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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]
Monday, July 18 – 7pm
Seasons–Breathing Together: Six Poets
Kathryn Waddell Takara, visiting from Hawaii & celebrating the release of her new collection Seasons in Haiku, will read this evening together with Bay Area poets Karla Brundage, Lucille Lang Day, Shizue Seigel, Amos White and, Maw Shein Win If you’re unable to make it down to Bird & Beckett this evening, you can view…
Sunday, July 17 – 7:30pm
Bay native, touring out of NYC,
Kazemde George and his Quintet
featuring Giulio Xavier Cetto on bass!
Touring from NYC The Kazemde George Quintet Kazemde George, tenor saxophone Sami Stevens, vocals Manuel Schmiedel, keyboard Giulio Xavier Cetto, bass Adam Arruda, drums $25 cover charge (cash, please); byob. catch it in the live stream if you can’t make it to the shop. be sure to donate to help support the musicians and the…
Sunday, July 17 – 5pm
JimBo Trout and the Fishpeople
JimBo Trout, guitar and vocals Steve Neil, bass Ken Owen, drums JimBo Trout is walking the line, playing his heart out, and having a good time! JimBo’s music is a good-time gumbo of bluegrass, rock+roll, honky-tonk country, old-time, ragtime, blues, western-swing, rockabilly, jug band, jazz, swing, Cowboy, New Orleans, and more. But he would never…
Saturday, July 16 – 7:30pm
Rob Reich Swings Left
Andrew Stephens, trumpet Ben Goldberg, clarinet Rob Reich, accordion and piano Adam Kubota, bass But of course! It’s the joy you would naturally expect! Doors open at 7:20pm $20 cash cover charge, please byob & masks Reservations, 415-586-3733 or catch it in the live stream if you can’t make it to the shop. be sure…
Friday, July 15 – 7:30pm
Scott Foster Trio: The anatomy of the gig
Scott Foster, guitar Charles Thomas, bass Omar Aran, drums A look behind the curtain. reservations, 415-586-3733 byob and a mask $20 cash cover Nothing beats live jazz in the shop but if you can’t make it… Find the live stream on our Facebook page or YouTube channel
Thursday, July 14 – 7:30pm
CBop celebration concert
“Three’s a Charm” Digi-EP release!
CBop returns to Bird & Beckett to present their third EP, “Three’s A Charm” recorded at the Oakland Riviera by CarnyMusic Recording in late 2021 The EP is a nod to some of CBop’s favorite composers (Sonny Rollins and Burt Bacharach, to name two). They’ll perform two sets of music in what they say is…
Sunday, July 10th – 5pm
The Seducers!
Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals Kenny Owen, drums The Seducers play the songs of Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and countless other giants of classic and outlaw country music. Bring $20 for the musicians! BYOB, too! Can’t make it to the shop for…
Today in Glen Canyon Park!
Sunday, July 10th – 10:30-3:30pm
The Gum Tree Girls Festival!
Celebrating Moxie!!!
Over in the canyon, just up the street from the bookshop, the Gum Tree Girls Festival is slated for 10am to 3:30pm on Sunday the 10th, with live music, stirring oratory, informative history, food, drink, games and community camaraderie! You don’t want to miss it! With the Festival coming up in just a few days,…
Postponed to Sunday, August 14
SF Lives Live Talk:
Third Parent’s Daveea Whitmire
in conversation with journalist Denise Sullivan
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 lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books. August 14th, at 10 a.m.,…
Friday, July 8 – 7:30pm
Ollie Dudek
plays the compositions
of the great bass players
Bob Kenmotsu, tenor saxophone Ben Stolorow , piano Ollie Dudek, bass Vince Lateano, drums $20 cash cover charge Doors open at 7:20pm for the 7:30pm show BYOB and a mask Can’t make it to the shop? Nothing’s like the real thing live! Ollie Dudek digs deep into the book of compositions by some of the…