Postponed to Sunday, August 14
SF Lives Live Talk:
Third Parent’s Daveea Whitmire
in conversation with journalist Denise Sullivan

San Francisco journalist Denise Sullivan conducts a monthly series of conversations (the second Sunday of each month from 10-11 a.m.) with The City’s activists, educators, arts and cultural leaders and lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books. August 14th, at 10 a.m.,…

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Thursday, July 7 – 7pm
Poets Julie Rogers & Peter Marti read their work
Jerry Ferraz and Michael Koch host featured poets plus an open mic
on the first Thursday of each month

Julie Rogers is the author of three Omerta Publications chapbooks published pre-Covid that will be released on this occasion: Trading Fours and Sharing Breath, both written with her late husband, poet David Meltzer; and her own volume, Life on Earth. Her other books include House of the Unexpected, and “Instructions for the Transitional State.”  Two…

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Tuesday, July 5 – 7:30pm
Ray Skjelbred and his Cubs

Ray Skjelbred, piano Marc Caparone, trumpet Clint Baker, bass Jeff Hamilton, drums $20 cash cover charge at the door Doors open at 7:20pm for the 7:30pm show BYOB and a mask Can’t make it to the shop? Nothing’s like the real thing live! But if you want to catch it in the stream, look for…

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Sunday, July 3 – 5pm
Tomorrow’s Jazz Now!
Young Players Test the Traditions
Charlie Gurke’s CMC Jazz Ensemble
Jam session follows hosted by
the Akira Tana Trio

Catch some jazz on the eve of the 4th! San Francisco’s august Mission District institution, the Community Music Center, is sending a group coached by reed player Charlie Gurke for a 5pm set on Sunday July 3rd, to be followed at 6pm with a jam session open to students and budding professionals led by famed…

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Saturday, July 2 – 7:30pm
Richie Vitale Quartet

New York comes to Bird & Beckett tonight! Richie Vitale, trumpet star, plays with local heroes Keith Saunders, piano; Eric Markowitz, bass; and Ron Marabuto, drums. Trust Keith and Ron…you want to hear this jazzman. Doors open at 7:20 for the 7:3-9:30 show. $20 cash cover charge at the door. Call to reserve a seat…

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