birdbeckett
POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, March 2nd – 7pm
Open Mic poetry reading – Loren Bell reading postponed
Jerry Ferraz and Kim Shuck host
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Sunday, March 1st – 4:30-6:30pm
Matt Renzi’s “Arm-Sized Legging”
which way west? Sunday concert series
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Matt Renzi – saxophone, clarinet, English horn Jessica Ivry – cello John Wiitala – bass Tim Bulkley – drums Arm-Sized Legging is a project consisting of woodwinds (saxophone, clarinet, english horn), cello, bass, and drums, playing a repertoire of all original compositions. The music explores textures and colors, as…
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Come out on Leap Day,
Saturday, February 29th!
All Day Celebration & Fundraiser
for Bird & Beckett, Jazz in the Neighborhood and an Independent Musicians Alliance
On Leap Day 2020, celebrate jazz in San Francisco at Bird & Beckett! Support the organizations that support the musicians! 2020 is a leap year, and leap day, February 29, 2020, is a Saturday. What better day to set aside for a celebration of your local bookshop cum jazz club… and its ally Jazz in…
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Sunday, March 1st – 1pm
Community Music Center
Year of the Rat Celebration
Community Music Center instructors and students present a wide-ranging program to celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rat. The opening set will include a gamut of music from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. The second set will feature a jazz ensemble led by pianist Randy Craig, featuring, among others, reed player…
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Friday, February 28th – 5:30-8pm
The 230 Jones Street,
Local 6 Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since 2002
$20 suggested/sliding scale available. Talk about your San Francisco jazz… On the fourth Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — in direct line of descent from the Chuck Peterson Trio, which started the whole “jazz in the bookshop†thing 17…
Read MoreAB5: Assessing its implications, impact and the impetus for fair wage progress. Is an Independent Musicians Alliance part of the solution???
Gigging jazz musicians convened in a “town hall” discussion at the bookshop on February 25th to discuss the prospects for an “Independent Musicians Alliance” – a solidarity organization without dues or meetings – to encourage a free flow of information among musicians that might facilitate collective action seeking overall improvement in wages, benefits and working…
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