Good evening, it's Tuesday, May 29th. 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.
Tonight and every Tuesday evening here in Middletown from 6 to 8pm, Evan
Okun and Klekolo world Coffee present “The pen is mightier...” poetry open Mic
at Klekolo on Court Street. More online at: http://www.klekolo.com/
860.343.9444
Tonight down in New Haven, Moody & Zaretsky play blues & roots music at Café nine.
Tomorrow Café Nine presents an early show with EARLY
SHOW: Ricky Miller and Tony Dioguardi Duo at 7pm. At 10 pm Wednesday
night it’s Pat Dalton's Local Acoustic Indie Showcase. Thursday
night the The
Shoutbacks play ‘outlaw’ string band music at The Nine. Friday night WNHU's
"T in the Afternoon" Presents The Inaugural Underground Music
Experience" at Café Nine,
featuring performances by Fifth Nation, Gabriel Brunot, Political Animals, Joey
Ruckus, Denise Artista Conquistadora, and WhiteCheddar. Saturday’s Afternoon
Jazz Jam at Café Nine will be hosted by the Mike Coppola Trio this week.
Saturday Night Manic Productions presents Marissa Nadler; Faces on Film;
and Lys Guillorn.
Sunday Brings Roxy Perry’s Roadhouse Jam to The Nine. More online at www.cafenine.com
Tomorrow/ Wednesday night here in Middletown at 7pm, you can
catch “STRINGS” - a special talk with Jef Johnson at the MAC 650 Gallery &
Artist Co-Op on Main Street. Jef Johnson is a leader in the field of
performance theory. His research focuses on naive experience, consciousness,
play, patterned behavior and social identity. This event is Free to the Public. Jef is also offering "Break it Down!"
Inspired Performance Workshops June 1st through 3rd. You can learn more and
register by contacting Aryn Kyer at arynky@gmail.com
Thursday night here
in Middletown, The Buttonwood Tree presents a singer Songwriter double Bill
featuring Double Bill: Chelsea
Berry and Ryan Tennis. Friday night Cece & Ruth and the Birch
Creek Band make for a night of Harmony, history & humor: in a program featuring Celtic & American ballads”. Saturday night Katie
Pearlman and Cathy Kreger will perform music from their new CDs at the
Buttonwood. Katie Pearlman' new “Girls
Like Us” is a concept album of songs about women, based on true stories from
the book Note to Self, by Andrea Buchanan. On Sunday’s Food not Bombs shares
food in front of the Buttonwood Tree at 1pm. Al welcome and invite to partake
and help prepare the food at 11:30 am at First Church on Court Street in
Middletown. More about buttonwood tree events online at www.buttonwood.org
Thursday Night You can Catch spark Plug playing the music of
Melvin Sparks at Sully’s Pub in Hartford. Friday night Dub Apocalypse takes the
Sully’s stage. Saturday Night Sully’s presents Hearts and Thieves
w/ All in Blind . www.sullyspub.com
w/ All in Blind . www.sullyspub.com
Thursday Night Toads Place in new Haven presents a local
band showcase on the Main stage Thursday night while Justin ones performs upstairs
on the lily pad stage. Victor Wooten performs at Toads Place on Friday
Night. The B. WILLIE SMITH BAND and The
Cobalt Rhythm Kings perform at Toads on
Saturday night. Sunday at Toads. There is a fundraising event called “Friends
of Freddy B” . more online at www.toadsplace.com
Weezer plays the Mohegan Sun arena Thursday Night. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
plays a free show Mohegan Sun’s wolf den Friday Night at 8pm. www.mohegansun.com
The Russell Knitters are an enthusiastic group of knitters
who are willing to share ideas and expertise. They invite you to join them this Saturday at
11am at the Russell Library. No registration is required. www.russelllibrary.org
The Middletown Symphonic Band presents their Annual Spring Concert
at South Congregational Church
on Pleasant St in Middletown Saturday afternoon at 2pm..
on Pleasant St in Middletown Saturday afternoon at 2pm..
Saturday evening at 7pm, Artists for World Peace present
their third International Celebration of Peace, “Dance for Peace” at The Charter
Oak Cultural Center, in Hartford. Dance
for Peace will feature dancers and musicians from seven New
York, Canadian, and Connecticut dance companies, plus an
artisan marketplace and amazing hors d'oeuvres. Proceeds will buy a corn grinding machine for a
community group in Tanzania to feed hundreds of people and provide income
to an orphanage center.. Tickets and info online at : ARTISTSFORWORLDPEACE.ORG
Here in Middletown Saturday evening at 8pm, The Mattabasset Canoe
club present an evening of traditional and contemporary Irish folk music
featuring Mick O’Brien & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh at 8pm.
Livingston Taylor performs Saturday at First
Congregational Church of Madison. tickets and info at: www.fccmadison.org/music.
Now, here’s a listing of some of what’s happening in the
world of no Main Stream Cinema here in Central CT. All Week, Real Art Ways in Hartford is showing
the New Documentary From Academy Award winning director Kevin Macdonald, “Marley”.
“Marley” celebrates the life and work of visionary performer and world icon Bob
Marley. Friday Night Real Art Ways opens 2 more films: “Keyhole” is the
startling new Canadian Film by Guy Maddin offering a surreal fusion of family
melodrama, film noir, gangster movie, ghost story and Homer's Odyssey starring
Jason Patric and Isabella Rosselini . “Small, Beautifully Moving Parts “also
opens on Friday at Real Art Ways. This film follows a pregnant technophile , who’s uncertainties about motherhood trigger
an impulsive road trip to the source of her anxiety: her long-estranged mother
living far away and off-the-grid. More online
at www.realartways.org
Tonight and Tomorrow, Cinestudio, The Trinity College Cinema in Hartford
presents the fully restored 35mm film print of
one of the most elusively beautiful movies to be made on celluloid: Terence
Davies’ The Long Day Closes. Wednesday night Cinestudio kicks off the 25th
annual Gay and Lesbian film festival. More online at www.cinestudio.org
Now, here’s a rundown of tonight’s
programming here on WESU as we work our way through week #2 of our new Summer
program season:
Right
after the Jive at Five, stay tuned for an Finding Bliss: Words and Music with
DJ Lauren “Bliss” Agnelli. This is a
free form talk show about people who are following their hearts and living
authentically.
At 6pm we bring you 30 minutes of
alternative news reporting from the Pacifica Network on Free Speech Radio News.
at 6:30 J-Cherry presents: Voice of the City for 90 minutes of live and local arts. Featuring in studio interviews and performances.
at 6:30 J-Cherry presents: Voice of the City for 90 minutes of live and local arts. Featuring in studio interviews and performances.
At 8:00 Its Acoustic Blender with
Bill Revill for 2 hrs of acoustic roots and Americana music.
From 10-midnight it’s Wonderland
with DJ Cheshire Cats whose got a song in his heart, a chemical imbalance in
his head and a musical library at his fingers. From krautrock to post-rock,
grunge to garage, novelty to New Romantic, punk to prog, Wonderland has a place
for it
From Midnight til 1:30 am it Back From Baltimore with Hannah
Malloy who has just returned to Connecticut from her latest semester in
Baltimore, bringing each week new and old psychedelic, indie, rock, folk,
alternative, lo-fi music and at least a few tunes from Baltimore's music scene.
Dj Otto Nation is in the hose with
an eclectic mix of music after that until 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
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
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