This Friday evening, March 7th, from 5:30 to 8:00 pm
please join us for a consideration
of the great saxophonist John Coltrane
Scott Barnhill, tenor sax; Keith Saunders, piano;
Eric Markowitz, bass; Smith Dobson V, drums
with guest vocalist Louise DeLucchi
Saturday night, March 9th, from 7:30 to 10:00 pm
with support from Jazz in the Neighborhood's Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund
the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project proudly presents
Duo Violão + 1
performing music spanning the development of choro music,
the lively and elegant popular music with its roots in 19th century Rio de Janeiro
Duo Violão + 1 brings together
Brazilian guitarists Rogério Souza and Edinho Gerber
with San Francisco percussionist Ami Molinelli.
They have just released the album História do Choro
recorded in San Francisco with the support of a grant from the
San Francisco Arts Commission
That feisty little girl in the portrait above,
daughter of a lower Manhattan haberdasher, is Blanche Bebb.
A friend and ally of Bird & Beckett from the day it opened,
Blanche passed away on March 10th, 2018.
We'll celebrate her life Sunday morning, March 10th, 2019
from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m at Bird & Beckett.
Blanche loved culture in all its glories,
from the acting of Gérard Phillipe to the writing of Anton Chekhov,
from the show tunes of Broadway to the symphonies of Gustav Mahler,
from buskers on the Embarcadero to waiters who aspired to be opera singers.
She was also a fierce champion of the oppressed and gloried in the struggles of those who valiantly fought back. She moved to San Francisco from Las Vegas because she thought it would be a good place in which to protest the Vietnam War; she was a fearless SEIU activist; and she famously banded with six other women who called themselves the Seven Samurai, making a huge contribution to the mid-1980s fight to pass Proposition J, a ballot initiative that forced San Francisco to divest city workers’ pension money from South Africa.
There's never been anyone like Blanche.
We miss her more than we can say.
There's more!
Sunday 3/10 at 2pm: A book event for the anthology You're Doing What? Older Women's Tales
of Adventure and Achievement featuring an essay by Glen Park's own Kathy Johnson
and several other contributors
Sunday 3/10 at 4:30pm: HowellDevine rural blues juggernaut
Sunday 3/10 at 7:30pm: The Seducers honky tonk country
Monday 3/11 at 7:00pm: RJAM a jazz jam session hosted by undergraduates from
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music's
"Roots, Jazz & American Music" program
Thursday, March 14th - 7:30pm Elliott Levin, saxophonist/poet from Philadelphia South African Master Drummer Mogauwane Mahloele
An Excursion into the Freedom of Words and Music with Elijah Pontecorvo on bass and Mark Pino on drums
There's still more!
Friday 3/15 at 5:30pm: The Scott Foster Quintet featuring Darren Johnston, trumpet
David Boyce, saxophone
Noah Schenker, bass
Cairo McCockran, drums
Saturday 3/16 at 2:00pm: High Voltage Women Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light
book event with electrical worker Megan Cornish
Saturday at 7:30pm: The Grant Levin Quartet featuring Dave Ellis, saxophone
Aaron Cohn, bass
Jaz Sawyer, drums
Sunday at 2:00pm: Clark Coolidge + Ouroboros poetry & jazz
Sunday at 4:30pm: Aki Kumar + Jon Lawton Chicago blues
Donate to keep Bird & Beckett financially sound!
Contributions made to the
Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project,
a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, are tax-deductible
and help us fund our ambitious schedule of
live music, poetry and other such events!
Recurring donations are pretty painless
and are a huge help!
One-time donations in any amount
are very much appreciated as well!
