SF based singer songwriter Meredith Edgar brings her indie folk/Americana songs with smoky, ethereal vocals to Specs for a special duo performance. Check out her music here!

Live instrumental jazz with saxophonist and bandleader Danny Brown & friends

An evening of live music and readings featuring William Taylor Jr., Jon Bennett, Charlie Getter, K.R. Morrison & Kristen Dunn

Parlor Tricks is the world's first and foremost industrial ragtime band, a hot-music quartet led with sultry vocals, resonator guitar, upright bass and horn or drums. The music is swing and jazz standards, vaudeville, and bluesy originals -- all distinguished by syncopation and stomp.

North Beach guitarist and performer Jose Simioni returns to Specs with his duo, playing jazz, blues, traditional country, soul and r&b.

Argentinean/Italian/American, Grew up in Argentina, where interest in art and music lead him to study classical piano and visual arts. He emigrated to California in 1981 to further his artistic explorations, taking classes in print making, sculpture and painting at San Mateo College, Art Institute, and Berkeley Extension. Mauro is a founding member of “849 Folsom Music”, a 13 member music and spoken word performance troop that brought vital energy to the San Francisco “South Market” artist underground scene in the pre-dot com years of the late 80’s.  

As a founding member of the Enso Art Collective and the Miles Davis Memorial Hall, Mauro has been investigating sounds with the deconstruction of pianos, becoming more able to expand the 12-tone scale. He does not subscribe to the romantic notion of a solitary artist, a suffering individual, hidden in a state of despair, creating work that only few can appreciate; instead Mauro travels the world, looking to the mundane, the sacred and the original with the same eyes, and listening to the music of diverse cultures, bringing it all home to work with it’s particular way of assimilation making art and music available to the community. 

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Lara taught herself how to play the guitar, inspired by artists such as Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell. Later, she became influenced by jazz and bossa nova singers like Madeleine Peyroux, Frank Sinatra and Astrud Gilberto, and was particularly drawn to French jazz.

After studying philosophy in the Netherlands, Lara started pursuing music full-time and moved to California in 2020. She started playing venues and private events in the San Francisco Bay Area and also started recording her first album, together with producer, sound engineer and multi-instrumentalist Gawain Mathews.

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Join us for an afternoon of author’s readings hosted by writers Frances Stroh (author of Beer Money) and Alan Black. 2-4pm

Hawaii born, New Orleans based pedal steel virtuoso Dave Easley returns to Specs for a special duo performance with NOLA based Americana singer songwriter Jamie Bernstein

Wonderful SF based indie soul/jazz vocalist and bandleader Mae Powell returns to Specs for a Valentine’s Day Special with her jazz sextet, performing her take on classic jazz standards with a killer band! Check out her solo project here

Known for his vintage-inspired pop and R&B aesthetic, Nick Waterhouse is a songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist whose music recalls the sounds of the 1950s and early '60s while possessing a modern-day level of energy and cool. Waterhouse initially grabbed listeners with his 2011 EP Is That Clear. He has remained a standard-bearer for analog recording techniques, and retro-style, both evident on his subsequent albums, ranging from 2012's Time's All Gone to 2021's Promenade Blue, all issued through the Innovative Leisure label.

Join us for a night of jazz, swing and boogie woogie with SF based band The Cottontails, featuring vocalist Karina Denike!

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Sip n’ Sketch drawing class hosted by Pixar’s animation art director Deanna Marsigliese! All levels welcome

BYO materials | $5-10 suggested donation | Every last Monday of the month

Vallejo-born, Bay-raised and Nashville-based keys player Raynier Jacildo loves nothing more than a good homecoming. Current member of The Black Keys’ touring band as well as artist, Yola — Ray gathers his favorite hometown musicians at his favorite hometown watering hole for an evening of soul-jazz, pop, and r&b instrumentals. Dancing encouraged.

Join us for Latin jazz and funky original tunes with Jonathan Alford on piano, Alexa Morales on vocals and percussion and David Pinto on bass!

Pianist Aaron Hammerman (of Deep Basement Shakers) plays solo barrelhouse/NOLA blues! Check out Deep Basement Shakers’ music here!

The late poet Rosemary Manno moved to San Francisco in 1983. She grew up in Buffalo, New York and had lived in Paris whenever possible. Most winters she would travel to her beloved Mexico with artist-musician Roger Strobel. They shared a home life in North Beach for many years. She is a poet, artist, lover of foreign tongues, the natural world and revolutionary struggle. Her work has appeared in numerous chapbooks, magazines and anthologies. El Sol is a posthumous collection of poems that Rosemary and editor Tate Swindell worked on during the final years of her life. Faced with a terminal diagnosis of brain cancer, these poems deal with the fragility of life with an uncompromising and unwavering fierceness that embodies the true spirit of Rosemary Manno. 

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Mauro Ffortissimo (of Flower Piano) joins us for a night of beautiful instrumental music with guest musicians and poets.

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Sip n’ Sketch drawing class hosted by Pixar’s animation art director Deanna Marsigliese! All levels welcome

BYO materials | $5-10 suggested donation | Every last Monday of the month