Archive for October 2011
Jazz in the bookshop / patchen
Friday, November 4 – double date! jazz in the bookshop + the jazz of poetry: a Kenneth Patchen Moment Seabop rides the waves and then, Jonathan Clark reads from the poems of Kenneth Patchen while Don Prell lays down a bass line Every week, the neighborhood gathers for a long running jazz party we’ve hosted…
Read MoreBird & Beckett Book Club
Thursday, Nov. 3rd, 7 pm Book Club 1st Thursday of each month all welcome! Falconer, by John Cheever, will be the book discussed this week. Next up: Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom This group has been meeting monthly since long before there was a Bird & Beckett! Formed when our predecessor “Glen Park Books” was first established…
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October 30th – Sunday, 4:30 to 6:30 pm All ages welcome – no cover – kids free Suggested donation for adults – $10 Tango No. 9 which way west? Sunday afternoon concert series Tango No. 9 has been making audiences swoon for 13 years with their exquisite sets of classic, nuevo and orginal tangos, and…
Read MoreWalker Brents on Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh
Sunday, October 30 – 2:30 pm Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh Walker Talks! Expository explorations on literary, mythological & historical themes Walker Brents III can always be relied on to entertain and edify as he muses on topics of timeless interest — in this instance, the Shahnameh. Composed by the 10th century Persian poet Ferdowsi, the Shanameh recounts the…
Read MoreChuck Peterson Quintet – 10/28/11
Friday, October 28, 5:30 to 8:00 pm The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band aka The Chuck Peterson Quintet with vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits jazz in the bookshop every Friday! Tenor sax player Chuck Peterson finishes out the month’s schedule of Friday evening jazz sessions at Bird & Beckett with four long-time associates who…
Read MoreJinx Jones Jazzabilly All-Stars
which way west? Sunday concert series all ages welcome! $10 per adult suggested donation Sunday, October 23rd, 4:30 to 6:30 pm (two sets) Jinx Jones Jazzabilly All Stars Jinx Jones is a guitar star of the first magnitude on the San Francisco scene, effortlessly covering the bases from the Buck Owens sound of Bakersfield to…
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