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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Sunday, July 24th – 2 pm
Christopher Bernard presents his latest novel, and
poet Clara Hsu reads Chinese poetry in translation
with accompaniment on guqin
Christopher Bernard will read from his new novel, Voyage to a Phantom City, described as a spine-tingling adventure across the Sahara and a heart-breaking romance, provoking haunting memories of war and a long-lost America after the tragedy of September 11th. The novel is a spiritual quest into the heart of darkness that discovers the supremely…
jazz club! when lights are low…
Saturday, July 23rd – 7:30-10 pm
Vocalist Lori Carsillo with the Jeffrey Burr Trio
“Lori Carsillo is a vocal musician of relaxed, cool self-assurance and her voice is special for its unfiltered feelings and melodic warmth.†– Herb Wong, jazz historian, producer, Black Hawk Records & Palo Alto Records founder A noted presence on the Bay Area jazz scene, Lori Carsillo (an Italian name, pronounced: “car-SILL-ohâ€), is a vocalist…
Saturday, July 23rd – 4-6 pm
Grant Levin/Chris Amberger Duo
Pianist Grant Levin and his long-time jazz collaborator, bassist Chris Amberger converse in jazz over two generous sets of music. Arriving in Oakland in his early teens, in the early 1960s, Chris Amberger was schooled in music by some of the great jazz and blues figures of the era, including pianist George Duke, drummer Smiley…
Friday, July 22nd – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Chuck Peterson Quintet with vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits
Live jazz every Friday night at Bird & Beckett, from 5:30 to 8:00 pm This week: Â Chuck Peterson leads his quintet through two sets of standards and bebop, with singer Dorothy Lefkovits lending her characteristic charm and grace to the occasion. Chuck Peterson & Howie Dudune, reeds Glen Deardorff, guitar Dean Reilly, bass Tony Johnson,…
Monday, July 18th – 7-9 pm
poets Richard Voorhees & Mark Cormier
Nothing really is known to us of these poets, not having inquired into the wily machinations of m.c. Jerry Ferraz, whom we trust implicitly. Yet we remain sanguine that all will be well and, well, delightful. Or better. Do come. An open mic follows! Post event note: Jerry didn’t fail us. Two excellent poets indeed!
Memorial Gatherings for Lurilla Harris Tuesday, July 19th, Noon
at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, Franklin at Geary
and Wednesday, July 20, 2:30 pm at the St. Francis Lutheran Church, 152 Church St. near Market St.
Celebrate the life of Lurilla Harris! Lurilla was a marvel of a woman, a tenacious survivor despite a stroke some years ago, who made the rounds constantly, forging ahead with her walker, transported hither and yon constantly by the city’s service buses for the disabled to get to concerts, films, community meetings, political hearings, you…
Sunday, July 17th – 2 pm
Dual Author Event
Laurie Taylor & Richard Michael Levine
Two fiction writers, Laurie Taylor and Richard Michael Levine, share the stage at Bird & Beckett this Sunday afternoon. On remote Spanish island near the African coast, a Mexican American entomologist, Epiphany Jerome, is looking for a rare beetle. Instead she finds a body on an empty beach with a knife sticking out from its back.  Laurie…
jazz club! when lights are low…
Saturday, July 16th – 7:30-10 pm
The Tim Lin Quartet
Tim Lin, saxophone; Seiji Yamashita, piano; Trevor Murphy, bass; Lewis Sweatt, drums. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Tim Lin is a rising jazz star whose progressive sound draws from his synthesis of the jazz tradition. Upon his discovery of John Coltrane’s masterpiece “A Love Supreme”, Tim was drawn into the wonders…
Friday, July 15th – 5:30-8 pm
Guitarist Scott Foster, Bassist Dan Seamans, Clarinetist Cory Wright
Guitarist Scott Foster brings in a group on the 3rd Friday of each month. He first started playing Bird & Beckett in the fall of 2002. Ever since, it’s been all good. He’s sure seems to be our favorite musician, our favorite jazz musician, our favorite jazz guitarist, our favorite band leader. Come hear what…