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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Sunday, November 16th – 7:30-9:30pm
Allan Harris with the Sylvia Cuenca Trio
Allan Harris, vocals & piano Adam Shulman, piano Doug Miller, bass Sylvia Cuenca, drums $20 cover charge; byob. Students, 10. Allan Harris returns! Earlier this year, in March, Allan was…
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Sunday, November 16th – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with tenor saxophonist Bob Kenmotsu
Vince Lateano has been a mainstay of San Francisco jazz culture since he rousted out of the Army in 1965! His trio with bassist Peter Barshay and pianist Ben Stolorow…
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Saturday, November 15th – 7:30pm
The Rumi Abe Quartet
Rumi Abe, piano. Armen Krakirian, trumpet. Joshua Thurston-Milgrom, bass. Miles Turk, drums. $20 cover charge at the door (cash please). byob. Students, $10; kids free. For a seat reservation, call…
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Saturday, November 15th – 4:30pm
A reading for Woman Life Freedom:
Poems for the Iranian Revolution
Bänoo Zan & Cy Strom, co-editors of Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution, have invited poet Summer Brenner to join them in a reading of poems from their…
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Friday, November 14th – 8:30-10pm
Robert Heirendt’s Name & Form Ensemble
Robert Heirendt brings his “Name & Form” Ensemble to celebrate it’s just-released album. You’ll encounter original conceptions/compositions for mbira and saxophone, based on the meeting of traditional Zimbabwean trance music…
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Friday, November 14th – Two Shows!
Eric & the In Crowd at 6pm
Robert Heirendt’s Name & Form Ensemble
Album Release Concert at 8:30pm
Bring something to sip and a twenty for each band to either or both shows! Call ahead for a seat reservation — 415-586-3733. We’re a bookshop during the day and…
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