Archive for June 2016
Fathers Day – Jinx Jones!
Sunday, June 19th – 7:30-10pm
Fathers Day – Walter Savage Trio with Grant Levin & Renzell Merritt
Sunday, June 19th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Bassist Walter Savage has returned to the Bay Area — living now up in Vallejo — after a too-lengthy sojourn in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Walter grew up in Watts, where his father was a preacher and where he couldn’t imagine not singing– which he still does plenty. Walter picked up the bass while serving in the…
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Fathers Day! Poets David Meltzer & Latif Harris
2pm on June 19th!
Latif Harris and David Meltzer — two poets with deep, deep roots — hold the stage. Each is in his 70s, each dedicated to poetry since the 1950s, each with children dear to them all along the way. At David’s first reading in the store, we urged him to read his poem “The Red Shoes,”…
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Fathers Day! Sunday, June 19th
Three divine programs for il papa!
2 pm: Poets Latif Harris and David Meltzer, with Zan Stewart on saxophone. 4:30 pm: Walter Savage Trio, with Grant Levin on piano and Renzell Merritt on drums. 7:30 pm: Jinx Jones & the Jazz-a-Billy All Stars
Read MoreBloomsday through Father’s Day and a bit beyond
A new Gallery Ex Libris show  is up through the end of June – hand lettering & book arts in the digital age, by students of the formidable Grendel Lofqvist at CCSF, our favorite institution ever! June 16th, 7:30 pm, jazz vocalist Melanie O’Reilly and pianist Frank Martin, with actors Esther Mulligan and John Ilyin, link Joyce and Jazz on Bloomsday.…
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