Posts by Heather World
Postponed: Author Alex Harvey presents
“Song Noir: Tom Waits & the Spirit of Los Angeles”
Previously scheduled for Tuesday, September 6th, this author event has been postponed: a rescheduled date will be announced once set. The book is at the store. Come take a look! Writer Alex Harvey has written a gritty, smoke-filled and boozy account of musician Tom Waits’s formative decade in Los Angeles. He’ll present the book at…
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Monday, September 12 – 7pm
VirtualPoets! Kim Shuck & Molly Fisk featured, with an open mic following
Fisk is luminous and loud, lucid and soft, driven and wandering. Shuck takes no prisoners, but isn’t looking to take any anyway. That’s the way it is in poetlandia… Do zoom by. Kim hosts a zoom reading on Bird & Beckett’s behalf twice a month, 2nd and 4th Thursdays. The 2nd Thursday features two poets,…
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Sunday, September 11 – 5pm
The Seducers! Second Sundays Sin & Celebration
America’s favorite honky tonk band in your neighborhood bookshop, Second Sundays every other month. September, for instance… Bring a twenty for the band and something to sip… Can’t make it to the shop? Catch it on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. If you like what you hear in the stream and want to stick…
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Saturday, September 10 – 7:30pm
Akiko Pavolka Quartet
Passing through from NYC, the unique vocalist/composter Akiko Pavolka brings a quartet to Bird & Beckett featuring multi-reed player Matt Renzi (who has one foot in San Francisco, another in NYC and a third in Rome). Bassist Matt Pavolka travels with Akiko for the date; drummer Mark Ferber was born in the Bay Area, but…
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Friday, September 9 – 7:30pm
The Dmitri Matheny Quintet
Dmitri Matheny, flugelhorn Dave Ellis, saxophones Matt Clark, piano Ruth Davies, bass Deszon X Claiborne, drums $25 cash cover charge Doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30pm show BYOB Reservations, call: 415-586-3733 Tonight’s show can also be found on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. If you like what you hear in the stream, and…
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Saturday, September 3 – 7:30pm
Erik Jekabson Quintet
Erik Jekabson, trumpet and flugelhorn Matt Zebley, alto saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Owen Clapp, bass Smith Dobson V, drums Two masterful horn players with a fabulous rhythm section. What’s not to like? Standards, bop, post bop, originals. Matt Zebley crosses the Bird & Beckett stage for the first time tonight, and we’re more than pleased…
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