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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
Open to walk-in trade and browsing Tuesday to Sunday noon to six
phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
Friday, May 8th – 7:30pm
An Abecedarium of Jazz!
Eric & the In Crowd survey the letter “G”
Eric Shifrin, piano and vocals. Ari Munkres, bass. Jay Hansen, drums. $20 cover charge / byob. Students $10 / kids free. Reservations: Call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Eric Shifrin brings the In Crowd to Bird & Beckett for a couple of hours every other second Friday, from 7:30-9:30, in the odd numbered months… May, July,…
Thursday, May 7th – 7pm
Poets James Cagney & Jelal Huyler
Open mic follows.
James Cagney is an award-winning Oakland poet and Cave Canem fellow. His books include Ghetto Koans, Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory, and Martian: The Saint of Loneliness. jelal huyler is a biracial Black poet from Oakland, born to a revolutionary Black mother. Carrying on throughout this dissociative so-called reality, he does…
Sunday, May 3rd – 5pm
Student-Centric Jazz Jam
hosted by the Yoav Konig RASOTA/SFCM-RJAM Quartet
Mark your calendar for tomorrow’s jazz today at Bird & Beckett on the first Sunday of each month from 5 to 7pm! And consider becoming a sponsor of the next generation of jazz greats! Ask us how! Each month, on the first Sunday of the month from 5 to 7pm, we present a jam session…
Saturday, May 2nd – 7:30pm
Cantos de mi Tierra
Laura Ramos & Edu González, vocals Armando Fox, piano Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, guitar Anastasia Preston, bass Ryan Friedman, percussion $25 cover charge / adult; byob. Students, $10; kids free. Formed in the summer of 2023, the latin cabaret ensemble Cantos di mi Tierra had its first public performances in October 2023 with three sold-out shows…
Friday, May 1st – 8:30pm
Ramya Shankar & the Human Experience
Ramya Shankar, vocals Prasant Radakrishnan, saxophone Unpil Baek, piano Peter Barshay, bass Varun Pattabhiraman, mridangam Barbara Nerness, biosignal researcher/composer $25 cover students $10 For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733 Ramya Shankar is a genre-blurring sound artist and vocalist whose voice flows from deep Carnatic and folk roots of India into jazz and global…
Friday, May 1st – 6pm
THE TRIO: Berthiaume-Bennett-Moore
Denny Berthiaume, piano. Chuck Bennett, bass. Curt Moore, drums. $20 suggested / adult; byob. (pay what you can). Students, $10; kids free. A classic piano trio date. Pianist Denny Berthiaume, bassist Chuck Bennett and drummer Curt Moore, three veterans of the Bay Area jazz scene, have been plying these waters together for many years, all…
A little backstory on
Friday “jazz in the bookshop”
~~our jazz happy hour~~
continuous since 2002
growing from roots planted in 1999
Here’s a little backstory, to get us to where we now stand… in re: the Fridays, anyway… Read on! And thanks for being part of the Bird & Beckett story in the present day. /s/Eric Whittington, proprietor, since 1999 Once upon a time, in the late spring of 1999, Bird & Beckett opened its…
Thursday, April 30, 7pm – Eileen Myles + Nathan Kernan on James Schuyler, with Tom Carey, Jason Morris, & Hannah Zeavin
Eileen Myles in conversation with Nathan Kernan, author of A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler (FSG, 2025), on the life and language of James Schuyler, with additional discussion & reading of Schuyler’s work by Tom Carey, Jason Morris, & Hannah Zeavin. * Born in Chicago in 1923, James Schuyler grew up in Washington,…
Tuesday, April 28th – 7pm
Author Event: Jeanne Carstensen
A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis
Join PEN Award finalist Jeanne Carstensen, in conversation with Frances Dinkelspiel, for the paperback launch party for A GREEK TRAGEDY, with live rebetika music. The author: Jeanne Carstensen, in conversation with Frances Dinkelspiel The book: A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis (Atria/One Signal,…
Monday, April 27th – 6pm to 9pm
Bohemia with Grub in West Portal
A Benefit Blow Out for Bird & Beckett
at Proposition Chicken, with
Junk Drawer
Hank Maninger & the Juke Box Charlies
The Kai Lyons Trio
plus poets!
Fried, Flipped or Fake, Proposition Chicken has something for everyone — and 10% of your tab goes to Bird & Beckett every Monday in April, from 9am to 9pm. It’s their Non-Profit Mondays policy, and they do it year round! They serve great food all year round as well. From ten bucks in revenue on…