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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]
Thursday, July 2nd – 7pm
POETS! Jessica Loos and Keith Felton read
followed by an open mic
Keith Felton and Jessica Loos read new and recent work as the featured poets in our first Thursday of the month poetry series, a Bird & Beckett tradition dating back a quarter century. The reading and the following open mic are hosted and moderated by Jerry Ferraz and Michael Koch. Jessica, who cut her…
Friday, July 3rd – 7:30pm
Lewis Jordan & Music At Large
Lewis Jordan, alto saxophone, poetry. Sandi Poindexter, violin. Ollen Erich Hunt, bass. Jimmy Biala, drums. with special guests Sean Norris, tenor saxophone, and Dave Shaff, trumpet. $25 cover charge / b.y.o.b. Students, $10. Cash at the door, please. With six musicians on the stage tonight, your additional donations are welcome and appreciated to augment the…
Saturday, July 4th – 7:30pm
Duncan James / Ned Boynton Quartet
Leave the pomp and the madness of the 4th aside. Ned Boynton and Duncan James will satisfy your hunger for something real and beautiful, with Simon Planting and Bob Blankenship adding the necessary on bass and drums. A two-guitar quartet in the spirit of Duncan’s experience playing alongside George Barnes in Barnes’ quartet in the…
Sunday, July 5th – 5pm
Student-centric jam session hosted by a
Community Music Center Jazz Combo
Come out for our monthly “student-centric” jazz jam session! If you’re game to play, bring your instrument(s) and be ready to call a tune. The session will start after a short jazz set by this month’s session hosts, an octet from San Francisco’s Community Music Center. Just want to come out and experience the fun?…
Sunday, July 5th – 7:30pm
The After the End of the World Coretet
The After the End of the World Coretet formed in San Francisco in the summer of 1989. All four member of the group are composers, long-time practitioners, and devotees of music to the core. This iteration of the group is the same as on the recording called ’13’, and features Annelise Zamula on saxophones and…
Tuesday, July 7th – 7pm
Nancy Kurshan
Levitating the Pentagon
a book release reading
YIPPEE! I think I saw it move! Did you see it move!?!? Nancy Kurshan, a founding member of the Yippees and lifelong activist, is coming to Bird & Beckett with her new book.
Coming up live through July 31
Plenty to look forward to the rest of the summer! Here’s the rest of July… July 10th: Eric & the In Crowd with Raul Ramirez, the tropical side of latin ‘n jazz popular song July 11th: S.E. Willis & the Willing – blues July 12th (happy hour): Joe Goldmark, pedal steel, with Mitch Polzak…
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 to Sunday, June 24th to 28th
six events in five days at Bird & Beckett
poets, tango, jazzreggae, b3jazz,
jam session, and…
Scotty ‘n Kasey’s new thing
says “ciao for now” to Mat
Wednesday, June 24th — 7pm. no charge. buy a book! San Francisco Poets Ava Koohbor, Of Flesh and Frequency: A Poetics of Sound Making. Jessica Loos, Tambourine. Marina Lazzara, The House Begins an Alphabet. Music by Blind Van de Monk. _____ Thursday, June 25th – 7:30pm $20/byob Students $10. Tango…
Saturday, June 27th – 7:30pm
B3B4 plays funky soulful jazz
Tom Griesser, saxophone. Kevin Gersevitz, organ. Scott Foster, guitar. Dan Foltz, drums. $20 cover charge at the door. Cash, please! BYOB. Students $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Reservations honored until show time. Doors open at 7:15pm. “For the sound of today’s organ combo, look no further than B3B4.” -Pete…