Saturday, July 18th – 7:30pm
Kristen Strom / Jhoely Garay
Brazilian Quintet
Kristen Strom, saxophone Jhoely Garay, guitar Scott Sorkin, guitar Nick Panoutsos, bass Jim Kassis, drums $25 cover charge at the door (cash, please!) / byob. Students $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Kristen Strom and Scott Sorkin are a musical couple who are two of the Bay Area’s most in-demand…
Friday, July 17th – 7:30pm
Guitar Madness
Scott Foster + Myles Boisen
Scott Foster & Myles Boisen,guitars. Lisa Mezzacappa, bass. Jon Arkin, drums. $20 cover charge (cash, please) / byob. Students $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. The Mad Explorations Of Scott Foster & Myles Boisen swinging their axes through tangled thickets. Holy Les Paul, Batman! two guitarists tinker with tunes not…
Thursday, July 16th – 6:30pm
Glen Park Association Meeting
All welcome! Meet your neighbors! Get involved in your neighborhood! Join the GPA if you’re not already a member. Annual dues still just $10. Sign up for the GPA newsletter here: https://www.glenparkassociation.org/
Wednesday, July 15th – 7:30pm
LABORFEST EVENT
A talk by Prof. Joel Eis:
“Left off the Program: The Censored History of Labor Theatre in America, 1880-1940”
Since the McCarthy era theatre text have consistently expunged any mention of important contributions from the Left to the American Theatre. Professor Joel Eis, author of five previous books on theater and politics and a radical theatre practitioner in the 1960s, has unearthed and compiled the story of this sixty-year movement. From the first use…
Sunday, July 12th – 8pm
Freddie Bryant’s Kaleidoscope West Trio
Freddie Bryant – guitar/voice. Sylvia Cuenca – drums. Doug Miller – bass. Cover charge – $20; byob. Students – $10. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Freddie’s Kaleidoscope West Trio presents Poems, Groove and Song: a special program curated for Bird and Beckett’s intimate space. The music is based on a kaleidoscope of…
Sunday, July 12th – 5pm-7pm
Two Happy Hours with Mitch & Joe!
Mitch Polzac & the Royal Deuces
with pedal steel maestro Joe Goldmark
Sundays at 5pm is our happy hour slot every week. Stay for a tune, stay for two sets. Come when you like and leave when you like, and pay what makes sense to you. Bring something to sip if you like — but we have Hetch Hetchy’s finest reservoir tapped, if it’s water you’re craving….
Saturday, July 11th – 7:30pm
Takezo Blues Band
Takezo Takeda, guitar and vocals. Chris Burns, piano. Karl Severeid, bass. Paul Revelli, drums. $20 cover charge / byob — cash at the door, please! Students $10. Reservations welcome. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. From Shinjuku to San Francisco, it’s an electric blues bonanza!
Friday, July 10th – 7:30pm
Eric & the In Crowd blow tropical!
Eric Shifrin, piano and vocals. Raul Ramirez, drumset & percussion. Heath Proskin, bass. $20 cover charge (cash at the doors, please). Students, $10. Kids free. For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733. Eric Shifrin has been wowing the swells and the swindlers in San Francisco for decades, from the commonest saloon to the…
Tuesday, July 7th – 7pm
Nancy Kurshan
Levitating the Pentagon
a book release reading
YIPPEE! I think I saw it move! Did you see it move!?!? Nancy Kurshan, a founding member of the Yippies and lifelong activist, is coming to Bird & Beckett with her new book. “EQUAL PARTS REVEALING MEMOIR, VALUABLE HISTORICAL DOCUMENT, AND GALVANIZING GUIDE TO FOLLOWING ONE’S BELIEFS.” – Publishers Weekly The Oakland author and lifelong…
Sunday, July 5th – 7:30pm
The After the End of the World Coretet
The After the End of the World Coretet formed in San Francisco in the summer of 1989. All four member of the group are composers, long-time practitioners, and devotees of music to the core. This iteration of the group is the same as on the recording called ’13’, and features Annelise Zamula on saxophones and…