“What the hell kind of church service is this?”

— STEVE KOTLER, LA WEEKLY

Don’t miss church on Sunday! At the ungodly hour of 11 a.m. on July 20th, The Evangenitals return to Bird & Beckett with a reprise of their Moby Dick album and much, much more. Bird & Beckett’s favorite band delivers the sacrament at a National Caviar Day booking up in Marin on Saturday, and preaches to the choir at Bird & Beckett Sunday morning before loading the van to return to the Southland and their workaday world of wonder.

But first… 

Wednesday 7/16 – 7-9pm.
no charge, but donations can’t hurt, so honor labor!
Laborfest Writers Group.
Poetry, memoir, fiction and nonfiction by rabble-rousers, activists, leftist radicals, union members, immigrants, native-born and plain old trouble-makers. The group, formed in 2005, includes Alice Elizabeth Rogoff, Barbara Saunders, Jerry Path, Keith David Cooley, Margaret Cooley, Nellie Wong, Robert Eugenio Rubino and Susan Ford.

Thursday 7/17 – 7-9pm.
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free.
They’re a honky tonk band, and they don’t want to stop!
they’re…
Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces.
Guitar rave-ups, outlaw country and trucking songs, Mitch originals,
classics from Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard and Red Simpson and more.
Joe Goldmark on pedal steel guitar, Tim Wagar on bass & Paul Revelli on drums

Friday 7/18 – 6-8pm.
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free.
The Scott Foster Combo
Bird & Beckett’s favorite jazz guitarist brings a fresh aggregation
of local jazz greats on the third Friday of every month.
He’s been the cornerstone of the Bird & Beckett jazz scene
for nearly a quarter century, ever since the
Friday happy hour show was inaugurated in 2002!

Friday 7/18 – 8:30-10pm.
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free.
Lisa Mezzacappa: Cosmicomics Revisited.
Dreamy, playful, and richly layered music inspired by
Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics stories
Aaron Bennett, tenor sax; Mark Clifford, vibraphone
Kyle Bruckmann, modular synth; Brett Carson, keyboard
Jordan Glenn, drums; Lisa Mezzacappa, bass

Saturday 7/19 – 7:30-9:30pm
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free
The Charles Thomas Quartet
pure jazz with a little soul ‘n r&b
personnel tba

Sunday 7/13 – 5-7pm
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free
The Vince Lateano Trio
with special guest tba
jazz for sure
Ben Stolorow, piano; Peter Barshay, bass; Vince Lateano, drums

Sunday 7/20 – 11am to 1pm
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free
The Evangenitals
Juli Crockett, playwright, champion boxer, ordained minister and prolific songwriter,
leads a miraculous band that at its most expansive includes Juli on guitar and vocals;
Michael Feldman, keys; Joey Maramba, bass; Andrea Baker, fiddle;
Cody Farwell, guitar/lap steel; Tony Graziani, viola, electric mandolin and harmonica;
and Rob Shaffer and Nick Stone, drums and percussion.