Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

                 
Bird & Beckett Books and Records
653 Chenery St.
San Francisco CA 94131  
(415) 586-3733
birdbeckett@yahoo.com

A bookshop/performance venue in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood.

Besides operating as a new/used generalist's bookshop with a small but sweet selection of vintage jazz vinyl and recent cds by local artists, the shop's allied Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (BBCLP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization charged with the mission to present, document and archive the creative work of significant living writers and musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area, for a neighborhood audience and future generations. Established in 2007 to take over responsibility for an ever expanding slate of cultural programming at the bookshop (est. 1999), the BBCLP presents four live concert series each week (Fridays through Sundays), a twice monthly poetry series on Mondays, and many other cultural programs. The BBCLP also publishes AMERARCANA, an annual literary review, now in its fifth issue.

Bird & Beckett Books & Records is located at 653 Chenery Street between Diamond and Castro in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood at the southern foot of Twin Peaks. 1-1/2 blocks from the Glen Park BART station (one stop past the 24th/Mission station) and is served by MUNI lines 23, 36, 44, 52 & J-Church.

By car, take the Monterey exit off I-280 South, or the Bosworth exit off I-280 North.
http://www.birdbeckett.com/

Upcoming Events:
Friday, May 9 2025 8:30 PM
Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish):
Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone
Mark Clifford, vibraphone
Brett Carson, keyboard
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass
Jordan Glenn, drums

Berkeley bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa launches a yearlong residency at Bird & Beckett, to revisit and refresh older repertoire and compose a new set of music for the the latest incarnation of her stellar improvising ensemble. Mezzacappa's previous works for this group have drawn inspiration from Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster's lean noir crime novels and Italo Calvino's hilarious and poignant Cosmicomics stories. Now she's exploring the concept of worldbuilding—inspired by teenage Dungeons & Dragons sessions with her metalhead friends, and her fascination with the speculative fiction of Ursula Le Guin, Haruki Murakami and David Mitchell— as a way to envision new kinds of musical interaction, storytelling, structure and play. At the bookstore, she enjoys reading excerpts from the texts that have inspired her, and in these sessions will talk about her compositional process as part of sharing her dynamic musical work. Future dates in the series will include July 18 and September 19
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Saturday, May 31 2025 7:30 PM
Darren Johnston
Saturday, May 31·7:30 – 9:30pm

Marcus Stephens - tenor sax
Sam Bevan - bass
Michael Mitchell - drums
Darren Johnston - peace canon
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