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Johnny Lonely has a repertoire of originals, standards, and songs improvised off audience suggestions that paint a picture both tragic and hilarious. Johnny (a figment of Brian Lohmann’s tragi-comic imagination) and accompanist Joshua Raoul Brody (a Bird & Beckett regular, known for his work in the Rick & Ruby Show, The Residents and so much…

Piano professor & all around good time guy Eric Shifrin has been calling the in crowd to assembly all over this town for decades — in bars and boites, saloons and salons, dives, diners and, as it turns out, the deep piney woods of Santa Cruz. If you come out to Glen Park tonight, you’re…

Renowned guitarist Paul Mehling is in with the In Crowd tonight, along with Dexter Williams on bass! A return engagement! ~~~ BYOB and a twenty for the trio, and enjoy live music at Bird & Beckett! ~~~ Enjoy this video from last August, and make plans to spend a 2.5 hour happy hour at Bird…

  Who doesn’t know “Time Has Come Today,” the massive hit single by The Chambers Brothers that made the charts in the fall of 1968? Co-written by Lester’s brothers Willie and Joe Chambers, it’s seared into the collective memory of the nation and the world, busting out as it did in the turmoil of the…

Before Kim Shuck was the 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco, she was an open mic host and she just can’t shake the habit. On the 2nd Monday of every month Shuck invites two poets to feature longer readings of their work before a no-intros/one-poem-per-reader open mic. On the 4th Monday the rules are the…