Upcoming Events
Saturday, May 20th – 7:30pm
Jim Witzel Quartet
Jim Witzel, guitar Dann Zinn, saxophone Brian Ho, organ Jason Lewis, drums $20 cover charge; BYOB Reservations, call 415-586-3733 Tonight at Bird & Beckett, Jim Witzel’s working quartet draws on original material from their current release, Feelin’ It, along with pieces from Jim’s album Give and Take, with a few standard tunes thrown in for…
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Friday, May 19th – 5:30-8:00pm
Scott Foster Combo
Every Third Friday
Tonight: The Scott Foster Quartet conducts “Further Experiments with Tom Hassett†Tom Hassett, drums Dan Seamans bass Jim Peterson sax Scott Foster, guitar Musical journeys flowing from the mind of Mr. Hassett, including repertoire from the John Scofield Quartet, Billy Strayhorn, Bill Evans and others Scott Foster has been bringing jazz to Bird & Beckett…
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Mark your calendar!
Thursday, May 18th – 7:30pm
The Adam Gay Quintet
A mainstay of the San Francisco jazz scene for years, bassist Adam Gay decamped for Brooklyn several years ago, where he’s been brewing beer and playing jazz, much to Brooklyn’s benefit and San Francisco’s loss! But he’s coming back to town for some good gigs, and one of them is at Bird & Beckett in…
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Second Sundays Sin & Celebration
The Mothers Day Edition!
Sunday, May 14th –5-7pm
The Seducers!
Way out west… The Seducers — America’s favorite Honky Tonk band! Joe Goldmark, pedal steel      Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals Tim Wagar, bass guitar      Paul Revelli, drums The Seducers play Bird & Beckett every other month – January, March, May, July, September, November – on the second Sunday of the month at 5pm. Alternating…
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Wednesday, May 31st – 7pm
Author Event
Short Story Writer Angelo Presicci
reads from his collection
Fighting the Bad War
The short stories gathered in Angelo Presicci’s book, Fighting the Bad War present a vivid, first person account of realities that faced American soldiers in our war on North Vietnam and upon their return home. Published by Robert Anbien’s Night Horn Books in early 2022, Fighting the Bad War has been republished and relaunched by…
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Sunday, May 14th – 10am
SF Lives Live Streamed Talk
Malia Spanyol in conversation with
SF Examiner columnist Denise Sullivan
on Bird & Beckett’s YouTube channel
& Facebook page
San Francisco journalist Denise Sullivan conducts a monthly series of conversations (the second Sunday of each month from 10-11 a.m.) with The City’s activists, educators, arts and cultural leaders and lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books Today’s guest is Malia Spanyol,…
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