Saturday, February 28th – 8-11 pm
Terrance Tony Quartet
plays jazz club
when lights are low…
Alto player Terrance Tony assembles the band each 4th Saturday of the month, drawing on some of the stellar players around the Bay Area. Â A couple of years ago,…
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Sunday, March 1st – 2 pm
Margot Pepper presents her latest…
American Day Dream
plus poet Clifton Ross
Margot Pepper introduces her new noir/sci fi novel, American Day Dream (Freedom Voices Press, 2015).  Joined by Clifton Ross, reading selected and new poems. “Margot Pepper’s literary incursion into Science…
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Friday, February 27th – 7 pm
Medea Isphording Bern on
San Francisco Jazz!
An excursion through the scrapbook of the music’s history in these parts, from Jelly Roll Morton passing through to Kid Ory in a longer sojourn, the post-WWII Fillmore jazz scene,…
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Sunday, February 22nd – 2:30 pm
Walker Talks!
the gifts of the nine muses…
Walker Brents III weaves a fascinating web of insight, association, speculation and delight the last Sunday of every month, following his muse where it takes him on topics divers — from…
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Sunday, February 22nd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Denise Perrier / Tammy Hall Trio
w/bassist Gary Brown
Vocalist Denise Perrier was born in Louisiana but moved with her family to the East Bay Area at the age of five, and has had a thirty-year career performing in the…
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Saturday, February 21st – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Destiny Muhammad Trio
Heshima Mark Williams presents the Destiny Muhammad Jazz Trio. Destiny Muhammad, harp Alex Baum, bass Jack Dorsey, drums Destiny Muhammad’s genre ‘Celtic to Coltrane’ is cool and eclectic with a…
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Friday, February 20th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Ensemble
plays from a 1970s bag
Scott Foster leads his quartet through territory not so often explored on the Bird & Beckett bandstand.  Remember the 1970s?!? Jim Peterson, reeds; Mike Bordelon on bass; and Ricky Carter on…
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Monday, February 16th – 7 pm
Poets Ronald Sauer & Robert Anbian
open mic follows
Ron Sauer is a native New Yorker and a leading light of the North Beach art and poetry scene, known for trenchant social satires and poignant love poems and for…
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Sunday, February 15th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Ouroboros
With Clark Coolidge on drums and Andrew Joron on theremin, Ouroboros is definitely a poets’ band, but the music is the thing for sure. Â Sheldon Brown, one of the very…
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Sunday, February 15th – 2:00 pm
Poet Kim Shuck celebrates her new collection, Clouds Running In
Kim Shuck presents poems from her new collection, Clouds Running In, (Taurean Horn Press, 2014). Kim Shuck is a poet, weaver, educator doer of piles of laundry, planter of seeds,…
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