jazz on the weekend
Friday, 6pm – 230 Jones Street
Friday, 8:30pm – Joyce McBride Trio
Saturday, 7:30pm – Hal Richards Quintet
Sunday, 5pm – Jam Session!
Jazz is our sweet spot. Make it yours. Support what we do in that regard! Make a donation to our 501(c)3 nonprofit and bring cash to the shows! Bird &…
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Thursday, April 24th – 7:30pm
Writer/Director Megan Robertson
a reading of her theatrical documentary
If San Francisco Collapses
Join us for a reading of “If San Francisco Collapses,” a new documentary theatre play by Megan Robertson. As we live in an age defined by technological advancements, this play…
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Tuesday, April 22nd – 7pm
Journalist/Ukraine war correspondent
Jen Stout and her book
Night Train to Odesa:
Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War
Night Train to Odesa just won a major award in the UK, and was abridged for BBC Radio 4. It sits between memoir, reportage, and literary journalism, and has been praised for its…
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From the website of Senator Bernie Sanders: WASHINGTON, April 3 – After filing Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) to block the sale of two of the most egregious Trump Administration…
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Monday, April 21st – 7:30-9:30pm
Oakland School for the Arts
Alumni Quintet
home for a minute from China
and headed back to their post-OSA schools…
The Oakland School for the Arts Alumni Quintet brings together musicians whose roots trace back to the halls of OSA, where they studied under the mentorship of the legendary Dave…
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Monday April 21st to Sunday April 27th
Jazz musicians 18 to 80,
a war correspondent,
a playwright & her actors…
From Monday to Sunday, you can catch great jazz, hear from a Scottish war correspondent who left Moscow for Ukraine at the beginning of the war and is briefly on…
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Wednesday 4/16 through Sunday 4/20…
seven events
starting with jazz plays gospel & soul, and
capped Sunday by Gatsby revelations
and the Vince Lateano Trio
Seven Events in Five Days
From gospel to Brazilian choro, poetry to literary investigation and celebration, and all that jazz, Bird & Beckett offered you a lot this past week and capped it off with…
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Wednesday, April 16th – 7:30pm
Songs for Salvation: “Jazz Plays Spirituals”
Neil Adler & Gospel Interfaith Vocals
In troubled times music is a salve for the soul. This ‘Jazz plays Spirituals’ concert features Neil Adler (piano/bass), Michael Turner (voice/piano), David Adler (bass) and John Anning (drums). Neil…
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Kim Shuck’s VirtualPoets – 2nd & 4th Mondays
Monday, April 14th – 7pm
Poet Fatemeh Shams
Open mic follows
Fatemeh Shams is the author of When They Broke Down the Door (Mage 2016), which won Latifeh Yarshater’s Annual Book Award, and Hopscotch (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024) which won the 2023 Poetry…
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April in Frisco! Grab a flight & join us!
Fight the power with music & culture!
Saturday (4/12) from 7:30-9:30pm, the Levit-Behrman Quintet, with Joel Behrman, trumpet; Jesse Levit, alto sax; Matt Clark, piano; Josh Thurston-Milgrom, bass; Jeff Marrs, drums. There’s a lot to be said…
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