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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
Open to walk-in trade and browsing Tuesday to Sunday noon to six
phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
Coming up live through July 31st
July 11th, 7:30pm: Takezo & Friends Blues Band — Takezo Takeda, guitar and vocals; Karl Severeid, bass; Paul Revelli, drums. From Shinjuku to San Francisco, it’s an electric Chicago blues bonanza! $20 cover charge / byob for adults — cash at the door, please! There’s always a 50% student discount for our shows; preteens free;…
Sunday, July 12th – 5pm-7pm
Two Happy Hours with Mitch & Joe!
Mitch Polzac & the Royal Deuces
with pedal steel maestro Joe Goldmark
Sundays at 5pm is our happy hour slot every week. Stay for a tune, stay for two sets. Come when you like and leave when you like, and pay what makes sense to you. Bring something to sip if you like — but we have Hetch Hetchy’s finest reservoirs tapped if it’s water you’re craving….
Sunday, July 12th – 8pm
Freddie Bryant’s Kaleidoscope West Trio
Freddie Bryant – guitar/voice. Sylvia Cuenca – drums. Doug Miller – bass. Cover charge – $20; byob. Students – $10. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Freddie’s Kaleidoscope West Trio presents Poems, Groove and Song: a special program curated for Bird and Beckett’s intimate space. The music is based on a kaleidoscope of…
Sunday, July 26th – 2pm
Howie Klein’s Memwah
with Denise Sullivan & Friends
A preview of a work in progress with Lisa Austin, Linda Champagne, Carla Diamond, Trudy Fisher, Lori Gates, David Katznelson, Harry Levy, Linda Ryan, Sue Sponge and special guests. Memwah is Howie Klein’s printed and photographed recollections of his life well-lived. Tasked with finishing a book upon his death in December 2025, award-winning columnist Denise…
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, July 10th – 7:30pm
Eric & the In Crowd blow tropical!
Eric Shifrin, piano and vocals. Raul Ramirez, drumset & percussion. Heath Proskin, bass. $20 cover charge (cash at the doors, please). Students, $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Eric Shifrin has been wowing the swells and the swindlers in San Francisco for decades, from the commonest saloon to the…
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 Yippies and lifelong activist, is coming to Bird & Beckett with her new book. “EQUAL PARTS REVEALING MEMOIR, VALUABLE HISTORICAL DOCUMENT, AND GALVANIZING GUIDE TO FOLLOWING ONE’S BELIEFS.” – Publishers Weekly The Oakland author and lifelong…
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…
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?…
Saturday, July 4th – 7:30pm
Duncan James / Ned Boynton Quartet
Politics and class war aside, the culture wends its way forward! Spend the evening in our cozy bookshop and enjoy this dual guitar quartet in the spirit of a legendary musician, the master guitarist George Barnes. When Barnes moved out to the Bay Area in 1975, he hired 30-year old guitar hotshot Duncan James along…