birdbeckett
jazz in the bookshop every Friday
July 25th – 5:30-8:00 pm:
The Chuck Peterson Quintet
Chuck’s not here this week… but valve trombonist Frank Phipps sits in, while drummer Jim Zimmerman sits in for Tony Johnson and bassist Al Obidinsky sits in for Dean Reilly, with reedman Howie Dudune and guitarist Glen Deardorff as the core of the band. Five seasoned pros doing what they love to do — swing…
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Wednesday, July 23rd — 7 p.m.
A Listening Party!
Renee Gibbons’ Longing for Elsewhere
Born in a Dublin tenement in the mid-20th century and for the past three decades a well loved figure in San Francisco’s North Beach bohemia, Renee is widely known for the long-running column she wrote for the Irish Herald called “The Rambling Road.â€Â And a rambling road she’s certainly traveled since escaping Dublin for Paris…
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Monday, July 21st — 7:00 p.m.
POETS! Steve Arnston
and Sharon Pretti
open mic follows
Twice a month, on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, San Francisco troubadour Jerry Ferraz welcomes poets into Bird & Beckett. Â One or two featured readers, followed by an open mic. Tonight, Steve Arntson and Sharon Pretti are the features. We don’t have much biographical detail on Steve, but he’s perceived here at…
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Friday, July 18th — 5:30-8:00 pm
The John Calloway Quartet
Flautist John Calloway is a key Bay Area jazz musician — with a national reputation.  Known best for his latin jazz work, he’s also a consummate straight ahead player, and an educator of the top rank.  For the past several years, he was also a member of the San Francisco Arts Commission, hence the sobriquet, the…
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Sunday, July 20th – 2 pm
Tales from the Eternal CafeAuthor Janet Hamill reads!
“There is nothing more wonderful than the café, and the tales that are drawn from them.  Long live the café, whether found on the dark backstreet, the fashionable thoroughfare, or the pages of a book!  Within them, as through these tales, we gain entrance to the history of a world where madams rub shoulders with mystics…
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Wednesday, July 16th — 7 pm
The Ohlone Way
reissue celebration with
Malcolm Margolin and Vincent Medina
The Ohlone Way is a classic work that makes a wonderful effort to imagine and understand the indigenous people who inhabited these central California dunes, rocky outcroppings, redwood forests, chaparral, grasslands and river deltas for thousands of years before the European conquest. Â Malcolm Margolin produced a work that remains fresh, a good aid to comprehending…
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