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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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
Sunday, October 26th – 2:30 pm
Walker Brents III on Rumi
Walker Brents III gives monthly talks at Bird & Beckett on the last Sunday of each month. Oct. 26th at 2:30 pm, he’ll address the vastness of Rumi’s contribution to human insight, beyond the poetry that has become so familiar. Walker has been delivering talks on bits of mythology, various poets and philosophers, and more for many…
Saturday, October 25th – 8-11 pm
The Terrance Tony Quartet
Saturday night, you’ll want to unwind from Giants mania with the Terrance Tony Quartet – Eugene Pliner, piano; Aaron Cohn, bass and Vinnie Rodriguez, drums. Alto player Tony was Houston based until just a couple of years ago.  He was influenced by–and played alongside–legendary Houston tenor players Illinois Jacquet, Arnett Cobb, Don Wilkerson and Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson and Dallas titans James…
Sunday, November 2nd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Sorry! Pugsley Buzzard will have to return later!
Right now, Randy Craig will rise to the occasion with a quartet!
Sure, Pugsley Buzzard has flat out delighted Bird & Beckett audiences several  years running, as he’s made the store’s stage a regular stop on his mostly annual U.S. tours since 2011.  As we noted then, “he boasts an unlikely name and a voice like gravel on a treacherous road…and he plays a mean piano!” But…
Sunday, Oct. 19 – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Hamir Atwal Quartet
Ben Goldberg, clarinet. Michael Coleman, piano. Rob Adkins, bass. Hamir Atwal, drums. These musicians have been playing together for years in a bunch of incredible groups. As a quartet they are in strict pursuit of beautiful melody. Hamir Atwal says: “I think for each of us, melody comes first. Then there is the importance of…
Sunday, October 19th — 2 pm
The Poetry Deal: Diane di Prima
with poet QR Hand
and pianist Walter Earl
Diane di Prima, San Francisco Poet Laureate Emeritus, launches her new collection The Poetry Deal (San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 5, City Lights Publishers, 2014) in the company of the legendary QR Hand. Both are treasured, original voices with decades of influential work to their credit including four or five decades here in the Bay Area. Joining Diane…
Wednesday, October 22nd – 7 pm
Consider the Ballot!:
Supervisor David Campos with representatives of both sides of Propositions G (real estate speculation tax) and E (soda tax)
Join us for a community forum on two controversial propositions on the November ballot with State Assembly Candidate and SF Supervisor David Campos and experts from both sides of the Prop G (real estate speculation tax) and Prop E (soda tax) issues.
Saturday, October 18th – 8-11 pm:
jazz club! The Jay Sanders Quartet
Jay Sanders is a fiery and lyrical trumpet player who will play any tune, any time, any tempo, any key…. that’s why they call him Jay Standards! Â Get down to Bird & Beckett this Saturday night to hear Jay’s quartet at our cozy little weekly 8-11 pm “jazz club”. Â Members get in for $7, everybody…
Friday, October 17 – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
Guitarist Scott Foster
quartet with Henry Hung, Mike Bordelon and Surya Prakasha
San Francisco’s longest running neighborhood jazz party continues to pack the place, and every third Friday our favorite guitarist takes the helm. No cover charge, but your kind donations at the shows help us pay the musicians! Â And your annual tax-deductible contributions to the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project 501(c)3 nonprofit organization make it…
Thursday, October 16 – 7:30 pm
Litquake at Bird & Beckett!
Poets Amos, Cherkovski,
Dunagan, Lazzara, Loos
“Generations” – a Bird & Beckett Litquake reading!    Five San Francisco Poets, 27 to 69:                       A gathering of decades, born on the fog banks over Twin Peaks. Seth Amos, Neeli Cherkovski, Patrick James Dunagan,…
Sunday, October 12th — 4:30-6:30 pm
sitar and tabla duo play
classical music of North India
a concert of Hindustani (North Indian) Classical Music. Joanna Mack, sitar. Ferhan Qureshi, tabla. Joanna Mack began her study of Indian Classical sitar in 1997. She spent eight years in Kolkata studying under Pandit Deepak Choudhury, and returned to the U.S. where she has had the honor to study under Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Sarodia Bruce Hamm and…