Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe

The lovely and enchanting Mae Powell is back at Specs with her jazz trio this evening as part of North Beach First Fridays! Come grab a cocktail, enjoy some wonderful live music and take a stroll around North Beach! So many great events happening 🌟 6-8pm, no cover

✨ TONIGHT ✨ Excited to welcome back wonderful multi-instrumentalist and bandleader and his quartet ( .messer_h.habilis) for an evening of jazz with special guests! Musicians welcome to sit in so bring your axe! 🎷🎹🥁🎙️🍸🎉 8-11pm, no cover

Happy September! Check out our calendar this month, lots of great shows and events happening! All events are free and 21+ 🎉🎉🎉
⭐️ ’s jazz special, Tues Sept 3
⭐️ Mae Powell (.woman) jazz trio for , Fri Sept 6
⭐️ Charlie & The Tropicales () 60s Caribbean lounge and NOLA jazz, Thurs Sept 12
⭐️ Mr. Lucky & The Cocktail Party (jazz and swing), Sun Sept 15
⭐️ ’s Sip n’ Sketch is back! BYO materials // $5-10 suggested donation, Mon Sept 30
⭐️ Wednesday Big Table: an open gathering of artists, writers, poets and more around the big table at Specs, a tradition of over 40 years! Hosted by Byron Spooner, Agneta Falk and Judith Bernhard. Every Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm, all welcome!

Our friends Hernandez Hideaway are back at Specs tomorrow night, Thurs Aug 22! Join us for fantastic balkan and Klezmer tunes, drinking & dancing! 💃🏻🍻🍷✨ their shows are always a blast!! 7:30-10pm ish, no cover

✨ TONIGHT! ✨ join us for a great evening of tiki lounge and exotica with the Fisherman’s Vibraphonic Trio! And a happy birthday to Specs who would have been 96 today! 🌹🍸

Coming up this week at Specs! 🎉
Wednesday 8/14 8-11pm ⭐️ Nick Rossi jazz and swing session (.modernist)
Thursday 8/15 8-11pm ⭐️ Fisherman’s Vibraphonic Trio (tiki/lounge and jazzy exotica)!
Both shows are free and 21+. Can’t wait to see you! 🍻

It’s a gorgeous day in the city! 🌞🍻🎉 join us for live music tonight with fantastic pianist and special guests 🎹 classical, experimental, jazz & more 🎶 8-10pm, no cover!

The fabulous fronted by vocalist Karina Denike are back at Specs tomorrow, Tues Aug 6 from 7-9pm! Join us for jazz, swing, boogie woogie and cocktails 🍸💋🎉✨ no cover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TABk54VpLc&pp=ygUbVGhlIGNvdHRvbnRhaWxzIG1vb2QgaW5kaWdv

the Cottontails - Mood Indigo Vocal - Karina DenikeSax - Tom GriesserBass - Joe KylePiano - Michael McIntoshDrums - Randy OdellGuitar - Vic Wong

HELLO AUGUST! ✨ Here’s what we’ve got cooking this month:
⭐️ Meredith Edgar Music duo for tomorrow! Fri 8/2
⭐️ The Cottontails jazz & swing Tues 8/6
⭐️ Pianist Mauro ffortissimo & friends Wed 8/7
⭐️ Nick Rossi’s Swing Club Wed 8/14
⭐️ Fisherman’s Vibraphonic Trio (tiki sounds & exotica!) Thurs 8/15
⭐️ Hernandez Hideaway Balkan & Klezmer! Thurs 8/22
All events are free and 21+ 🎉 see you there! 🍸👓

Very excited to welcome Bay Area based multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Smith Dobson and his jazz trio to Specs tomorrow night, Tues July 30 from 7-10pm! 🎷✨ with and 🍸
Smith comes from a long line of jazz virtuosos and has worked with artists including Bobby Hutcherson and Sheila Jordan, and performed at Monterey Jazz Fest, Yoshis, The Kuumbwa Jazz Center and more. Don’t miss it!! 🔥 no cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5M5HomRHXE

Smith Dobson Quartet - I Cover The Waterfront - Porto Franco Files Smith Dobson - tenor sax, Keith Saunders - piano, Doug Stuart - bass, James Gallagher - drums. Composition by Johnny Green. Recorded at New Improved Studios ...

