On the second and fourth Monday of each month, San Francisco Poet Laureate Emerita Kim Shuck hosts an online poetry series, with featured poets and an open mic on the 2nd Monday and an all-open mic format on the 4th Monday. Information on how to participate follows at the bottom of this post. This evening’s…

America’s favorite honky tonk band, The Seducers, resident at Bird & Beckett since the Great Riptide Fire of 2015, returns for its regular odd-months second Sundays booking — a Bakersfield to Nashville rave-up that never fails to please. Joe Goldmark, pedal steel master, is captain of the ship, though his charismatic second lieutenants Mitch Polzac…

Two musicians who have long inhabited the liminal spaces of the San Francisco bohemia perform from the Bird & Beckett stage this afternoon. Poet and troubadour, guitarist and painter Jerry Ferraz, born in San Franciscan in 1950, grew up in Eureka Valley, the watershed from Twin Peaks that feeds the Castro District. He wandered the…

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…

Dewayne Oakley, bass violin Raja, vocals Ralph Nelson, guitar Rob Rhodes, drums BYOB and a twenty for the band! Reservations, call 415-586-3733 The blues speak to all of us, and we’ll let the Dewayne Oakley Blues Ensemble speak for itself. Enjoy these videos, and then come to the show. There’s nothing like being in the…

    Reed and flute player Masaru Koga, who left the Bay Area for New York a few years ago, returns to Bird & Beckett joined by pianist Frank Martin, bassist Essiet Okon Essiet and drummer Sylvia Cuenca for an intimate and open conversation in jazz. $20 cover charge, byob. Reservations – (415) 586-3733

2nd Fridays jazz happy hours are the province of Eric Shifrin and a deep pool of talent he’s cultivated over decades on the San Francisco scene. Tonight, his “Peninsula Project!” from the gutters of North Beach to the gilded shelves of the bookstore. BYOB and some dough for the musicians. A twenty fits the bill…

Farhad Bahrami, electric ûd and compositions Hafez Modirzadeh, saxophones John-Carlos Perea, electric bass Amir Abbas Etemadzadeh, tombak and daf Keshav Batish, drums $25 cover charge at the door (cash, please) BYOB.  Reservations, call 415-586-3733.           Born to Iranian teachers on Fullbright scholarships to the U.S., Farhad Bahrami’s childhood was spent in…

Drummer Myron Cohen carries the spirit of the late Billy Higgins into the present day, with joy and a propulsive, irresistible beat.  In the countless iterations of his Billy Higgins Legacy Project, he honors the mentoring he received by the late great drummer Higgins with his own mentoring of many, many brilliant emerging players, taken…

Ocean-inspired originals from three jazaquanuts! Daniel Heffez, tenor sax Adam Shulman, organ Omar Aran, drums $20 cover charge (cash, please) byob