653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
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Friday, December 20th – 6-8pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
plays Rollins & Hall
Guitarist Scott Foster’s quartet with tenor saxophonist Bob Kenmotsu, bassist John Wiitala and drummer Dan Foltz will be playing repertoire exclusively from the collaboration between Sonny Rollins and Jim Hall — music from the album “the Bridge” and beyond. What a treat! It’s getting to be a lot like Christmas! Scott weighs in: “This is…
12/19 live streamed talk on Artaud has been postponed to Thursday, January 16
POSTPONED TO 1/16 due to technical difficulties Antonin Artaud, charismatic silent movie actor, visionary dramatic theorist, and inspired prophet, was driven, by an increasingly troubled mind, in the years just prior to the second world war, to undertake a quixotic voyage to Mexico, in search of an elemental connection to the life of the earth…
Wednesday, December 18th – 7:30pm
Josh Feinberg and Ferhan Qureshi
Sitar and Tabla Concert
Josh Fineberg began his musical training at 4 years old with western classical and jazz on piano and bass in New York City. He was hailed as a prodigy and performed in jazz venues and concert halls across the New York area. In his teens, Josh fell in love with the music of Ustad Ali…
Sunday, December 15th – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
Make it a habit! The Vince Lateano Trio plays the third Sunday of every month at Bird & Beckett! Tell your friends to meet you at San Francisco’s southernmost jazz joint & literary parlor! Vince is a 60-year veteran of the San Francisco jazz scene. Born, raised and introduced to jazz in Herb Caen’s home…
Saturday, December 14th – 7:30-9:30p[m
MURMUR GARDEN
a quartet collaboration of
Myra Melford, Ben Goldberg, Ben Davis and Jordan Glenn
Ben Goldberg, clarinet. Myra Melford, piano. Ben Davis, cello. Jordan Glenn, drums. $25 cover charge; byob. Cash or venmo at the door, please. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. These four much admired musicians have not played together before, so no one can really know what’s going to happen. But individually and in every musical situation each always…
Friday, December 13th – 8:30-10pm
Macy Blackman Trio
Macy Blackman, piano Steve Reid, bass Larry Vann, drums $20 cover charge; byob. Musicians steeped in New Orleans R&B and soul, and all the New Orleans traditions from Jelly Roll Morton to Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Doctor John, the Nevilles, the Wild Tchapatoulas, Irma Thomas…the list is long and rich, and they’re happy to roll…
Friday, December 13th – 6-8pm
Eric & the In Crowd
celebrate the tunes of
Harold Arlen and Irving Berlin
Eric Shifrin, piano and vocals. Simon Planting, bass. Randy Lee Odell, drums. $20 suggested donation, byob. Teens and students, $10. Children, free All year long in 2024, piano professor Eric Shifrin has been bringing the In Crowd on the second Friday of each month to celebrate a few of the great songwriters who have composed…
Wednesday, December 11th – 6:30pm
Author Event: David Ladensohn
Fly-Fishing with Leonardo Da Vinci
David Ladensohn presents his book, Fly-Fishing with Leonardo da Vinci. Written with the literate fly-fisher in mind, Ladensohn’s book is equally interesting and entertaining to people interested in Leonardo, the flesh and blood man: a gay, God-believing but not really Church-believing, intensely science-obsessed polymath whose art was as much about his interest in optics and…
Monday, December 9th – 7-9pm
Kim Shuck hosts poets
David Gorin and Caroline Goodwin
with an open mic to follow
on Zoom
VirtualPoets! Kim Shuck hosts featured poets David Gorin and Caroline Goodwin and the open mic that follows. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84350265713?pwd=eE84V3BYdWxiSFBHNHhmdUt1WTUzdz09 Meeting ID: 843 5026 5713 Passcode: 244211 David Gorin is the author of To a Distant Country, selected by Jennifer Chang for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and forthcoming in 2025. His writing received…
Sunday, December 8th – 10-11am
SFLives Live Stream
Denise Sullivan and Tongo Eisen-Martin
in conversation
Independent reporter Denise Sullivan brings the SF Lives series to Bird & Beckett for a Sunday morning livestream. This month’s guest is poet, movement worker, and educator, Tongo Eisen-Martin. Use the video screen at the top of our website homepage to access the stream. Limited in person seating available. Call the shop at 415-586-3733. Eisen-Martin’s curriculum…