Japanese and Chinese heritage, carries on the musical family koto tradition that he inherited from his mother and grandmother.  Brian’s grandmother learned the koto as a little girl in the WWII American concentration camps at Topaz, Utah and Tule Lake, California.  Brian’s mother, Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto, started teaching him the koto when he was four years old.

In the tenth grade, Brian experienced the most important musical influence of his young life: a concert performed by Kazue Sawai in San Francisco. When the performance started, Madame Sawai turned out to be everything but conventional.

He was fortunate to meet Madame Kazue Sensei after the concert and she invited Brian to come to Japan to study the koto with her at the Sawai Conservatory in Tokyo. Brian became an ‘uchi-deshi’, a live-in student. Brian has also studied jiuta shamisen while he was studying there. He achieved the Koshi “instructor’s” certification in 2005 and was awarded Grand Prix distinction.

From 5^th grade through college, Brian also studied the saxophone under Steve Parker and Dan Zinn.  Brian played jazz in the Oaktown Jazz Workshop with mentors Khalil Shaheed and Ravi Abcarian. In college, he traveled to Europe with the Cal State University East Bay (CSUEB) at Hayward Jazz Ensemble directed by Professor Dave Eshelman.  He performed Toshiko Akiyoshi’s composition, “Kogun”, on the koto as a soloist with the jazz ensemble at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy and the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.

During this time, Brian also started learning the shakuhachi (bamboo flute) from Robin Hartshorne, and continued training with Shigeo Tachibana, Kanow Matsueda and Kaoru Kakizakai.  In 2007, Brian attained his B.A. in music composition from Cal State University East Bay. After college, he decided to focus on Japanese music.  He has been performing in festivals, events and concerts around the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, and helps his mother with performances and workshops.  Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto Brian produced a CD album together, “Oyako Don Koto” (“Parent and Child Koto Music”).  He has enjoyed recent collaborations with Nakamura Gankyo which had Brian performing in nagauta style music on shamisen, vocal and koto.  Brian was a finalist in the prestigious Kenjun Koto Competition in Kurume, Japan in 2019.  He provided koto, shamisen and shakuhachi music for the video game “Call of Duty II: Modern Warfare”, for the Michelin-starred restaurant Omakase Restaurant Sushi Battle with Chef Jackson Yu, and the San Jose anime convention Crunchy Roll.

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.

On Wednesday, September 16, 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

 

Javier Navarrette’s “Modupue Wednesday” Presents

Come Celebrate Raul Navarrette’s (Birthday/Going Back to New York Party) with

The Band:
Marco Diaz- Piano
Kai Lyons – Guitar/Tres
Ernesto Kindelan- Bass
Javier Cabanillas – Percussion
Javier Navarrette- Percussion
And Special Guest!

Javier Navarrette curates shows with various artists from different cultures in the Bay Area, as well as presenting his own global music projects at “Modupue Wednesdays”

Modupue- Thank you

 

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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.

On Wednesday, September 9, 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

 

Shefali Shah Presents Aguacero

Shefali Shah: vocals, minor percussion, dance

Ali “Choco” Luna: percussion and dance

Forooza Baradar: percussion, vocals and dance

Hector Lugo: percussion and vocals

Roman “Ito” Carrillo: percussion and vocals

Liris Robles: vocals and dance, guitar

Ximena Montes: vocals, minor percussion and dance

Iselah Pabon Ramos: vocals and dance

Ayla Davila, percussion and vocals

 

 

Batey Boricua

 

The first hour of the show will be a presentation by Aguacero that focuses on the traditional and creative expressions of Puerto Rican Bomba music and dance. Bomba is the oldest living music and dance tradition of the island. Instrumentation is barrel drums or barriles, cuas (a pair of sticks played on a small mounted hollow drum, and one maraca. Voice and dance are a key aspect of the instrumentation and the rhythm and cadence of Bomba.

 

The second hour will feature a Batey de Bomba or a community jam where we invite people from the community to participate with us, dancing, singing and playing.

 

Batey Boricua

homage to the gathering we know as the Bombazo, where community becomes rhythm and memory finds its voice. Here, practitioners of Bomba drum, sing, and dance together, weaving stories of who we have been and who we continue to become. In each step and beat lives an act of self-determination, a refusal of the labels that claim we are unworthy.

