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 Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm.
Bird & Beckett Archived Events
August 19-21: Three big nights — all shows live and live streamed at 7:30pm on fb & yt
Thurs., 8/19: Annette A Aguilar Beans on the Left Septet
Fri., 8/20: Mutant Audio (Foster / Boyce / McCockran)
Sat. 8/12: Jonah Cabral Quintet
Thursday, August 19 – Annette A Aguilar, NYC Latin/Brazilian drummer with San Francisco…
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Postponed ’til the smoke clears!
Vocalist CeCe Gable, CD release tour
with Roni Ben Hur, Harvie S & Sylvia Cuenca
Scheduled for 9/9, this one will have to wait! CeCe is based in…
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Old news, circa Feb 2021: Living in the Purple Tier
We’re back in the purple tier, thinking about Prince and thinking about how…
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Big doings in jazz next weekend!
Friday, Saturday & Sunday!
Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? Scroll down…
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Live streams coming up this weekend…
full details in the posts below!
Simon Rowe Organ Trio on Friday, 12/4
Kalil Amar Wilson / Javier Santiago Duo on Saturday, 12/5
Fabulous music time and again at Bird & Beckett. It’s a time of…
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Miss your evenings in the bookshop?
Live streaming from Bird& Beckett Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:30pm
right in your living room, but more than six feet away!
The live streams from Bird & Beckett all started in mid-March on Friday…
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Hey, it’s not June any more!!
Whither goeth jazz?! We haven’t resigned ourselves to live without live audiences We’re…
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Now open for business at the storefront six days a week!
We’re now open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday. We can…
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coronavirus considerations – the proprietor is in and out, taking orders and making deliveries, seven days a week.
Live music on the bookshop’s stage every Friday and occasional Saturdays & Sundays, live streamed to the world, without an in-store audience
5/5 update: Slow down, people! Just kidding, but really, the onslaught of orders…
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Wednesday, July 15 – 5:30 pm
Emily L. Quint Freeman, with her memoir
Failure to Appear: Resistance, Rebellion and Identity
a live stream
The New York Times, June 6, 1970 10 Foes of Draft Guilty in…
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A BLACK DAY FOR AMERICA, FEBRUARY 13, 2021
He's brought shame on the nation, and won't get off so easily if we keep our eyes on the battle against demagoguery and the prize of restored democracy. No fascist America, if we only pay attention and don't avert our eyes. Trump lost the election. We can move on, ignore his blather and spurn the chatter and bluster of those who fan the flames of division..
The Independent Musicians Alliance
Gigging musicians! You have nothing to lose but your lack of a collective voice to achieve fair wages for your work!
The IMA can be a conduit for you, if you join in to make it work.
https://www.independentmusiciansalliance.org/
Read more here - Andy Gilbert's Feb 25 article about the IMA from KQED's site