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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
Open to walk-in trade and browsing Tuesday to Sunday noon to six
phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
November 21-23 – Four shows!
Jazz duo / Jazz Quartet /
Jazz Quintet / Country Noir Combo
Friday, November 21st – 6pm to 8pm – its the Scott Foster/Ron Vincent Guitar Duo! A twenty dollar bill works wonders to support the Jazz Happy Hour that’s been continuous since the fall of 2002, 23 years and counting… byob… bring the kids… kids and student musicians get in free this evening. If your biological…
Thursday, November 20th – 7:30pm
Walker Talks! A Monthly Live Stream
Tonight: Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, published in 1962, helped spark the environmental movement, offering us a comprehensive understanding of the intricate and fragile relationships between living beings and the oceanic environment. Her previous three books, now called the Sea Trilogy, convey truly unfathomable mysteries, both scientifically accurate and poetically charged. Her childhood in the Alleghanies,…
Wednesday, November 19th – 6pm
A fundraiser for
7 Palestinian families
in Gaza
Bird & Beckett, a privately owned bookshop, weighs in: The contemporary suffering and persecution in Gaza, and in the West Bank, has been extreme and continues, though you’d hardly know it from the newspapers lately. What Hamas did on 10/7/23 is unforgivable and indefensible from where we stand. However, it is obvious to us that…
Tuesday, November 18th – 7pm
Brian Shepperd and Friends: A Reading
Brian Shepperd, a formerly incarcerated, currently recalibrated man and the author of Confessions of a Compassionate Felon convenes a conclave of friends to share spoken word, poetry, chapter & verse reading from their own books. Read more at th3rdbridge.com
Sunday, November 16th – 7:30-9:30pm
Allan Harris with the Sylvia Cuenca Trio
Allan Harris, vocals & piano Adam Shulman, piano Doug Miller, bass Sylvia Cuenca, drums $20 cover charge; byob. Students, 10. Allan Harris returns! Earlier this year, in March, Allan was here at Bird & Beckett with a fantastic date based on “The Poetry of Jazz.” A cd of that music, recorded live in Ann Arbor,…
Sunday, November 16th – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with tenor saxophonist Bob Kenmotsu
Vince Lateano has been a mainstay of San Francisco jazz culture since he rousted out of the Army in 1965! His trio with bassist Peter Barshay and pianist Ben Stolorow has been making beautiful music together for years. Come and enjoy one of Bird & Beckett’s long running, and truly great, jazz residencies. Every third…
Saturday, November 15th – 7:30pm
The Rumi Abe Quartet
Rumi Abe, piano. Armen Krakirian, trumpet. Joshua Thurston-Milgrom, bass. Miles Turk, drums. $20 cover charge at the door (cash please). byob. Students, $10; kids free. For a seat reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Rumi Abe has made a big mark in a very short time on the San Francisco jazz scene. Hailing from Japan,…
Saturday, November 15th – 4:30pm
A reading for Woman Life Freedom:
Poems for the Iranian Revolution
Bänoo Zan & Cy Strom, co-editors of Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution, have invited poet Summer Brenner to join them in a reading of poems from their recently published anthology, which marks a world-historical moment: the first ever feminist revolution. Woman Life Freedom is the slogan chanted by the demonstrators in Iran….
Friday, November 14th – 8:30-10pm
Robert Heirendt’s Name & Form Ensemble
Robert Heirendt brings his “Name & Form” Ensemble to celebrate it’s just-released album. You’ll encounter original conceptions/compositions for mbira and saxophone, based on the meeting of traditional Zimbabwean trance music with modern improvisational jazz. The evening will feature Robert on mbira (Zimbabwean kalimba) and two alto saxophonists, Randy McKean and Dan Plonsey, with special guest…
Friday, November 14th – Two Shows!
Eric & the In Crowd at 6pm
Robert Heirendt’s Name & Form Ensemble
Album Release Concert at 8:30pm
Bring something to sip and a twenty for each band to either or both shows! Call ahead for a seat reservation — 415-586-3733. We’re a bookshop during the day and a venue for music and poetry in the evenings, with events four to six nights a week, especially through the weekends. Eric & the In…