Posts by Eric
Sunday, October 8th – 2pm
Jorge Argueta’s Caravan to the North
an author event with music by
Jose Cuellar and Francisco Herrera
Jorge Argueta’s Caravan to the North: Misael’s Long Walk (Groundwood Books, 2024) is a novel in verse told through the eyes and heart of Misael Martínez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States. We learn all the different reasons why people feel the need to leave — the…
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Saturday, October 7th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Akira Tana Quartet
featuring tenor saxophonist James Mahone
James Mahone, saxophone David Udolf, piano Curtis Aikens, bass Akira Tana, drums $20 cover charge (cash, please), byob. To reserve a seat, call 415-586-3733 Charlie McCarthy had to bow out of tonight’s show, but his superb rhythm section has all the star power needed to carry the torch, especially with James Mahone and his tenor…
Read MoreSaturday noon to five: The Glen Park Art Walk!
Hop transit to Glen Park Saturday at noon and enjoy five hours of art and music up and down Diamond and Chenery Streets! We’ll display the art of three friends of the establishment, the troubadour poet Jerry Ferraz, surreal Michael Koch (found 3-6 Tuesday to Sunday pricing used books and ringing up sales at the…
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Friday, October 6th – 5:30-8:00pm
Erik Jekabson Quartet
Erik Jekabson – trumpet, flugelhorn, compositions. Matt Clark – piano. Dan Feiszli – bass. Brian Fishler – drums. A program of originals by one of the great talents of Bay Area jazz, played by a top-flight quartet.
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Thursday, October 5th – 7pm
Poets Gail Mitchell and Bill Vartnaw
with an open mic to follow
Gail Mitchell is a poet living in San Francisco. Bill Vartnaw is a poet living in Petaluma. Both are long-experienced and long associated coming out of the 1970s poetic ferment that yielded a path for voices of diverse American cultures, much of it captured in print by Bill’s Taurean Horn Press — including Gail’s title,…
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Thursday to Sunday, October 5-8
6 shows!
plus the Glen Park Art Walk on Saturday
What a weekend! Thursday at 7pm – Poets Gail Mitchell and Bill Vartnaw, with an open mic to follow. Friday at 5:30pm – The Erik Jekabson Quartet. Trumpet & flugelhorn player / composer Jekabson provides originals for a crack combo, with Matt Clark, piano; Dan Feiszli, bass and Brian Fischler, drums. Friday at 8:30pm (not…
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