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!

Sunday, September 25th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Soul Explosion!
Derek Evans & Friends

Mississippi born, San Francisco soul! Vocalist Derek Evans with his band featuring Joe Lococo, guitar; Willie Riser, bass; Elvis Johnson, drums Derek Evans’ love of music dates back to his early childhood in Hickory, Mississippi. He remembers sitting beside his grandmother as she sang and played the piano, leading the inspirational choir in the soul-stirring…

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Saturday, September 24th – 7:30-10 pm
John Calloway Jazz Quartet
celebrates John’s new cd, Asere Ko
jazz club! at Bird & Beckett – when lights are low…

Bird & Beckett presents The John Calloway Jazz Quartet John Calloway, flute Murray Low, piano David Flores, drums Alex Farrell, bass The quartet, led by JC, the Jazz Commissioner himself, will play latin & straight ahead tunes, jazz standards and originals, celebrating the release of John’s astonishingly powerful new cd, Asere Ko, recorded in Havana…

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Friday, September 23rd – 5:30-8 pm
jazz in the bookshop SF’s longest running neighborhood jazz party
Dorothy Lefkovits with the Chuck Peterson Quintet

The very heart of Bird & Beckett’s music programming is this seasoned group of jazz professionals including the wonderful, gracious and charming vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits. We opened the store in 1999, hosted the occasional jazz concert on weekend afternoons, and then in October 2002 began to present jazz every single Friday evening, with saxophonist Chuck Peterson…

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Rockabilly Explosion Tonight!
Jinx Jones & the King Tones
after hours at Bird & Beckett

8 to 10 pm. No cover. Thursday, September 29. Every Thursday night, it’s time for B&B’s canyon moonlight series… Amerarcana from soul to surf, rock to rockabilly, country to crooning, cast iron or otherwise… no one does it better than your own local musicians, and nowhere do they do it better than they do it…

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Gallery Ex Libris
Ava Koohbor: Chromatic Sediments
show closed

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Thursday, September 22nd – 8-10 pm
Moonshine Maybelline
glamorous honky tonk in the canyon moonlight…

Moonshine Maybelline makes its debut Bird & Beckett appearance Thursday, September 22nd, playing their own gorgeous brand of glamorous honky tonk. Like a siren from the shore, this band will lure you in with spellbinding ballads, mesmerize you with moody soundscapes, and crash your broken heart into their country-rock. Sparks flew and Moonshine Maybelline was…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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