Archive for July 2016
Sunday, September 25th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Soul Explosion!
Derek Evans & Friends
Mississippi born, San Francisco soul! Vocalist Derek Evans with his band featuring Joe Lococo, guitar; Willie Riser, bass; Elvis Johnson, drums Derek Evans’ love of music dates back to his early childhood in Hickory, Mississippi. He remembers sitting beside his grandmother as she sang and played the piano, leading the inspirational choir in the soul-stirring…
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Saturday, September 24th – 7:30-10 pm
John Calloway Jazz Quartet
celebrates John’s new cd, Asere Ko
jazz club! at Bird & Beckett – when lights are low…
Bird & Beckett presents The John Calloway Jazz Quartet John Calloway, flute Murray Low, piano David Flores, drums Alex Farrell, bass The quartet, led by JC, the Jazz Commissioner himself, will play latin & straight ahead tunes, jazz standards and originals, celebrating the release of John’s astonishingly powerful new cd, Asere Ko, recorded in Havana…
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Friday, September 23rd – 5:30-8 pm
jazz in the bookshop SF’s longest running neighborhood jazz party
Dorothy Lefkovits with the Chuck Peterson Quintet
The very heart of Bird & Beckett’s music programming is this seasoned group of jazz professionals including the wonderful, gracious and charming vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits. We opened the store in 1999, hosted the occasional jazz concert on weekend afternoons, and then in October 2002 began to present jazz every single Friday evening, with saxophonist Chuck Peterson…
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Rockabilly Explosion Tonight!
Jinx Jones & the King Tones
after hours at Bird & Beckett
8 to 10 pm. No cover. Thursday, September 29. Every Thursday night, it’s time for B&B’s canyon moonlight series… Amerarcana from soul to surf, rock to rockabilly, country to crooning, cast iron or otherwise… no one does it better than your own local musicians, and nowhere do they do it better than they do it…
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Gallery Ex Libris
Ava Koohbor: Chromatic Sediments
show closed
Thursday, September 22nd – 8-10 pm
Moonshine Maybelline
glamorous honky tonk in the canyon moonlight…
Moonshine Maybelline makes its debut Bird & Beckett appearance Thursday, September 22nd, playing their own gorgeous brand of glamorous honky tonk. Like a siren from the shore, this band will lure you in with spellbinding ballads, mesmerize you with moody soundscapes, and crash your broken heart into their country-rock. Sparks flew and Moonshine Maybelline was…
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