 

Bombatey is our reflection—vivid, proud, and unmistakably ours. And through it we share, without apology or restraint, the living, breathing truth of what it means to be Puerto Rican.

 

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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.

On Wednesday, September 2, 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

 

Key Elements LJE

 

Patricia Thumas: Bandleader, Pianist, Composer, Coro

Sue “Suki” Kaye: Congas, Percussion, Coro

Nzingah Smith: Flute, Saxes (Guest Sub & Former KEY Elements Bandmember)

Joyce Baker: Trap Drums, Coro

Sylvia Sherman: Bass, Coro

Inés Vargas-Fraenkel: Vocals, Hand Percussion

 

KEY ELEMENTS Latin Jazz Ensemble, is an All-Woman sextet based in the SF Bay Area, established in 2017, performing original hypnotic & exotic Latin Jazz compositions written by Pianist Patricia Thumas, along with classic Latin Jazz & Salsa by the masters of the genre for your dancing pleasure!

 

This is going to be the fourth performance at the Annex Sessions, in which the ensemble has been well received & has had memorable performances! We aim to make you wiggle your hips and soothe your Souls!

 

MUSICIAN BIOS

Patricia Thumas

Patricia Thumas is a native San Franciscan, who emerged as the Bay Area’s first female Salsa pianist with the highly acclaimed “Ritmo ’74”, opening for the international stars of New York-based Fania Records label at many of San Francisco’s finest venues. She has had an extensive career as a Salsa Pianist, including working with John Santos’ late seventies Cuban Charanga band “Tipica Cienfuegos,” and was also a member of legendary Afro-Cuban Master Drummer Francisco Aguabella’s band. In the early 1980s, she formed part of Escola de Samba Batucaje, directed by Jose Lorenzo, which won first place in Carnaval. In the late 1980s she toured throughout the California State Dept of Correction System with Jazz Guitarist Eddie Duran & Saxophonist Madeline Duran’s Band. Later in the 1980s/early 1990s, she toured nationally and recorded 2 CDs with the internationally acclaimed “Blazing Redheads” on the Reference Records label. In the late seventies/eighties, she co-led “Chevere” & “Bahia,” both Latin & Brazilian jazz ensembles. From 1994-2002 she played piano with the “Julio Bravo & Salsabor Orchestra,” performing locally & nationally, and is a twenty-five year veteran of “El Grupo Sinigual”. Patricia was selected and served as a Judge for the 2017 SF Carnaval Parade. She is featured in Jim McCarthy’s book “Voices of Latin Rock.” She is also featured along with other veteran community artists past & present on a mural at Casa Bandido, located at 25th & York Streets in San Francisco and will soon be featured in a book about the Mission District’s artistic community.  Since 2017, she has been leading Key Elements Latin Jazz Ensemble which recorded its debut album, “Arrival” in 2020.  Also in 2020, she was commissioned to create a song about a Mission District Mural, leading to the composition, “Maestra”.  The same year she was commissioned by Music in Place to write a composition inspired by the Pandemic entitled “Next Chapter”.  In 2021/2022 Patricia was commissioned by Jazz In The Neighborhood to perform Livestream concerts at Oakland Public Conservatory with Key Elements.  In 2022 she was a Yerba Buena Center For The Arts grant recipient for Sustainability during Pandemic.  She also was featured in Holly Near’s Digital Archive/Gallery about the history of women’s music.

 

Sue “Suki” Kaye

Sue “Suki” Kaye, originally from NYC and now living in the Bay Area has been playing congas, ngoma, kalimba, and other percussion for over 40 years. She has been deeply influenced by many amazing teachers, studying the music of the Congo, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Trinidad and more! Over the years, Suki has performed with many bands, including Azucar con Ache, Rita Lackey and Friends, Liquid Girlfriend, Montuno Groove, Omeyocan, Pura Vida, Zakiya Hooker, Bole Bantu, Azucar y Crema, Samba Ngo, and the Ngoma Players, and is now very excited about playing with this new project-Key Elements. She has had the pleasure of opening the show and sharing the stage with such well-known artists as King Sunny Ade, Sheila E, and Babatunde Olatunji (RIP). Suki has also been a dance accompanist, playing for both classes and performance groups. She is a former member of Taller Bombalele, a Puerto Rican Folkloric group. She is also an educator, teaching elementary, preschool, and after school programs as well as conducting drum workshops for adults and kids. She is on the faculty of Born to Drum, a Bay Area women’s drum camp. Suki also enjoys writing and arranging music and of course playing and being creative with other musicians!

