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Writer-contributors including Margaret Cooley, Keith Cooley, Nellie Wong, Jerry Path, and Alice Rogoff gather to read their work as well as the work of co-contributors Phyllis Holiday and Adele Kearney, and to celebrate the publication of the new LaborFest Writers Anthology! It’s hot off the press. Live music by the Union Bugs! Giving Voice: LaborFest…

$20 cover charge; $10 for students/musicians/low income. Matthew Charles Heulitt – guitar Matt Renzi – clarinet/sax Tim Bulkley – drums Dan Feiszli – acoustic bass Matthew Charles Heulitt, in his guitar work and compositions, seeks the “intangible beauty that only music can communicate.” With three highly skilled and sympatico jazz colleagues well-suited to pursue the…

$20 cover charge; $10 for students/musicians/low income. Elena Welch is a jazz and blues vocalist greatly influenced by her ten formative and very fun years living in the music city of Chicago, Illinois. She resided on the Big Island of Hawaii for over eight years, where she performed regularly with her quintet as well as with Island…

$10-20 suggested donation; $5-10 for students/musicians/low income. Lots of fun and great music with this band, from swing to bop and straight ahead to the now! Youngster Jeffrey Burr plays guitar in the company of four jazz vets — drummer Vince Lateano, trumpeter Al Molina, saxophonist Jerry Logas and bassist Dean Reilly. Dean’s the grand old…

    The story of the “hippie trail” through the eyes of a traveler. North Beach writer Terry Tarnoff tells tales of the trail and of some of its more notorious characters. He’ll read passages from his paired memoirs, or are they novels, The Bone Man of Benares and The Reflectionist, and he’ll display artifacts and unspool videos…

Always a good idea to Swing Left when kicking off a little celebration of a well-earned national holiday, don’t you think?! Especially this one! Come down Friday after work to catch Rob Reich & his comrade cultural workers in the big little band called Swings Left. They’ll have your toes tappin’ and your muscles jitterbuggin’,…