Author: Clay

Something Kinda Crazy and Wacky!


Séduction Féroce

Tuesday, April 9th – 8:30pm

The Beards are thrilled to once again sing Leonard Cohen‘s risqué poetic lyrics to compliment the arousing debauchery of Séduction Féroce at The New Parish in downtown Oakland, CA.

Seduction Feroce Burlesque Cabaret

Séduction Féroce is a burlesque cabaret variety show that happens EVERY second Tuesday of the month! Showcasing an amazing line-up of local and visiting performers to tantalize your taste buds! Featuring the finest of burlesque, boylesque, drag kings, drag queens, bellydancing and sideshow acts this side of the bridge! Come out Oakland and support your local art scene! You know you wanna watch…

Here’s a video of last years Séduction Féroce show w/Conspiracy of Beards: http://youtu.be/GX5H5epMNIY

$7 at the door

Thanks to http://jgvillustrations.com/ for the artwork.

2013 New York Tour

May 24-26
Conspiracy of Beards | 30 Men Sing Leonard Cohen A Cappella returns to the city that never sleeps for a one weekend tour with 4 great performances!

Live in Vancouver CD Coming Soon!

In 2012 Conspiracy of Beards commandeered a giant bus and traveled up the Pacific Northwest coast to perform in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver Canada, our first international show! It was an amazing journey, much of which you can experience in our documentary DVD, A Midnight Choir, which tells the history and origins of the choir and gives an intimate behind the scenes look at nearly all of our performances during our 2011-2012 season, including Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, our show with long time Leonard Cohen collaborator Sharon Robinson, our charitable benefit concerts, and our entire New York tour, (you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, then you’ll laugh some more). All of this is to say that we recorded our show in Vancouver and we are very excited to release the recording in the very near future. Stay tuned for details!A few of the videos from our DVD:

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

Cafe Du Nord w/Sharon Robinson

Beyond the Blaze – SF Fire Victims Benefit




Séduction Féroce

Tuesday, April 9th – 8:30pm

The Beards are thrilled to once again sing Leonard Cohen‘s risqué poetic lyrics to compliment the arousing debauchery of Séduction Féroce at The New Parish in downtown Oakland, CA.

Seduction Feroce Burlesque Cabaret

Séduction Féroce is a burlesque cabaret variety show that happens EVERY second Tuesday of the month! Showcasing an amazing line-up of local and visiting performers to tantalize your taste buds! Featuring the finest of burlesque, boylesque, drag kings, drag queens, bellydancing and sideshow acts this side of the bridge! Come out Oakland and support your local art scene! You know you wanna watch…

Here’s a video of last years Séduction Féroce show w/Conspiracy of Beards: http://youtu.be/GX5H5epMNIY

$7 at the door

Thanks to http://jgvillustrations.com/ for the artwork.

2013 New York Tour

May 24-26
Conspiracy of Beards | 30 Men Sing Leonard Cohen A Cappella returns to the city that never sleeps for a one weekend tour with 4 great performances!

Live in Vancouver CD Coming Soon!

In 2012 Conspiracy of Beards commandeered a giant bus and traveled up the Pacific Northwest coast to perform in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver Canada, our first international show! It was an amazing journey, much of which you can experience in our documentary DVD, A Midnight Choir, which tells the history and origins of the choir and gives an intimate behind the scenes look at nearly all of our performances during our 2011-2012 season, including Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, our show with long time Leonard Cohen collaborator Sharon Robinson, our charitable benefit concerts, and our entire New York tour, (you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, then you’ll laugh some more). All of this is to say that we recorded our show in Vancouver and we are very excited to release the recording in the very near future. Stay tuned for details!A few of the videos from our DVD:

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

Cafe Du Nord w/Sharon Robinson

Beyond the Blaze – SF Fire Victims Benefit

Jewish Music Festival & The Make-Out Room

Jewish Music Festival

Thursday, March 14th – 7pm

We are all aflutter about bringing Leonard Cohen‘s masterful locution to the 28th Annual Jewish Music Festival, and to share the evening with the musical moxie of Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird.  Come to see Conspiracy of Beards, but stay to have your mind blown by The Painted Bird.

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird w/Conspiracy of Beards - 28th Annual Jewish Music Festival

The Painted Bird concocts a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk, kept together by Kahn‘s amazing abilities as a songwriter, translator and performer; telling stories of outrageous incidents, poetically dark, tragically humorous and politically incorrect.

The Painted Bird has brought “Yiddish Punk Cabaret” to rock clubs, theatres, festivals and shtetls, from Berlin to Boston, Leningrad to Louisiana.  The band has been called “The Yiddish Pogues,” and Kahn was once described as “someone between Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits – but Yiddish.  ” Daniel Kahn challenges the borders between radical & traditional, lyrical & political, east & west, folk & punk, mama loshn & loshn hora.

A video sample of Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird: March of the Jobless Corp


Street Stage

Sunday, March 10th – 12-4pm

Street Stage is an outdoor pop-up performance space, kinda like a parklet, dedicated to free public performance throughout San Francisco.

We are excited to sing outdoors in the Mission district this Sunday, March 10th, in front of Dandelion Chocolate (18th & Valencia).  Music starts at noon and we sing from 3:30-4pm.  If you are out and about in the area, walk past humming along.  We’ll tip our hats to you.


