653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
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Friday, September 13th – 6-8pm
Celebrating the Duke!
Eric & the In Crowd
plumb the Ellington songbook
Eric Shifrin, piano & vocals. Ari Munkres, bass. Mark Lee, drums. $20 suggested donation, adults. BYOB. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. Duke Ellington added innumerable lovely tunes to the American Songbook, often in collaboration, credited and sometimes not, with Billy Strayhorn. Treasures untold. Eric and his trio will pull some up for your eager…
Thursday, September 12th – 7:30-9:30pm
Hindustani Classical Music of North India
Bruce Hamm, sarod, and Ferhan Qureshi, tabla
The evening ragas Bruce Hamm and Ferhan Qureshi will perform in duo at Bird & Beckett are structured on melodic lines performed over rhythmic cycles, or tala, that employ principles set forth in the 2nd-3rd century CE Sanskrit treatise on the aesthetics, poetics, music and dance of Indian theatre known as the Bharata Natyashastra as…
Wednesday, September 11th – 7:30pm
Johnny Lonely’s Unhappy Hour
Fall is when nature breaks up with you – the perfect time to hear songs of heartache. So, now’s the time to flag 9/11 for your emergency Johnny Lonely show! Johnny Lonely and Joshua Raoul Brody’s harmonized cries for help bring first responders Ed McClary and David Jess, on drums and bass, respectively, rushing in —…
Sunday, September 8th – 8-9pm
Went to Lunch, Never Returned
Jeff DeMark’s comedic monologue on his life in San Francisco in the 1980s
Jeff DeMark gleaned sage insights from Zoe Nordstrom nearly every time they took the time to talk about her life, his life, and his contemporaneous San Francisco scuffle through 17 temp jobs in 22 months in the late 1980s, not to mention the ill-fated love affair that had brought him out from Wisconsin to San…
Sunday, September 8th – 5-7pm
Nashville Honeymoon
Lynne Maes, vocals and guitar Hank Maninger, vocals and lead guitar Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Tim Wagar, bass Leor Beary, drums $20 cover charge/byob Reservations: 415-586-3733 Nashville Honeymoon honors traditional country music and pushes its boundaries. Lynne and Hank both write songs for the band that sound like instant classics. Hank’s driving lead guitar,…
Friday, September 6th – 8:30-10pm
Charles Thomas Quartet
Ben Ball, saxophone Sam Cady, piano Charles Thomas, bass Michael Spencer, drums $20 cover charge; byob Reservations: 415-586-3733 Charles Thomas has been laying down his soulful jazz and R&B for decades, even if he did have to drive a Muni bus for years to keep the rent paid — not the first professional musician with…
Friday, September 6th – 6-8pm
Macy Blackman
Macy Blackman, piano and vocals Bing Nathan, bass $20 suggested donation; byob Teens and music students, $5-10 suggested Kids free Reservations, call 415-586-3733 Macy Blackman is a piano professor of the first water, drawing from a deep well of New Orleans R&B, blues & boogie woogie, with a half dozen cds to his credit and…
Saturday, September 7th – 7:30-9:30pm
Darren Johnston’s Free Fall Quartet
Darren Johnston, trumpet/vocals Dillon Vado, vibraphone Joshua Thurston-Milgrom, bass Jaimeo Brown, drums Featuring an assortment of Johnstons’ originals as well as songs by the likes of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and Ornette Coleman $20 cover charge/byob Reservations: 415-586-3733
Thursday, September 5th – 7pm
Jerry’s kids!
Poets Andrew Paul Nelson and Scott Bird
followed by an open mic
The first Thursday of September, intrepid explorers from North Beach Andrew Paul Nelson (shown at left) and Scott Bird are expected to provision themselves with Riesling and make their way to Bird & Beckett to size up our wilderness outpost, est. 1999, here to declaim poetically on the journey that’s taken them this far. 1999…
Wednesday, September 4th – 7pm
Author Event
Kenneth Kann presents his memoir,
My Father’s ALS: A Son’s Healing Journey
Join us to hear from Ken Kann, presenting his gripping memoir. In 1979, after months of puzzling symptoms, Ken’s father was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS — commonly known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease.” Ken relates his own journey that begins as he watches his dad and mom struggle to grasp this life-shattering news, triggering…