HowellDevine returns to the Bird & Beckett stage! If you’ve never heard them, and certainly if you’ve never heard them live, you’ll be blown away. Gale force blues in store for you! $20 cash cover charge; BYOB; proof of vaccination, a mask. Doors open at 4:45pm. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Can’t make it…

Greg Abate, saxophone & flute Ben Stolorow, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Michael Mitchell, drums $20 cash cover charge; doors at 7:20; show at 7:30. BYOB, proof of vaccination and masks, please. Reservations, call the store at 415-586-3733 during store hours (Tuesday to Sunday, noon to six) Can’t make it to the show? Check it out…

Reprising a trio that worked together 15 years ago, guitarist Scott Foster has invited bassist Marcus Shelby and trumpeter Darren Johnston to reunite for a concert offering songs of peace and and other compositions, including Ornette Coleman’s “The Blessing” and Joe Henderson’s “Serenity.” Doors open at 7:20; show at 7:30. No reservations. The concert will…

Pearl Ubungen dances in the intimate space of Bird & Beckett within the sound envelope of the San Francisco ensemble led by saxophonist Salim Washington — Scott Foster on guitar, Charles Thomas on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. An opportunity to absorb Washington’s “new synoptic vision of what jazz can be and do,” as…

Tonight’s reading features Olivia Soule and Brian K. Turner, with an open mic to follow. Olivia Soule completed her M.F.A. in poetry at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2018.  She has a B.A. in English and Italian from UCLA. Her poems have appeared in the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Pudding Magazine and Q/A Poetry,…

Jonah Raskin has invited Steve Wasserman and Garrett Caples to join him in a bookshop celebration of the centennial of Jack Kerouac’s birth, March 12, 1922. Jonah’s recent novel Beat Blues: San Francisco 1955 is an evocative take on that era and the way it felt here when the Beats were tuning into a whole…

Back at last! It’s been a few months’ hiatus, but the time has come. America’s favorite honky tonk band returns to their bookshop home for a couple sets of outlaw & classic country music. Mitch Polzak, Hank Maninger, Joe Goldmark and Kenny Owen deliver rave-up joy every time out! And tonight, Seducer emeritus Eddie Kendrick…

Christie Aida, vocals Laura Harris, piano Greg Kehret, bass Mena Ramos, bata & hi-hat with special guest, San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin ____ BYOB, a mask and $20 cash for the cover charge Can’t make it to the show? Check it out in the live stream on our YouTube channel or Facebook page. _____…

Darren Johnston’s Double Detour will be at Bird & Beckett twice in two months–tonight and April 9! Catch both dates! Darren Johnston – trumpet Ben Goldberg – clarinet Jeff Denson – bass Gerald Cleaver – drums $20 cash cover charge; BYOB; proof of vaccination, a mask. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Can’t make it…

SORRY, THIS  MORNING’S LIVE STREAM CONVERSATION IS POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS. GET ON THE STORE’S MAILING LIST TO HEAR ABOUT FUTURE SF LIVES CONVERSATIONS AND TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN THIS PARTICULAR CONVERSATION IS RESCHEDULED. San Francisco journalist Denise Sullivan hosts a live-streamed series of monthly morning discussions with The City’s arts and cultural leaders and…