✨ TONIGHT! ✨ so excited to welcome great SF based dj Kai () to Specs for our first all vinyl dj night ever!! He’ll be spinning some excellent jazz, Latin, disco, boogie, funk & more! Come get down with us! 7-11pm, no cover 🕺🪩🍸💥

We love our city!!! 🌁💐 thrilled to be offering copies of this brand new literary magazine curated by our friend Broke-Ass Stuart for FREE, come grab a copy! It’s a big love letter to San Francisco featuring 19 local authors and poets including the poet laureate, co-founder of Litquake, a Pulitzer price winner and more! In Stuart’s words:
The essays and poems in The Dreams I Dreamt: Letters to San Francisco are a chorus of voices singing joyously, and plaintively, about a beloved place where they can be themselves the most, that somehow, someway exalts their humanity.

Join us tomorrow, Sunday July 21 for a wonderful afternoon of readings from local writers, hosted by Frances Stroh () author of fantastic memoir ‘Beer Money,’ and our very own Alan Black ()! 2-4pm, free event

JUST ANNOUNCED! Our 2nd annual SF Art Book Fair afterparty hosted by Hat & Beard Press (LA) this Friday July 19 with readings by Vanessa Matic, Eric Ernest Johnson and Joey Camello and music by the legendary Jaron Lanier! ✨ music starts at 7, reading at 8! No cover 📚💥🍸🍻

Happy Sunday! Join us for live music tonight with Jose Simioni Jazz Duo from 7-10pm, no cover! 🥃🔥🎸

It’s North Beach First Friday! 🎉🎉🎉 Check out all the awesome events going on and join us for jazz with saxophonist Danny Brown and his trio from 6-8pm, no cover! 🎷🍸✨

Some very cool photos from our space when it was 12 Adler Place below Tommy’s, owned by Tommy Vasu & friends 😍 PS we are open regular hours today for the 4th! 🎉🍸🧀

TONIGHT (Tues)! Pedal steel virtuoso Dave Easley of NOLA with bassist Dave Anderson of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra ✨ funk, standards and free form jazz! 7-10pm, no cover

JULY AT SPECS 🔥🌟🥂🎉
⭐️ Pedal steel guitarist Dave Easley & bassist Dave Anderson from NOLA! July 2
⭐️ Danny Brown Jazz Trio for North Beach First Friday! July 5
⭐️ Jose Simioni Jazz Duo, July 7
⭐️ Stranger Than Fiction: Author’s Reading hosted by Frances Stroh & Alan Black, July 21
⭐️ All Vinyl DJ night with (disco, boogie, funk, Latin, jazz & more), July 25
⭐️ Smith Dobson Jazz Trio, July 30
All events are free and 21+ 🍸 see you there!! 💛💛💛

TGIF doggies and happy Pride weekend!! 🌈🎉❤️🧡💛💚🩵💜🩷 stay cool out there 😎 specs hats still available!
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Very excited to welcome wonderful jazz vocalist Tina Schlieske to Specs tomorrow (Wed) for a special duo performance at 6pm! ✨ no cover


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wXthN2e2j4&list=OLAK5uy_mNbMkhgjjk-yG3SYVwMCKL8EAyPc09RDA&index=6&pp=8AUB

Happy Sunday! 🌞 the lovely Meredith Edgar Music is back at Specs tonight with Mark Ignatius () for an evening of jazz, folk and Americana 🌹🔥🥃♥️ swing by Jack Kerouac Alley for the / summer market from 12-6 then join us from 7-9 for some fantastic live music ✨✨✨

Meredith Edgar - Washed Up (Official Music Video) A tragic musician embarks on her own to entertain a collection of washed-up characters at an aging San Francisco dive bar."Washed Up"Filmed at The Make-Out R...

Barrelhouse & NOLA blues with pianist Aaron Hammerman of The Deep Basement Shakers tonight (Tuesday)! 7-9pm 🎹🍻
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CYO14AHh4l2/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Happy North Beach Festival weekend!! 🎉🎉🎉
Come enjoy great live music, poetry, comedy, food, works from local artists and makers and more all weekend from 11-7! 🍻
We will be open early at 2pm both Saturday & Sunday and offering $10 gin martinis from ! 🍸🕺 swing by and see us! 🌞😎🥂
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Fantastic jazz guitarist Vic Wong & The Little Croquettes are back tonight for a jazz and swing session from 7-10pm, no cover! Come grab a cocktail and enjoy some great music with us! 🍸💃🏻✨