Archive for February 2015
Sunday, April 12th – 7:30 p.m.
Happy Birthday, Sam!
Raise a glass with us to Samuel Beckett, with our fine friends from PUS Theatre Company, Beckett interpreters extraordinaire and good friends of the enterprise we lovingly call “Bird & Beckett.” Sam claimed to be born on Good Friday, April 13th, but averred he remembered life in the womb, so we’re not adverse to celebrating…
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Sunday, April 12th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Mark Levine Trio
Mark Levine wrote the book on jazz piano… specifically, The Jazz Piano Book (Sher Music, 2005 — but originally published in 1989), and has been instrumental in the education of many thousands of jazz pianists… He himself studied in Boston and New York with legendary figures Hal Overton, Herb Pomeroy and Jaki Byard. Along the…
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Saturday, April 11th – 8-11 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
Noel Jewkes
with the Grant Levin Quartet
Pianist Grant Levin leads a quartet every 2nd Saturday in our “jazz club” series– 8-11 pm, “when lights are low…” Tonight, Grant will be featuring reed player Noel Jewkes, with the able rhythm section assistance of Joe McKinley on bass and Rick Rivera on drums. Classic small group jazz in an intimate venue where every…
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Saturday, April 11th – 1 pm
Avotcja, 2015 Jazz Hero!
Join saxophone titan John Handy, jazz diva Denise Perrier, master trumpeter Eddie Gale and the Dynamic Miss Faye Carol (2014 Jazz Hero) — along with Modúpue bandmates Yancie Taylor, Sandi Poindexter, Jon Jang, Heshima Mark Williams, Val Serrant and Baba Ken Okulolo  — in honoring “2015 Jazz Hero” Avotcja on Saturday, April 11th at 1…
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Wednesday, April 8th – 7 pm
Gallery opening!
Greg Adams & Tom Baxter
Gallery Ex Libris, in the recesses of Bird & Beckett, features work by Greg Adams (assemblages) and Tom Baxter (drawings) through the end of April. Â Wednesday night at 7pm is the opening, and we hope to see you there! Gallery Ex Libris is curated by Jack Whittington. Visit galleryexlibris.com for information regarding submissions and past…
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Monday, April 6th – 7 pm
Poets Mike Tuggle & Bill Vartnaw
Two Laureates on one stage… and you in the open mic… Mike Tuggle, Sonoma County Poet Laureate Emeritus (2008-9), is celebrating the upcoming publication of The Motioning In, New & Selected Poems by Petaluma River Press due this spring.  He is also the author of Absolute Elsewhere (2004, Philos Press) & The Singing Itself (2009, Running…
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