 

Nzingah Smith

Nzingah Smith has been playing music since the age of six. She studied jazz at the New Muse in Brooklyn, the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, and Billie Taylor’s Jazzmobile under the tutelage of Frank Foster, Frank Wess, and Bill Baron. Nzingah attended Rutgers University where she received a degree in flute performance. While there, she had the honor to perform with the University Big Band at the funeral of Thelonius Monk. Nzingah’s musical styles run the gamut from Jazz to Salsa, R & B, Funk, and Classical music. She frequently performs with the Oakland Civic Orchestra, the Mary Lou Williams Tribute Band, as well as with Bay Area Funk and Blues legend, Johnny Tolbert. A member of all woman Big Band: “Mary Lou’s Apartment” (a tribute band honoring the music of Jazz Pianist/Composer/Arranger “Mary Lou Williams”), which morphed into: “MELBAS’ KITCHEN”, (all woman tribute big band honoring the music of Jazz Trombonist/Composer/ Arranger “Melba Liston”) & Nzingah has been Co-Director, since 2021. Nzingah has been a dedicated music educator in the Bay Area of San Francisco for over two decades. She teaches band, Jazz, Improvisation, and gives private music lessons.

 

Joyce Baker

Joyce Baker has been playing drums since she was a small child with her famous father “Buddy” Baker. Joyce has played with Lavender Country for many years and recently at SXSW; as well other greats such as Emmy Award Winning Songwriter Lisa Nemzo, Mel Graves, George Marsh, Opie Bellas, Lea DeLaria, Carolyn Brandy, Michaelle Goerlitz, Vicky Grossi, Janice Beard, Mimi Fox and the Cable Car Award Recipients Nicholas Glover and Wray. Joyce has also shared the stage with Con Fun Shun, Jefferson Starship, and ”Blondie’s” Debra Harry. Over the years, she has also been seen and heard with Theatre companies Contra Costa Theatre, Hootchie Doo Productions “Nunsense” series, orchestras with Sonoma Valley Chorale, Contare Con Vivo, and Oakland East Bay Symphony. Joyce is a recording artist and can be heard on multiple CD’s with Amy Meyers, Liquid Girlfriend, Doug Stevens and The Outband, Nicholas, Glover and Wray, D. Anthony, Bad Ass Boots, “Gotta Give me Somethin’,” and Lavender Country’s guitarist Mark Newstetter. By day she is an award winning music teacher in OUSD, and Jazz and Blues Camp for Girls @ the Berkeley Jazz School. By night she can be heard with Lavender Country, Bad Ass Boots, Big O’, Mary Lou’s Apartment, and her own swinging jazz group. Otherwise, she lives with her lovely wife of 29 years, the best dog in the world, Santita, her cat, Sir Lumley, in her hideway home in the hills of El Sobrante.

 

Sylvia Sherman

Sylvia Sherman is an alumna from community arts workshops at La Pena Cultural Center and Mission Cultural Center, with a focus on percussion in Cuban music, including opportunities to participate in clinics with master Cuban artists such as Los Muñequitos de Matanzas and Anga Diaz and to study with Bay Area based Michael Spiro and Jesus Diaz.  She brings her experience with percussion to her bass playing and performs with several groups including Key Elements, El Guajiro, Ray Martinez and the Latin OGs and Sinigual.  Sylvia is Program Director at Community Music Center where she works to develop community arts programs for people of all ages.

 

Inés Vargas Fraenkel

Inés was born in Peru of Peruvian-Chinese descent. She has lived in the Bay Area since her family immigrated to the US. She is now retired from being an attorney for the cities of Oakland and San Francisco.

Latin music and dance have been her passions. She is a percussionist and vocalist. She plays bongos and hand percussion, and has been a vocalist of Latin and salsa tunes for over 15 years. She has performed with a number of Bay Area bands, some of them, all-women bands. She now performs with Key Elements Latin Jazz Ensemble.

 

Please feel free to visit the Key Elements LJE Website at:

Www.keyelementslatinjazz.com

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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.