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653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
Open to walk-in trade and browsing Tuesday to Sunday noon to six
phone: 1-415-586-3733 email: [email protected]
Tuesday, February 3rd – 7pm
Poet Kim Shuck birthday reading!
Kim Shuck is joined by friends and fellow poets! BYOB and raise a toast to a key figure in the poetry world in the Bay Area and far beyond!
Seven Events in Six Days:
January 27th thru February 1st
Poetry – Fiction – Jazz x5 Tuesday, January 27, 7:00pm: Nellie Wong Memorial Reading [Poetry reading] {free} _____ Thursday, January 29, 5:30pm: Novelists Tara Dorabji & Betty Shamieh moderated by Sabina Khan-Ibarra [Author Event] {free} _____ Friday, January 30, 8:30pm: Vaughn Cannon Quartet {$20}. _____ Saturday, January 31, 5:30pm: Erik…
Saturday, January 24 – 7:30pm
The Kevin Gerzevitz Trio
plays the music of Herbie Nichols
Kevin Gerzevitz, piano. Ari Munkres, bass. Tim Bulkley, drums. $20 cover; byob. Students, $10. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Pianist and composer Herbie Nichols was a marvelously singular musician and wrote many beautiful and often complex tunes much admired by modern jazz musicians and aficionados, though relatively obscure to the popular jazz…
Friday, January 23rd – 8:30pm
Tango No. 9
tango nuevo, valses, milongas y originales
Tango No. 9 has been making audiences swoon for two decades with their exquisite and charming sets, and we’re overheated with excitement every time they hit the stage in our cozy little bookshop. The group comprises violinist Catharine Clune, pianist Joshua Raoul Brody and trombonist Greg Stephens, together with the dashing Zoltan DiBartolo, who vocalizes…
Two shows on Friday, January 23rd!
6pm – The 230 Jones Street Band
8:30pm – Tango No. 9
Remembering the good times, and still living them… There’s jazz every Friday at Bird & Beckett, these days with a 6pm jazz happy hour and an 8:30 extra show. If you’ve just caught wind of what goes on here, then come on down. You’ll find a gem in the rough you only imagined might still…
Five concerts in four days: January 22-25
Funk – Jazz – Tango – Jazz – Jam Session _____ Thursday, January 22, 7:30pm: Fog City Groove [Soul/Funk/Worldbeat] {$20} _____ Friday, January 23, 6:00pm: 230 Jones Street Band [Hard Bop]{$20} _____ Friday, January 23, 8:30pm: Tango No. 9 [Tango Nuevo y Más] {$20} _____ Saturday, January 24, 7:30pm: Kevin Gerzevitz Trio [plays Herbie Nichols]…
6 Events in 4 days: Jan 15-18!
A talk on Ursula Le Guin’s
Mythopoeic California
Four Jazz Dates
Ukuleles Gone Wild!
Thursday, January 15, 7:30 – 9:00pm {no charge, donations welcome} Walker Talks…a live streamed rumination from the darkened shop. Walker Brents III on the mythopoeic California of Ursula Le Guin. Walker addresses topics in poetry, mythology & folklore, philosophy and more, once a month. Find Walker’s talks on our YouTube channel or Facebook page; or…
Thursday, January 22nd – 7:30pm
Fog City Groove
soul/funk cover band extraordinaire!
Bird & Beckett is pleased to present an eight-piece soul/funk outfit brought to Glen Park by drummer/Friday B&B sound engineer/neighbor and all around good guy Tom Misage! Prepare to kick our chairs to the side and dance in the aisles! BYOB & a twenty for the band! Doors open at 7:15pm.
Friday, January 16th – 8:30pm
The Lucas Davis Trio
Lucas Davis, trumpet Isaac Coyle, bass Miles Turk, drums $20 cover charge; byob. Students $10. For a reservation, call the store at 415-586-3733. The Lucas Davis Trio plays music created by artists who most inspire the trio’s leader, as well as his original compositions embracing a modern aesthetic rooted in the tradition of Black American…