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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]
Sunday, July 12th – 5pm-7pm
Two Happy Hours with Mitch & Joe!
Mitch Polzac & the Royal Deuces
with pedal steel maestro Joe Goldmark
Sundays at 5pm is our happy hour slot every week. Stay for a tune, stay for two sets. Come when you like and leave when you like, and pay what makes sense to you. Bring something to sip if you like — but we have Hetch Hetchy’s finest reservoir tapped, if it’s water you’re craving….
Saturday, July 11th – 7:30pm
Takezo Blues Band
Takezo Takeda, guitar and vocals. Chris Burns, piano. Karl Severeid, bass. Paul Revelli, drums. $20 cover charge / byob — cash at the door, please! Students $10. Reservations welcome. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. From Shinjuku to San Francisco, it’s an electric blues bonanza!
Friday, July 10th – 7:30pm
Eric & the In Crowd blow tropical!
Eric Shifrin, piano and vocals. Raul Ramirez, drumset & percussion. Heath Proskin, bass. $20 cover charge (cash at the doors, please). Students, $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Eric Shifrin has been wowing the swells and the swindlers in San Francisco for decades, from the commonest saloon to the…
Tuesday, July 7th – 7pm
Nancy Kurshan
Levitating the Pentagon
a book release reading
YIPPEE! I think I saw it move! Did you see it move!?!? Nancy Kurshan, a founding member of the Yippies and lifelong activist, is coming to Bird & Beckett with her new book. “EQUAL PARTS REVEALING MEMOIR, VALUABLE HISTORICAL DOCUMENT, AND GALVANIZING GUIDE TO FOLLOWING ONE’S BELIEFS.” – Publishers Weekly The Oakland author and lifelong…
Sunday, July 5th – 7:30pm
The After the End of the World Coretet
The After the End of the World Coretet formed in San Francisco in the summer of 1989. All four member of the group are composers, long-time practitioners, and devotees of music to the core. This iteration of the group is the same as on the recording called ’13’, and features Annelise Zamula on saxophones and…
Sunday, July 5th – 5pm
Student-centric jam session hosted by a
Community Music Center Jazz Combo
Come out for our monthly “student-centric” jazz jam session! If you’re game to play, bring your instrument(s) and be ready to call a tune. The session will start after a short jazz set by this month’s session hosts, an octet from San Francisco’s Community Music Center. Just want to come out and experience the fun?…
Saturday, July 4th – 7:30pm
Duncan James / Ned Boynton Quartet
Politics and class war aside, the culture wends its way forward! Spend the evening in our cozy bookshop and enjoy this dual guitar quartet in the spirit of a legendary musician, the master guitarist George Barnes. When Barnes moved out to the Bay Area in 1975, he hired 30-year old guitar hotshot Duncan James along…
Thursday, July 2nd – 7pm
POETS! Jessica Loos and Keith Felton read
followed by an open mic
Keith Felton and Jessica Loos read new and recent work as the featured poets in our first Thursday of the month poetry series, a Bird & Beckett tradition dating back a quarter century. The reading and the following open mic are hosted and moderated by Jerry Ferraz and Michael Koch. Jessica, who cut her…
Wednesday to Sunday, June 24th to 28th
six events in five days at Bird & Beckett
poets, tango, jazzreggae, b3jazz,
jam session, and…
Scotty ‘n Kasey’s new thing
says “ciao for now” to Mat
Wednesday, June 24th — 7pm. no charge. buy a book! San Francisco Poets Ava Koohbor, Of Flesh and Frequency: A Poetics of Sound Making. Jessica Loos, Tambourine. Marina Lazzara, The House Begins an Alphabet. Music by Blind Van de Monk. _____ Thursday, June 25th – 7:30pm $20/byob Students $10. Tango…
Saturday, June 27th – 7:30pm
B3B4 plays funky soulful jazz
Tom Griesser, saxophone. Kevin Gersevitz, organ. Scott Foster, guitar. Dan Foltz, drums. $20 cover charge at the door. Cash, please! BYOB. Students $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Reservations honored until show time. Doors open at 7:15pm. “For the sound of today’s organ combo, look no further than B3B4.” -Pete…