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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
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phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
Sunday, February 15th – 5pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with guest Chris Aschman
on trumpet and steelpan
The Vince Lateano trio plays every third Sunday at Bird & Beckett. Make it a habit! BYOB and a twenty for the band! Chris Aschman, guest trumpeter and steelpan player.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day
with the Threetles!
Saturday, February 14th – 7:30pm
Sparky Grinstead’s tunes voiced by his loving bandmates Carole Zingeser & John Rafferty, with guitars, harmonica, melodica & percussive things put to great use! BYOB and a twenty for the trio. Droll lyrics, abundant charm and vast reservoirs of love on stage! Come with your love interest, or just to share the love– It’s what…
Friday, February 13th – 8:30pm
Kahil El’Zabar
& the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
on tour
Join us for the eighth almost-annual Black History Month tour stop at Bird & Beckett by the fantastic, joyous & profound Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, traveling out of Chicago & Detroit across the nation with forays into our neighboring sovereign nation to the north, Canada! O Canada, we could drink a case of you and still…
Friday, February 13th – 6pm
Eric & the In Crowd
Eric Shifrin, piano & vocals. Simon Planting, bass. Mark Lee, drums. $20 suggested donation; students $10; kids free. Reservations not required, but larger contingents are advised to call ahead! 415-586-3733. Eric has been working his way through the alphabet lately in his lonh-running 2nd Fridays monthly residency. He’s up to “D”! So expect a slew…
Thursday, February 12th – 7:30pm
Poets Julian Poirier & Tongo Eisen-Martin
launching Julian’s
Mansions My Mouth Made
Copies of Julien Poirier’s Mansions My Mouth Made (Bird & Beckett, 2025) can be had over the counter at the bookshop and via post through the online store of Impart Ink, where the thing was designed, printed, and assembled: 32 pages, hand-sewn in wrappers printed letterpress from Onyx type on Canson papers in a variety of hues. Yours…
February 12th thru 15th:
a poetry reading and four concerts
Poetry + Live Music! _____ Thursday, February 12, 7:30pm: Julien Poirier + Tongo Eisen-Martin [poets: book release] {free} _____ Friday, February 13, 6:00pm: Eric & the In Crowd [2nd Fridays residency] {$20 cash / byob; students $10; kids free} _____ Friday, February 13, 8:30pm: Kahil El’Zabar & the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble [On tour] {$35…
Six Events February 3rd thru 8th
Poetry, jazz and chamber music
Poetry twice! Jazz thrice! Chamber Music eince! _____ Tuesday, February 3, 7:00pm {free}: Kim Shuck & Friends [poetry] _____ Thursday, February 5, 7:00pm {free}: Tehmina Khan & Florencia Milito [poetry with open mic] _____ Friday, February 6, 6:00pm {$20}: Jimbo Trout & the Fishpeople [ec;ectic] _____ Friday, February 6, 8:30pm {$25}: Alon Nechushtan Quintet [jazz] _____…
Friday, February 6th – 8:30pm
Alon Nechustan Quintet
Matt Renzi, reeds Jesse Levit, saxophone & EWI Alon Nechustan, piano Sam Bevan, bass Isaac Schwartz, drums $25 cover charge; byob. Students, $10. For reservations, call 415-586-3733. Alon Nechushtan’s music has brought him to corners of the globe from the Yokohama ‘Rejoicing Sounds’ Festival in Japan with his contemporary orchestral compositions, to the Manila…
Friday, February 6th – 6pm
JimBo Trout and the Fishpeople
JimBo Trout, guitar and vocals Steve Neil, bass Ken Owen, drums $20 suggested cover; byob. Students $10; kids free. No reservations typically necessary, but feel free to call if you need more than a couple of seats – 415-586-3733, JimBo knows hundreds of tunes and his trio can handle whatever he pulls out of his…
Thursday, February 5th – 7pm
Poets Tehmina Khan & Florencia Melito
+ open mic
Bird & Beckett hosts an open mic for poets on the first Thursday of each month, with two featured poets leading off at 7pm followed by the open at 8pm. Bring three minutes worth of poetry to read, or just come to enjoy the work of the poets! BYOB. No reservations required. Michael Koch and…