A mainstay of the San Francisco jazz scene for years, bassist Adam Gay decamped for Brooklyn several years ago, where he’s been brewing beer and playing jazz, much to Brooklyn’s benefit and San Francisco’s loss! But he’s coming back to town for some good gigs, and one of them is at Bird & Beckett in…

Way out west… The Seducers — America’s favorite Honky Tonk band! Joe Goldmark, pedal steel       Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals Tim Wagar, bass guitar       Paul Revelli, drums The Seducers play Bird & Beckett every other month – January, March, May, July, September, November – on the second Sunday of the month at 5pm. Alternating…

The short stories gathered in Angelo Presicci’s book, Fighting the Bad War present a vivid, first person account of realities that faced American soldiers in our war on North Vietnam and upon their return home. Published by Robert Anbien’s Night Horn Books in early 2022, Fighting the Bad War  has been republished and relaunched by…

San Francisco journalist Denise Sullivan conducts a monthly series of conversations (the second Sunday of each month from 10-11 a.m.) with The City’s activists, educators, arts and cultural leaders and lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books Today’s guest is Malia Spanyol,…

Matt Renzi runs bands in San Francisco, New York and Rome. The son of a celebrated musician who was the long-time principal flutist for the San Francisco Symphony (60 years, beginning in 1944), whose own father played oboe for Arturo Toscanini and whose grandfather was an organist at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome who knew…

Kim Shuck, San Francisco’s 7th poet laureate, now emerita, and more vital than ever, has been hosting a zoomed poetry reading for Bird & Beckett since way back, early pandemic… it continues. We’re grateful for the fabulous ways in which she extends the bookshop’s boundaries. Tonight, she’s invited Norma Smith and Gail Mitchell to read,…

Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Smith Dobson V, drums Remembering the Deluxe…

Oakland’s Bishop O’Dowd High School Jazz Ensemble, directed by bassist Fred Randolph.

Cecilia Perez Urias – jarana, vocals, zapateado Diego Perez – bass guitar Dan Neville – vibes, marimba Andres Reyes – tambór and cununo $20 cover charge (cash please). No one turned away for lack of funds. Admission in the last half hour is $5 upon request. BYOB. Created in Mexico City by Cecilia Perez Urias…

This is where it all begins! Where the future comes into view afresh with every sunrise! Sunnyside Elementary School’s brilliant young students produce “The Ray” once a year — their own literary journal! They’re coming to Bird & Beckett this Sunday, from 2-3pm, to deliver the word! Turn out to hear them and to let…