05-28-12 jive

Good evening, it's Monday, May 28th. This is the Jive at Five, WESU's Daily community calendar and run down of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown. Thanks for making WESU your listener supported source for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs and free-form community radio. I’m Ben Michael wishing you all a safe happy and fun memorial day. We also want to take a moment to acknowledge all of the brave members of our armed service who have fallen in battle.

In tomorrow’s program, we will be back with a full run down of cultural and entertaining events in and around the Middletown area in our Jive at Five Community Calendar.

In the meantime, for a list of arts and cultural activities in and around Middletown, check out the City of Middletown's new website www.Arts2go.org 

In the mean time here’s a rundown of tonight’s programming herein Week 2 of our new Summer program schedule.

Right after the Jive at Five, stay tuned for an hour of straight up Jazz on Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry during our weekday commercial free musical drive time programming.

At 6pm we bring you 30 minutes of alternative news reporting from the Pacifica Network on Free Speech Radio News.

6:30 it's 75% Folks With Michael Benson, Serving up heaping portions of folk and Americana,with side orders of blues, jazz, world music, soundtracks and more.

8:00 DJ Open I is in the house for a new summer program “Beats to the Rhyme” featuring contemporary conscious Hips, instrumental tracks and some of the original sampled material.

At 9:30 we are happy to welcome Tom Gatzen Back to the airwaves for a special 2 hr weekly does of loud and heavy music on Aaargh!!

From 11:30 - 1:00 Anvil Isle presents a musical monsoon of alternative rock, blues, dream, funk, hard rock, indie, punk, reggae, surf, and world music inviting you to bury your feet in the sand and hear the waves come crashing through your speakers.

From 1-3:00 Psychedelic Rick presents the late night Summer Concert Series featuring live concerts in their full glory. 

From 3-4am Maximum Rock and Roll Radio features an hour of international loud rock and punk.

The BBC World News Service kicks on at 4AM and we begin tomorrow's broadcast at 5am with Morning Edition from NPR.

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five, if you didn’t get a chance to write down some of the information mentioned in our community calendar, the script is published online at www.wesufm.org/jive, and if you know of any events that you'd like to have announced on the Jive, send them to jive@wesufm.org

If you tune in to WESU for information and music that you can’t find elsewhere, then we are counting on you to help support the service you depend on.

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From all of us here at WESU, have a safe and fun Memorial Day and lets not forget all of the fallen service men and women.

Thanks for listening and stay tuned for an hour of commercial free jazz with Charles Henry.