$30 cover Cash or Venmo at the door. BYOB.

The tix are all called for at this point, but standing room
will be available day of show at $20 per person
on a first-come, first-served basis. So join the line
and take your chances! Bundle up!

Join us for a celebration of the Crooked Jades’ 30th Anniversary! It’s the last concert in 2024 for this amazing old-time band, and we’re delighted to host it! Like Alfred Nobel’s little blast palace in the park, the Jades are a part of Glen Park history!

The Crooked Jades’ roots are in Glen Park, where Jades leader and co-founder Jeff Kazor lived for 20 years down the block above Hal & Susan’s hardware store — now sadly gone.

In the early days of the band, the core trio of Jeff, Lisa Berman and Erik Pearson took their music down to the street on the weekends, playing for hours in front of Higher Grounds Cafe. With the support of neighbors, the band was formed, released nine albums and played worldwide!

When Bird & Beckett opened five years after the band began, we immediately became fans and hosted shows whenever they could fit us into their busy lives. And amazing shows, they’ve been.

Tonight, the band comprises Jeff, Lisa and Erik, Amy Kassir on fiddle and Joshua Zucker on bass plus special guest pedal steel virtuoso Bruce Kaphan, a producer, mixer and an adjunct member of The Crooked Jades for the last 25 years. Bruce has played pedal steel for sessions with John Lee Hooker, Alison Krauss, R.E.M., Sheryl Crow, The Black Crowes, Love and Rockets, Francesco de Gregori, and Chris Isaak, plus toured with folks like Jewel and David Byrne.

The Crooked Jades are a force of nature. Provocative, seductive, alluring, and almost unbelievable, their repertoire sits deeply in old-time American tradition while bringing the music solidly into the global 21st century. This is sepia tones, bent angles, unexpected accents, unanticipated sounds…the antique and the modern.” Sing Out

**** “Few could make an album as striking as this…the highlights are the originals.” – Sylvie Simmons, Mojo Magazine, reviewing “Empathy Moves The Water”

“True to form, The Crooked Jades are alive and thriving and they just may have produced one of the best Americana albums of 2019” – FOLKWorks, reviewing “Empathy Moves The Water”

Writes Bluegrass Unlimited, “Chords in unexpected places, out of this world harmonies, and some of the most powerfully-arranged material I’ve ever encountered.”

“This San Francisco quintet keeps true to their old-time string band heart, yet in subtle, weird ways, they exaggerate the slightly-crazed aura of the rural pre-radio era music. It makes for a haunting, sophisticated trip to Appalachia. Mixing originals and traditional songs flawlessly, this might be the finest band to come out of the string-band resurgence.” – Boston Herald

“The two adjectives that keep coming to me during repeated listenings to The Crooked Jades are profound and transcendent. This is visionary music, forged from the raw materials of old-time forms and instruments. It’s easy to forget that the first old-time music recorded was a mirror of the times the musicians lived in. That was almost 100 years ago. Here, in the beginning of the 21st century, people in appreciable numbers are feeling as though they’re teetering on the brink of apocalyptic times. Through the lens of tradition, The Crooked Jades are voicing this feeling convincingly and beautifully.” – The Old-Time Herald

The Crooked Jades rehearsing for their 30th anniversary tour