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$10 suggested donation. $5 suggested for students / musicians / low income. Pauline Scholten, vocals and guitar Gene Tortora, vocals and dobro George Martin, banjo Mark Hedin, bass The Prairie Rose Band plays old-time and country music from Stephen Foster to songs you learned at camp, classic country, western swing and favorites by Jimmie Rogers,…

$20 cover charge; $10 for students / musicians / low income. Vocalist Rebecca Kilgore on tour from Portland, with Grammy-nominated pianist Randy Porter and bassist Tom Wakeling. With more than two dozen albums under her own name and dozens more in other combinations, Rebecca Kilgore is regarded as one of the foremost American interpreters of…

$15 cover charge; $10 for students, musicians, low income. Come out to hear one of San Francisco’s most amazing jazz pianists, the very great Walter Earl! With bassist Arlington Houston and JPaul the Drummer. [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyqMdLmkvGM” /]

Guitarist Scott Foster, a cornerstone of the Bird & Beckett jazz edifice since the beginning, brings in drummer Chris Gamper, whose Bay Area Jazz Documentation Project has been catching great musicians in the act of creating fantastic music from whole cloth for several years now! Tonight, with Dann Zinn on saxophone and Adam Lowdermilk on…

Author Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker with special focus on the story of the Spear of Longinus. Nothing makes much sense in Tobias Parker’s life. He walks an ever-tightening circle through San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, where foxes fall out of trees, parachutes drop from the skies and mysterious boxes appear…