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Eric Shifrin

Get in with the in crowd!
Eric & the In Crowd invite you
to join the party every second Friday
Find your happy hour with them
this evening, May 12th, 5:30-8:00pm!

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 sure of a big surprise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIeyEnOH2hs

Eric & the In Crowd
entertain the Bird & Beckett regulars
every 2nd Friday, 5:30-8:00pm.

Now, them’s some happy hours and more!

Eric Shifrin, piano
Gino Raugi, guitar
Dan Seamans, bass
Mike Strunk, drums

The halcyon days of Santa Cruz in the ’70s, revisited by a wonderful aggregation
of long-time friends & bandstand colleagues, plus some special guests.
And you! At Bird & Beckett you’re always in with the in crowd!

Remember, you’ll never go wrong on Fridays if you byob and a twenty for the band.
In any case, pay what you can to help us put food on their table!

Really, it would be mean of them, and insufficient, to eat slugs to survive!
Matthew Perifano would be bereft!

Our events are put on under the umbrella of the nonprofit Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (the "BBCLP"). That's how we fund our ambitious schedule of 300 or so concerts and literary events every year.

The BBCLP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit...
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