Archive for August 2016
Tuesday, November 15th – 6:30-7:30 pm
Book release reading & pizza party!
Glen Park author Gordon Jack presents his new
comic novel for teens, The Boomerang Effect
Gordon Jack has wanted to be a novelist since he was a kid.  He ranked it right up there with astronaut and professional dog walker on one of those  career proclivity assessments. Didn’t mention president, thank goodness. We’d suspect pizza delivery guy might have ranked had he thought of it. He did become a dog…
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Friday, November 11th – 5:30-8 pm
The Aaron Cohn Quartet
plays jazz in the bookshop
Bassist Aaron Cohn brings together an exciting quartet featuring Henry Hung on trumpet Danny Brown on tenor sax Andre Sumelius on drums jazz as it’s played in San Francisco in 2016Â by its finest practitioners!
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Thursday, November 10th – 8-10 pm
Gutter Swan plays acoustic Americana music
in Bird & Beckett’s canyon moonlight series
Loryn Barbeau, vocal, and Steve Egelman, guitar & vocal
Where the light and the dark mingle
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Monday, November 7th – 7-9 pm
Two Poets & a Murder of Crows
Jerry Ferraz, Dan Richman and an open mic’s worth of others!
Jerry Ferraz and Dan Richman were on the first bill of poets to read at Bird & Beckett back in 1999 or 2000, and have been solid favorites of ours ever since. And Jerry has hosted our twice-monthly poetry series for well over a decade. Jerry will read from a recent collection of poems, “The…
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Sunday, November 6th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio! Now!
Pianist Grant Levin has been heard at Bird & Beckett time and again, in many formations– as leader, as sideman… in duos, trios, quartets, quintets… Tonight, he’s leading a trio with two players making big waves– bassist Giulio Xavier Cetto, out of Stockton, and drummer Louis Sweatt, out of Brentwood. Grant himself was born in San…
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Sunday, November 6th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west? Sunday concert series presents
Maurice Tani & Mike Anderson
a country noir duo
Like all great songwriters/storytellers, Maurice uses humor, pathos, and metaphor…to spin tales of sometimes heroic, sometimes conniving, seductive and/or hapless characters. Characters deep in the throes of urban/country angst, unrequited love, love affairs gone wrong—in a nutshell—country noir. A master of clever lyrics and gorgeous melodies…Maurice’s warm powerful voice animates the songs into a kind of…
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