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!

Refresh your browser to catch a show in progress!
Visit our Facebook page or YouTube channel!
But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!

Sunday, May 12th – 7:30-10:00 pm
It’s the Seducers!
Bring Mom for some Classic, Outlaw
& Honky Tonk Country Music

Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals Kenny Owen, drums $10-20 suggested donation. Just the thing to cap off Mothers Day… the Seducers take Bird & Beckett down an entirely different highway, offering up classic, outlaw and honky tonk country music. It’s an all-star band…

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Sunday, May 12th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Mother’s Day!
with the Deep Basement Shakers
which way west?
Sunday concert series   

Aaron Hammerman and Dave Eagle are the Deep Basement Shakers, delivering primal, joint-rockin’, steady-rollin’ barrelhouse blues n’ boogie from the deep musical traditions of places like St. Louis, Texas, Chicago and New Orleans. Instrumental stuff from the 20’s, 30’s through to the early days of R&B, Jimmy Yancey to Clarence Lofton, Professor Longhair to Cow…

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jazz club! when lights are low…
Saturday, May 11th, 7:30-10pm
Scott Amendola + Phillip Greenlief
in solo & duo turns

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… jazz club! when lights are low. $20 cover charge tonight (sliding scale available to those with limited means) Tonight, we present two major creative talents working together with improvisational brilliance on material brought to the table by each. Their album “Collect My Thoughts” was recorded 25 years ago, in 1994,…

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An Open Letter
to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

May 14, 2019 An Open Letter to District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and his Colleagues on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors:           Thank you for today’s commendation for our twenty years in business in Glen Park.           At Bird & Beckett. we’re glad to have been able…

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Jerry’s Backyard Bash!
Help us celebrate Jerry’s birthday
and Bird & Beckett’s 20th year!
Saturday, May 11th – 1pm ’til late

Ask at the store for details, directions & the inside dope! Your host Jerry Ferraz turns 69 today… born May 11, 1950 in San Francisco. He was on the first poetry reading Bird & Beckett ever hosted, back in 1999, on a bill with Dan Richman and Justin Demangles. And he’s been the impresario of…

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Friday, May 10, 2019 – 9:00-11:00 pm
The Late Show!
Sylvia Cuenca Quartet
 

Sylvia Cuenca has recruited magnificent players to join her in a quartet tonight, the late show on the first night of our eleven-day 20th anniversary celebration! Andrew Speight, saxophone Ben Stolorow, piano Doug Miller,bass Sylvia Cuenca,drums Sylvia is a fabulous drummer, well traveled. She hails originally from San Jose — though she’s established her career…

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Postponed – Watch for new date
Earle Davis Trio

We’ll reschedule this engagement at the first opportunity. Email us at [email protected] if you want to be notified. Sorry for the inconvenience! Trumpeter Earle Davis sat in with Miles Davis at the Both/And Club  back in 1971 or so, when Miles was with Wayne Shorter, Buster Williams and Tony Williams, and Miles told him he…

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Friday, May 10th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Tammy Lynne Hall Quartet
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since 2002
 

A $10 per set (suggested) donation would be much appreciated to help us compensate the  musicians. Kristen Strom, saxophone Tammy Lynne Hall, piano Alex Baum, bass Ruthie Price, drums Tammy Lynne Hall began playing the piano at age four, in Dallas, Texas, where she was raised by two grandmothers, a grandfather and numerous aunts and…

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The 20th anniversary festivities begin tonight! Friday, May 10th!

Tammy Lynne Hall Quartet at 5:30 Kirsten Strom, saxophone Tammy Hall, piano Alex Baum, bass Ruthie Price, drums   Sylvia Cuenca Quartet at 9:00 Andrew Speight, saxophone Ben Stolorow, piano Doug Miller, bass Sylvia Cuenca, drums Scroll down for details!

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bon anniversaire!

c’est franÏ‚ais! pretty fancy, non? Pardon our French, but do we have some shows for you! From pianist Tammy Lynne Hall on the 10th to poet Nicholas James Whittington on the 20th, and stops along the way that include Jerry Ferraz’s backyard party on the 11th and Scott Foster’s All-Star Septet on the 17th, we’ll have…

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