Saturday, April 23rd – 4-6pm
Grant Levin / Pepe Jacobo Duo

February 20, 2016

Two sets of jazz from a master pianist and a wonderful drummer.

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Friday, April 22nd – 5:30-8 pm
The Chuck Peterson Quintet, featuring Dorothy Lefkovits

jazz in the bookshop every Friday, since 2002

February 20, 2016

The Chuck Peterson quintet, aka the 230 Jones Street, Local Six Literary Jazz Band, features Chuck and Howard Dudune on reeds, Glen Deardorff on guitar, Dean Reilly on bass and…

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Monday, April 18th – 7-9 pm
POETS! Paula Tejeda reads her work!
open mic follows

1st & 3rd Mondays Reading Series, Jerry Ferraz, m.c.

February 19, 2016

Paula Tejeda is a force of nature! Want to hear her poetry? You bet you do! Open mic follows. Read about Paula’s life as the Chile Lindo empanada lady at…

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Sunday, April 17th – 7:30-10 pm
Jinx Jones & His Jazz-A-Billy All-Stars

canyon moonlight music series
every Sunday night… ’til the Riptide returns!

February 19, 2016
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Sunday, April 17th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Richard Sears Quartet

which way west? Sunday concert series

February 19, 2016

Richard Sears is a highly regarded and well traveled young pianist and composer.  Raised in Palo Alto and having lived and worked for a significant stretch in Los Angeles, he’s…

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Sunday, April 17th – 2 pm
A National Poetry Month Reading featuring
Marina Lazzara, Julie Rogers, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux,
Ava Koohbor & Sarah Menefee

February 19, 2016
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Friday, April 15th – 5:30-8 pm
The Dave Len Scott Quartet: “Blessed Mix” – the new CD

jazz in the bookshop! Every Friday

February 19, 2016

The Dave Len Scott Quartet: Dave Scott trumpet Scott Foster, guitarDaniel Fabricant bassSurya Prakasha drumscelebrate the release of their new cd, “Blessed Mix.” The Dave Len Scott Quartet performs regularly…

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Sunday, April 10th – 7:30-10 pm
Joe Goldmark & the Seducers
pay tribute to Merle Haggard

canyon moonlight music series… ’til the Riptide returns

February 13, 2016

Joe Goldmark is the pedal steel king of San Francisco, and his band the Seducers just won’t quit. Mitch Polzak, the loquacious guitar wizard Mayor of Port Costa, and honey-voiced…

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Sunday, April 10th – 4:30-6:30 pm: Sukhawat Ali Khan

February 13, 2016

Sukhawat Ali Khan is a singer and harmonium player expert in Qawwali (sufi devotional music) as well as the Pakistani/North Indian classical music of the Sham Chaurasi gharana. He is…

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Sunday, April 10th – 2 pm
Scholar Fred Martin gives a talk on presidential politics in the age of Abraham Lincoln

February 13, 2016

Fred Martin has devoted the last twenty years to research on Abraham Lincoln and served two terms as President of The Abraham Lincoln Institute in Washington, D.C. His research has…

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