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, October 8th – 2pm
Jorge Argueta’s Caravan to the North
an author event with music by
Jose Cuellar and Francisco Herrera
Jorge Argueta’s Caravan to the North: Misael’s Long Walk (Groundwood Books, 2024) is a novel in verse told through the eyes and heart of Misael Martínez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States. We learn all the different reasons why people feel the need to leave — the…
Saturday, October 7th – 7:30-9:30pm
The Akira Tana Quartet
featuring tenor saxophonist James Mahone
James Mahone, saxophone David Udolf, piano Curtis Aikens, bass Akira Tana, drums $20 cover charge (cash, please), byob. To reserve a seat, call 415-586-3733 Charlie McCarthy had to bow out of tonight’s show, but his superb rhythm section has all the star power needed to carry the torch, especially with James Mahone and his tenor…
Saturday noon to five: The Glen Park Art Walk!
Hop transit to Glen Park Saturday at noon and enjoy five hours of art and music up and down Diamond and Chenery Streets! We’ll display the art of three friends of the establishment, the troubadour poet Jerry Ferraz, surreal Michael Koch (found 3-6 Tuesday to Sunday pricing used books and ringing up sales at the…
Friday, October 6th – 5:30-8:00pm
Erik Jekabson Quartet
Erik Jekabson – trumpet, flugelhorn, compositions. Matt Clark – piano. Dan Feiszli – bass. Brian Fishler – drums. A program of originals by one of the great talents of Bay Area jazz, played by a top-flight quartet.
Thursday, October 5th – 7pm
Poets Gail Mitchell and Bill Vartnaw
with an open mic to follow
Gail Mitchell is a poet living in San Francisco. Bill Vartnaw is a poet living in Petaluma. Both are long-experienced and long associated coming out of the 1970s poetic ferment that yielded a path for voices of diverse American cultures, much of it captured in print by Bill’s Taurean Horn Press — including Gail’s title,…
Thursday to Sunday, October 5-8
6 shows!
plus the Glen Park Art Walk on Saturday
What a weekend! Thursday at 7pm – Poets Gail Mitchell and Bill Vartnaw, with an open mic to follow. Friday at 5:30pm – The Erik Jekabson Quartet. Trumpet & flugelhorn player / composer Jekabson provides originals for a crack combo, with Matt Clark, piano; Dan Feiszli, bass and Brian Fischler, drums. Friday at 8:30pm (not…
Sunday, October 1st – 5-7pm
Lick-Wilmerding HS Advanced Jazz Combo
followed by a student jam session
hosted by the Akira Tana Trio
Seven spirited and talented student jazz musicians from Lick-Wilmerding High School, put the music through its paces for a 45-minute set beginning at 5pm. After a short break, a jam session follows, expressly offered to student musicians from all directions, hosted by the Akira Tana Trio, with Keith Saunders on piano and Eric Markowitz on…
Sunday, October 1st – 3-4pm
Gary Gach book event: Hafiz’s Little Book of Life
with drummer Kjell Nordeson
Philosopher, theologian and Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University, writes that Hafiz, “(t)his supreme poet, who is called ‘Tongue of the Invisible’ (Lisan al-ghayb), produced poems of magic beauty, poems whose imagery and music transmute the lead of the forgetful soul to the gold of the soul which…
Friday, October 6th – 8:30pm
Free Press Music – EP Release Concert
Hurry down for an 8:30 start for the late show this Friday, as singer Christie Aida leads Free Press Music in a concert celebrating the band’s new recording, “House of Welcome, Vol.1.” Check it out here. ——————————————————————– House of Welcome opened as a luxury hotel after the 1906 earthquake and lives on now as the…
Sunday, October 8th – 5pm
The Loralee Christensen Combo
A whole lot of soul!
Loralee Christensen, vocals Ricc Sandoval, guitar Henry Salvia, piano Paul Olguin, bass John Hanes, drums Byob and a twenty for the band. All ages welcome! Loralee is a soul singer well known and loved on the North Bay music scene for three decades or more. She’s performed with soul legend Bettye Lavette, Clarence Clemons (The…