653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
[email protected]
Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
Live Streams every weekend!
Refresh your browser to catch a show in progress!
Visit our Facebook page or YouTube channel!
But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
“What the hell kind of church service is this?”
— STEVE KOTLER, LA WEEKLY
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 south of the slot 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 – 7:30-9pm.
Laborfest Writers Group.
no charge, but donations can’t hurt,
so honor labor,
and bring some cash
for the writers to share!
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.
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Thursday 7/17 – 7:30-9:30pm.
They’re a honky tonk band, and they don’t want to stop!
they’re…
Mitch Polzak
& the Royal Deuces.
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free.
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
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Friday 7/18 – 6-8pm.
The Scott Foster / Ollie Dudek Duo.
$15/adults; $5/students; kids/free.
Bird & Beckett’s favorite jazz guitarist brings in a fresh aggregation of local jazz greats on the third Friday of every month.
Scott has 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!
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Friday 7/18 – 8:30-10pm.
Lisa Mezzacappa: Cosmicomics Revisited.
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free.
$30-$40 requested from those who recognize the value of a sextet!
We at Bird & Beckett are proud of our consistent effort through the years
to pay a guaranteed fair wage to the Bay Area’s professional jazz musicians,
and pleased with the support we receive from our patrons in that quest.
Dreamy, playful, and richly layered music inspired by
Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics stories.
Read more here!
Aaron Bennett, tenor sax; Mark Clifford, vibraphone
Kyle Bruckmann, modular synth; Brett Carson, keyboard
Jordan Glenn, drums; Lisa Mezzacappa, bass
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Saturday 7/19 – 4:00-8:30pm
Come to our table at the Night Market on Kern Alley, just steps away from the Glen Park BART station, and buy a totebag or a t-shirt while supplies last! Or a vintage poster from one of our thousands of shows in the years gone by… and talk to some of our neighbors who have volunteered to be on hand to tell folks what Bird & Beckett is all about and to press a schedule on you… Share your own stories of Bird & Beckett with them and jot down a testimonial we can quote in the fundraising drive we’re about to launch! Even if you want to hang at the Night Market ’til the lights go out, you’ll still have time to scoot over to the store to catch the second set of our Saturday night jazz concert!
Saturday 7/19 – 7:30-9:30pm
The Charles Thomas Trio
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free
pure jazz with soul, & a li’l r&b
Ben Ball, saxophone
Greg Jacobs, piano
Charles Thomas, bass & vocals
Michael Spencer, drums
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Sunday 7/20 – 5-7pm
The Vince Lateano Trio
with special guest Brad Buethe on guitar
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free
jazz for sure
Ben Stolorow, piano
Peter Barshay, bass
Vince Lateano, drums
and don’t forget…
early that morning, 7/20 – 11am
Sunday come to meetin’ & hear
The Evangenitals
preach to the queer and the choir
$20/adults; $10/students; kids/free
Juli Crockett, playwright, champion boxer, ordained minister and prolific songwriter, leads a miraculous alt-folk 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.
Dig it!
That’s right: hot off their Saturday night revels at a
National Caviar Day event south of Market,
they’ll roll into the shop for an 11 a.m. revival meeting–
then they hop in the van and it’s back to the southland they go!
There’s work to do saving America’s soul!
Juli says they’re bringing the whole band!
And the voice of god on this video seems to confirm it!
https://www.facebook.com/evangenitals/videos/2751470221707493?idorvanity=1912766706227043
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The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project
Our events are put on under the umbrella of the nonprofit Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (the "BBCLP"). That's how we fund our ambitious schedule of 300 or so concerts and literary events every year.
The BBCLP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit...
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The Independent Musicians Alliance
Gigging musicians! You have nothing to lose but your lack of a collective voice to achieve fair wages for your work!
The IMA can be a conduit for you, if you join in to make it work.
https://www.independentmusiciansalliance.org/
Read more here - Andy Gilbert's Feb 25 article about the IMA from KQED's site