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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September 8th to 19th – 15 events in 12 days
Treasures Untold!
Our current run started Thursday, the 8th, with HowellDevine. the fabulous delta blues trio, in our weekly canyon moonlight Americana series (blues, soul, country, rockabilly) series and continued Friday, the 9th with our weekly jazz in the bookshop party featuring Voz do Brasil, the fabulous Club Deluxe Sunday night house band that showcases vocalist Liza…
Saturday, September 17 – 7:30-10 pm
Michael Parsons Quartet
jazz club! when lights are low…
Michael Parsons is back! For a minute at least. And Bird & Beckett’s got him! Pianist Michael Parsons got our “jazz club” series rolling back in July 2014, then went and fell in love, moved to Paris, and married the lovely Siham! A French work visa followed, and time rolls on as Michael makes the…
Monday, September 5th – 7-9 pm
A Labor Day poetry reading
Featured poets Alice Rogoff and Phyllis Holiday
an open mic follows
Alice Rogoff is from New Rochelle, New York and went to a large diverse high school, then a small college with lots of political activism in the 1960s, arrived in San Francisco in North Beach, was published in Amphora, Gypsy Table and the San Francisco Bark (an anthology) , then moved to the Castro, Noe…
Sunday, September 4th – 4:30-6:30 pm
This Side Up
Soul September! Vocalist Derek Evans is featured with Todd Swenson’s “This Side Up.” Willie Riser, bass; Larry Vann, drums.
Sunday, September 4th – 8:00-10 pm
Grant Levin Trio
The art of the trio… Grant Levin, piano Joe McKinley, bass Rick Rivera, drums
Saturday, September 3rd – 7:30-10 pm
The Al Molina Sextet
jazz club! when lights are low…
Al Molina, trumpet and flugelhorn; Al Bent, trombone; Tod Dickow, sax; Larry Chinn, piano; Fred Randolph, bass; Vince Lateano, drums. Al Molina is a San Francisco native, born in 1935 to a musical family, who first made his mark on the local jazz scene in the early 1960s. His first appearance on record was in…
Friday, September 2nd – 5:30-8:00 pm
West Coast Cool & Bebop!
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble
featuring trumpeter Al Molina
In the early 1950s, Don Prell was deep in the scene where a whole school & industry of “west coast jazz” was being created. He spent copious amounts of time playing and hanging at venues like Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach and the Haig in downtown L.A., just two of many clubs where the…
TONIGHT! The Big Show!!
One slip makes you a mother…
The Bad Mommies: Live!!!
…and so much larger than life!
Tuesday, August 30th – 7:30-10 pm
Put the kids to bed and c’mon out!
Please don’t bring ’em– they’d be scarred for life!
Desperate and dazed by the agony of sleepless nights and endless days of ill-conceived parenthood,      caught in a trap, I can’t walk out, because I’ve got two children, baby… three gorgeous women with sparkling shades hiding tired eyes      too tired for my life, I’m too…
Sunday, August 28th – 7:30-10 pm
Howard Alden / Duncan James Duo
Two guitarists with a common history, ample musical respect and affection take a turn together on the Bird & Beckett stage.