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!
Refresh your browser to catch a show in progress!
Visit our Facebook page or YouTube channel!
But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
coming up in August…
August dates will include the Dred Scott Trio…the Ron Vincent Trio…Maurice Tani with American bassist Mike Anderson…The Elé Salif Howell Quartet…Eytan & Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman…Brian Melvin…a Two Way Mirror reading …Rojai in the Pocket…Duncan James’ George Barnes Experience…Hafez Modirzadeh…Sharman Duran’s Alternate Realities…and more!
25th Anniversary Fundraising Push!
We have so many plans, so many commitments and so little to rely on save hard work, luck and fate! Make your mark on the culture by staking us to our plans, schemes, habits and dreams! Jazz and poetry don’t pay well in this alternative reality we call capitalism! It’s the hardscrabble commitment of the…
O Pioneers of the Cosmostream! We’ve been vaccinating you against the plague of boredom and the scourge of demagoguery with live streamed events twice a week and more since March 2020, when it all came down!
Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? On the home page you can scroll down to read the individual posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past several months, a hint of what’s gone down since the pandemic lock-down began. In more amazing times, it would take you right back…
Yes! Believe your five senses–
shows for in-store audiences
resumed in mid-June 2021,
and continue apace
Bird & Beckett’s events open to the public have been back since mid-June 2021. Mask up if you’re inclined, and do come in! (Not vaxxed? Please get vaxxed and be safer!) Jazz, poetry & more live in the shop and live streamed Come to 653 Chenery if you’re in town! Doors open at 7:20 for…
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…
Thursday, July 25th – 7pm
Author Nina Schuyler presents
In This Ravishing World
a short story collection
In This Ravishing World (Regal House Publishing, 2024) Winner of the W.S. Porter Prize and Winner of The Prism Prize for Climate Literature, Bay Area novelist Nina Schuyler’s latest book, her fourth, takes her writing to a new level of engagement and artistry. “In this ravishing book, you will find stories that lift your heart…
Wednesday, July 24th – 7:30pm
Brazilian vocalist Fabiana Cozza
with the Annette A. Aguilar Trio
Fabiana Cozza, vocals. Annette A. Aguilar, drums. Ricardo Peixoto, guitar. Brian Moran, cavaco, bass & guitar. Ricky Aguilar, percussion. $25 cover charge. Cash or Venmo at the door, please. We’re flexible on the cover charge, but please do consider that with the addition of percussionist Ricky Aguilar we have five mouths to feed tonight! For…
Sunday, July 21st – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio, with Brad Buethe, guitar
Ben Stolorow, piano Peter Barshay, bass Vince Lateano, drums Special guest, guitarist Brad Buethe $20 suggested donation Teens, music students – $5-10 sliding scale Kids free One of the great pleasures in jazz is the piano trio. Vince, Peter and Ben — three talented veterans spanning three generations — have been working together in a…
Sunday, July 21 – 3pm
Poets Kevin Opstedal and Micah Ballard
Come celebrate the release of Dharma Pharmacy & Surf Shop, by Kevin Opstedal, the latest publication from Bird & Beckett, a knock-out pamphlet by the Venice-born and -raised, and long-time Santa Cruz-based poet, publisher, and documenter of the dream. Opstedal’s history of Poetry, Poets and Community in Bolinas, from 1967 to ’80, Dreaming as One, is essential reading, as are the many magazines…
Saturday, July 20th – 7:30-9:30pm
George Cotsirilos / Robb Fisher Duo
George Cotsriilos, guitar Robb Fisher, bass $20 cover charge (cash or venmo at the door). byob Reservations, call 415-586-3733. George Cotsirilos is a uniquely talented jazz guitarist, composer and bandleader, with countless club and concert performances to his credit as well as seven cds (eight, if you count the Nighthawks quintet date from 1995 that…