The New Squatoolas take you on a joyous romp in a New Orleans mode, playing the music of NOLA jazz, funk and soul pioneers – The Meters, Smokey Johnson, Fats Domino, The Nevilles, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, ‘Fess – as well as original compositions invoking the style and vibe of those and other greats of that bayou metropolis.     $20 cover charge; BYOB. Call the shop at 415-586-3733 for a reservation. Doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30pm show. Our events are live in the shop and also live streamed on our YouTube channel and Facebook page. Your kind donations while watching online help us pay the musicians and support the stream. $10 is nice if you’re online for a set or two. Every donation helps.

Drummer Tony Johnson leads a quartet on the 4th Friday of each month. And here it is the fourth Friday! But he’s out tonight; we’ll see him with the 230 Jones Street band at the end of December. His regular colleagues tenor player Bob Kenmotsu and pianist Keith Saunders have recruited Doug Miller to fill in for Eric Markowitz and Vince Lateano to fill in for Tony. Such is the wealth of talent available in the City of St. Francis in 2022. San Francisco’s a divine jazz town for sure. Tonight: Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax Keith Saunders, piano Doug Miller, bass Vince Lateano, drums Join us! BYOB and a twenty for the band. Our events are live in the shop and also live streamed on our YouTube channel and Facebook page. Your kind donations while watching online help us pay the musicians and support the stream. $10 is nice if…

Drive down to Bird & Beckett on Friday, with Thanksgiving and all its trimmings in the rear view. San Francisco born & bred Annette A. Aguilar is out west and stops in for some coquito & conga action with family and you, her newfound old time friends. After her teen years all over the latin music scene of the Mission District, she finished her B.Mus. in classical percussion at SFSU in the 1980s and headed for NYC where she’s been a force for decades — with her long-time ensemble Stringbeans, annual productions of Women in Latin Jazz festival concerts, and most recently as a member of Arturo O’Farrill’s BronX BandA unit. In town to be with family and play a few gigs, Annette will roll in to Bird & Beckett the day after Thanksgiving for some happy hour rumba n samba with local hero John Calloway — a Latin Jazz…

Two shows on Friday: a happy hour rumba and an evening of jazz with the Bob Kenmotsu Quartet to follow! Saturday, it’s the New Squatoolas bringing the spirit of New Orleans, and Sunday, jump blues and R&B quintet, the Cottontails followed by the Potrero Hillbillies playing the music of The Band and a few other things. Five shows in three days! Friday 11/25 at 5pm, Annette A. Aguilar’s Beans on the Left offers rumba n samba, featuring John Calloway! Pay what you want for this one, byob, and chillax! San Francisco born & bred Annette A. Aguilar, after her teen years spent all over the latin music scene of the Mission District,  finished her B.Mus. in classical percussion at SFSU in the 1980s and headed for NYC where she’s been a force on the Latin Jazz scene for decades — with her long-time ensemble Stringbeans, annual productions of Women in…

Bassist Peter Barshay and pianist Ben Stolorow join drummer Vince Lateano for two sets of jazz for your pleasure, and ours. BYOB and a twenty for the band! Our events are live streamed on our YouTube channel and Facebook page. Your kind donations while watching online help us pay the musicians and support the stream. $10 is nice if you’re online for a set or two. Every donation helps.

A couple dozen “cranky” and concise essays by our esteemed San Francisco Poet Laureate Emerita Kim Shuck were published just a month or two ago by our good friends at Andover Archives Press, just on the eve of a 9,000 ramble around the country. She’s back now & we’ll celebrate by joining Kim for a reading &  publication party, along with the folks who put out the book — Judy Bernhardt and Byron Spooner, and her driver, photographer, cook and soulmate, Doug Salin. And you. Of that ramble, says Kim, “It would have been bizarre if we’d seen nothing that enchanted us. The truth is that the land is still the place that has inspired writers, visual artists and sages of many generations. Face to face, in the diners and poetry venues, we still have more in common than we might like to believe. From Shreveport clawing together its aspirational…

