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Thursday, October 16 – 7:30 pm
Litquake at Bird & Beckett!
Poets Amos, Cherkovski,
Dunagan, Lazzara, Loos
“Generations” – a Bird & Beckett Litquake reading!    Five San Francisco Poets, 27 to 69:                       A gathering of decades, born on the fog banks over Twin Peaks. Seth Amos, Neeli Cherkovski, Patrick James Dunagan,…
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Sunday, October 12th — 4:30-6:30 pm
sitar and tabla duo play
classical music of North India
a concert of Hindustani (North Indian) Classical Music. Joanna Mack, sitar. Ferhan Qureshi, tabla. Joanna Mack began her study of Indian Classical sitar in 1997. She spent eight years in Kolkata studying under Pandit Deepak Choudhury, and returned to the U.S. where she has had the honor to study under Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Sarodia Bruce Hamm and…
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Saturday Night Jazz Club!
The Grant Levin Quartet
featuring Noel Jewkes
October 11th – 8-11 pm
Pianist Grant Levin has become appreciated as among the very finest young pianists on the local jazz scene, and his collaboration with seasoned tenor sax player Noel Jewkes has paid dividends for both of them, and for audiences all around the Bay Area.  Tonight, they’re joined by veteran bassist Chris Amberger, one of Grant’s very earliest proponents,…
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Friday, October 10th – 5:30-8:00 p.m.
The Bird & Beckett Bebop Band
plays jazz in the bookshop
Drummer Jimmy Ryan leads a stellar rotating crew of musicians on the 2nd Friday of each month — usually two horns on the front line, piano, bass and drums.  This week, he’s got Stu Pilorz on trombone; Stephen Norfleet on tenor sax; Don Alberts on piano; and Bishu Chatterjee on bass.  Each time out, there’s a slight adjustment in the…
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Sunday, October 5 – 4:30-6:30 pm
Duocracy: Ian Carey and Ben Stolorow
Duocracy, a project of trumpeter Ian Carey and pianist Ben Stolorow, focuses on classic tunes from the rare to the familiar, ranging from Gershwin and Gordon Jenkins to Thelonious Monk and Henry Mancini, plus occasional original tunes. Within that repertoire, they aim for interplay, unpredictability, and surprise. (You can see them performing one of their…
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Sunday, October 5th – 2pm
Taurean Horn 40th Anniversary Reading
Taurean Horn Press 40th Anniversary Reading — Publisher Bill Vartnaw and a roster of fine poets celebrate one of California’s key small presses.  Poets Q. R. Hand, Gail Mitchell, Jeanne Powell, Kim Shuck will be joined by other alumni of the press to be announced.
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