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Walker Brents: Flintlock
Sunday, August 28th, 2:30 pm Walker Brents III’s Flintlock Tales Walker talks! quite a lot! and most interestingly on the last Sunday of each month at Bird & Beckett, barring the summer months– when he rambles the west to make sure the roads still lead on… and, thus far, they have. For many many years…
JAZZ: There’s no stopping now
Jazz: there’s no stopping now! San Francisco holds its own as one of the key hubs of jazz in America, and we’re crazy for it in all its permutations Friday, August 26th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band With vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits adding her own sweet sound, this…
Poets Berkson/McNaughton-Moe-Rice/Sigafoos
POETS! Three Readings of Note Bird & Beckett continues to offer one of the liveliest poetry scenes of any bookshop in town– in this City of Poets! Monday, August 29th, 7:00 pm Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton Bill and Duncan are contemporaries, friends and widely respected literary figures. In addition to their writings (more than…
Time is Now, Not Money w/ Kasey Knudsen
Outfest! Jazz on the Avant Side Every Sunday in August Sunday, August 21st, 4:30 & 5:30 (two sets) Time is Now, Not Money featuring Kasey Knudsen, sax Kasey Knudsen has been taking the avant garde jazz scene by storm since her graduation from Berklee School of Music ten years ago. Today, she’s featured on sax…
Megan Harlan
Sunday afternoon Poet’s salon Sunday, August 21st, 2:30 pm Megan Harlan Megan’s recent collection of poems, Mapmaking, won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, and her poems have been heard on the PBS News Hour’s Poetry Series and published in numerous journals. She has also had short stories, travel features and book reviews widely published…
Foster/Prell/Marabuto
jazz in the bookshop every friday, 5:30 to 8:00! Friday, August 19 Don Prell / Scott Foster Duo Guitarist Scott Foster and bassist Don Prell have been mainstays of the Friday evening jazz scene at Bird & Beckett since its start in October of 2002 — nine short years ago! 450+ consecutive Fridays of live…
Paris Portraits + Manning/Pilorz Outfit
Paris & Points Further Out! Sunday, August 14: Paris Portraits at 2:30 / Outfest! at 4:30 Gertrude Stein’s Circle evoked in a monologue based on Harriet Lane Levy’s Paris Portraits Manning / Pilorz combo featured in our Outfest! sequence of “free jazz” concerts Get your hiking on Mt. Tam done early, and let Stern Grove…
Paula Hackett & Connie Crothers
Poet Paula Hackett with pianist Connie Crothers Monday, August 15th – 7:00 pm POETS! 1st & 3rd Monday of each month Featured readers followed by an open mic Jerry Ferraz hosts Paula Hackett writes from a long, ongoing love affair with literature and jazz both. Her father was a noted novelist, and at a young…
Jimmy Ryan Quintet
Friday, August 12th, 5:30-8:00 pm The Jimmy Ryan Quintet jazz in the bookshop every Friday! If it’s the second Friday of the month, it’s time for the Jimmy Ryan Quintet, with Scott Foster on guitar– joined this week by subs Danny Brown on sax, Jay Sanders on trumpet and Charles Thomas on bass. Regular quintet…
Outfest – Jim Ryan
Today! OutFest Jazz + 2 Poetry Readings Sunday, August 7th, 4:30 & 5:30 pm (two sets) OUTFEST! The second in our five-Sunday sequence of concerts presenting freely improvised “jazz on the avant side” Jim Ryan’s Forward Energy plays two sets of intensely improvised music as part of our five-Sunday run of “free jazz” performances, organized…