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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
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phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
Jazz students!
Jam Session
first Sunday of each month!
This Sunday, November 2nd, at 5pm, a jazz combo from the Community Music Center performs a set and conducts a jam session open to all comers, especially students currently engaged in the study of the art! No charge, but donations help us sustain the series. Bird & Beckett is dedicated to supporting the gamut of…
November 6-9: 6 events
poet & film industry vet Harvey Waldman… Beth Schenck album debut… Latin cabaret ensemble Cantos de mi Tierra… Clif Payne performs songs by Sinatra & Stevie Wonder… Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces whoop it up…Dan Neville brings the latin vibes…
Thursday 11/6 at 7pm, poet Harvey Waldman reads from Shopping Lists for the Apocalypse, with an open mic to follow____Friday 11/7 at 6pm, Beth Schenck presents her new quintet album, “Dahlia,” with its all-star cast of avant garde colleagues____Friday 11/7 at 8:30pm, Latin cabaret ensemble Cantos De Mi Tierra holds forth_____Saturday 11/8 at 7:30pm, Clif…
Sunday, November 16th – 7:30-9:30pm
Allan Harris with the Sylvia Cuenca Trio
Allan Harris, vocal Adam Shulman, piano Doug Miller, bass Sylvia Cuenca, drums $20 cover charge; byob. Students, 10. Allan Harris returns! Earlier this year, in March, Allan was here at Bird & Beckett with a fantastic date based on “The Poetry of Jazz.” A cd of that music, recorded live in Ann Arbor, Michigan with…
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…
Saturday, November 1st – 7:30-9:30pm
Martin Luther & Friends
Martin Luther, vocals Wilton Rabb, guitar Dave Council, keyboards & guitar $20 cover charge; byob. students $10. reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733 A gifted vocalist and singer songwriter, Luther is preparing to release his fifth studio LP, “Welcome Back Love.” Two original members of Graham Central Station are on board for the show —…
Halloween Double Header
for the Devil in You
Spend your spooky Halloween at Bird & Beckett! $20 cover charge per show / byob Eric & the In Crowd get Creepy at 6pm. Eric Shifrin, piano Paul Mehling, guitar Jim Kerwin, bass Winston Tong with Dreambounders (LX Rudis & Andre Custodio) plus M 5tevens at 8:30pm.
Del Seymour with Alison Owings Thursday
On Halloween: Easifingers Shifrin plays blues for dracula at 6pm; Winston Tong with Dreambounders + M 5tevens at 8:30pm
Saturday, 7:30: Martin Luther McCoy!
10/30, 7:30pm – Del Seymour in conversation with Alison Owings, author of Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour’s Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco. _____ And on Halloween: Blues for Dracula! Eric & the In Crowd Get Creepy – 6-8pm Winston Tong with…
Thursday, October 30th – 7:30pm
Alison Owings reads from
Mayor of the Tenderloin
in conversation with Del Seymour
In Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour’s journey from living in the streets to fighting homelessness in San Francisco, journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco’s Tenderloin to reveal a harrowing and life-affirming account of Del Seymour–whose addiction led him into eighteen years of homelessness, pimping and drug dealing. Once…