Archive for May 2015
Wednesday, August 5th – 7 pm
Art opening! Gallery Ex Libris
Cecilia Cacciatore: The Life & Times of an Aesthete – digital and instant photography
Come to the shop Wednesday night at 7 to hang with photographer/artist Cecilia Cacciatore, whose work will grace Gallery Ex Libris for the next month. Â Poet (and B&B keystone) Jenna Littlejohn provides poetic monograms to go with the photos. Â She’ll be here too. Â You’ll have fun. Â Don’t stay home!
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Monday, August 3rd – 7pm
POETS!
Casey Newbegin & Jenna Littlejohn
Join us in hearing two new, young, and vibrant poetic voices! As usual the readings will be followed by an open mic. Casey Elizabeth Newbegin lives in Austin, Texas where she attends the UT School of Information. She holds a BA in English from Lewis & Clark College. She was born and raised in California.…
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Sunday, August 2nd – 4:30-6:30 pm
Montara Mountain Boys
which way west?
Twang from the Mountaintop! The Montara Mountain Boys take the stage in our weekly which way west? series this Sunday. They’ll put a little twang in your life for sure.  Toe-tapping good times delivered by Paul H. Taylor, the group’s founder, lead songwriter, vocals; Nick Evanson, songwriter, vocals, guitar & mandolin; Kenneth M. Sailors, songwriter, guitar, dobro, national steel &…
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Sunday, August 2nd – 2 pm
Diamond Dave talks Hipstory
Context is everything! Three generations — the beatniks, the hippies, the punks –Â tied together by one who has been riding through it with his eyes open & his heart big. Dave is the guy who hipped Dylan to Woody Guthrie back in Dinkytown, hard by the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis/St. Paul and he’s a…
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Saturday, August 1st – 7:30-10 pm
jazz club! when lights are low…
The Smith Dobson Quartet
VIBES!
As serious as your life! And the happiest you could ever be! Â Richard Sears, piano, is up from L.A. for the date, joining local heroes John Wiitala on bass and Evan Hughes on drums, under the capable, nay, inspired leadership of Smith Dobson V on vibes. Does it get any better? Nah, it’s just…
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Friday, July 31st – 5:30-8:00 pm
The Don Alberts Trio
jazz in the bookshop every Friday!
Pianist Don Alberts has the bebop knowledge and technique we love so well at Bird & Beckett, as well as being a prolific composer, a versatile poet, a fiction writer and a documentarian. Don has recorded several cds and has published many volumes of his compositions. His books include A Diary of the Underdogs: San…
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