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!
Wednesday, December 11th – 6:30pm
Author Event: David Ladensohn
Fly-Fishing with Leonardo Da Vinci
David Ladensohn presents his book, Fly-Fishing with Leonardo da Vinci. Written with the literate fly-fisher in mind, Ladensohn’s book is equally interesting and entertaining to people interested in Leonardo, the flesh and blood man: a gay, God-believing but not really Church-believing, intensely science-obsessed polymath whose art was as much about his interest in optics and…
Monday, December 9th – 7-9pm
Kim Shuck hosts poets
David Gorin and Caroline Goodwin
with an open mic to follow
on Zoom
VirtualPoets! Kim Shuck hosts featured poets David Gorin and Caroline Goodwin and the open mic that follows. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84350265713?pwd=eE84V3BYdWxiSFBHNHhmdUt1WTUzdz09 Meeting ID: 843 5026 5713 Passcode: 244211 David Gorin is the author of To a Distant Country, selected by Jennifer Chang for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and forthcoming in 2025. His writing received…
Sunday, December 8th – 10-11am
SFLives Live Stream
Denise Sullivan and Tongo Eisen-Martin
in conversation
Independent reporter Denise Sullivan brings the SF Lives series to Bird & Beckett for a Sunday morning livestream. This month’s guest is poet, movement worker, and educator, Tongo Eisen-Martin. Use the video screen at the top of our website homepage to access the stream. Limited in person seating available. Call the shop at 415-586-3733. Eisen-Martin’s curriculum…
Saturday, December 7th – 7:30pm
The Crooked Jades
Final Stop on the 30th Anniversary Party Bus!
$30 cover Cash or Venmo at the door. BYOB. The tix are all called for at this point, but standing room will be available day of show at $20 per person on a first-come, first-served basis. So join the line and take your chances! Bundle up! Join us for a celebration of the Crooked Jades’…
Friday, December 6th – 7:30-9:30pm
John Calloway’s Fall-to-Winter Musings
John Calloway, flutes Jordan Samuels, guitar Chris Trinidad, bass Emilio Davalos, percussion Plus guests Angie Doctor and Conrad Benedicto $25 cover charge; byob San Francisco native flautist, composer and arranger Dr. John Calloway has spent the last four decades in the Bay Area as one of the vanguard flute players known nationally in Latin jazz,…
Thursday, December 5th – 7-9pm
POETS! Featured readers
Sheila Smith McKoy & Joan Gelfand
“resist! poets rage off the page”
Sheila Smith McKoy and Joan Gelfand read their work; an open mic follows, hosted by Michael Koch. No charge, though your contributions help augment the small honorarium we’re able to offer the poets. byob. Sheila Smith McKoy, Ph.D. is an award-winning poet, fiction writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of the 2020 Muriel Craft…
Wednesday, December 4th – 7pm
San Francisco Wild Women Writing
book launch event with
Angie Minkin, Elise Kazanjian
Heather Saunders Estes & Robin Michel
Four poets gather to launch the new anthology Season Lightly With Salt: Poems and Recipes from the Test Kitchens of the San Francisco Wild Writing Women (note: Kathyrn Santana Goldman is unable to join her colleagues on this reading) Oud player Paul Ohanesian will provide musical interludes and accompaniment, and refreshments will be shared! …
Sunday, December 1st – 4:30-6:30pm
The Cottontails!
Karina Denike, vocals Tom Griesser, clarinet and sax Michael MacIntosh, piano Vic Wong, guitar Joe Kyle, Jr., bass Randy Lee Odell, drums $25-35 sliding scale for adults, cash please! Kids under 12 free; teens and music students $15 Jump jazz, rhythm & blues, fresh as a daisy with deep roots in the ’40s & ’50s!…
Saturday, November 30th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Robb Fisher Trio
Brad Buethe, guitar. Robb Fisher, bass. Akira Tana, drums. $20 cover charge; byob. for a reservation, call the store at 415-586-3733. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, bassist Robb Fisher worked extensively with legendary vibes player Cal Tjader. He’s heard on vinyl under Tjader’s leadership with conguero Poncho Sanchez and Clare Fisher…
Friday, November 29th – 6-9pm
three hours of happiness
with the New Squatoolas
New Squatoolas are a Thanksgiving weekend tradition at Bird & Beckett. They’ll take you on a joyous romp in a New Orleans mode, playing the music of NOLA jazz, funk and soul pioneers – The Meters, Smokey Johnson, Fats Domino, The Nevilles, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, ‘Fess – as well as original compositions invoking the style…