Sunday, February 9th,
two extremes of beauty!
rock n’ roll plus a string quartet!
1 pm – The Optimals
4:30 pm – The Temescal Quartet
At 1:00 pm, some neighborhood youths will strap on guitars & all the rest for a set of rock ‘n’ roll — They’re The Optimals & they’re ready to take on…
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Monday, February 3rd at 7 pm
POETS!
Our twice-monthly 1st & 3rd Mondays series of featured poets
plus an open mic
Tonight, poet QR Hands “trades fours” with improvising pianist Walter Earl. Trading fours is a jazz tradition, where members of an ensemble take turns stepping up to the mic for…
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Sunday, February 2nd, 1:30 pm
Tangents Turkey Music Tour Preview
Sixteen Days in Turkey…Ten Nights of Music Dore Stein’s Tangents Turkey Music Tour promo concert & talk Sunday, Feb. 2nd, 1:30-3:00 pm (before you might need to hustle over to Glen Park…
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Sunday, February 2nd – 4:30 to 6:30 pm
The Michael Parsons Trio
Among the handful of astonishingly talented young piano players on the San Francisco jazz scene, Michael is often heard at Bird & Beckett on the first Friday of the month…
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January 31st: Fifth Friday
“jazz in the bookshop”
The Dave Parker Quartet
Bassist Dave Parker leads this group, which features trombonist Charles Hamilton, reed player Jerry Logas and drummer Bob Marshall. Â Sizzling jazz, like you used to hear down on the corner…
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Sunday, January 26, 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Amazigh (Berber) musician
Moh Alileche & Ensemble
music of North Africa
Moh Alileche, born in Kabylia in the mountains of Algeria, came to the San Francisco Bay Area and took up residence in 1990. Â A few years ago, in 2011,…
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Sunday, January 26th, 2:30-4:00 pm
Lines & Letters:
A Hydra-Headed Poetic Symposium
Walker Brents III offers a contemplative glance of the poem as a whole image of itself. See with the ears, Hear with the eyes. The…
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which way west? concert series
every Sunday, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Jan: 19: Rob Reich Trio
Rob Reich, piano and accordion. Todd Sickafoose, bass. Eric Garland, drums. Nothin’ but jazz!
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Sunday, January 19th, 2 pm
A reading by contributors to
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry
A reading by Susan Cohen, Lucille Lang Day, Julia B. Levine, Colleen McKee, Melissa Stein, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. With works by over 100 poets, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, edited by Deborah…
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