Archive for January 2015
Sunday, March 1st – 4:30-6:30 pm
CMC All Stars! A Year of the Ram Showcase with Betty Wong & Friends
On March 1st, Bird & Beckett is proud and pleased to welcome faculty and friends of that august institution, the Community Music Center, with its headquarters on Capp Street in the Mission District and its outpost in the Richmond… offering a musical education to countless San Franciscans of all ages for nine decades-plus! Once a…
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Saturday, February 28th – 8-11 pm
Terrance Tony Quartet
plays jazz club
when lights are low…
Alto player Terrance Tony assembles the band each 4th Saturday of the month, drawing on some of the stellar players around the Bay Area. Â A couple of years ago, Terrance came out from Houston – where he was born and raised – and immediately gained everyone’s attention with his fleet bebop chops. Â “Houston’s a…
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Sunday, March 1st – 2 pm
Margot Pepper presents her latest…
American Day Dream
plus poet Clifton Ross
Margot Pepper introduces her new noir/sci fi novel, American Day Dream (Freedom Voices Press, 2015).  Joined by Clifton Ross, reading selected and new poems. “Margot Pepper’s literary incursion into Science Fiction is just like her—daring, brave and fully imagined. She is a story goddess living in and out of verses, whose political stance is vital…
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Friday, February 27th – 7 pm
Medea Isphording Bern on
San Francisco Jazz!
An excursion through the scrapbook of the music’s history in these parts, from Jelly Roll Morton passing through to Kid Ory in a longer sojourn, the post-WWII Fillmore jazz scene, Turk Murphy and his trad revival crew… the Blackhawk, Brubeck, the Both/And and Bimbos… and Keystone Korner, where three bucks got you in on a…
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Sunday, February 22nd – 2:30 pm
Walker Talks!
the gifts of the nine muses…
Walker Brents III weaves a fascinating web of insight, association, speculation and delight the last Sunday of every month, following his muse where it takes him on topics divers — from epic literature to mythological tales to the enigmas of poetry and the profundities of philosophy and religion. This afternoon, Walker takes a personal and historical…
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Sunday, February 22nd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Denise Perrier / Tammy Hall Trio
w/bassist Gary Brown
Vocalist Denise Perrier was born in Louisiana but moved with her family to the East Bay Area at the age of five, and has had a thirty-year career performing in the Bay Area and touring Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Along the way, she’s been dubbed “The Voice with a Heart” and Jazz Times magazine reviewer Harvey…
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