Posts by Eric
Thursday, May 15th – 7:30pm
Walker Talks Live Stream
Walker Brents III
on the historical Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama
Prince Siddhartha’s life-journey, from royal scion to fully enlightened buddha, reveals a pattern universal to us all. As epic in scope and scale as it has proven to be for hundreds of years, it speaks to individual consciousness in ways that never cease to be deeply enriching. In this way it is truly a mysterious…
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Monday, May 12th – 7pm
Kim Shuck’s Poets’ Zoom
Book release reading plus open mic
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84350265713?pwd=eE84V3BYdWxiSFBHNHhmdUt1WTUzdz09 Meeting ID: 843 5026 5713 Passcode: 244211 Klanmarks, ManuMeants & Plakkks: UnTour Book Across Occupied Turtle Island Book Release Ceremony Yelamu (SF) A reading with some of the Poets and Poverty skolaz Poets: Tiny – Tiny Gray-Garcia aka povertyskola has dealt with chronic homelessness, incarceration and poverty since she was 11…
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Sunday, May 11th – 5-7pm
Nashville Honeymoon
classic country duets,
honky tonk tunes and rockabilly
Lynne Maes, vocals and guitar. Hank Maninger, vocals and lead guitar. Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar. Tim Wagar, bass. Leor Beary, drums. $25 cover charge, byob. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Classic country duets, honky tonk and rockabilly from two sweethearts who got hitched years ago, and assembled a fantastic band to tell their…
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Saturday, May 10th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Saki Minamimoto Sextet
Songs From My Attic
Saki Minamimoto, vocal. Ian Carey, trumpet. Beth Schenck, sax. Matt Wrobel, guitar. Lisa Mezzacappa, bass. Jon Arkin, drums. $30 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Saki Minamimoto is a jazz vocalist, singer-songwriter and improviser born and raised in Japan. She will be performing “Songs From My Attic” with her group, presenting new music and music…
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Friday, May 9th – 8:30-10pm
Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish) Residency Concert #1
Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone Mark Clifford, vibraphone Brett Carson, keyboard Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass Jordan Glenn, drums $25 cover charge (cash or venmo, please) byob for a reservation, call 415-586-3733 Berkeley bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa launches a yearlong residency at Bird & Beckett, to revisit and refresh older repertoire and compose a new…
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Friday, May 9th – 6-8pm
The Music of Jelly Roll Morton
Eric and the In Crowd play Mr. Jelly Lord and his musical descendents from way back yonder in time and New Orleans!
Your Bird & Beckett proprietor well remembers the day that piano professor Eric Shifrin laid a cd on me after one of his lovely monthly dates in the bookshop (remember those burned cds that proliferated for the better part of a quarter century?). I put in the shop’s 5-cd changer and forgot about it until…
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