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David Holper is a performing poet and Professor of English at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California. He recently published his second book of poems, The Bridge, with (Sequoia Song Publishing). Many of the poems in that collection have already been published, and a number of have won prizes. Times Standard article, April 5,…

The Seducers have had a monthly gig at Bird & Beckett for three years, playing classic, outlaw and honky tonk songs by the likes of Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Bobby Bare, plus originals and a few from left field. Look for the Seducers every second Sunday in San Francisco’s premier little bookshop/listening room.…

Drummer Jon Frank leads a quartet with Noah Frank, trumpet; Grant Levin, piano; Charles Thomas; bass.

Avant pastoralism in a chamber music mode Sheldon Brown (clarinet and bass clarinet) Joseph Noble (flute, alto flute, bass flute) Amber Lamprecht (oboe and English horn) www.echosbones.bandcamp.com.

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… the 5th Anniversary of jazz club!   Join us to celebrate five years of Saturday night jazz, when lights are low! Pianist Grant Levin has been on the date since the beginning, building an avid following and bringing to the stage some of the Bay Area’s most amazing musicians. Tonight,…

Noah Frank, trumpet Eli Maliwan, tenor sax Kai Lyons, guitar Curtis Aikens, bass Genius Wesley, drums With a sound and approach flexibly fitted to the space and the time, Sueños fuses hip-hop & R&B rhythms, blending modal with gospel harmonies, flowing with bebop-tinged horns over the top of a tight rhythm section that knows no…