Archive for October 2011
jazz in the bookshop
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002! all ages welcome! $10 per adult suggested donation Friday, October 21st, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Aran-Foster-Peterson-Prell The third Friday of each month, three founders of our nine-year old series of Friday jazz parties join forces with a guest drummer to keep the bebop flame burning bright on…
Read MoreMeltzer on Stage
Sunday, October 16 – 2 pm Maestro David Meltzer The Stuntman! Interviewed on the Bird & Beckett stage by Gerry Fialka David just wowed ’em in the Mission, at our Litquake reading at Kaleidoscope, trading “fours” with his new bride Julie Rogers and then dazzling ’em all with his fleet-footed delivery of the newly penned…
Read MoreParlor Tricks
Sunday, October 16th, 4:30 & 5:30 pm (two sets) Suggested donation $10 per adult kids always free! Parlor Tricks Industrial Ragtime Band which way west? Sunday concert series Imagine a New York Sunday morning in the spring of 1904, the electric streetlights winking off and Reverend Edward Martin Waller making his way from the maternity…
Read MoreLitquake – B&B at Kaleidoscope
Thursday, October 13th, 7:00 pm Six at Kaleidoscope: San Francisco Poets For the Ages Buddhists, Beats & Beyond! Bird & Beckett at Litquake (offsite at 24th St & Folsom) Bird & Beckett takes its show to the Mission District to meet Litquake on its own turf! Poets David Meltzer, Neeli Cherkovski, Latif Harris, Julie Rogers,…
Read MoreLitquake – Micah Ballard & Alli Warren
Monday, October 10th, 7 pm Micah Ballard + Alli Warren – POETS! Litquake at Bird & Beckett Litquake and Bird & Beckett both got their start in San Francisco in 1999, and we’re proud to be participating in that amazing city-wide literary festival for the first time with two events this week! First off, tonight…
Read MoreDon Prell’s SeaBop Ensemble
jazz in the bookshop every Friday since 2002! Friday, October 7th, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble The first Friday of each month, bassist Don Prell puts together a combo and puts them through their paces, chasing down the bebop changes that continue to intrigue and delight us. This week, reed & flute…
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