Thursday, 8/11 – 7-9 pm: The Bird & Beckett Book Club discusses The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, by Laurie King. Come one, come all — call us at the shop to reserve a copy of the book. 10% off to book club participants. Oakland born Laurie King’s long-running series of mysteries centered on Sherlock Holmes associate Mary…

King of the San Francisco saloon and salon pianists, Eric Shifrin sings too and rolls with the In Crowd through material from Cole Porter to Hoagy Carmichael to Gene Autry.  He’s been charming the swells, swindlers and stand-up guys in bars and bistros from the Barbary Coast to Nob Hill for decades and shows no signs…

Poets read for the 3300! Thanks to the poets listed below, and the many folks who showed up to support the 3300, we raised $980 this afternoon! It’s not too late to channel more funds to the 3300 Club.  Drop off checks made out to the 3300 Club at the bookshop, and we’ll make sure…

Tonight at Bird & Beckett: Smith Dobson V, vibes; Jack Tone Riordan, guitar; Justin Carney, bass; Evan Hughes, drums. The burnished sound of Milt Jackson & the MJQ finds its echo on the stage at Bird & Beckett when Smith Dobson rolls in the vibraphone.  Smith is heir to several generations of jazz talent —…

Al Molina, trumpet Jerry Logas, sax and clarinet Don Prell, bass Vinnie Rodriguez, drums Jazz history right here! Bebop, lovely standards, fragments of old New Orleans… from “Ornithology” to “Doxy” — from “For All We Know” to “St. James Infirmary.” Bassist Don Prell just turned 87 on August 4th, and shows no sign of flagging….

  Howard Alden is considered among the very best jazz guitarists in the nation, for good reason. We’ve been fortunate to host Howard twice in the past, and welcome him again this August — first on Thursday, August 4th joined in a trio by bassist Peter Barshay and drummer Vince Lateano, and again near the end of…

Nancy Keane grew up in San Francisco in the 1940s and ’50s in a big family, and several of the girls developed into wonderful writers, notably including the poet Geri Digiorno up in Petaluma. For years, Nancy has run the 3300 Club, a neighborhood bar par excellence at 29th & Mission. Somewhere along line she…

Certified Country Music Star Misisipi Mike, singer/bassist Glen Earl Brown, Jr., slide guitarist Ian Taylor Sutton and drummer Kenny Owen deliver a truckload of classic country songs by Ray Price, Merle Haggard, Johnny Paycheck, Waylon Jennings and more.