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!
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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
Monday, January 20th – 7pm
Poets Kathleen McClung,
Jeanne Wagner
& Barbara Crooker
read new work
Three poets share new work, highlighting their latest published collections — Kathleen McClung with her 2024 book, Questions of Buoyancy; Jeanne Wagner with One Needful Song; and Barbara Crooker, with Slow Wreckage. No charge, but you may want to donate a few dollars to buy the poets a drink or gas to get home! And…
Thursday, January 23rd – 7pm
Prof. Robert Cherny presents his book
San Francisco Reds: Communists
in the Bay Area 1919 to 1958
Robert Cherny taught American political history at San Francisco State University for decades, focusing on the Progressive Era and preceding periods. His book American Politics in the Gilded Age: 1868-1900 (Wiley-Blackwell, 1997) and other writings have informed the thought of generations of college students and academics with regard to the dimensions of a period depressingly…
More before the month plays out
thanks to your generous support, the good life goes on in San Francisco! Mark your calendar for Argentinian musician Gustavo Lorenzatti’s solo bass turn on Friday 1/24 (at 8:30pm), after the 230 Jones Street band plays from 6pm to 8pm. Also, surf jazzistas Jazz the Glass on Saturday 1/25 (7:30-9:30pm), and the monthly jam session…
Saturday, February 1st – 3-4pm
MUCH MORE FUN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Angie Bennett & Sharon Wayne ~~facebook stars of their own minds~~ bring you a full hour of unalloyed dual ukulele & vocal magnificence! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sharon has worked for over thirty years as a solo performer, recording artist, chamber musician and music educator. A founding member of the San Francisco Guitar Quartet, she has also…
Fundraising for the future of
Bird & Beckett in Glen Park!
Good news! In mid-September, we signed on with a fiscal sponsor–the 501(c)3 nonprofit Jazz in the Neighborhood–and are now offering tax-deductibility for your donations to the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (“BBCLP”). Write your check to Jazz in the Neighborhood and note “BBCLP deductible donation” in the memo line, then drop it off at…
Yes! Believe your five senses–
shows for in-store audiences
resumed in mid-June 2021,
and continue apace
Bird & Beckett’s events open to the publichave been back since mid-June 2021.Mask up if you’re inclined, and do come in!(Not vaxxed? Please get vaxxed and be safer!) Jazz, poetry & morelive in the shopand live streamed Come to 653 Chenery if you’re in town! Doors open at 7:20 for our 7:30 shows.$20 cover for…
O Pioneers of the Cosmostream! We’ve been vaccinating you against the plague of boredom and the scourge of demagoguery with a mighty river of live streamed events since March 2020, when it all came down!
Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? On the home page you can scroll down to read the individual posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past several months, a hint of what’s gone down since the pandemic lock-down began. In more amazing times, it would take you right back…
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…
Sunday, January 19th – 5pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
Kai Lyons, guitar. Peter Barshay, bass. Vince Lateano, drums. Come enjoy the long-running third Sunday residency of this trio–three colleagues spanning generations, savvy in the ways of jazz and delighted with the work. You’ll be delighted, too. Benji’s out this week, so Kai Lyons is in. You will be delighted. We guaranteed it. Relax and…