    Sunday, November 20 – 4 pm – free – byob Kim Shuck hosts a reading to celebrate the new Beat Not Beat anthology Kim writes: Beat Not Beat is a collection of poems from poets Beat, Beat adjacent and parallel styles of writing. Many contemporary California writers benefit from literary stands taken by those writers who were designated Beat. This book features some of these. Kim and Beat Not Beat editor Rich Ferguson, up from L.A., will be joined by contributors Tongo Eisen-Martin, Marc Olmsted, Richard Modiano. V. Vale, Julie Rogers, Jessica Loos, Cassandra Dallett, Paul Corman-Roberts. Richard Loranger, Kitty Costello, Charlie Getter, Kelly Gray. K.R. Morrison. Wow. Sunday, November 20 – 7:30 pm – $20 – BYOB Rob Reich / Beth Goodfellow Trio with Ben Goldberg on clarinet and Dan Fabricant on bass Just days ahead of his appearance with the San Francisco Symphony supplying the accordion…

Daniel Fabricant on bass + Ben Goldberg on clarinet tonight! BYOB and a twenty for the band. Or donate & watch it in the stream on our facebook page or youtube channel! Rob Reich is quintessentially what makes the San Francisco music scene a vibrant and vital mecca for independent music; he’s become one of its stalwart underground artists. His music defies genre, combining strong melodic ideas, rhythmic drive, and a spirit of irreverence and experimentation. He is best known for his work with Tin Hat, Gaucho, and Circus Bella. Elizabeth Goodfellow, now based in Los Angeles, has been a long-time collaborator with Reich.  Beth grew up in Northern California’s San Joaquin Valley and started playing drums at age eleven at local harvest festivals. Her first professional drumming job was playing in the Air Force National Guard Band of the West Coast while studying classical percussion performance at San Jose…

Saturday, November 19 – 7:30pm – $25-30 sliding scale – BYOB The man, the legend, the rumor – Ben Goldberg Ben is here with Ben Goldberg’s Glamorous Escapades, an all-sex star-tet! Who’s in this band, you ask? How about Rob Sudduth, tenor saxophone; Danny Lubin-Laden, trombone; Will Bernard, electric guitar; Owen Clapp, electric bass; Jordan Glenn, drums; and himself, Ben Goldberg, clarinet and compositions? How about?

Friday, November 18 – 7:30pm – $20 – BYOB Scott Foster joins forces with the Vince Lateano Trio Scott Foster, guitar Ben Stolorow, piano Peter Barshay, bass Vince Lateano, drums

  Pedal steel master Joe Goldmark, who has more recordings to his credit than a catfish has whiskers, leads a crackerjack combo playing America’s other classical music, in cahoots with Mitch Polzak, Hank Maninger and Kenny Owen. And yes, you can view it in the stream, but it’s much more lively in person down here in Glen Park. BYOB and a twenty for the band! Seating at 4:45 for the 5pm show. BYOB and a twenty for the band! For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Also live streamed on our YouTube channel and Facebook page. Your kind donations while watching online help us pay the musicians and support the stream.

San Francisco journalist Denise Sullivan conducts a monthly series of conversations (the second Sunday of each month from 10-11 a.m.) with The City’s activists, educators, arts and cultural leaders and lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we call home, live streamed from Bird & Beckett Books. November 13, at 10 a.m., Denise and Josiah Luis Alderete will have a conversation from our stage in a live stream viewable on the Bird & Beckett Facebook page and YouTube channel. During the pandemic, poet Alderete, joined forces with a couple of friends and fulfilled a long held vision: To open a bookstore in the Mission District. Medicine for Nightmares is not only a bookstore; it’s a gallery and community space with a commitment to supporting the local literary and arts community and its historically Spanish-speaking neighborhood, 24th Street in San Francisco. Alderete’s recent poetry collection Baby Axolotls y…

Radical organizer and Chicago alderman Helen Shiller presents Daring to Stuggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago’s Uptown Community (Haymarket Books, 2022), her book about Chicago resistance politics. Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in Wisconsin, to a member of a collective of white allies of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, to an elected city council person who helped break the back of the racialized opposition to Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor. Early on, Shiller was deeply engaged in the fight against the gentrification of a unique economically and racially mixed Chicago community on the Northside. With insight into historic community organizing and political battles in Chicago from the 1970s through 2010, her book details numerous policy fights and conflicts in Chicago during that time, illuminating recurrent political themes and battles that remain relevant to this day. Also live streamed on our YouTube channel…

The jaded hopes and wistful dreams of Rolf Wilkinson, vocals, guitar and compositions Safa Shokrai, bass Vamaken Bedrosian, trombone. Check the Tin Cup Serenade website for insight! Tonight, doors open at 7:20 for the 7:30pm show. BYOB and a twenty for the trio. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. Also live streamed on our YouTube channel and Facebook page. Your kind donations while watching online help us pay the musicians and support the stream.