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Sunday, October 24 – 10 a.m.
Sounding Off: A Conversation
Karl Evangelista invites Ben Goldberg, Francis Wong and Beth Schenck to discuss their commonalities in improvised music
Karl Evangelista, Ben Goldberg, Francis Wong and Beth Schenck converse on the bookshop stage in a live stream. We’ll have chairs, should you like to venture into the shop. But it’s likely to be rainy and chilly, and in any case, it’s early. So tune in to the stream on youtube or facebook if you’d…
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August 19-21: Three big nights — all shows live and live streamed at 7:30pm on fb & yt
Thurs., 8/19: Annette A Aguilar Beans on the Left Septet
Fri., 8/20: Mutant Audio (Foster / Boyce / McCockran)
Sat. 8/12: Jonah Cabral Quintet
Thursday, August 19 – Annette A Aguilar, NYC Latin/Brazilian drummer with San Francisco roots, returns with her seven-piece band, Beans on the Left, including Anthony Blea on violin, Chloe Scott on flute, Murray Low on piano, Gary Brown on bass, Ricky Aguilar on congas and Mena Ramos on bata. Her New York band, StringBeans, has…
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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…
Read MoreOld 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…
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Big doings in jazz next weekend!
Friday, Saturday & Sunday!
Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? Scroll down to read the posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past seven-plus months, since the pandemic lock-down began. Every time you see the “load more” button, go ahead. It’ll stop offering you that option once you’ve arrived at the first show…
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Live streams coming up this weekend…
full details in the posts below!
Simon Rowe Organ Trio on Friday, 12/4
Kalil Amar Wilson / Javier Santiago Duo on Saturday, 12/5
Fabulous music time and again at Bird & Beckett. It’s a time of few gigs and little gig income, so please help us pay the Bay Area’s treasured professional musicians! Enlist your friends in the effort to provide a decent paycheck on these outings. If you’re making a living in these times, help us see…
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