Archive for May 2013
Saturday, June 15, 6:30 pm: POETBOOK, a reading from the illuminated manuscripts
Editor/Illuminator Brian Lucas is joined by a cohort of contributors to his ongoing illuminated book project, about which one might find more here: http://poetbook.tumblr.com/ Readers will include Micah Ballard, Gillian Conoley, Patrick James Dunagan, Derek Fenner, Andrew Joron, Ava Koohbor, Sara Larsen, Todd Melicker, Joseph Noble, Julien Poirier and Cedar Sigo.
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Sunday, June 9 at 3:00 p.m.
Afro-Cuban poet & essayist
Nancy Morejon
Nancy Morejon is likely the best known and most widely translated woman poet of post-revolutionary Cuba. Born in 1944 in Havana to a militant dock worker and a trade-unionist seamstress, Morejón graduated from Havana University. She has received the Critic’s Prize (1986) and the National Prize for  Literature (2001). She declares, “I am, at once, Nancy Morejon, an individual, a unity,…
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Pugsley Buzzard is Back!
Stride Piano Champ from Down Under
Sunday June 2nd, 4:30-6:30 pm
Don’t miss the rockin’ wonder from Down Under known as Pugsley Buzzard, playing his third solo show at Bird & Beckett.. Pugs is at once a rollicking stride piano master and a gravelly voiced singer, plumbing the extremes of dark fate and wry, whisky-soaked self-reflection. He plays barrelhouse blues & boogie woogie, growls his dark & titillating songs, and pumps out magnificent Harlem…
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Friday, May 31, 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop 5th Friday
The Dave Parker Quartet
Remember the halcyon days when Dave Parker’s jazzmen burned bright at the Red Rock Lounge down at the corner of Chenery & Diamond Street every Friday night! Jerry Logas, tenor sax; Charles Hamilton, trombone; Dave Parker bass; Greg German, drums.Â
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Saturday, June 15th, 3 to 5 pm
Harry Nilsson B’Day Fest!
Christopher Gray and J. Raoul Brody join forces with a crew of like-minded friends to pay birthday tribute to — and sing the songs of — Harry Nilsson! A delightfully motley bunch will delve deep into Harry’s career, doing hits he wrote for other people (Three Dog Night’s “One (is the Loneliest Number)”, the Monkees’…
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Sunday, June 9th, 4:30-6:30 pm:
Terry Rodriguez Trio
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, June 9th – 4:30-6:30 pm: Terry Rodriguez Trio Ranging over jazz terrain from bop to Bill Evans – pianist Terry Rodriguez with bassist Ron Crotty and drummer Tom Hassett.
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