Sunday, July 13th – 7:30pm
S.E. Willis & the Willing
blues, boogie, zydeco & country

S.E. Willis & the Willing. $20/adults; $10/students; kids/free. S.E. Willis, piano, accordion, harmonica & vocals. additional personnel to be recruited from the available willing, including the Excelsior’s own guitar wizard Takezo Takeda. S.E. plays classic and original blues, boogie, rock, zydeco and country, all with soul, conviction and authenticity–to paraphrase S.E. himself and the late,…

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Sunday, July 13th – Livestream at 10a.m.
Journalist Denise Sullivan
in conversation with Ingrid Valdez
on grief, loss, suicide prevention
and emotional support
SF Lives/Live Talk

SF Lives/Live Talks on the second Sunday of each month via our livestream. Find it on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel or Facebook page.   Independent reporter Denise Sullivan brings the SF Lives series to Bird & Beckett for a Sunday morning livestream: This month’s guest is Ingrid Valdez, BCBA, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst…

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Saturday, July 12th – 7:30pm
The Ron Marabuto Quartet

Ron Marabuto Quartet. $20/adults; $10/students; kids/free. Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax. Ben Stolorow, piano. Ravi Abcarian, bass. Ron Marabuto, drums. Ron Marabuto, the son of John Marabuto, a key Bay Area pianist/arranger throughout the 1950s-1990s, was raised in the East Bay, graduated from UC Berkeley, and spent over a decade in New York City working extensively…

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Friday, July 11th – 8:30-10pm
Genius Wesley Quartet

Luis Peralta, piano Jed Holtman, guitar Isaac Coyle, bass Genius Wesley, drums Genius Lee Wesley auditioned on drums for Oaktown Jazz Workshops at the age of eight, launching his education in jazz and building relationships at OJW and through the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars with the members of the quartet you’ll hear tonight. By age…

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Friday, July 11th – 6pm
GG Amos Band
west coast blues

GG Amos Band plays post-war west coast blues. $20/adults; $10/students; kids/free. GG Amos, guitar and vocals Kevin Gerzevitz, organ and piano Vicky Grossi, bass Randy Lee Odell, drums GG has learned the lessons from all the great blues records, countless gigs leading her own bands, and personal experience in the bands of legendary and obscure…

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Thursday, July 10th – 7pm
Owen Hill & Andrew Levy: A reading

Novelist/poet/wobbly organizer/book scout Owen Hill & drummer/poet Andrew Levy. Hill reads from Poison Begets Poison. Levy reads from Artifice in the Calm Damages.   Also on the docket, Hill’s crime fiction omnibus edition just out from PM Press: The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story The Giveaway collects the Blackburn novels The Chandler Apartments (2002), The Incredible…

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