Archive for April 2016
Friday, June 10th – 5:30-8:00 pm
jazz in the bookshop!every Friday
The Henry Hung Quartet
Two sets of jazz by top Bay Area players Henry Hung, trumpet Jordan Samuels, guitar Hans Glawischnig, bass Eric Garland, drums San Francisco’s longest running neighborhood jazz party runs on!
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Monday, June 6th – 7-9pm
POETS! Carlos Suarez and Bob Anthony plus an open mic
Jerry Ferraz hosts a poetry reading here at Bird & Beckett twice a month, with an open mic following two featured readers. He’s done it for years, and Bird & Beckett has become known as a particularly rich and welcoming environment for experienced poets and those just beginning to test the waters. Carlos Suarez has…
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Sunday, June 5th – 7:30-10 pm
Robert Vye, blues guitar and vocal
with David McDonald, bass and Randy Lee Odell, drums
Who on earth is Robert Vye, you might wonder. He hasn’t gigged or toured in years, has no CDs for sale. He doesn’t even busk on the street or play at farmerʼs markets. Vye picked up the guitar at the age of nine influenced by Jimi Hendrix, and at the age of thirteen he started…
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Sunday, June 5th – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Lee Vilensky Trio!
Who knew surf guitarists might have an axe to grind! Lee says plenty with his guitar, and Jamie Lease and Ed Ivey have no problem surfing his wake! We dig ’em unconditionally! But Lee’s also got this to say! SOMETIMES WORDS JUST GET IN THE WAY. THEY CAN OBSCURE AS OPPOSED TO CLARIFY. THIS CAN…
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Sunday, June 5th – 2 pm
Elsa Marley reads Tiananmen Square poems
Elsa Marley will be reading from her new book of poetry, Never Forget, which brings together 27 years of poems about the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 in China.  Elsa is a painter who also writes poetry.  The Tiananmen poems derive from her presence in China at the time of the massacre, after being resident in…
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Bill Evans Lives! And Smith Dobson’s got him!
Saturday night at jazz club
June 4th – 7:30-10 pm
The Smith Dobson Trio explores the music of Bill Evans Adam Shulman, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Smith Dobson, drums
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