Good evening, it's Monday, July 2nd. 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
Here in Middletown Mondays through Thursdays from 10am-noon through during July and August,
Stacey Stroka leads The Buttonwood Tree’s Open Arts & Crafts program. Everyone
is welcome! Every Monday night, J-CHERRY hosts the ANYTHING GOES!” OPEN MIC
WITH AT THE BUTTONWOOD TREE. Signups begin at7:30pm. Performances start
at 8:00pm.
Wednesday night the buttonwood Tree will be closed in observance
of Independence Day.
Thursday night brings Bob Gotta’s long standing monthly acoustic
Open Mic to the Buttonwood.
Friday night, The Jolly Beggars bring the rich tradition of
Celtic folk music and storytelling to the Buttonwood.
Saturday Singer/Songwriter
Brian Colburn and Pianist Ryan Heidel bring their music to the buttonwood
Tree.
Food Not Bombs shares food about 1 pm in front of the
Buttonwood Tree every Sunday. All ares welcome and invited to help prepare
vegetarian food at the First Church on 190 Court Street at 11:30 am.
More information about all Buttonwood events at www.buttonwood.org or 860.347.4957
Tonight down in New Haven, Rohn Lawrence and Friends make
smooth jazz on the lily pad stage. Weds being the weekly dubstep dance party,
Thursday Dance Hall reggae Sensation Baby
Cham takes the Toad’s Place Main stage. Friday bring the Battle for Mayhem fest to 2
stages at Toads place, featuring over 10 loud rock bands battling for a spot to
play at the Mayhem music Fest in Hartford in August. Saturday night Toads host and event called “LUMINESCENCE: A NEON
GLOW PARTY”. More online at www.toadsplace.com
Also down in New Haven tonight at 8:00 pm, MANIC PRODUCTIONS Presents: Thomas Wynn & the Believers; w/ Killer Kowalski; Fallopian Two. Tuesday Night Café nine presents Dr. Dark doing a Captain Beefheart tribute. Wednesday night DRINKDEEPLY Presents the Café Nine Independence Day Punk Rock BBQ featuring: the Lost Riots; Malcolm Tent; Casting Ships; Eric Hartlett; Kari Bunn; and Sean Conlan & Friends. Thursday night The Moving Company; The New Dirty; and Belly Fire take the Café Nine stage. Friday Night FERNANDO PINTO Presents a BLUEGRASS HOEDOWN at the nine featuring: Too Blue; Caroline Doctorow & the Steamrollers; and Hot Mustard • Café nine’s Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam will be hosted by the Mike Coppola Trio this week. Saturday Night Stark Raving Lulu; celebrates the release of their new CD at Café Nine alongside Peacock Flounders and The Sawtelles. More online at www.cafenine.com
In New Britain tonight, MATT ZEINER & FRIENDS plays Jazz
from 8:30-Midnight at Tools Bard and Grill. Thursday night JAZZ SPOKEN HERE –
Hosted by The Alvin Carter Project, with special guest Spoken Word
Artist-Michael Hawkins happens at Tools. Friday Night Saxophonist and composer
Kris Allen and his group perform jazz at Tools and DAVID DAVIS, SAX IN THE CITY
are at Tools onSaturday night. More online
at www.Toolsbrarandgrill.com
On Tuesday nights in Hartford, you can catch Mike Palin’s “Other orchestra” an 18 piece big
band live on stage at Black-eyed Sally’s. On Thursday night THE UMOJA MUSIC SERIES –presents
a free evening of live music with ALAN
PALMER & THE NEW SOIL SHIP at
Blackeyed Sally’s. Friday Night Jr Kraus and the Shakes bring
their jump up blues sound back to the Sally’s stage. Saturday night, The JackLeg Preachers, based
out of Salem Massachusetts, bring their "Jamband" music to Sally’s. www.blackeyedsallys.com
Thursday
night her in Middletown at 7pm Wesleyan Universities Center For the Arts Summer
season kicks off with a free concert by Alma Moyo. Founded 10 years ago in the South Bronx by
lead singer and percussionist Alex LaSalle, the intergenerational band Alma
Moyo performs Afro-Puerto Rican bomba folk music featuring dynamic drumming,
dancing, and rich vocals. The concert takes place outside on the CFA green on high
St. In case of rain the concert will be inside at Crowell Concert Hall). For more
information you can visit www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Thursday Night Simply Swing, a 10-piece swing orchestra
plays the Gazebo at Unionville Center in
Farmington in the Farmington Bank
Community Concert Series. For more information, see www.simplyswingmusic.com
or call (860) 989-9217.
