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Last chance to get in with the in crowd in 2017 — capping more than a dozen In Crowd shows since we started harboring a handful of Riptide refugees back in the late summer of 2015 in the series we’ve called “canyon moonlight music.”  $10-15 requested donation tonight. Be here or be squeere! Eric Shifrin…

Multi-instrumentalist Peck Allmond will be out from Brooklyn over the holidays and is featured on drummer Vince Lateano’s date tonight! $15-20 sliding scale cover charge; students – $10. With Keith Saunders on piano and John Wiitala on bass, you’re in for a superb evening of jazz. Peck is a Bay Area native (he’s a notable…

Los Authenticos! thinking of Cuba… Scott Foster, guitar Adam Gay, bass Omar Aran, percussion Sandra Aran on vocals!

The legacy lives on… Chuck Peterson founded our Friday night jazz programming fifteen years ago… That’s him on tenor sax in the accompanying photo. He’s retired now and just comes back once in awhile, but his colleagues carry it on. The 230 Jones Street, Local Six Literary Jazz Band is his concoction. Now it features…

San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck joins students from City College of San Francisco to celebrate the new issue of “Forum” magazine – CCSF’s literary and arts journal, published twice each year. Music will be provided by the CCSF Jazz Musicians Club.

We’re pleased and proud tonight to present San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck as a featured reader in our ongoing bimonthly poetry series, sharing the podium and spotlight with her colleague and friend, Jerry Ferraz. An open mic, hosted by Jerry, will follow. This dual feature/open mic format seems particularly fitting, as Kim, named San…