Friday, June 26th – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Chuck Peterson Quintet

Every Friday evening at Bird & Beckett, the neighborhood — and folks from foreign climes and Bay Area aeries — assemble “after work” to enjoy each other’s company and the work of some of the fine jazz musicians who call the Bay Area home. The tradition here started in late 2002, when tenor player Chuck…

Read More

Sunday, June 21st – 2 pm
A Celebration for
Poet Neeli Cherkovski’s
The Crow & I
with honored guest Diane di Prima

Neeli Cherkovski’s newest volume of poetry, The Crow and I (R.L. Crow Publications, 2015) — following two works from the same publisher: Leaning Against Time (2004, PEN Award winner) and From the Canyon Outward (2009) — “again opens the window to the self as (Cherkovski) takes us deeper into his search for time, reason, redemption and love.” Joining Neeli…

Read More

Sunday, June 21st – 4:30 to 6:30 pm
EaR Candy Quartet!

Reedman Ralph Carney is pret’ near legendary, and plays around here and near and far with a multitude of projects. This one — EaR Candy Quartet — is constituted to test the proposition that “to steal from one artist is plagiarism but to steal from everybody is research.” Ralph goes on to say that EaR Candy…

Read More