Archive for June 2012
Weekend of June 22-24 & June 29-July 1
June 29-July 1 6/29 – Friday – jazz in the bookshop Special Fifth Friday Booking! Mad & Eddie Duran Eddie Duran, born in San Francisco in 1925, had become one of the top jazz guitarists on the local scene by the late 1940s. He got the call to play in Charlie Parker’s band at the…
Read MoreSunnylynn Thibodeau + Noel Black & Cralan Kelder
Monday, June 18, 7 pm POETS! plus an open mic! so bring your best… hosted by Jerry Ferraz — 1st & 3rd Monday of each month Noel Black lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, artist Marina Eckler, and their son Ursen. Co-founder with Ed Berrigan of LOG Magazine and publisher of the Angry Dog…
Read Morejazz + Loren Bell/Sharon Doubiago + Jinx Jones
Next weekend (June 22-24): Friday – jazz in the bookshop w/The Chuck Peterson Quintet Saturday – shop for books! Sunday – 2pm – Poets/Writers Loren Bell & Sharon Doubiago: The Things They Carried Sunday – 4:30pm – which way west? Sunday Concert Series Jinx Jones & the Jazzabilly All Stars
Read MorePrell/Foster + Phipps & Aran
Friday, June 15 – 5:30 to 8:00 pm The Third Quartet jazz in the bookshop every Friday evening without fail! On the third Friday of each month, a quartet made up of series founders Chuck Peterson (tenor sax), Scott Foster (guitar) and Don Prell (bass) augmented by drummer Ron Marabuto or Omar Aran (this month…
Read MorePoets Keuter, Sherling & Suarez + Orion’s Joy of Jazz + Poets Black, Kelder & Thibodeaux
Sunday & Monday 2 days – 6 poets – 4 jazz musicians Sunday, June 17 – 2:00 pm Poets! Matthew Keuter has published in journals across the U.S. and U.K. The Short Imposition of Living, a book length collection of poetry, is available from Rain Mountain Press. His plays have been produced in Alaska, Arizona, California,…
Read MoreAlice Rogoff’s Barge Wood + Maurice Tani: 77 El Deora
Sunday, June 10 – 2:30 pm Poet Alice Rogoff Barge Wood A reading of new work by a key local poet, co-editor of the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal. “The golden leaves form fan shaped piles on the sidewalk while a woman sleeps hugged to the pavement.” — from the poem, “Ginko Leaves Falling in the Tenderloin” Barge…
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