Archive for June 2016
Tuesday, July 5th – 7-9 pm
Lucie Vitkova, Czech composer and performer
screens a documentary film on her work and performs
 Lucie VÃtková is a composer, improviser and performer (accordion, harmonica, voice and tap dance) from the Czech Republic. Her compositions focus on sonification (compositions based on abstract models derived from physical objects), while her improvisation practice explores characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement. In her recent work, she…
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Sunday, July 3rd – 7:30-10 pm
GG Amos Band plays West Coast blues for the holiday!
The GG Amos Trio with Lincoln Adler on sax, Greg Sankovich on keyboards and bass and Randy Odell on drums celebrate the Independence Day weekend. Guitarist / Vocalist GG Amos is an artist in the West Coast Blues tradition, raised in Sacramento and now based in San Francisco.  She’s honed her craft as a songwriter and…
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Sunday, July 3rd – 4:30-6:30 pm:
A trad jazz celebration with the
Buena Vista Jazz Band!
To us, nothing suits the 4th of July weekend as well as a trad jazz party, and few can rival the Buena Vista Jazz Band in bringing that spirit to life. Singer Darlene Langston is featured, with Noel Weidcamp on cornet, John Hunt on trombone, Don Neely on clarinet, soprano sax and alto sax, Si…
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Saturday, July 2nd – 7:30-10 pm: jazz club! when lights are low…
The Tenors of the Times: Smith Dobson & Raffi Garabedian Head to Head
Two top Bay Area tenor sax players meet up on the Bird & Beckett stage, with a fine rhythm section. Â Miles Wick, bass, and Evan Hughes, drums, add their own excitement to the proceedings.
Read MoreThe Lost Trio
Friday, 5:30-8 pm, September 30. Phillip Greenlief, sax Dan Seamans, bass Tom Hassett, drums Hank Williams and Herbie Nichols, Billy Strayhorn and Nino Rota, Irving Berlin and Joni Mitchell, Beck and Bjork. Â And that was just where they stood five years ago. You’ll hear where they’re going these days when you get in here on…
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Sunday, June 26th – 7:30-10 pm
Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends pay tribute to
Texas troubadour Guy Clark
Guy  Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016) was dubbed a “king of the Texas troubadours” by that humble southern rag, the New York Times, and they were likely right on the mark. Misisipi Mike and a few great friends from the San Francisco Americana music scene will gather Sunday night, June 26th to pick…
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