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!

Saturday, February 25th – 4-6 pm
Grant Levin Duo
with Ricardo Diaz on bass

Grant Levin Duo, with Ricardo Diaz on bass.

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Thursday, February 23rd – 8-10 pm
Eric Shifrin & Raul Ramirez

Echoes of Berkeley’s ultra classy Claremont Hotel in the early 1990s, when Eric & Raul held down a long-running duo booking ‘twixt the potted palms and tennis handsomes. Imagine emerging from your spa treatment to Raul’s rhythm beautifully integrating with the pianistic stylings of Eric. Nothing could be sweeter! Eric Shifrin brings in a group on…

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Tuesday, February 21st – 7:30 pm
Professor William Moerner
An American Chemical Society Talk

Bird & Beckett is honored to host a talk by Nobel laureate W. E. Moerner, and hope he’ll feel among family here.  All invited.  $4-10 sliding scale donation requested. An American Chemical Society talk. Click here to reserve a seat. Stanford Professor William E. Moerner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 for…

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Monday, February 20th – 7-9 pm
Jerry Ferraz hosts POETS!
Featured readers Steve Carolan and Buford Bunton, plus open mic
every 1st & 3rd Monday

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Sunday, February 19th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west?
Natalie Cressman/Mike Bono Duo

 Natalie Cressman, a San Francisco native raised in a most eclectic musical household, has diversified and expanded her musical universe constantly throughout her young career, and early on found a strikingly original and mature voice, whether on trombone or in her singing and songwriting. She has spent much of the last six years touring the…

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Sunnylyn & Patrick Dunagan

Sunday, February 19th – 2-4 pm
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux — “What’s Going On” release party
joined by poet Lauren Levin – The Braid

Sunday, 2/19, at 2 pm — a reading by poets Sunnylyn Thibodeaux and Lauren Levin. Sunnylyn will read from her new chapbook, “What’s Going On.” She is described as a “New Orleans poet stranded in San Francisco.” She received her MA from New College of California in 2001 and is the author of AS WATER SOUNDS…

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Saturday, February 18th – 7:30-10 pm
Oluyemi Thomas: Positive Knowledge (Composition/Intuition)
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night

Oluyemi Thomas – Bass Clarinet, Saxophone, Percussion Ijeoma Thomas – Voice/Poet, Percussion Donald Robinson – Drums  Oluyemi Thomas was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at Washtenaw College in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he received an Associate of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. While attending Washtenaw College, he also studied music and the spiritual and…

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Friday, February 17th – 5:30-8 pm
Scott Foster Quartet
jazz and bebop in the bookshop every Friday since 2002

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Thursday, February 16th – 8-10 pm
Larry Vann Trio
with Michael Warren on bass and Tim Landis on guitar

Catch Groove Merchant Larry Vann as he whips up his special combination of jazz, blues, soul and funk Thursday from 8 to 10 p.m. Yes, he’s performed with Elvis Bishop, Curtis Mayfield and Charlie Musselwhite, but Thursday he’ll be joined by the incomparable Michael Warren on bass and tuneful Tim Landis on guitar.

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Sunday, February 12th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Michael Wilcox/Sheldon Brown/Alan Hall Trio
which way west Sunday concert series

  Three musicians exploring the subtleties that make jazz a music of the now and the future. Saxophonist Sheldon Brown has had an outsized influence on vast expanses of jazz.   With six-string bassist Michael Wilcox and drummer Alan Hall, this trio has been active for more than two decades. The trio continues in the…

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