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!
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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
Saturday, May 10th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Saki Minamimoto Sextet
Songs From My Attic
Saki Minamimoto, vocal. Ian Carey, trumpet. Beth Schenck, sax. Matt Wrobel, guitar. Lisa Mezzacappa, bass. Jon Arkin, drums. $30 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Saki Minamimoto is a jazz vocalist, singer-songwriter and improviser born and raised in Japan. She will be performing “Songs From My Attic” with her group, presenting new music and music…
Sunday, May 11th – 5-7pm
Nashville Honeymoon
classic country duets,
honky tonk tunes and rockabilly
Lynne Maes, vocals and guitar. Hank Maninger, vocals and lead guitar. Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar. Tim Wagar, bass. Leor Beary, drums. $25 cover charge, byob. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Classic country duets, honky tonk and rockabilly from two sweethearts who got hitched years ago, and assembled a fantastic band to tell their…
This extended weekend, Thursday to Sunday… Hindustani music, the jazz of Jelly Roll Morton, music on the out side Friday and Saturday, honky tonk duets Sunday!
Thursday the 8th at 7:30pm, a Hindustani recital featuring sarodist Souryadeep Bhattacharya and tabla maestro Ferhan Qureshi. Ferhan has been kind enough to curate a wonderful series of Hindustani and Carnatic concerts at Bird & Beckett, roughly once a month for the past many months, with no end date in mind. Souryadeep is a talent…
Monday, May 12th – 7pm
Kim Shuck’s Poets’ Zoom
Book release reading plus open mic
Klanmarks, ManuMeants & Plakkks: UnTour Book Across Occupied Turtle Island Book Release Ceremony Yelamu (SF) A reading with some of the Poets and Poverty skolaz Poets: Tiny – Tiny Gray-Garcia aka povertyskola has dealt with chronic homelessness, incarceration and poverty since she was 11 she is a Poet and co-founder of the Po Poets Project,…
Mark your calendar:
Thursday, May 22nd – 7:30pm
Five on the Western Edge:
Poets Steve Brooks, Stephen Vincent, Beau Beausoleil, Hilton Obenzinger, Larry Felsen
A reunion poetry reading for Five On the Western Edge, the Momo’s Press 1976 volume of five poets responding to radical politics, including the rise of the women’s movement challenging gender roles. Reading from the original book and new work. Free. Donations welcome. Byob. To reserve a seat, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Live streamed…
Mark your calendar for these
upcoming events through May 31!
coming up… …..5/15 at 7:30pm (livestream). no charge, but donations help! Walker Brents on Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. …..5/16 at 6pm, $20: The Scott Foster Combo w/Jim Peterson, Dan Seamans, Tom Hassett. …..5/16 at 8:30pm, $20: The Brian Andres Quartet w/Tony Peebles, Erick Peralta, Aaron Germain. …..5/17 at 7:30pm, $20: Thu Ho sings for Helen…
Fundraising for the future of
Bird & Beckett in Glen Park!
Here at Bird & Beckett Books, we’ve always relied on the kindness of neighbors and strangers to make it all work; and we’ve always found that strangers don’t stay strangers long! Your tax-deductible donations to our 501(c)3 nonprofit, the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project, FEIN 261906810, are the secret sauce. Book sales and cover…
Water under the bridge…
The posts that follow show you what’s come and gone. Search the videos on our youtube channel or facebook page to find evidence of what you remember, or what you missed! Then, make sure you catch the next thing that catches your fancy. The live streams are great, but live music in a room with…
Friday, May 9th – 8:30-10pm
Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish) Residency Concert #1
Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone Mark Clifford, vibraphone Brett Carson, keyboard Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass Jordan Glenn, drums $25 cover charge (cash or venmo, please) byob for a reservation, call 415-586-3733 Berkeley bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa launches a yearlong residency at Bird & Beckett, to revisit and refresh older repertoire and compose a new…
Friday, May 9th – 6-8pm
The Music of Jelly Roll Morton
Eric and the In Crowd play Mr. Jelly Lord and his musical descendents from way back yonder in time and New Orleans!
Your Bird & Beckett proprietor well remembers the day that piano professor Eric Shifrin laid a cd on me after one of his lovely monthly dates in the bookshop (remember those burned cds that proliferated for the better part of a quarter century?). I put in the shop’s 5-cd changer and forgot about it until…