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!
Thursday, 2/16/23 – 7:30pm
Sticklerphonics!
Amendola/Lubin-Laden/Garabedian
BYOB and a twenty for the trio! Doors open at 7:15. Scott Amendola, a drummer, composer and bandleader who’s been a creative force on the Bay Area jazz scene and beyond for four decades, knows all about the power of subtraction. His stripped-down trio SticklerPhonics brings together long-time collaborators Raffi Garabedian on tenor saxophone and…
Tuesday, 2/14/23 – 7pm
A Valentine For You,
from the Tony Saunders Quintet
Tony Saunders on Bass & Vocals Marc Daniels Guitar Tina Bryant Keys Don Schiff Bass Larry Vann Drums $25, byob Advance reservations – 415-586-3733 You can leave your hat on! Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Tony Saunders & Co. and celebrate as well the 89th anniversary of Tony’s late father Merl Saunders’ birth. Tony grew…
Monday, 2/13/23 – 7pm
VirtualPoets! Kim Shuck hosts
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84350265713?pwd=eE84V3BYdWxiSFBHNHhmdUt1WTUzdz09 Meeting ID: 843 5026 5713 Passcode: 244211 Robert Eugene Rubino is a retired newspaper copy editor and sports columnist who has published prose and poetry in various print and online journals. In 2016 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in creative nonfiction and in 2022 published three collections: “Aficionado,” prose & poetry, hummingwordpress.com “Vanity Unfair,” poetry, cathexisnorthwestpress.com “Douglas…
Saturday, March 11th – 7:30pm
blues when lights are low…
Dewayne Oakley Blues Ensemble
Vocalist Raja sings jazz and blues with Dewayne Oakley
Monday, January 8th – 7pm
Kim Shuck hosts “Virtual!Poets”
this time out featuring
Edward Mycue & Antoinette Villa Payne
followed by an open mic
Edward Mycue pursued graduate studies at North Texas State and Boston University, then joined the Peace Corps., training at UC Berkeley, University College in Legon, Ghana, the US Department of Agriculture graduate school in Washington, D.C. and the International Peoples College Denmark. He has led writing groups in San Francisco since the 1970s. His books…
Sunday, 2/12/23 – 10am
Live Stream: A conversation with
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai
SF Lives Live Talks–
Journalist Denise Sullivan + guest
live streamed every 2nd Sunday at 10 a.m.
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 workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books and viewable on the Bird &…
Saturday, 2/11/23 – 7:30pm
Adrian Areas Fuze Quintet
original latin jazz rock fusion explosion! Adrian Areas proudly carries a tradition that encompasses all the San Francisco jazz rock fusion history that constellates around the Azteca/Malo/Santana years. His uncle Chepito was right in the midst of that wonderful maelstrom. Thomas Molina, trumpet Josh Icban, guitar Jeff Patterson, bass Jimmy Toor, drums Adrian Areas, Moperc…
Friday, 2/10/23 – 5:30pm
Eric & the In Crowd
every second friday in 2023!
Eric Shifrin has brought the In Crowd to Bird & Beckett countless times in the past twenty years, but it’s never been enough! He’s been the favorite of the swells & the swindlers in the finest saloons and boites of this town for decades, and when he brings the In Crowd in here, we’re all…
Thursday, 2/9/23 – 7pm
The Alvarado Project celebrates
Claiming Our Stories:
An Intergenerational Anthology
Filipino American memoirs read by their authors and others
Pieces to be read this evening from the anthology will include: Janet Alvarado’s Introduction to Claming Our Stories – read by the author/editor Albert A. Acena’s “Where Have the Nurses Gone? – read by Laarni San Juan Rhys Alvarado’s “1946” – read by Alohi Alvarado Emil Guillermo’s “Centennial Club Members Ricardo and Willie: Filipinos in…
Sunday, 2/5/23 – 7:30pm
GRUPO OKÃN TOYÉ
Ten musicians on the Bird & Beckett stage tonight! Ten musicians to pay! Sliding scale $10-40 cover charge requested. No reservations. No comps. Only 30 seats! Doors open at 7:15. BYOB.GRUPO OKÃN TOYÉ is an Afro Cuban folkloric troupe dedicated to learning, performing and preserving the musical traditions specifically from Matanzas, Cuba! The group is…