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in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six

 

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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!

New series: Alternative Acts: Seeking Truth Above #F
Music on the “out” side – first show April Fool’s Day
Sunday, April 1st – 4:30-6:30 pm
Ouroboros
$10-15 suggested donation; students $5
 

The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project
and the Jazz Philanthropists Union,
with financial support from the
Zellerbach Family Foundation,
present

Alternative Acts: Seeking Truth Above #F

a series of six concerts beginning April Fools Day
and concluding May 20th

 

April Fools Day:
Ourboros
Sheldon Brown, bass clarinet,
tenor saxophone and clarinet
Clark Coolidge, drums
Andrew Joron, theremin
Joseph Noble, flute, alto flute,
alto saxophone and soprano saxophone

 

The “Alternative Acts” series is devoted to improvised and other avant garde musical approaches by locally based artists:

April Fool’s Day, Ouroboros
Sheldon Brown and Joseph Noble, reeds;
Andrew Joron, theremin; Clark Coolidge, drums

April 18th, Dalachinsky:Cherkovski:Coolidge
3 poets, with a musician or two tba

–  April 20th,  Drummer Scott Amendola’s 3-in-1
with Raffi Garabedian, saxophone and Zach Ostroff, bass

April 21st, animals and giraffes
Phillip Greenlief, saxphones and Bb clarinet

Claudia La Rocco, text and voice
Danishta Rivero, voice and electronics
John Shiruba, electric and acoustic guitars and preparations

May 5th, Dark Metals
David Boyce, saxophones/EFX

David Ewell, bass
Cairo McCockran, drums

May 20th, the Kasey Knudsen Quartet
Kasey Knudsen, sax; Lorin Benedict, vocals

Ben Goldberg, clarinet; Miles Wick, bass

 

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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.

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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

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