653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
[email protected]
Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
Live Streams every weekend!
Refresh your browser to catch a show in progress!
Visit our Facebook page or YouTube channel!
But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
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 hear in the stream and stick around for more, donate to help us pay the musicians!
The Autonomous Region plays kul jazz, putting a kulintang spin on jazz standards and original compositions.
The group, led by vocalist Caroline Cabading, was founded in 2015 as the house band for the Club Mandalay, a pop-up jazz club in the International Hotel Manilatown Center on Kearny & Jackson Streets, just off Columbus Avenue, in San Francisco’s North Beach/Chinatown district. The Club Mandalay is a community-engagement project emphasizing family friendly and affordable live music, spoken word and dance presentations. Within this environment of creative support, The Autonomous Region has been exploring and presenting original compositions fusing jazz with the pre-colonial tribal music of the Philippines, creating along the way a genre they’ve dubbed Kul Jazz, named after the traditional kulintang music of Mindanao, Philippines.
Approaching 2023, The Autonomous Region looks forward to continuing its community building work at the I-Hotel and Club Mandalay and stretching their creative wings with ever more jazz arrangements and Kul Jazz compositions.
Autonomous will start the evening this Friday at Bird & Beckett with a set of jazz standards followed by a second set featuring songs from “Sugilanon,” their suite of original tunes informed by the pre-colonial rhythmic and melodic motifs of the Philippines, telling stories of the Filipino-American experience in San Francisco from 1904-1983.
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Marian & Glory Dalere with Mayor London Breed, recognizing Dalere’s Salon 50th Anniversary in 2018.
The Autonomous Region will return to Bird & Beckett on Thursday, September 15, when they’ll be on hand for a Glen Park community party we throw once a quarter, to help us celebrate neighborhood merchant, icon and 2022 AAPI Heritage Month honoree Marian Dalere, owner/operator of Dalere’s Salon, the oldest business in Glen Park, founded by Marian’s mom, Glory, in 1968.
Glory Dalere, founder of Dalare’s Salon, back in the day.
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