The GG Amos Trio with Lincoln Adler on sax, Greg Sankovich on keyboards and bass and Randy Odell on drums celebrate the Independence Day weekend. Guitarist / Vocalist GG Amos is an artist in the West Coast Blues tradition, raised in Sacramento and now based in San Francisco.  She’s honed her craft as a songwriter and entertainer utilizing the soul, jazz, funk and latin elements that make west coast blues what it is. For the past 26 years GG has earned a reputation as a riveting performer with a distinctive, expressive guitar style and an emotionally charged fluid voice…always emphasizing soulful communication with her audience.  Her guitar influences include Carlos Santana, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, Magic Sam, Kenny Burrell and Pat Metheny. As a vocalist, her influences have been many but says she learned more about expression, timing and phrasing from the great Louis Armstrong than any other singer. GG’s original songs…

To us, nothing suits the 4th of July weekend as well as a trad jazz party, and few can rival the Buena Vista Jazz Band in bringing that spirit to life. Singer Darlene Langston is featured, with Noel Weidcamp on cornet, John Hunt on trombone, Don Neely on clarinet, soprano sax and alto sax, Si Perkoff on piano, Duncan James on guitar, Al Obidinski on bass and Greg Gotelli on drums. Some call it Dixieland and think of striped sport coats and straw hats and that’s surely part of it, but jazz musicians will tell you that trad jazz is all about the exuberance and intricate abandon of the New Orleans bands of Buddy Bolden, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory and many more.  Come out to enjoy the music!  

Two top Bay Area tenor sax players meet up on the Bird & Beckett stage, with a fine rhythm section.  Miles Wick, bass, and Evan Hughes, drums, add their own excitement to the proceedings.

Friday, 5:30-8 pm, September 30. Phillip Greenlief, sax Dan Seamans, bass Tom Hassett, drums Hank Williams and Herbie Nichols, Billy Strayhorn and Nino Rota, Irving Berlin and Joni Mitchell, Beck and Bjork.  And that was just where they stood five years ago. You’ll hear where they’re going these days when you get in here on Friday at the end of the long dusty trail that is your conventional work week, or the confusing and ion-free labyrinth that is your unconventional life-work imbalance. Two dozen years ago, Phillip, Dan and Tom started working out some of these ideas. They’re still working them out. No cover. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t plan to help us pay them, though.

Guy  Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016) was dubbed a “king of the Texas troubadours” by that humble southern rag, the New York Times, and they were likely right on the mark. Misisipi Mike and a few great friends from the San Francisco Americana music scene will gather Sunday night, June 26th to pick and sing their way through just a small part of the Guy Clark songbook.  You’ll hear plenty of tunes you didn’t know were his, songs made into hits by artists including  Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, and Rodney Crowell. Clark, born in Monahans, Texas, became a cornerstone of the Nashville scene, providing copious amounts of material to numerous outlaw and progressive country artists. His songs “L.A. Freeway” and “Desperados Waiting for a Train” helped launch his career and were covered countless times by others. Clark won the 2014 Grammy Award for…

Music industry veterans–country rockers–gifted songwriters–guitar pickers–vocalists adept at working in tandem to create harmonic magic, this band grew out of a winter of music and many more nights spent in front of living room fires, glowing with stories of music industry horrors, tales of perils of the road, memories of old alliances and changing times. Most importantly, nights filled with the sound of the music of veteran singer songwriters sharing what they do best. In the ensuing years, the alliance of Marty Atkinson, George Kincheloe & Scotty Beynon has made an indelible mark on the Northern California scene. In Frank Cefalu, well known as a member of the western swing band Back in the Saddle, they’ve found a kindred spirit, a sympathetic sensibility and a voice that fits theirs like a glove. In their association as Atkinson Kincheloe Beynon & Cefalu, the four are dedicated to “music made by friends…