Thursday November 12, 2026 | 5-8pm

At Dodge Alley (Turk & Larkin St.)

Free to attend | No registration required

$15 vouchers for food/drink at nearby businesses *while supplies last*

Featuring gobs of percussion, invented instruments, and whimsical costumes, drummer/composer Jordan Glenn brings his hard grooving ensemble BEAK to Dodge Alley, nodding to the Tenderloin’s rich tradition of nurturing “experimental” and “New Music.”

Jordan Glenn's BEAK (est. 2014) is a percussion heavy ensemble that blurs the line between dynamic/energetic grooves and chaos. The power of this electric ensemble is wheeled by Jordan Glenn’s curious baton, moving in and out of composed and spontaneous material. The group features Sudhu Tewari (homemade instruments), Robert Lopez (percussion), Mark Clifford (vibraphone), Jon Arkin (drums), Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), David James (guitar) and Karl Evangelista (guitar).

Glenn’s BEAK is experimental music at its most fun, deftly balancing spontaneity and noise with infectious grooves and sensory delights. Importantly, this music points to the rich tradition of experimental music in the Tenderloin nurtured via Luggage Store’s Creative Music Series and the Center 4 New Music… a first for TLM’s music-forward programs at Dodge Alley’s. Plus, the band is somewhat of a supergroup of the improvising musicians at the heart of the Bay Area’s deeply rooted experimental and New Music scene. Not to be missed! 

Free, outdoor, music-centric happenings at a once notorious Tenderloin alley began in 2022 through a collaboration between TLM, the Tenderloin Community Benefit District, and longtime residents of the alley. These events were some of the first “Sounds of the Tenderloin” programs, a series of events “animating the TL’s under-sung cultural history through live music” that began with a grant from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, continued with more support from the State of CA’s Museum Grant Program, and now exists as a monthly block party at Dodge Place. Since those initial shows, the alley has benefited from substantial community investment, including a Community Challenge Grant project that brought two stunning murals to the alley and an ongoing grant through the TLCBD to bring monthly music to the Alley along with free food/drink vouchers to spend at adjacent businesses. TLM is thrilled to return to programming Dodge Alley and to grow the vibrancy of this amazing community space and truly urban venue.