Sunday, November 18th:
Ron Crotty / Frank Phipps Duo

Sunday, November 18th – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series. Never a cover charge, but your generous donations help us pay the musicians.  All ages welcome! Ron Crotty is one of the very top players who link us directly back to the fertile San Francisco jazz scene of the late 1940s…

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Sunday, November 11th:
Hawkeye – a jazz quartet

Sunday, November 11th — 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series. Your generous donations help us pay the bands.  All ages welcome! Mas Koga (sax). Grant Levin (piano). Sam Bevan (bass). Bryan Bowman (drums). Hawkeye is a collaboration of extremely fine young jazz players–all active musicians on the local scene who have…

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Sunday, November 11th
Two poets read their work
Katherine Hastings and Toni Mirosevich

Sunday, November 11th – 2:00 pm Katherine Hastings grew up in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco, a city that has deeply influenced her poems.  She is the author of Cloud Fire (Spuyten Duyvil NYC, 2012) and several chapbooks, including Updraft (Finishing Line, 2010).  Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and other…

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Pugsley Buzzard
Stride piano professor on tour
from Down Under

Sunday, November 4th – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series Never a cover charge, but your generous donations help us pay the performers.  All ages welcome! Pugsley Buzzard, once again on tour from Australia, returns to the Bird & Beckett stage for the second year running.  He’s a consummate artist, serving up a…

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Poets Junior Clemens
and Meredith Stricker
read their work

Sunday, November 4th – 2:00 pm Poets Junior Clemens & Meredith Stricker read from recently published works. Junior Clemons received his MFA in Creative Writing at the California College of the Arts. His work can be found in Actually People, Zen Monster, the Newer York, and other fine publications. He was born, lives and writes…

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