Tuesday, December 2nd – 7:00pm
Jennifer Cleary & David Richardson
a bit of Broadway, a little pop,
and a hint of country western.
Featuring Austin Yu on the piano.
$15 cover charge; students $10; kids free Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Jennifer Cleary is a singer and actress with a background in pop, jazz, musical theater and vocal improvisation. She cut her teeth performing with rock bands in New York City and has recorded and toured nationally. Know in the Bay Area from…
Sunday, November 30th – 5-7pm
The Cottontails
Standing Room Only!!
Karina Denike, vocals. Tom Griesser, clarinet and sax. Michael MacIntosh, piano. Joe Kyle, Jr., bass. Randy Lee Odell, drums. $30 for adults, cash please! Students $15. Kids free. Jump jazz, rhythm & blues, fresh as a daisy with deep roots in the ’40s & ’50s! A Thanksgiving tradition at Bird &…
after the turkey…
230 Jones Street, Friday at 7:30pm
New Squatoolas, Saturday at 7:30pm
The Cottontails, Sunday at 5pm
Just one show Friday the 28th instead of our typical Friday double header, but you’ll get two swinging sets of jazz starting at 7:30pm. A twenty dollar bill gets you the evening when The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band takes the stage. Long a staple of Bird & Beckett’s bookings, this quartet…
Saturday, November 29th – 7:30-9:30pm
New Squatoolas!
Jim Peterson, saxophone Scott Foster, guitar Joe Kyle, Jr., bass Larry Vann, drums $20 cash cover charge at the door, byob. A Thanksgiving weekend tradition at Bird & Beckett! New Squatoolas are ready to take you on a joyous romp in a New Orleans mode, playing the music of NOLA jazz, funk and soul pioneers…
Tuesday, November 25th – 7:30pm
The Cody Steinmann Quartet
Touring out of Minneapolis, Cody Steinmann is a prolific jazz guitarist/composer showcasing material from his new album, “Stray Bullet Blues,” with pianist Adam Hersh and drummer Benjamin Ring, both up from Los Angeles, and local hero Giulio Xavier Cetto on bass. (Note, please, that Adam Hersh is subbing in for Javier Santiago tonight on piano.)…
Sunday, November 23rd – 7pm
The Maurice Tani Band
It’s been pointed out that singer-songwriter Maurice Tani has a tendency toward long titles… This evening, he and pianist Henry Salvia will be joined by bassist Greg Kehret and drummist Ken “KO” Owen at Bird & Beckett in old King Cisco for a set Tani has given the sprawlingly verbose title “Sangoire: Dark Songs of…
November 21-23 – Four shows!
Jazz duo / Jazz Quartet /
Jazz Quintet / Country Noir Combo
Friday, November 21st – 6pm to 8pm – its the Scott Foster/Ron Vincent Guitar Duo! A twenty dollar bill works wonders to support the Jazz Happy Hour that’s been continuous since the fall of 2002, 23 years and counting… byob… bring the kids… kids and student musicians get in free this evening. If your biological…
Thursday, November 20th – 7:30pm
Walker Talks! A Monthly Live Stream
Tonight: Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, published in 1962, helped spark the environmental movement, offering us a comprehensive understanding of the intricate and fragile relationships between living beings and the oceanic environment. Her previous three books, now called the Sea Trilogy, convey truly unfathomable mysteries, both scientifically accurate and poetically charged. Her childhood in the Alleghanies,…
Wednesday, November 19th – 6pm
A fundraiser for
7 Palestinian families
in Gaza
Bird & Beckett, a privately owned bookshop, weighs in: The contemporary suffering and persecution in Gaza, and in the West Bank, has been extreme and continues, though you’d hardly know it from the newspapers lately. What Hamas did on 10/7/23 is unforgivable and indefensible from where we stand. However, it is obvious to us that…
Tuesday, November 18th – 7pm
Brian Shepperd and Friends: A Reading
Brian Shepperd, a formerly incarcerated, currently recalibrated man and the author of Confessions of a Compassionate Felon convenes a conclave of friends to share spoken word, poetry, chapter & verse reading from their own books. Read more at th3rdbridge.com