Posts by Eric

San Francisco’s own Phillip Greenlief, a tenor saxophonist of immense talent and scope whose career in music takes him to major venues worldwide, returns to Bird & Beckett with a quartet anchored by Swedish drummer Kjell Nordeson, now a Bay Area resident. At the core of the group, two traveling musicians whose collaborations stretch back…

A Daughter’s Work is Heartless by Nature, Caledonia Kearns’ first collection of poems, just published at the age of 49, is a sort of a hybrid between poetry and memoir. It’s an attempt to meet Muriel Rukeyser’s challenge, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?/The world would split open.” Caledonia’s…

Herman Melville was born in 1819, making 2019 his 200th Anniversary Year. Celebrate his genius with us at Bird & Beckett! Come at 2pm to Bird & Beckett to hear readings by the Melville Society from Moby Dick, Melville’s masterpiece about Captain Ahab and his obsessive quest for the great white whale, Moby Dick. Sign…

While we finalize another fistful of posts on upcoming events, here’s a little round up of the next two weekends. You can always click on the “Events Calendar” link in the navigation bar above to see what’s on tap going forward. Full posts on the next eight or ten events coming soon where you can…

On Sunday, July 28th, San Francisco lost one of its greats, an artist, poet & translator and also promoter of the arts, especially in North Beach where the Beat legacy hangs by a thread, but a golden thread.  And Ron was a great part of that work to keep bohemia alive sans politics, sans “career,”…

$20 cover/sliding scale available. Trumpet player, composer, arranger & visual artist George Sams, from St. Louis, leads a quintet comprising Richard “Zyc” Wood on sax and flute (from Los Angeles), Aaron Parker on flute (from St. Louis) and still, to this day, residing in the Bay Area, Carleton Hoffman, percussion; Joe McKinley, bass; and Gerald…