Tonight! Thursday, January 8th – 7pm
Sixteen Rivers Press Poetry Reading

Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for Northern California poets. Founded in 1999 by seven writers, including Terry Ehret, one of the poets presenting tonight, the press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay. Learn more about the collective here.…

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Five events Thursday to Sunday,
December 11th to 14th

Novelist Bart Schneider with poet Genine Lentine Thursday at 7pm         Eric & the In Crowd Friday at 6pm $20          Russian Telegraph, a sextet, Friday at 8:30pm $30          The Michael Mitchell Quartet Saturday at 7:30pm $20          Deep Thicket Dwellers live album…

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Saturday, December 13th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Michael Mitchell Quartet

Michael Mitchell is a fabulous drummer who came to the Bay Area from NYC several years ago, to our great good fortune. The quartet comprises Raffi Garabedian, sax; Michael Potter, piano; Nico Martinez, bass; and Mike on drums. $20 cover charge (cash at the door, please); byob. students, $10. For a reservation, as true for…

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The Lowell Ensemble plays chamber music and holiday favorites to benefit Bird & Beckett on Wednesday, December 10th!
Reserve a seat now!
And bring your checkbook!

Join us Wednesday, December 10th at 7pm for a benefit concert of chamber music by the Lowell Ensemble, led by Janet Popesco Archibald on oboe and English horn, with Karen Hutchinson on piano, Vicky Ehrlich on cello,Paul Ehrlich on viola and Zachariah Spellman on tuba. Call the store at 415-586-3733 to reserve a seat! Donate…

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Sunday, December 7th – 5pm
End of semester SFCM combo
and jam session

Eight years ago, in 2017, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s “Roots, Jazz & American Music” B.Mus. program welcomed its first crop of young, supremely talented aspiring jazz musicians. After 100 years as an august bastion of western classical music, the Conservatory had finally given due recognition to America’s own true classical music, the music…

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Saturday, December 6th – 7:30-9:30pm
Greg Gotelli’s San Francisco Sextet

Joel Behrman, trumpet. Karl Dray, trombone. Tod Dickow, saxophone. Matt Clark, piano. Jeff Saxton, bass. Greg Gotelli, drums. $25 cover charge; byob. Students $10. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. The San Francisco Sextet features first-call musicians always on full display with talents equal to the best jazz players on the planet and…

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