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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
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phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
Water under the bridge…
The posts that follow show you what’s come and gone. Search the videos on our youtube channel or facebook page to find evidence of what you remember, or what you missed! Then, make sure you catch the next thing that catches your fancy. The live streams are great, but live music in a room with…
February 17th to 22nd
tuesday to sunday
four concerts / one talk
lotsa books noon to six
Jazzx4 + 1 Lit Talk _____ Tuesday, February 17, 7:30pm {$20} Jerome Sabbagh Trio _____ Thursday, February 19, 7:30pm, a live stream {Free} Walker Talks, on Ella Young _____ Friday, February 20, 6:00pm {$20} Scott Foster/David Phillips/Andrew Higgins/David Rokeach _____ Saturday, February 21, 7:30pm {$20} Levy / Campilongo Guitar Duo _____ Sunday, February 22, 5:00pm…
Jam Session at 5pm!
Sunday, February 22nd
hosted by the Vince Lateano Trio
Jazz players assemble for the jam session run by drummer Vince Lateano on the last Sunday of each month. Vince has been a mainstay of the jazz scene in San Francisco for 60 years and has run a succession of sessions for decades at venues including Pier 23, the Dogpatch Saloon, the Seven Mile House…
jazz tonight! Jerome Sabbagh Trio
with Essiet Okon Essiet & Sylvia Cuenca
Tuesday, February 17th – 7:30pm
Tonight, drummer Sylvia Cuenca & bassist Essiet Essiet bring us their NYC-based colleague Jerome Sabbagh for two sets of trio music. Expect them to propel Jerome to fresh heights of jazz creativity! BYOB and a twenty for the trio. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Saxophonist and composer Jerome…
Sunday, February 15th – 5pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with guest Chris Aschman
on trumpet and steelpan
The Vince Lateano trio plays every third Sunday at Bird & Beckett. Make it a habit! BYOB and a twenty for the band! Chris Aschman, guest trumpeter and steelpan player.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day
with the Threetles!
Saturday, February 14th – 7:30pm
Sparky Grinstead’s tunes voiced by his loving bandmates Carole Zingeser & John Rafferty, with guitars, harmonica, melodica & percussive things put to great use! BYOB and a twenty for the trio. Droll lyrics, abundant charm and vast reservoirs of love on stage! Come with your love interest, or just to share the love– It’s what…
Friday, February 13th – 8:30pm
Kahil El’Zabar
& the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
on tour
Join us for the eighth almost-annual Black History Month tour stop at Bird & Beckett by the fantastic, joyous & profound Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, traveling out of Chicago & Detroit across the nation with forays into our neighboring sovereign nation to the north, Canada! O Canada, we could drink a case of you and still…
Friday, February 13th – 6pm
Eric & the In Crowd
Eric Shifrin, piano & vocals. Simon Planting, bass. Mark Lee, drums. $20 suggested donation; students $10; kids free. Reservations not required, but larger contingents are advised to call ahead! 415-586-3733. Eric has been working his way through the alphabet lately in his lonh-running 2nd Fridays monthly residency. He’s up to “D”! So expect a slew…
Thursday, February 12th – 7:30pm
Poets Julian Poirier & Tongo Eisen-Martin
launching Julian’s
Mansions My Mouth Made
Copies of Julien Poirier’s Mansions My Mouth Made (Bird & Beckett, 2025) can be had over the counter at the bookshop and via post through the online store of Impart Ink, where the thing was designed, printed, and assembled: 32 pages, hand-sewn in wrappers printed letterpress from Onyx type on Canson papers in a variety of hues. Yours…
February 12th thru 15th:
a poetry reading and four concerts
Poetry + Live Music! _____ Thursday, February 12, 7:30pm: Julien Poirier + Tongo Eisen-Martin [poets: book release] {free} _____ Friday, February 13, 6:00pm: Eric & the In Crowd [2nd Fridays residency] {$20 cash / byob; students $10; kids free} _____ Friday, February 13, 8:30pm: Kahil El’Zabar & the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble [On tour] {$35…