Amy Glynn is an award-winning poet and essayist whose work appears widely in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry. Her first poetry collection, A Modern Herbal, was published in 2013 by Measure Press; her second, Romance Language, is forthcoming in early 2020. She has received the Carolyn Kizer Award from Poetry Northwest, the SPUR…

From ancient times on, each generation spins its own visionary accountings out of threads of events only the universal psyche has ever fully embodied in memory. Whether in times of cultural evolution or devolution, fairy tales entertain, disturb, and edify, existing as offerings for us to contemplate, even as the ages roll on. Each fairy…

Be sure you’re on our email list, and keep an eye on this website! Friday, Jan. 3 we’re right back at it with Maestro Myron Cohen on the pots beating out a rhythm with el pianista Keith-0 Saunders et le bassiste extraordinaire Ollie le Dudek. Get down here at 5:30 with a fistful of dollars…

Mourning the death of the poet… celebrating the life of the poet Friends read for street peddler, artist and poet Steve Dalachinsky, a legendary figure of the New York loft world who died of a brain hemorrhage September 15th, 2019, two weeks shy of his 73rd birthday, the day after his vibrant reading at an…

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated The Hard Bop Collective Daniel Casares, tenor sax; Jordan Samuels, guitar; Tomoko Funaki, bass; Austin Lee Harris, drums. Swingin’ and boppin’ since 2011 for San Francisco’s party set!

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Forged by six-string electric bassist Michael Wilcox, this trio with saxophonist Sheldon Brown and drummer Bryan Bowman continues in the tradition of Sonny Rollins’ early explorations of the tenor sax/bass/drums format. As a trio, they explore a wide variety of music that’s interested them over the years, from Brazilian…

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Michael Moore, cornet Michael Gold, tenor sax Randy Craig, piano John Clark, bass and Scott Foster on guitar Scott invites a crew of musicians and long-time friends who gather annually in cornetist Michael Moore’s living room to reminisce about old times and old friends and play some old tunes….

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Adam Moezinia, guitar Noah Garabedian, bass Charles Goold, drums New York-based guitarist Adam Moezinia has been a rising star on the scene there since he arrived nine years ago to study at Juilliard. Since then he’s played with many great musicians including Cecile McLorin Salvant, Freddy Cole (with whom…

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Noah Frank, trumpet Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass Genius Wesley, drums A brilliant young trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader, staking out classic jazz territory for 2020 in the company of some fine players bridging the generations!

$20 suggested donation / any amount welcome 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…