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!
Refresh your browser to catch a show in progress!
Visit our Facebook page or YouTube channel!
But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
Postponed ’til the smoke clears!
Vocalist CeCe Gable, CD release tour
with Roni Ben Hur, Harvie S & Sylvia Cuenca
Scheduled for 9/9, this one will have to wait! CeCe is based in Reno, and her trio was flying out from NYC for a tour in support of her new album, but the fires put a temporary kabosh on that! Our hearts go out to those on the move to escape the flames, and especially…
Saturday, August 14 – 7:30pm
We Be Three
jazz club
when the lights are low
every Saturday
Wayne De La Cruz – Hammond B3 organ Ray Scott – guitar Jim Chanteloup – drums A groove, for sure. Live in the shop and viewable as a live stream on YouTube or Facebook! Attending in person? $20 cover charge; cash please. BYOB. Proof of vaccination required for shows. We love that you’re coming. You’re…
Friday, August 13 – 7:30pm
Dan Neville Quartet
live jazz in the bookshop
and in the stream,
every Friday night
Homeboy Dan Neville stops in town from Cali, Colombia to present an evening of Latin Jazz. Dan Neville, vibes Óskar Ly, piano Ayla Davila, bass Omar Ledezma Jr., percussion Dan has a ton of offer! This quartet, for instance. He himself is a nascent Bay Area treasure, and he know where to find fantastic collaborators….
Monday, August 9 — on Zoom! — at 7pm
The Bird & Beckett Poets!Zoom
a new release celebration & reading
Fog & Light
San Francisco poets on their home port
eight featured readers plus an open mic
Launched in March 2020, the Bird & Beckett Poets!Zoom, hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, has sustained a core family of local poets and has invited in poets from around the globe, every 2nd and 4th Monday. The tradition continues. Tonight, eight San Francisco poets collected in the new anthology, Fog and Light,…
Sunday, August 8 – 7:30pm
Howell Devine
Sunday goes live, for a Delta minute…
at the bookshop
http://thebluesmobile.com/howelldevine-performs-it-wont-be-long-now-live-in-the-bluesmobile/ From the hill country into the Delta, from their albums Delta Grooves to Howl, and always live, HowellDevine never fails to please. Joshua Howell, guitar, harmonica & vocals Pete Devine, drums, washboard, percussion, jug & vocals Joe Kyle, Jr., bass & vocals $20 cover charge; cash please. BYOB. Until further notice, regardless of vaccination…
Sunday, August 8 – 10am
Journalist Denise Sullivan
& Filmmaker Eric Goodfield in conversation
SF Lives / Live Talk
Every Second Sunday Morning
SF Lives Live Talks August 8 Filmmaker Eric Goodfield Join San Francisco Examiner columnist Denise Sullivan for a series of morning discussions with The City’s arts and cultural leaders and lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, every second Sunday at 10 am, live streamed from Bird & Beckett…
Old news, circa Feb 2021: Living in the Purple Tier
We’re back in the purple tier, thinking about Prince and thinking about how much more comfortable this tier feels relative to wherever that was we just were. But it is purple, and officially that’s pretty far from safe, so we’ll continue to urge you to “Collaborate to keep San Francisco safe, neighborhood by neighborhood, block…
Saturday, August 7 – 7:30pm
Ben Esposito Trio
featuring Howard Wiley
a benefit for the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
jazz club, when lights are low
Howard Wiley, saxophone Isaac Coyle, bass Ben Esposito – drums Two rising future stars on drums and bass with the legendary saxophonist Howard Wiley. Wiley has long been considered a giant on the Bay Area jazz scene, as a musician, as a musicologist, as a community pillar. Funds raised tonight in excess of the guaranteed…
Friday, August 6 – 7:30pm
Patrick Wolff Hard Bop Quintet
live and live-streamed
from the bookshop
every Friday night
Patrick Wolff, saxophones Mike Olmos, trumpet Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Evan Hughes, drums Five solid talents from the Bay Area jazz scene making music as vital and inspired as any being made in the world at this moment in time. A return engagement! Originals and jazz classics penned by Horace Silver, Clifford Jordan…
Thursday, August 5 – 7pm
live poetry returns to Bird & Beckett!
must be present to win!
no live stream tonight!
Just wear a mask and there won’t be no trouble!