Saturday, July 14th – 4:30-6:30 pm
The solo piano and vocals of Sharman Duran

The San Francisco International Arts Festival, presenting Sharman Duran in a trio performance this past May, noted that she is “a vocalist/songwriter comfortable with the complexities of jazz. The pairing of music of harmonic depth with lyrics conveying anything of philosophical nuance must be carefully done, and by a musician at home in the musical…

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Friday, July 13th – 9-11 pm
Sukhawat Ali Khan’s Shukriya Ensemble
$15 cover charge; students $5
 

Sukhawat Ali Khan returns to Bird & Beckett with an ensemble of musicians steeped in Sufi music and Sukhawat’s own family’s 600-year-old Hindustani classical musical tradition, the Sham Chorasi Gharana, best known to contemporary audiences worldwide from the work of his father and uncle, the brothers Salamat and Nazakat Ali Khan. The Sham Chorasi Gharana was established…

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Monday, July 9th – 7-9pm
Fanny Renoir presents The Kentucky Twisters
$10 cover

In association with Bird & Beckett, Fanny Renoir presents The Kentucky Twisters   The Kentucky Twisters is a six-piece bluegrass band. All six musicians are members of the California Bluegrass Association  and have been playing together for some ten years entertaining folks here in the Bay Area. They say they’re “what you would call a Strictly…

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