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!
Tuesday, November 19th – 7-9pm
The Journal of the Plague Years
The Journal of the Plague Years: A Reading Maxine Chernoff –poet, novelist, UCSF creative writing chair Christine Kiessling –art historian Mike Medberry –essayist, solar installer, environmentalist Hailey Nicole Warner –frontline worker Susan Zakin –journalist, author, magazine founder The Journal: A few days after the Covid-19 pandemic sent us into lockdown, journalist and author Susan Zakin…
Sunday, November 17th – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with guest vocalist Ernest East
Ben Stolorow, piano. Peter Barshay, bass. Vince Lateano, drums. featuring Earnest East, vocals. $20 suggested cover charge; byob. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. The Vince Lateano Trio plays on the third Sunday of each month at Bird & Beckett, putting a fresh twist on jazz standards drawn from a deep well…
Saturday, November 16th – 7:30-9:30pm
Citta di Vitti, a trio!
Phillip Greenlief, saxophone. Lisa Mezzacappa, bass. Jason Levis, drums. $20 cover charge. byob. Teens and students $10. Kids free. Three titans of the Bay Area’s avant garde jazz world reunite in a project seventeen years on. Phillip Greenlief writes, “Several years ago (2007, if i am not mistaken), I wrote nearly 40 fragments while watching…
Friday, November 15th – 8:30-10pm
Stay up late in the Dream Kitchen!
Joyce Todd McBride, piano and compositions. Jeff Kaszubinski, saxophone. Todd Larson, bass. Jeff Pera, drums. $20 cover charge, byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. A vibrant Bay Area jazz ensemble, Dream Kitchen delivers a captivating blend of improvisation, modern jazz, and Latin rhythms. Led by the soulful piano and compositions of Joyce Todd McBride, the group’s original…
Friday, November 15th – 6-8pm
The Scott Foster Happy Hour Jazz Trio
Scott Foster, guitar. Charles Thomas, bass. Mark Lee, drums. $20 suggested cover charge. Pay what you can. Teens & students – $5-10. Kids free. Bird & Beckett is your spot to decompress from the week’s travails, whether it’s the weather, the political climate, or just the work week that might have made you feel a…
Thursday, November 14th – 7:30pm
Sameer Gupta, solo tabla
Parag Chordia & Ferhan Qureshi
sarod/tabla duo
Samir Gupta, tabla. Parag Chordia, sarod. Ferhan Qureshi, tabla . $20 cover charge; byob . This evening, we are pleased to present a solo tabla set by Sameer Gupta followed by a second set of instrumental raga by sarodist Parag Chordia, accompanied by Ferhan Qureshi on tabla. For those who can’t make it to the…
Tuesday, November 12th – 7pm
Poets Kim Shuck and Denise Low
celebrate the release of
DEER / A-WI, a chapbook
Join us in the shop Tuesday night for a much needed reading by two fine, productive and relevant American poets. Together, they have just released a chapbook, DEER /A-WI (Mammoth Press, 2024). Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09, is author of House of Grace, House of Blood, archive-based poetry from the University of Arizona Press….
Sunday, November 10th – 5-7pm
Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces
with Joe Goldmark on pedal steel guitar
Mitch Polzak is one swingin’ cat! Wait ’til you hear him smoke that pig with lightning speed. His trio is the toast of rockabilly festivals, county fairs, bars and clubs throughout the Bay Area and the Central Valley. He’s raved on in Nashville and Memphis, and in Valencia, Spain, With Joe Goldmark, the king of…
Sunday, November 10th – 10am
SFLives Live Stream
Namaste, Motherfucker!
Journalist Denise Sullivan
in conversation with Ben Terrall
Independent reporter Denise Sullivan brings the SFLives series to Bird & Beckett for a Sunday morning livestream, which you can find on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. You can also tap on the shop’s window at 9:55. and we’ll usher you to a seat in the half-light of the shop. This month’s…
Friday to Sunday, November 8th to 10th
From Indiana to New Orleans
to Maharashtra to Nashville
four shows this weekend
The music kicks off this Friday at 6pm, when piano professor Eric Shifrin brings his In Crowd–Ari Munkres on bass and Mark Lee on drums–to celebrate the songs of Hoosier Hoagy Carmichael, the droll pianist, singer and tunesmith who brought us Stardust, Skylark, Georgia on My Mind and a host of other indelibly memorable…