LoCura with The Navarrette Brothers at The Annex Sessions, brought to you by SunJams and Javier Navarrette Productions

“The Annex Sessions" Wednesday October 21, 2026, 6-8:30 PM will continue our music series held at El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex (The Annex) with Javier Navarrette’s “Modupue Wednesday” Presents LoCura with The Navarrette Brothers LoCura is Kata Miletich: Vocals Bob Sanders: Guitars Joaquin Zamudio: Electric Bass Danny Cao: Trumpet Melissa Cruz: Drums and Flamenco Dance With special guests Javier Navarrette: Percussion Raul Navarrette: trombone For the past 11 years, Oakland-based LoCura has crafted their own unique musical identity: "Califas Mestizo Music," a blend of Latin American and Iberian rhythms such as rumba, cumbia, salsa and flamenco influenced by punk rock, ska, rap, dub, reggae, dancehall with local and global lyrical themes. The band's name ("it cures it") reflects their ethos of making music a remedy, a theme which permeates lyrics such as "la cultura cura la locura (culture cures the madness).” With powerhouse women at the helm, their live shows are a soul-stirring punk-edged party mixing cajon-driven rhythms with mutilingual lyrics that reflect the unique intersection of cultures in the Bay Area. Ana Tijoux meets Manu Chao with a touch of Lhasa. Spanish-American vocalist Kata Miletich, expanding on the group's influences, notes "one big inspiration for the ways we consciously and unconsciously connect different music is this idea that styles and rhythms travel from Africa, Europe stretching across the Americas and mixing with indigenous sounds. Culture is alive in so many different ways, and shows up in different places to tell a story." LoCura has toured the U.S, Canada, Nicaragua, Mexico and Spain playing music festivals and sharing the stage with artists such as Bombino, La Cuneta Son Machin, Ziggy Marley, Beats Antique, Quetzal, and Nortec Collective. In the California Bay Area they have opened for Sergio Mendes, Ozomatli, La Santa Cecilia, Celso Piña & Bomba Estereo and have sold out The Great American Music Hall and The Independent in San Francisco. 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 The Natural Grocery Company is proud to present this series in partnership with SunJams and Javier Navarrette Music Productions. https://naturalgrocery.com/annex/ SunJams Productions is committed to funding children's music education in underserved public elementary schools. Your donation will help support this ongoing program. TAX ID 47-4435137 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. Follow Javier Navarrette on Facebook , Instagram and YouTube. 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 reserved 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. The Annex The Annex is a lively space for shopping, dining and relaxing. As the newest part of The Natural Grocery Company, the values are the same: a passion for vibrant community, healthy organic food and respect for the planet. "The Annex Sessions" is sponsored by the Natural Grocery Company in its commitment to serve the local community and help in the recovery of the local art scene. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days a week, inside the Annex you’ll find: A Cafe, Juice Bar, Deli, Wine & Beer, and more. The Annex building itself embodies our values: a few of the sustainable features are: extensive re-use of materials from the pre-existing structure, use of recycled materials from local vendors, and reliance on the solar energy we produce here, supplemented with other clean energy sources. DONATIONS 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 ( launched in April 2022) 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. Please DONATE HERE DURING THE SHOW We will be taking cash or check donations at check-in, during intermission & at the end of the show. TIME The Annex is open every day, please check their website for hours (https://naturalgrocery.com/annex/). The show will begin at 6:00 PM and conclude by 8:30 PM.