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 weekend!

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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!

Sunday, March 8th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Seducers
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk
Country Music

$20 suggested donation. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income. The Seducers have had a monthly gig at Bird & Beckett for three years, playing classic, outlaw and honky tonk songs by the likes of Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Bobby Bare, plus originals and a few from left field. Look for the Seducers every second Sunday…

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POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
March 16, all open mic

[POSTPONED:
originally scheduled for this date
Chris Olander + Kirk Lumpkin]

San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and Bird & Beckett’s Troubadour in Residence Jerry Ferraz host poetry every first and third Monday, with an open mic to follow the featured readers. THIS WEEK, no featured readers due to the poets’ very understandable hesitation in this uncertain time. We’ll reschedule; meanwhile, the open mic is here….

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Saturday, March 7th – 7:30–10pm
Russian Telegraph
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night  

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Russian Telegraph is the brainchild of Beth Custer (Trance Mission, Club Foot Orchestra) and David James (Afrofunk Experience, Spearhead, The Coup), who had the inspiration to merge a couple of their separate bands into one! It’s a blend of Beth Custer Ensemble, with their Art Song, their clarinets, and…

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Postponed: Watch for new date
Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss, A Memoir
Emily L. Quint Freeman

Call us if you want to be notified when a new date is set. In 1969, Emily Freeman, then Linda J. Quint, engaged in an act of conscience with seventeen others, burning thousands of draft records on the Southside of Chicago to keep poor and minority men from being drafted into the Vietnam War, an…

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Friday, March 6th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Denise Perrier with Oop Bop Sh’Bam!
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002 

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Once again, the voice with a heart, Denise Perrier, graces the Bird & Beckett stage in the company of some good old friends, Al Molina and Jerry Logas on horns, Larry Chinn on piano, Dean Reilly on bass and Vince Lateano on drums. A rich tapestry of San Francisco…

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Postponed: 3/20/20
Kai Lyons Quartet
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday after work 

Kai will play solo for a live stream this Saturday, March 21 at 7:30pm. In his place on Friday, March 20, Gaea Schell and John Wiitala will play in a duo context, also for a live stream. $20 suggested donation for either show; but any amount is appreciated and those in economic straits should use…

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Postponed: 3/21/20
Adrian Areas Latin Jazz Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night at Bird & Beckett

$20 cover charge / sliding scale available Adrian Areas, percussion Dan Neville, vibes Jordan Brysk, bass Brian Andres, drums Adrian Areas is a percussionist from the San Francisco Bay Area. He was born with music in his blood, since he is the son of founding member of the Santana Band, musician and composer, Jose Chepito…

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Postponed: 3/22/20
jessica Care moore
and Tongo Eisen-Martin

Two powerful performers, jessica Care moore and Tongo Eisen-Martin have staked out their ground decisively, neither likely to step back any time soon. Eisen-Martin, a child of the region, seemed to emerge full blown on the Bay Area poetry front in 2015 with his debut Someone’s Dead Already from Bootstrap Press and a cascade of…

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Postponed: 3/22/20
Wendy DeWitt with Ricky Nye
which way west?
Sunday concert series

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Wendy Dewitt With Boogie Woogie legend Ricky Nye – part of the Hella Piano Tour! Wendy says: “Ricky is in the Boogie Woogie Hall of Fame and is another of the international boogie woogie artists. We’ll have a ball.”

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Cancelled– 3/24/20 –
Josh Thurston-Milgrom Quartet
featuring Chicago saxophonist Chris Neal

Tonight’s show has been cancelled. The previously scheduled show featuring Chicago tenor sax player Chris Neal with his good friend, the bassist Josh Thurston-Milgrom will have to wait for another time, when Chris can travel out to San Francisco.

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