Posts by Eric
Yes! Believe your five senses!
Shows for In-Store Audiences
have resumed
and continue
every Friday & Saturday!
Bird & Beckett’s jazz shows open to the public have returned! Live jazz in the shop for audiences and also live streamed through cyberspace every Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm Come on down to 653 Chenery if you’re in town! Doors open at 7:20 for our 7:30 shows. $20 cover for trios and quartets $25…
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Upcoming shows, June 25 et seq
audiences welcome in the shop!
live performances plus live streams
every Friday & Saturday & more!
Friday, June 25, 7:30pm (door opens at 7:20pm) $20 cash at door $10 for live stream The Tony Johnson Quartet Classic bop, hard-bop & post-bop! Bob Kenmotsu, tenor saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Tony Johnson, drums ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Saturday, June 26,…
Read MoreLiving in the Purple Tier
We’re back in the purple tier, thinking about Prince and thinking about how much more comfortable this tier feels relative to wherever that was we just were. But it is purple, and officially that’s pretty far from safe, so we’ll continue to urge you to “Collaborate to keep San Francisco safe, neighborhood by neighborhood, block…
Read MoreO Pioneers of the Cosmostream! We’ve been vaccinating you against the plague of boredom and the scourge of demagoguery with live streamed events twice a week and more since March 2020, when it all came down!
Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? On the home page you can scroll down to read the individual posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past several months, a hint of what’s gone down since the pandemic lock-down began. In more amazing times, it would take you right back…
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Denise Sullivan’s SF Lives
2nd Sunday mornings: live streamed chats in the bookshop
Sunday, June 13 – 10am
A conversation with
artist/networker Anna Lisa Escobedo
Join San Francisco columnist Denise Sullivan for a series of morning discussions with The City’s arts and cultural leaders and lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, every second Sunday at 10 am, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books in Glen Park. This morning, Denise will engage artist…
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Sunday, May 30 – 7:30pm
Annette A. Aguilar’s
StringBeans Left Coast Quintet
plays Brazilian Latin Jazz
San Francisco native daughter Annette A Aguilar is flying home from NYC for a family visit, and brings together a passel of great musicians from around the Bay including her brother Ricky Aguilar plus Anthony Blea, Murray Low, Gary Brown and a couple special guests for two special sets of music streamed live…
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