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!
Friday, November 15th – 6-8pm
The Scott Foster Happy Hour Jazz Trio
Scott Foster, guitar. Charles Thomas, bass. Mark Lee, drums. $20 suggested cover charge. Pay what you can. Teens & students – $5-10. Kids free. Bird & Beckett is your spot to decompress from the week’s travails, whether it’s the weather, the political climate, or just the work week that might have made you feel a…
Thursday, November 14th – 7:30pm
Sameer Gupta, solo tabla
Parag Chordia & Ferhan Qureshi
sarod/tabla duo
Samir Gupta, tabla. Parag Chordia, sarod. Ferhan Qureshi, tabla . $20 cover charge; byob . This evening, we are pleased to present a solo tabla set by Sameer Gupta followed by a second set of instrumental raga by sarodist Parag Chordia, accompanied by Ferhan Qureshi on tabla. For those who can’t make it to the…
Tuesday, November 12th – 7pm
Poets Kim Shuck and Denise Low
celebrate the release of
DEER / A-WI, a chapbook
Join us in the shop Tuesday night for a much needed reading by two fine, productive and relevant American poets. Together, they have just released a chapbook, DEER /A-WI (Mammoth Press, 2024). Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09, is author of House of Grace, House of Blood, archive-based poetry from the University of Arizona Press….
Sunday, November 10th – 5-7pm
Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces
with Joe Goldmark on pedal steel guitar
Mitch Polzak is one swingin’ cat! Wait ’til you hear him smoke that pig with lightning speed. His trio is the toast of rockabilly festivals, county fairs, bars and clubs throughout the Bay Area and the Central Valley. He’s raved on in Nashville and Memphis, and in Valencia, Spain, With Joe Goldmark, the king of…
Sunday, November 10th – 10am
SFLives Live Stream
Namaste, Motherfucker!
Journalist Denise Sullivan
in conversation with Ben Terrall
Independent reporter Denise Sullivan brings the SFLives series to Bird & Beckett for a Sunday morning livestream, which you can find on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. You can also tap on the shop’s window at 9:55. and we’ll usher you to a seat in the half-light of the shop. This month’s…
POETS! First Thursday Every Month
Thursday, November 7th – 7pm
Featured poet Dan Richman
followed by an open mic
Dan Richman, scheduled as the featured poet tonight, cannot attend due to illness. Dan is a wry and philosophical poet, also a playwright, novelist, essayist and performer, of good humor and great insight. He read on our first bill of poets back in 1999 or so, and has continued to write all along, taking in…
Wednesday, November 6th – 7pm
Poet Nellie Wong reads
from her new collection,
Nothing Like Freedom
Chinese American revolutionary feminist poet Nellie Wong, a Glen Park resident, grew up in Oakland’s Chinatown and came of age working in her parents’ restaurant there. Tracked into a working class path and following business classes at Oakland High School, she went to work as a secretary at Bethlehem Steel. In her 30s, in the…
Friday to Sunday, November 8th to 10th
From Indiana to New Orleans
to Maharashtra to Nashville
four shows this weekend
The music kicks off this Friday at 6pm, when piano professor Eric Shifrin brings his In Crowd–Ari Munkres on bass and Mark Lee on drums–to celebrate the songs of Hoosier Hoagy Carmichael, the droll pianist, singer and tunesmith who brought us Stardust, Skylark, Georgia on My Mind and a host of other indelibly memorable…
Sunday, November 3rd – 3-6pm
SF Conservatory Jazz Combos
Occupy Bird & Beckett
Four jazz combos from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music take the stage tonight! Four 30-45 minute sets starting at 3pm with a 15 minute break between sets. $25 cover charge, byob. No reservations required.
Saturday, November 2nd – 7:30-9:30pm
The Hal Richards Quintet
Hal Richards, saxophones, clarinets, flutes, shawm, crumhorn. Henry Hung, trumpet. Kevin Gerzevitz, piano. Ron Belcher, bass. Akira Tana, drums. $25 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Something old, something new. Something borrowed and some blues. Coming three days before the election, the quintet will perform Lenny Carlson’s piece. “The Toddler,”…