Scott Foster, guitar.
Charles Thomas, bass.
Mark Lee, drums.

$20 suggested cover charge. Pay what you can.
Teens & students – $5-10.
Kids free.

Bird & Beckett is your spot to decompress from the week’s travails, whether it’s the weather, the political climate, or just the work week that might have made you feel a bit wan, weak or overheated.

Bird & Beckett’s favorite guitarist, Scott Foster, has a super trio for you this Friday, with bassist Charles Thomas and drummer Mark Lee joining him to play a little Bird, some Monk, some Scofield, bebop, blues and all the things that make jazz a special and inspiring American music.

Use our Friday happy hour shows, 6-8pm each and every week, to connect with your neighbors and friends, and to recharge your spirit to go forth into a weekend of relaxation, release and rejoicing in the things that make living on the west coast, in California, in San Francisco, in Glen Park something to be thankful for.

Want to see Bird & Beckett flower through the coming four years of struggle to confront the realities of our time — the need to address climate change; food security, housing needs, health care and reproductive rights, quality of public school system from K-12 to the community colleges and state universities, income disparities?

Since 1999, with your support, we’ve been building a gathering place, a bastion of ideas found in the thousands of books, a soul-satisfying place to be immersed in music played by folks rooted in our community, from students to grizzled veterans and every stage in between.

Revenues aren’t enough to do what we do, and having taken 24 years to retire the debt it took to establish and develop the store, we’re loath to take any on now. Stake us to our work with your book purchases and your cover charges, and donate what you can to help us fix the lights, re-furbish the restroom, pay soaring insurance and accounting costs, meet the payroll.

Don’t worry about the rent! The Tietz family, still resident on this block of Chenery Street since 1885, has our back there! Never a rent increase since we moved into our current space in 2008. Donations to our nonprofit are a big help with payroll, music performance licensing, insurance, accounting. Donations to the for-profit bookstore help with those capital improvement needs. Between the two, we need to raise $30,000 over the next six months, and with your help and a few grants, we’ll get there.

Keep swingin’!