Archive for June 2016
Friday, July 22nd – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Chuck Peterson Quintet with vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits
Live jazz every Friday night at Bird & Beckett, from 5:30 to 8:00 pm This week: Â Chuck Peterson leads his quintet through two sets of standards and bebop, with singer Dorothy Lefkovits lending her characteristic charm and grace to the occasion. Chuck Peterson & Howie Dudune, reeds Glen Deardorff, guitar Dean Reilly, bass Tony Johnson,…
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Monday, July 18th – 7-9 pm
poets Richard Voorhees & Mark Cormier
Nothing really is known to us of these poets, not having inquired into the wily machinations of m.c. Jerry Ferraz, whom we trust implicitly. Yet we remain sanguine that all will be well and, well, delightful. Or better. Do come. An open mic follows! Post event note: Jerry didn’t fail us. Two excellent poets indeed!
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Sunday, July 17th – 7:30-10 pm
canyon moonlight music series… until the Riptide returns!
Rockabilly King Jinx Jones & his Trio!
Memorial Gatherings for Lurilla Harris Tuesday, July 19th, Noon
at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, Franklin at Geary
and Wednesday, July 20, 2:30 pm at the St. Francis Lutheran Church, 152 Church St. near Market St.
Celebrate the life of Lurilla Harris! Lurilla was a marvel of a woman, a tenacious survivor despite a stroke some years ago, who made the rounds constantly, forging ahead with her walker, transported hither and yon constantly by the city’s service buses for the disabled to get to concerts, films, community meetings, political hearings, you…
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Sunday, July 17th – 2 pm
Dual Author Event
Laurie Taylor & Richard Michael Levine
Two fiction writers, Laurie Taylor and Richard Michael Levine, share the stage at Bird & Beckett this Sunday afternoon. On remote Spanish island near the African coast, a Mexican American entomologist, Epiphany Jerome, is looking for a rare beetle. Instead she finds a body on an empty beach with a knife sticking out from its back.  Laurie…
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jazz club! when lights are low…
Saturday, July 16th – 7:30-10 pm
The Tim Lin Quartet
Tim Lin, saxophone; Seiji Yamashita, piano; Trevor Murphy, bass; Lewis Sweatt, drums. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Tim Lin is a rising jazz star whose progressive sound draws from his synthesis of the jazz tradition. Upon his discovery of John Coltrane’s masterpiece “A Love Supreme”, Tim was drawn into the wonders…
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