San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and peripatetic troubadour Jerry Ferraz present our twice-monthly poetry readings, every 1st and 3rd Monday — two featured readers followed by an open mic. Tonight, they’ve enlisted Norm Mattox and Julian Tirhma as the featured poets.  Norm is a legendary SFUSD math teacher. His poetry has featured at Poem Jam at…

A powerhouse Americana guitar duo of right-side up finger picking (Stevie Coyle) and upside down flat picking (Glenn Houston). The Quitters deliver a performance spiced with humor and serendipity. To quote the Strawberry Music Festival: “Stevie Coyle and Glenn Houston make up the dynamic guitar duo, The Quitters. Having each quit some of the best…

$20 cover charge; $10 for students/musicians/low income Kwela-kwela is the lively music of Cape Town, South Africa that originated in the 1950s, centering on the pennywhistle and fusing South African tribal/folk music of the 40s and 50s and the original music of Malawi, with plenty of reference to American jazz and the British skiffle music that itself…

$10-20 suggested donation; $5 for students, musicians, low income. . Two of San Francisco’s top saxophone players go head to head, backed by an all-star rhythm section . . Smith Dobson and Andrew Speight, saxophones Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Tony Johnson, drums

2nd year! Students in the SF Conservatory of Music’s “Roots, Jazz & American Music” BMUS degree program host their peers from Bay Area colleges and high schools. No cover charge. Donations to support the bookshop that supports the students are very much appreciated.

Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals Kenny Owen, drums The Seducers are well into their third year of monthly (2nd Sunday) shows at Bird & Beckett, delivering country classics and originals, honky tonk laments and outlaw anthems.

A holiday season tradition at Bird & Beckett, we welcome the return of this eight-strong all-star trad jazz outfit featuring Andrew Storar – trumpet, John Hunt – trombone, Don Neely – clarinet, Si Perkoff – piano, Duncan James – guitar, Al Obidinski – bass, Greg Gotelli – drums and the fabulous vocalist Darlene Langston!  

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Jayden Clark (tenor sax) Brett Karner (trumpet) Spencer Hoefert (guitar) Julian Esparza (bass) Julian Archer (drums) Jazz standards plus original work by each of the members, all students in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s “Roots, Jazz & American Music” (“RJAM”) degree program

$10-20 suggested donation; $5 for students/musicians/low income. .. Some of the brightest talents on the San Francisco jazz scene visit Bird & Beckett’s long-running jazz party .. Lyle Link, saxophone Dahveed Behroozi, piano Jeff Denson, bass Dillon Vado, drums