Ahkeel Mestayer, percussion Emilio Davilos, percussion Eric Peralta, piano Julio de la Cruz, bass Thomas Pridgen, drumset Call for reservations (415) 586-3733. Audience capacity – 20. $25 cash cover charge (sliding scale, pay what you can). proof of vaccination and masks, please BYOB live streamed on Facebook and YouTube Doors open at 4:45pm for the…

listen up! this is not your everyday jazz! Doors open at  7:20 for the 7:30 show. Audience capacity – 20. Call for reservations (415) 586-3733. Also viewable live streamed on the Bird & Beckett Facebook page or YouTube channel. Your donations are appreciated to help us meet the band’s guarantee. They must eat and pay San Francisco…

Spend an hour at Bird & Beckett this Thursday evening with Byron Spooner as he reads excerpts from his new book of stories, Rounding Up a Bison, and engages in idle banter & litjabber with interlocutor and long-time friend Robert Mailer Anderson. BYOB. No charge, though you might want to buy Byron’s book once you’ve…

Jinx, a virtuoso of rockabilly, surf and jazz guitar, returns to Bird & Beckett with a trio for an evening of jazz and instrumental exotica, as heard on his cd, “Jinx Jones Trio Live,” recorded where? Recorded here, at Bird & Beckett some years ago. Jinx’s jazz ages well with time. Come share the room…

Drummer Tony Johnson leads a quartet on the 4th Friday of each month Tonight: Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Tony Johnson, drums Doors open at  7:20 for the 7:30 show. Audience capacity – 20. Call for reservations (415) 586-3733. Also viewable live streamed on the Bird & Beckett Facebook page or YouTube…

Thursday, January 27 7:30pm Live streamed only Catch the live stream on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel or Facebook page. Walker Brents III on the Many Masks of William Everson, a.k.a. Brother Antoninus. A plowman, a rake, a conscientious objector, a printing press craftsman, a mad mystic monk, a Dionysian beat poet, a saintly teacher of creative…

Jeffrey Burr, guitar Adam Shulman, organ Eric Garland, drums with guest organist Brian Charette $20 cash cover charge at the door. Doors open at 7:20pm for the 7:30pm show. Sorry, no reservations. First 20 people in line are admitted. Audience capacity is 20. BYOB, plus proof of vaccination and mask. Please keep your mask on…

Kim Shuck, poet & artist, conducts Bird & Beckett’s virtual poetry series twice a month. On the fourth Monday of the month, it’s all open mic. So polish up a gem or grab one you want to try out on other poets and Zoom in. Zoom link, click here Google Meet, click here On the…

“With its intimations of primal sacred cries, HowellDevine embodies elemental blues and boogie like juke joint prophets. Featuring Eli’s Mile High Club-honed Joshua Howell on slide guitars, harmonica, and vocals, percussion expert Roll ’Em Pete Devine on drums and washboard, and the relentlessly propulsive Joe Kyle Jr. on bass, the combo taps into red clay…

Marco Diaz – trumpet Charlie Gurke – saxes Julio Perez – percussion Saúl Sierra – bass. $20 cash cover charge; BYOB; proof of vaccination & masks, please. Doors open at  7:20 for the 7:30 show. Audience capacity – 20. Call for reservations (415) 586-3733. Also viewable live streamed on the Bird & Beckett Facebook page or YouTube…