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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Saturday, April 26th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Hal Richards Quintet
Hal Richards, winds, reeds & arrangements. Henry Hung, trumpet. Rumi Abe, piano. Ron Belcher, bass. Akira Tana, drums. $25 cover charge, cash please! $1.50 surcharge on credit/debit. Please pay at the door, and byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Hal Richards is a musician of many horns. When he first strolled into…
Friday, April 25th – 8:30-10pm
Joyce Todd McBride Trio
Joyce Todd McBride, piano & compositions. Stacy Starkweather, bass. David Rokeach, drums. $20 cover charge, cash please! $1.50 surcharge per seat for credit/debit cards. please pay at the door, and byob. for reservations, call 415-586-3733. Joyce Todd McBride, widely adored as the director of the massed vocal ensemble Conspiracy of Venus, is also much admired…
Friday, April 25th – 6-8pm
The 230 Jones Street Band
Drummer Tony Johnson corrals the usual suspects — Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass. Make Tony’s dates a habit. Fourth Sunday of every month. The 230 Jones Street band plays two months in a row, then switches out for the Tony Johnson Quartet (Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax; Keith Saunders, piano; Eric Markowitz,…
jazz on the weekend
Friday, 6pm – 230 Jones Street
Friday, 8:30pm – Joyce McBride Trio
Saturday, 7:30pm – Hal Richards Quintet
Sunday, 5pm – Jam Session!
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Thursday, April 24th – 7:30pm
Writer/Director Megan Robertson
a reading of her theatrical documentary
If San Francisco Collapses
Join us for a reading of “If San Francisco Collapses,” a new documentary theatre play by Megan Robertson. As we live in an age defined by technological advancements, this play examines technology’s impact on the region which birthed it. San Francisco has historically been a mecca for revolutionaries, artists, and activists. How does this truth…
Tuesday, April 22nd – 7pm
Journalist/Ukraine war correspondent
Jen Stout and her book
Night Train to Odesa:
Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War
Night Train to Odesa just won a major award in the UK, and was abridged for BBC Radio 4. It sits between memoir, reportage, and literary journalism, and has been praised for its pacy narrative style – definitely not a dry tome on the war in Ukraine, but on-the-ground reportage, starting in Russia just before the invasion, moving…
None but defensive arms sales to Israel until Palestine secures a permanent peace
From the website of Senator Bernie Sanders: WASHINGTON, April 3 – After filing Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) to block the sale of two of the most egregious Trump Administration offensive arms sales to Israel, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today rose to bring the JRDs up for a vote by the full Senate. The sales…
Monday, April 21st – 7:30-9:30pm
Oakland School for the Arts
Alumni Quintet
home for a minute from China
and headed back to their post-OSA schools…
The Oakland School for the Arts Alumni Quintet brings together musicians whose roots trace back to the halls of OSA, where they studied under the mentorship of the legendary Dave Ellis—a guiding force who continues to shape their musical paths today. Though they’ve since scattered across the country, from San Francisco to Baltimore, Stockton to…
Monday April 21st to Sunday April 27th
Jazz musicians 18 to 80,
a war correspondent,
a playwright & her actors…
From Monday to Sunday, you can catch great jazz, hear from a Scottish war correspondent who left Moscow for Ukraine at the beginning of the war and is briefly on tour before returning there, attend the reading of a documentary theater piece in development… or just drop in during the day to buy a book……
Wednesday 4/16 through Sunday 4/20…
seven events
starting with jazz plays gospel & soul, and
capped Sunday by Gatsby revelations
and the Vince Lateano Trio
Seven Events in Five Days
From gospel to Brazilian choro, poetry to literary investigation and celebration, and all that jazz, Bird & Beckett offered you a lot this past week and capped it off with Bentley High scholars investigating F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Sunday at 3pm and the Vince Lateano Trio Sunday at 5pm Get your culture this…