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!
Saturday, October 12th – 7:30-10pm
Gail Dobson Band
+youth vocalists!
jazz club! …when lights are lowÂ
$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Gail Dobson, vocals and percussion Chloe Scott Jones, flute Luis Salcedo, guitar Matt Montgomery, bass Eric Garland, drums/percussion plus some of Gail’s amazing vocal students The Gail Dobson’s Vocals for Kids with the Gail Dobson Band is a remarkable group of young singers and musicians who will feature…
Friday, October 11th – 5:30-8pm
Times Three
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002Â
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Paul Mindrup – piano Scott Chapek – bass Tom Hassett – drums Times Three has been a unit since the late 1990s, releasing their debut, eponymous cd in 2006 and a second cd, entitled “Off the Grid” in 2014. Their long association has allowed them to develop a high…
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, October 7th – 7-9pm
Ron Johnson reads from White Ghost Dance
featured readers followed by an open mic
Ron Johnson, whose most recent collection is  White Ghost Dance (Wasteland Press, 2018), has taught at CCSF and once had a bookshop in the Haight. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Bowling Green State University (1972). His books include DNA Poems (Black Book Press, 1979), Once Upon a Time in Babylon (Wasteland Press, 2012)…
Sunday, October 6th – 4:30-6:30pm
Zan Stewart Band
which way west?
Sunday concert seriesÂ
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated A Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund Date! The Zan Stewart Band! Zan Stewart, saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Peter Barshay, bass Ron Marabuto, drums Zan’s band will play engaging originals as well as gems from the jazz and pop repertoires from the 1930s through 1960s–music that swings, that has a feel-good…
Sunday, October 6th – 2-3:30pm
Shepherd Siegel
Disruptive Play: The Trickster
in Politics and Culture
Disruptive Play is all about tricking power into performing acts of love. Shepherd Siegel will be talking, listening, singing, dancing, appearing and disappearing at Bird and Beckett  on Sunday, October 6th at 2 p.m. Siegel is the author of the mind-bending book, Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture. Disruptive Play journeys from ancient folkloric appearances of Tricksters…
Saturday, October 5th – 7:30-10:00 pm
Grant Levin Quartet featuring saxophonist Jules Broussard!
jazz club! when lights are low…
$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Jules Broussard, reeds Grant Levin, piano Chris Amberger, bass Al Marshall, drums Grant Levin’s legion of fans know him as a fantastic pianist who plays with incredible brio and unbelievable chops — which almost, but not quite, masks the fact that he’s an unmatchable ensemble player, digging deeply into…
Friday, October 4th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Oop Bop Sh’Bam!
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Al Molina, trumpet; Jerry Logas, reeds, flute & vocal; Larry Chinn, piano; Dean Reilly, bass; Vince Lateano, drums. Bop & swing from five solid senders. The long-running Friday after work jazz party at Bird & Beckett has never paused since it started eighteen years ago! Contribute what you can…
Monday, September 30th – 7pm
Poet Caledonia Kearns reads from her new collection
A Daughter’s Work is Heartless by Nature
A Daughter’s Work is Heartless by Nature, Caledonia Kearns’ first collection of poems, just published at the age of 49, is a sort of a hybrid between poetry and memoir. It’s an attempt to meet Muriel Rukeyser’s challenge, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?/The world would split open.†Caledonia’s…
Sunday, September 29th – 4:30-6:30pm
Moonshine Maybelline
plus Dexter Garnier
which way west? Sunday concert series
$20 suggested donation; contribute what you can A siren from the shore, Moonshine Maybelline lures you with spellbinding ballads, mesmerizes with moody soundscapes and crashes your broken heart into their country-rock. Catherine Foreman’s vocals and songs are the centerpiece of this 5-piece band from San Francisco. Sparks first flew when she teamed up with twang-rockers…
Moby Dick!
Sunday, September 29 – 2:00pm
Celebrating Melville’s
200th Anniversary Year
Herman Melville was born in 1819, making 2019 his 200th Anniversary Year. Celebrate his genius with us at Bird & Beckett! Come at 2pm to Bird & Beckett to hear readings by the Melville Society from Moby Dick, Melville’s masterpiece about Captain Ahab and his obsessive quest for the great white whale, Moby Dick. Sign…