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!
Events from Thursday 11/21
through to the end of
Thanksgiving weekend
Thursday, 11/21 at 7pm, Walker Brents gives another in his long-running series of talks on topics of his choosing, always at once timeless and timely. These are mostly caught in the live stream, though you’re welcome to grab a chair and join us in person if you like. No charge, but donations really help us…
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…
O Pioneers of the Cosmostream! We’ve been vaccinating you against the plague of boredom and the scourge of demagoguery with live streamed events twice a week and more 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…
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 public have 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 & more live in the shop and live streamed Come to 653 Chenery if you’re in town! Doors open at 7:20 for…
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…
Wednesday, November 20th – 7pm
Parakeet Reading – Michelle Ott, Patricia Zaballos, Jane Hargrave, Sarah McColl & Stephany Joy Ashley
Parakeet, a year-long intensive writing program that helps writers finish their books, is run by Beth Pickens, a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She is the Managing Director of LA-based queer press, Dopamine Books, which is led by legendary writer Michelle Tea. Pickens is the author of Make Your Art No Matter…
Tuesday, November 19th – 7-9pm
The Journal of the Plague Years
The Journal of the Plague Years: A Reading Maxine Chernoff –poet, novelist, UCSF creative writing chair Christine Kiessling –art historian Mike Medberry –essayist, solar installer, environmentalist Hailey Nicole Warner –frontline worker Susan Zakin –journalist, author, magazine founder The Journal: A few days after the Covid-19 pandemic sent us into lockdown, journalist and author Susan Zakin…
Sunday, November 17th – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with guest vocalist Ernest East
Ben Stolorow, piano. Peter Barshay, bass. Vince Lateano, drums. featuring Earnest East, vocals. $20 suggested cover charge; byob. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. The Vince Lateano Trio plays on the third Sunday of each month at Bird & Beckett, putting a fresh twist on jazz standards drawn from a deep well…
Saturday, November 16th – 7:30-9:30pm
Citta di Vitti, a trio!
Phillip Greenlief, saxophone. Lisa Mezzacappa, bass. Jason Levis, drums. $20 cover charge. byob. Teens and students $10. Kids free. Three titans of the Bay Area’s avant garde jazz world reunite in a project seventeen years on. Phillip Greenlief writes, “Several years ago (2007, if i am not mistaken), I wrote nearly 40 fragments while watching…
Friday, November 15th – 8:30-10pm
Stay up late in the Dream Kitchen!
Joyce Todd McBride, piano and compositions. Jeff Kaszubinski, saxophone. Todd Larson, bass. Jeff Pera, drums. $20 cover charge, byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. A vibrant Bay Area jazz ensemble, Dream Kitchen delivers a captivating blend of improvisation, modern jazz, and Latin rhythms. Led by the soulful piano and compositions of Joyce Todd McBride, the group’s original…