Posts by Heather World

Caroline Cabading, vocals Jonathan Bautista, saxophone Ben Luis, bass Harold Ohashi, drums Vince Khoe, keyboard Chris Planas, guitar $25 cover charge (cash at the door, please) Doors open at 7:20pm for the 7:30pm show. BYOB Reservations: Call 415-586-3733 Also streamed live on Bird & Beckett’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. If you like what you…

Bird & Beckett features local poets with an open mic to follow on the first Thursday of every month. Jerry Ferraz and Michael Koch host. Fernando Martí is an Ecuadorian-born poet, printmaker, community architect, and activist based in San Francisco. He has been deeply involved in San Francisco’s struggles for affordable housing and the reclamation of…

Drummer Vince Lateano leads the session with Peter Barshay on bass and Ben Stolorow on piano. A lot of great players have come out of San Francisco. Get in their number. Before the saints coming marching in! No fee to play. Audience, bring a $20 to help us pay the rhythm section. BYOB  

Also streamed live on Bird & Beckett’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. If you like what you hear in the stream, and stick around for more, donate!

Neil Adler is one of a handful of chromatic harmonica masters who have followed the great Toots Thielemans in the past six decades. A notoriously nuanced and difficult instrument, very few have invested their time and talents in taming the beast and making it sing as well as Neil. He’s been a guest harmonica artist…

Drummer Tony Johnson brings a fine quartet into Bird & Beckett on the fourth Friday of each month. He’s a 63-year veteran of the local jazz scene, still a supercharged, swinging dynamo behind the kit belying his 80+ years of age. Tony left his native Australia and arrived in San Francisco in 1959, and was…