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, February 8th – 4:30-6:30 pm
John-Carlos Perea Quintet
which way west? Sunday concert series John-Carlos Perea Quintet The music of John-Carlos Perea combines jazz and creative improvised music with American Indian powwow and cedar flute music. With John-Carlos Perea on bass, flute and voice, the quintet features Jimmy Biala (drums), Karl Evangelista (guitar), Lewis Jordan (saxes) and Masaru Koga (saxes nd flute). For…
Sunday, February 8th – Noon-1:30 pm!
Todd Novak & the Benny Hillbilleez
play Bird & Beckett’s Surf-a-billy Swing Time Dance Party!
Take singer-songwriter-guitarist Todd Novak from the Cowlicks, drummer Martyn Jones from the Mermen (who also drums for the Cowlicks) and Cowlicks bassist Johnnie Hamilton, add ScottTheakston (who’s played with George Clinton) playing some killer surf green guitar, then set them loose for 90 minutes with a rip roaring repertoire of surf n’ turf, ska, rockabilly and…
Wednesday, February 4th – 6:30 pm
Launch party for CCSF’s
“Forum” literary magazine
Forum is the student-run literary journal put out twice a year by students at City College of San Francisco. Â Join us for a party and reading to celebrate the launch of the spring 2015 issue, which features the work of dozens of fiction writers, essayists, poets and visual artists. Dedicated to providing a platform for…
Tuesday, February 3rd – 7-9pm
Robbie Sugg, Recent Imprints
Gallery Ex Libris Opening Party
Come out this first Tuesday, February 3rd 7–9pm for the grand opening of Gallery Ex Libris (tucked inside Bird & Beckett), exhibiting recent lithographic monoprints by local artist Robbie Sugg! galleryexlibris.com
Monday, February 2nd – 7 pm
Poets Gary Hicks and Sharon Doubiago
open mic follows
Gary Hicks, whose work bristles with an acute challenge to the regressive and repressive facts of our times, is joined by Sharon Doubiago, who for decades has written from a fused personal-political-social standpoint that has earned her untold respect as a poet, short story writer, memoirist and essayist. Jerry Ferraz, native son and peripatetic troubadour,…
Sunday, February 1st – 4:30-6:30 pm
Life’s Blood Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series: Saxophonist Rent Romus Life’s Blood Quartet Timothy Orr, drums with Adam Lowdermilk, Bill Noertker and special guest Amber McZeal. Take a wild ride with the quartet through music of Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Arthur Blythe, Chico Freeman, Roland Kirk, and jazz originals by Romus and Orr. Life’s Blood “damn well…
Saturday, February 7th – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Smith Dobson Ensemble
with Noel Jewkes
Smith Dobson, a wonderful young tenor sax player, welcomes Noel Jewkes, a legendary tenor sax man, to the Bird & Beckett stage to show just what the instrument and the music are all about–Â what they can be about in the hands of deeply skilled practitioners in collaboration. Their excursions will be augmented and taken further…
Sunday, February 1st – 2 pm
A reading by contributors to
Tule Review
Contributors to Tule Review, an annual literary journal published by the Sacramento Poetry Center Press, will read recent work and work from the new issue to celebrate its launch. Tule Review has been the literary journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center for twenty years. About five years ago, Tule became the flagship publication of Sacramento Poetry Center Press,…
jazz club… when lights are low
The Love Gangsters
Saturday, January 31st – 8-11 pm
Straight out of North Beach… The Love Gangsters! Are you ready, Glen Park? Hell yes, you are…
Friday, January 30th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop special!
Guitarist Howard Alden!
Howard Alden, passing through from his home in New York City, plays Bird & Beckett’s Friday evening jazz party in a trio format with local heroes and long-time associates Vince Lateano on drums and Peter Barshay on bass. Howard is one of the great jazz guitarists of our era.  In the late 1970s, at the tender…