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Friday, September 13th – 8:30-10pm
Take 3
Michele Korb, guitar and vocals. Barbara Raboy, reeds. Susanne DiVincenzo, bass. $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733. Take 3 plays jazz standards and tunes from the Great American Songbook. Barb and Susanne play with Melba’s Kitchen, the all-women Big Band in the East Bay that plays the music of the black women geniuses, Mary…
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Friday, September 13th – 6-8pm
Celebrating the Duke!
Eric & the In Crowd
plumb the Ellington songbook
Eric Shifrin, piano & vocals. Ari Munkres, bass. Mark Lee, drums. $20 suggested donation, adults. BYOB. Teens and students, $10. Kids free. Duke Ellington added innumerable lovely tunes to the American Songbook, often in collaboration, credited and sometimes not, with Billy Strayhorn. Treasures untold. Eric and his trio will pull some up for your eager…
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Thursday, September 12th – 7:30-9:30pm
Hindustani Classical Music of North India
Bruce Hamm, sarod, and Ferhan Qureshi, tabla
The evening ragas Bruce Hamm and Ferhan Qureshi will perform in duo at Bird & Beckett are structured on melodic lines performed over rhythmic cycles, or tala, that employ principles set forth in the 2nd-3rd century CE Sanskrit treatise on the aesthetics, poetics, music and dance of Indian theatre known as the Bharata Natyashastra as…
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Wednesday, September 11th – 7:30pm
Johnny Lonely’s Unhappy Hour
Fall is when nature breaks up with you – the perfect time to hear songs of heartache. So, now’s the time to flag 9/11 for your emergency Johnny Lonely show! Johnny Lonely and Joshua Raoul Brody’s harmonized cries for help bring first responders Ed McClary and David Jess, on drums and bass, respectively, rushing in —…
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Sunday, September 8th – 8-9pm
Went to Lunch, Never Returned
Jeff DeMark’s comedic monologue on his life in San Francisco in the 1980s
Jeff DeMark gleaned sage insights from Zoe Nordstrom nearly every time they took the time to talk about her life, his life, and his contemporaneous San Francisco scuffle through 17 temp jobs in 22 months in the late 1980s, not to mention the ill-fated love affair that had brought him out from Wisconsin to San…
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Sunday, September 8th – 5-7pm
Nashville Honeymoon
Lynne Maes, vocals and guitar Hank Maninger, vocals and lead guitar Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Tim Wagar, bass Leor Beary, drums $20 cover charge/byob Reservations: 415-586-3733 Nashville Honeymoon honors traditional country music and pushes its boundaries. Lynne and Hank both write songs for the band that sound like instant classics. Hank’s driving lead guitar,…
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