Pedal steel master Joe Goldmark’s supergroup returns to Bird & Beckett! Joe’s built a solid band that features Mitch Polzak on lead guitar and vocal; Hank Maninger on bass guitar and vocal; and Kenny Owen, the Haiku Cowboy, on drums. Bring a twenty for the band! Also, something to sip if you’re so inclined–we have…

Michael Gold, saxophone Gerald Beckett, flute Ari Caprow, guitar Ken Lenga, bass Evan Williams, drums $25 cash cover charge. Doors open at 7:20pm for the 7:30 show. BYOB and a mask. Live in the shop!You can also take it in live streamed on our YouTube channel or Facebook page. Donate if you can! Terrific players pulling together…

D L Forbes has, for decades, except for a few poetry readings in London and Vancouver in the late 1970’s, remained contentedly enough in the poetry closet of life; until cajoled once more into reading at Bird & Beckett. When asked why, he whined, “Sarah Menefee made me do it!” Apart from that, he has…

Beau Beausoleil reads poems in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. In Ukraine: Poems Audience welcome. Also live streamed on our YouTube channel or Facebook page.

live streamed on our YouTube channel or Facebook page. Donate if you value Walker’s work! The Pacific Rim is a meeting-place of many forms of life. Oral literatures speak to the mind’s inner structures in ways more basic than time can tell. In his May talk, Walker Brents III will approach further dimensions of this mystery, contemplating…

Bird & Beckett, in association with Jazz in the Neighborhood and the Independent Musicians’ Alliance, presents a jazz jam session for young players on the first Sunday of each month, starting always at 5pm with a student ensemble from one of the Bay Area’s many fine jazz education programs, from post-secondary down to the high…

Tony Peebles, saxophone Christian Tumalan, piano Aaron Germain, bass Brian Andres, drums $20 cash cover charge; doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30 show. BYOB and a mask. Live in the shop! You can also take it in live streamed on our YouTube channel or Facebook page. Donate if you can! With Tony Peebles and Christian Tumalan,…

Ben Davis, cello Erik Jekabson, trumpet Jordan Glenn, drums Compositional structures, lines and wild loose grooves are gauged open and explored in impassioned play between instruments—gut-wrenching dissonance to sonorous deep tones. This new Bay Area group was brought together by cellist Ben Davis to probe the thin line between composition and improvisation. The improvs are…

Walker Brents III muses on the presence of divinities in poetic thought processes, implicit and explicit in the myth of the god Hermes. Walker addresses the mysteries of the poets & the gods, the philosophers & the folktellers in a livestream from Bird & Beckett on the last Thursday of each month, August through May……

Legends of San Francisco’s 1980s, ’90s et seq, from the days when Dogpatch was all about the Club Foot, Valencia Street’s Elbo Room had all the elbow room it needed and you could count on a supermodel to buy into a club down on Folsom where they could cook up the acid jazz for the…