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Sorry for so little notice! The band has decided it’s too risky to play tonight, and doesn’t want to subject the audience to risk either. We’ll try to reschedule them for September,,,   $20 cover charge; sliding scale available Famed drummer Akira Tana leads a jazz quartet working with Japanese folk and popular material, commemorating…

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Jazz Messenger Chris Amberger joins Grant and the drummer Michael Mitchell for two sets of bebop, hard bop and jazz standards. Exquisite piano trio jazz in San Francisco’s premier jazz listening room. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Michael Mitchell grew up behind the drums. A graduate of the Manhattan…

$20 suggested donation. $5 for students/musicians/fixed income. The Seducers have had a monthly gig at Bird & Beckett for three years, playing classic, outlaw and honky tonk songs by the likes of Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Bobby Bare, plus originals and a few from left field. Look for the Seducers every second Sunday…

San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and Bird & Beckett’s Troubadour in Residence Jerry Ferraz host poetry every first and third Monday, with an open mic to follow the featured readers. THIS WEEK, no featured readers due to the poets’ very understandable hesitation in this uncertain time. We’ll reschedule; meanwhile, the open mic is here.…

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Russian Telegraph is the brainchild of Beth Custer (Trance Mission, Club Foot Orchestra) and David James (Afrofunk Experience, Spearhead, The Coup), who had the inspiration to merge a couple of their separate bands into one! It’s a blend of Beth Custer Ensemble, with their Art Song, their clarinets, and…