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Sunday, March 8th – 7:30-10:00 pm
The Seducers
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk
Country Music
$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…
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POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
March 16, all open mic
[POSTPONED:
originally scheduled for this date
Chris Olander + Kirk Lumpkin]
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.…
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Saturday, March 7th – 7:30–10pm
Russian Telegraph
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night Â
$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…
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Postponed: Watch for new date
Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss, A Memoir
Emily L. Quint Freeman
Call us if you want to be notified when a new date is set. In 1969, Emily Freeman, then Linda J. Quint, engaged in an act of conscience with seventeen others, burning thousands of draft records on the Southside of Chicago to keep poor and minority men from being drafted into the Vietnam War, an…
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Friday, March 6th – 5:30-8:00 pm
Denise Perrier with Oop Bop Sh’Bam!
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002Â
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Once again, the voice with a heart, Denise Perrier, graces the Bird & Beckett stage in the company of some good old friends, Al Molina and Jerry Logas on horns, Larry Chinn on piano, Dean Reilly on bass and Vince Lateano on drums. A rich tapestry of San Francisco…
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Postponed: 3/20/20
Kai Lyons Quartet
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday after workÂ
Kai will play solo for a live stream this Saturday, March 21 at 7:30pm. In his place on Friday, March 20, Gaea Schell and John Wiitala will play in a duo context, also for a live stream. $20 suggested donation for either show; but any amount is appreciated and those in economic straits should use…
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