06-05-12 jive

Good evening, it's Tuesday, June 5th. 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

Down in New Haven tonight at Cafe Nine you can catch  Joe Flood and special guest Luisa Piemontese. Later tonight at 10 pm Café nine presents Casey Gorman w/ Mike Brandon.  Wednesday night : Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy, Slackeye Slim, and Filthy Still make for a night of aggressive, country-blues-Dixieland-bluegrass, Delta blues, and New Orleans sounds. Thursday Chris Berardo and the Desperados w/ Al Raebuck play at Café Nine. Friday Night  BURLESQUE-A-PADES takes the Café Nine stage. Café nine’s Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam will be hosted by Gary Grippo and Friends this week. Saturday Night brings the Ideat Village XII Fundraiser  to Café nine featuring Sidewalk Dave, the Grimm Generation, Farewood and Bedroom Rehab Corporation. More online at www.cafenine.com

  

Wednesday night the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown presents  Conversations with Tlakaelel: 2012 Earth Changes, Myth and Reality. This Toltec Elder, teacher, heir and guardian of the oral tradition, is also an author and spiritual guide who has spent over 50 years teaching and researching the great ancestral cultures of the Americas. He will share insights about our role in 2012, the earth changes that are already happening, energy and how to work with it and see it, the importance of wisdom in the modern world, and the unity of world religions.

Thursday night brings Bob Gotta’s long standing acoustic Open Mic to the Buttonwood.

Friday night, The Brooklyn based harmony-driven power trio  ”Apollo Run”, take the stage.

Saturday the buttonwood Tree offers a full line up of activities and events starting at 10:30 am as they participate in the CT Department of Tourism’s Annual  Open House Day.  Spiritual Workshops, live music, and an artist’s reception and gallery show are all in the works.  The day culminates at the Buttonwood Tree with The NYC-based Danny Fox Trio playing genre-defying original music that lies somewhere between jazz , chamber music, and rock.

Food Not Bombs shares food about 1 pm in front of the Buttonwood Tree every Sunday. All ares welcome to the meal and invited to help prepare vegetarian food at the First Church on 190 Court Street at 11:30 am.

Later on Sunday evening at the Buttonwood, “Coming to the mic” is an open mic filmed in its entirety to be aired on Comcast TV. It’s Produced and hosted by Ty Mapp, Sunday at 7:30 at the Buttonwood. More information about all Buttonwood events at www.buttonwood.org or 860.347.4957

Weds night down in New Haven brings Toads Place’s weekly dubstep dance party. Thursday there’s a local Rock showcase on the main stage at Toads.  While Justin Jones performs upstairs in Lily’s pad. SHAKEDOWN plays the Grateful DEAD & BEYOND at Toads place on Friday Night with Mushroom Cloud and Gigglejuice opening that show. Saturday night Unearth, This Is Hell,  Vengeance, and Torment the Dreamer make for a night of loud Rock at Toads. More online at www.toadsplace.com

Wednesday Night at Blackeyed Sally’s in Hartford you can catch The PETER BYRON BLUES JAM.  Friday Night Joey Spampinato, founding member of the legendary NRBQ is back on the stage with his bro! Saturday night, JOHN FRIES & THE HEAT. FEATURING MATT ZEINER celebrate the release of their new CD at Sally’s. www.blackeyedsallys.com

Here in Middletown Friday Night, Vinnie’s  Jump and Jive presents their All Blues All Night Dance.   More online at http://www.vinniesjumpandjive.com/

This Thursday night marks the launch of the Thursday Night "Jazz on the River " series at Mattabesett Canoe Club in Middletown (formerly Harbor Park).  The Legendary jazz drummer BERNARD "Pretty" PURDIE is appearing with vocalist Karen Frisk this Thurs. JUNE 7, from 6:00 - 10:00 pm Rain or Shine!  For info and Reservations call  860-347-9999

Fresh off their athletic victories from the Special Olympics CT-Eastern Regional Games twenty two athletes from the Greater Middletown Special Olympics are set to compete at  the Special Olympics Connecticut State Summer Games beginning on Friday June 8-10, 2012 hosted by Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven & the Hamden Hall School in Hamden.  Nineteen Athletes from the GMSO will be competing in Track & Field events & three in Cycling events.   For more info call SOCT at 1-800-443-6105 or visit www.soct.org

Saturday brings the 35th Anniversary Military vehicle show and flea market to the Chester fairgrounds from 8am-4pm.  The event features Antique Military vehicles, a flea market, food on site, Military displays and more. www.comvec.org for info.

The Strawberry Fields FEST 2012 in East Hampton's Village Centre is happening this Saturday, June 9^th. The event starts at 9am on the village green free yoga, everyone is welcome. Venders will be setting up along the sidewalks with crafts, food, and arts. Anyone interested in being a vender can sign up at 70 Main Coffeehouse and Art Gallery. There will be artist demonstrations, a strawberry wine and beer tasting, and music throughout the day including a performance from J-Cherry and the Strawberries.

Here’s a quick rundown of cinema off the beaten path herein central CT this week. 

 Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford,  presents their annual Gay and Lesbian film festival through Saturday. Opening on Sunday at Cinestudio, National Theatre Live presents FRANKENSTEIN . Show schedules and descriptions can be found online at www.cinestudio.org

Real Art Ways in Hartford has extended their run of Marley through 6/14. “Marley” celebrates the life and work of visionary reggae musician, Bob Marley. Tuesday through Thursday Real Art Ways presents “Small, Beautifully Moving Parts" which follows a pregnant technophile who’s uncertainties about motherhood trigger an impulsive road trip .  Friday Real Art ways opens a run of Pink Ribbons, Inc. a feature documentary that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer, which marketing experts have labeled a "dream cause," becomes obfuscated by a shiny, pink story of success. Friday also kicks off a weekends only run of: “Lovecraft, Whisperer in Darkness”, Written in 1931, H.P. Lovecraft's iconic genre-bending tale of suspense and alien terrors is brought to life in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s. Real Art way has also booked “The Room” which has been dubbed as “The best terrible movie ever”  for a series monthly late night screenings. Tickets, times, and more at www.realartways.org 

That’s it for our community calendar. For the latest in local arts and entertainment beyond the Jive At Five, you can visit www.arts2GO.org – the City of Middletown’s new website for anyone interested in what’s going on in Middletown.

Now stay tuned.  Here's what's playing on WESU tonight: 

Right after the Jive at Five, stay tuned for 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.  Today’s show will spotlight Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Patti Smith.

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 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 Cat 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 until 1:30 am it’s Back From Baltimore with Hannah Malloy, 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 house 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

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