Posts by Heather World
Sunday, May 15 – 5pm
Sukhawat Ali Khan Ensemble
Sukhawat Ali Khan returns to Bird & Beckett with an ensemble of musicians steeped in Sufi music and Sukhawat’s own family’s 600-year-old Hindustani classical musical tradition, the Sham Chorasi Gharana, best…
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Sunday, May 15 – 2:30pm
Floyd Salas Celebration
Celebrate the life of Floyd Salas, with friends and family. Floyd Salas (1/24/31-10/17/21) was a novelist, social activist, boxer and boxing coach. A cofounder of PEN Oakland in 1989, he…
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Saturday, May 14 – 7:30pm
Francis Vanek Quartet
Francis Vanek, tenor sax Randy Vincent, guitar Chris Amberger, bass Jeff Minneweather, drums Francis Vanek leads an all-star quartet, musicians long embraced by Bird & Beckett audiences. Francis is a…
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Monday, May 9 – 7pm
Virtual!Poets
Lisa Rosenberg and Monica Korde featured
followed by an open mic
hosted on Zoom by Kim Shuck
On the second Monday of each month, Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate 2019-2021, hosts a poetry reading via Zoom (invitation below), featuring major Bay Area poets followed by a…
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Saturday, May 7 – 7:30pm
The Deep End Quintet – debut performance!
Michael Gold, saxophone Gerald Beckett, flute Ari Caprow, guitar Ken Lenga, bass Evan Williams, drums $25 cash cover charge. Doors open at 7:20pm for the 7:30 show. BYOB and a…
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Thursday, May 5 – 7pm
Poets!
Sarah Menefee & D L Forbes
+ open mic
D L Forbes has, for decades, except for a few poetry readings in London and Vancouver in the late 1970’s, remained contentedly enough in the poetry closet of life; until…
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