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, November 3rd — 2 pm
Poets Caroline Goodwin and Laura Walker
Caroline Goodwin — newly announced poet laureate of San Mateo County! — moved to the Bay Area from Sitka, Alaska in 1999 to attend Stanford’s Creative Writing Program as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her work has been widely published in literary journals in the US and Canada; a short collection entitled Text Me, Ishmael was published in…
Sunday, November 3rd, 4:30 to 6:30 pm
CD release party!
The George Cotsirilos Trio
Guitarist George Cotsirilos, bassist Robb Fisher and drummer Ron Marabuto have been making astonishingly lovely music together for several years, and this date marks the release of their third CD as a unit. Join us for a beautiful and intense afternoon of music. GEORGE COTSIRILOS: GUITAR.  George has been a member of the San Francisco Bay Area…
Rent Party! Bop for the Bookshop!
Saturday, October 26th
Open to Close, 11am to 9pm
Ok! Push comes to shove… we gotta raise the rent! Fortunately we know legions of tremendous jazz musicians & they’re not hesitant to lend a hand… From the time the doors open at 11 a.m. ’til we push ’em shut at 9 p.m., the bop will not stop. That’s not just a rhyme scheme, friends,…
Thursday, October 24th at 7 pm
Book Release!
Poet John Brandi reads from
The World, the World
joined by Joseph Stroud
John Brandi grew up in California where he avidly hiked the Sierra Nevada and explored the Big Sur coast. He graduated from Cal State Northridge with a BA in art and anthropology, worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer with Quechua farmers in the Andes, held odd jobs in Mexico, drove a truck in Alaska, pruned vineyards north of…
Sunday, October 27th, 2:30 p.m.
Walker Talks!
on the derangement of the senses
Each month, on the last Sunday of the month, Walker Brents III discusses a topic the springs from his own imagination and curiosity… this month, his musings will revolve around “the derangement of the senses”… that inner state made naked to the outer world through abandonment of all rational caution and self-control, whether deliberately attained…
Sunday, October 27th, 4:30 to 6:30 pm
which way west?
The Pasha Band
The Pasha Band is made up of some of the finest middle eastern musicians to be found in the San Francisco Bay Area. Husain Resan, oud, violin and vocals; Younes Al-Maqboul, violin; and Amina Goodyear, percussion, make up the core of this group, with an additional one to two musicians to be added as the…
Sunday, October 20th, 2 p.m.
Here Tomorrow Book Release
with author J. K. Dineen
Here Tomorrow: Preserving Architecture, Culture, and California’s Golden Dream book release reading and celebration with writer J. K. Dineen. J. K. Dineen writes about urban planning, architecture, and real estate for the San Francisco Business Times. His book is fresh out from Heyday Press. Old buildings in our midst call to the imagination, evoking a…
Sunday, October 20th — 4:30-6:30 pm
The Harvey Robb Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, October 20th – 4:30-6:30 pm: Harvey Robb, sax; David Udolf, piano; Ron Belcher, bass; Danny Spencer, drums. Harvey Robb, tenor sax, has deep Detroit roots — where he grew up in the late…
Friday, October 18th, 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop
The Scott Foster Ensemble
Jazz in the bookshop… every Friday without fail. San Francisco’s longest running neighborhood jazz party! Every third Friday, guitarist Scott Foster brings in a newly constituted ensemble for the occasion. Joining guitarist Scott Foster at Bird & Beckett this Friday, October 18th, are trumpet player Dave Scott, bassist Aaron Germain and drummer Surya Prashanka. This quartet has several…
Thursday, October 17th, 7 p.m.
Bird & Beckett Litquake Event
at the bookshop
Cherokee Voices: Poets Kim Shuck
& Indira Allegra and Folksinger Ed Dang
Thursday, October 17th at the bookshop on Chenery Street in Glen Park, 7 pm: Bird & Beckett in association with Litquake presents “Cherokee Voices” – Poets Kim Shuck and Indira Allegra joined by folksinger Ed Dang for a program of poetry and music, followed by an open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz. Kim Shuck is a…