Make-Out Room

Saturday, March 16th – 7:30pm

Conspiracy of Beards will once again open the evening at the Make-Out Room with the poetic songs of Leonard Cohen performed a cappella.  Then stick around for The Bogues with their annual St. Patty’s weekend celebration of the genius of Shane MacGowan & The Pogues.  This is always a lively evening not to be missed.

Tickets at the door – $8

Jewish Music Festival & The Make-Out Room

Jewish Music Festival

Thursday, March 14th – 7pm

We are all aflutter about bringing Leonard Cohen‘s masterful locution to the 28th Annual Jewish Music Festival, and to share the evening with the musical moxie of Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird.  Come to see Conspiracy of Beards, but stay to have your mind blown by The Painted Bird.

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird w/Conspiracy of Beards - 28th Annual Jewish Music Festival

The Painted Bird concocts a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk, kept together by Kahn‘s amazing abilities as a songwriter, translator and performer; telling stories of outrageous incidents, poetically dark, tragically humorous and politically incorrect.

The Painted Bird has brought “Yiddish Punk Cabaret” to rock clubs, theatres, festivals and shtetls, from Berlin to Boston, Leningrad to Louisiana.  The band has been called “The Yiddish Pogues,” and Kahn was once described as “someone between Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits – but Yiddish.  ” Daniel Kahn challenges the borders between radical & traditional, lyrical & political, east & west, folk & punk, mama loshn & loshn hora.

A video sample of Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird: March of the Jobless Corp


Street Stage

Sunday, March 10th – 12-4pm

Street Stage is an outdoor pop-up performance space, kinda like a parklet, dedicated to free public performance throughout San Francisco.

We are excited to sing outdoors in the Mission district this Sunday, March 10th, in front of Dandelion Chocolate (18th & Valencia).  Music starts at noon and we sing from 3:30-4pm.  If you are out and about in the area, walk past humming along.  We’ll tip our hats to you.


Make-Out Room

Saturday, March 16th – 7:30pm

Conspiracy of Beards will once again open the evening at the Make-Out Room with the poetic songs of Leonard Cohen performed a cappella.  Then stick around for The Bogues with their annual St. Patty’s weekend celebration of the genius of Shane MacGowan & The Pogues.  This is always a lively evening not to be missed.

Tickets at the door – $8

Viracocha This Friday – Possible 2013 NY Tour – Our DVD, A Midnight Choir

Viracocha 2.15.13 – The inky shadows of Viracocha seem the perfect place for the dark harmonies of Conspiracy of Beards, and their interpretations of the poetic musical language of Leonard Cohen.  The Beards are excited to be complimented first by Wolf & Crow’s contemporary artifact of something haunting and timeless, followed by One Ton Sun’s six piece jazz stylings playing the music of Hans Jöbbe II, the reclusive Finnish composer active from 1957 until his violent death in Cleveland, OH during the summer of 1972.

Conspiracy of Beards w/One Ton Sun and Wolf & Crow @ Viracocha 2.15.13

Rumors of 2013 New York Tour are Flying – We don’t have all of the details yet, but it looks like we might be headed back to New York around the end of May!  The 2012 tour was a huge success with sold out shows at the Jack Hanley Gallery, Manhattan Inn, Glasslands, and The Highline Ballroom.  Check out this video of our adventures in New York: The Beards Take Manhattan 2012.  This video is part of our DVD video collection of the Conspiracy of Beards 2011-2012 season called A Midnight Choir.

Conspiracy of Beards 2013 New York Tour

2011-2012 Season DVD Available – Our friends at 12FPS, a San Francisco creative media agency, basically followed the Beards around for our entire 2011-2012 season documenting all of our shows, and creating dynamic, interesting, and beautiful video vignettes of all of our adventures, including our New York and Pacific Northwest tours.  We’ve compiled all of these videos, as well as interviews and some full performances into an entertaining and sometimes hilarious DVD, A Midnight Choir (available via Paypal here).  You’ll get the back story and history of the Conspiracy of Beards, as well as backstage shenanigans, and insights into the men who make the choir what it is.  You can watch a few of these video’s here: Conspiracy of Beards on Youtube.

COB DVD 2012

Beards in the New Year

Happy New Year to all!  It’s our 10th Anniversary season, and we are bringing it with force and focus.  We are jazzed to stand together in front of The Riptide‘s warm brick hearth, in the Sunset District of San Francisco, and fill the room with song.  Join us for an evening of Leonard Cohen‘s poetic music performed a cappella with spirit and emotion, and bring someone you care about to share in the revelry.  Saturday, January 26th @ 9pm –  More Info here.

Conspiracy of Beards at The Riptide - Saturday, January 26th - 9pm
Conspiracy of Beards at The Riptide – Saturday, January 26th – 9pm

Conspiracy of Beards Merchandise Available Online!

As you may know, Conspiracy of Beards is a non-profit organization, and we strive to contribute our voices to good causes. To help offset the cost of our practice space and travel expenses we sell merchandise at our shows. Now you can find all of our merchandise right here on our website. Check out our Merchandise page here. Beard gear is perfect for holiday gift giving!

Men's and Women's style t-shirts, engraved flask, self titled CD, A Midnight Choir DVD documentary
Men’s and Women’s style t-shirts, engraved flask, self titled CD, A Midnight Choir DVD documentary