Archive for August 2011
Seabop
Friday, September 2nd, 5:30 to 8:00 pm jazz in the bookshop Every Friday Evening It’s the first Friday of the month, and that means it’s time for Don Prell’s SeaBop Ensemble! Next Friday (the second Friday of the month) we host The Jimmy Ryan Quintet. Bird & Beckett’s Friday jazz sessions have been going on…
Read MorePoets Berkson/McNaughton
Monday, August 29th, 7:00 pm Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton POETS! Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton are contemporaries, friends and widely respected literary figures. In addition to their writings (more than a dozen books of poetry by Duncan since 1961, and a like number of volumes of…
Read MoreAnthony Brown & Friends
Sunday, September 4th, 5:30 & 6:30 pm – two sets Anthony Brown & Friends which way west? Sunday concert series Percussionist Anthony Brown, born of an African-American/Native American father and a Japanese mother, is a mainstay in a hugely influential movement that started locally three decades ago, as a handful of talented Asian-American musicians began…
Read MoreWalker Brents: Flintlock
Sunday, August 28th, 2:30 pm Walker Brents III’s Flintlock Tales Walker talks! quite a lot! and most interestingly on the last Sunday of each month at Bird & Beckett, barring the summer months– when he rambles the west to make sure the roads still lead on… and, thus far, they have. For many many years…
Read MoreJAZZ: There’s no stopping now
Jazz: there’s no stopping now! San Francisco holds its own as one of the key hubs of jazz in America, and we’re crazy for it in all its permutations Friday, August 26th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band With vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits adding her own sweet sound, this…
Read MorePoets Berkson/McNaughton-Moe-Rice/Sigafoos
POETS! Three Readings of Note Bird & Beckett continues to offer one of the liveliest poetry scenes of any bookshop in town– in this City of Poets! Monday, August 29th, 7:00 pm Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton Bill and Duncan are contemporaries, friends and widely respected literary figures. In addition to their writings (more than…
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