Friday, July 22nd – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Chuck Peterson Quintet with vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits
Live jazz every Friday night at Bird & Beckett, from 5:30 to 8:00 pm This week: Â Chuck Peterson leads his quintet through two sets of standards and bebop, with singer…
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Monday, July 18th – 7-9 pm
poets Richard Voorhees & Mark Cormier
Nothing really is known to us of these poets, not having inquired into the wily machinations of m.c. Jerry Ferraz, whom we trust implicitly. Yet we remain sanguine that all…
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Memorial Gatherings for Lurilla Harris Tuesday, July 19th, Noon
at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, Franklin at Geary
and Wednesday, July 20, 2:30 pm at the St. Francis Lutheran Church, 152 Church St. near Market St.
Celebrate the life of Lurilla Harris! Lurilla was a marvel of a woman, a tenacious survivor despite a stroke some years ago, who made the rounds constantly, forging ahead with…
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Sunday, July 17th – 2 pm
Dual Author Event
Laurie Taylor & Richard Michael Levine
Two fiction writers, Laurie Taylor and Richard Michael Levine, share the stage at Bird & Beckett this Sunday afternoon. On remote Spanish island near the African coast, a Mexican American entomologist,…
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jazz club! when lights are low…
Saturday, July 16th – 7:30-10 pm
The Tim Lin Quartet
Tim Lin, saxophone; Seiji Yamashita, piano; Trevor Murphy, bass; Lewis Sweatt, drums. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Tim Lin is a rising jazz star whose progressive…
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Friday, July 15th – 5:30-8 pm
Guitarist Scott Foster, Bassist Dan Seamans, Clarinetist Cory Wright
Guitarist Scott Foster brings in a group on the 3rd Friday of each month. He first started playing Bird & Beckett in the fall of 2002. Ever since, it’s been…
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Sunday, July 10th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? presents
Karma Beats, a world jazz trio
Dynamic young players making their mark on the Bay Area jazz & club scene, vocalist Helen Loo, reed player Dan Magay and guitarist Justin Rock (subbing for Karma Beats core…
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Sunday, July 10th – 2 pm
A Celebration of Whitman McGowan!
Join Margery Snyder and friends of Whitman McGowan to celebrate his masterwork, UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE (Viridiana, 2015), collected performance texts 1985 – 2012, published one year ago, just a few months before…
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