Here in Middletown, the Mattabesett Canoe Club at Harbor Park
presents Thursday Night "Jazz on the River “ from 6:00 - 10:00 pm. For info and
Reservations call 860-347-9999
Saturday morning, The Russell Knitters meet and work at The
Russell Library here in Middletown. All are welcome to share their expertise and
experience. More online at www.russelllibrary.org
Saturday night The JOSH EVANS QUARTET plays Jazz at Royal
Masala – on Main Street in Hartford at 8pm.
With Independence Day approaching on Wednesday, there are fireworks
displays scheduled across the state. Here’s a quick rundown: Down in Westbrook- Water's Edge Resort
presents fireworks at 9:30 p.m .tonight (with a rain date of tomorrow).
The City of Middletown and the Middletown Commission on the
Arts, present a pre-Independence Day Fireworks Festival on Tuesday, July 3rd,
beginning at 6 p.m. on the front lawn of the City Hall Municipal Building at
245 Dekoven Drive in Middletown. The festival will include activities for
children, music for all, select vendors, and fireworks shot high over the
Connecticut River. The fireworks will begin at 9:30 p.m.. The event is free and
there is free parking throughout town. Please call the Mayor's Office for more
details: 860-344-3401.
Bridgeport, Derby, Milford, New Britain, Norwalk, Shelton,
Stratford, Vernon, West Haven, and Westport also offer fireworks displays on Tuesday
night as well.
Wednesday night you can
catch fireworks in Bristol, Fairfield, Madison, Middlebury, Naugatuck, New Britain,
New Canaan, New Haven, Ridgefield, Washington, Weston and Wilton.
Thursday night, you can catch fireworks at Meriden’s
Hubbard Park.
Friday night Salem, and
Windsor locks present Fireworks displays.
Saturday night, there are more fireworks
displays schedule across the state in Beacon Falls, Bozrah, East Hartford, Greenwich,
Groton, Hartford, Lebanon, Manchester, New London, New Milford, Orange,
Portland, Torrington, Stafford, and Wallingford.
Sunday you can catch fireworks
in Enfield.
‘Tis the season for
farmers’ markets and here’s a few in our area:
The Durham Farmers' Market is open every Thursday on the Town Green on Main St, from 3 to 6:30 pm, through September. The longstanding Middletown Farmers’ market at the South Green kicks off this week and continues on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 am to 1 pm through October. The Middletown North End Farmers Market is now open 10 am to 2 pm every Friday and is located at the corner of Liberty and Main Streets in Middletown.
The Durham Farmers' Market is open every Thursday on the Town Green on Main St, from 3 to 6:30 pm, through September. The longstanding Middletown Farmers’ market at the South Green kicks off this week and continues on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 am to 1 pm through October. The Middletown North End Farmers Market is now open 10 am to 2 pm every Friday and is located at the corner of Liberty and Main Streets in Middletown.
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. You can access arts2GO.org for updated
information.
Here’s a quick rundown of cinema off the beaten path herein central CT this week.
Here’s a quick rundown of cinema off the beaten path herein central CT this week.
Tonight and Tomorrow, Cinestudio, the Trinity College
cinema in Hartford, the 1957 musical comedy classic
"Funny Face," starring Audrey Hepburn, with dancing by Fred Astaire
and music/lyrics by the Gershwin. Opening Wednesday and running through Next
Tuesday, Cinestudio, presents Stanley Kubrik’s timeless 1964 Noir
doomsday satire, Dr Strangelove starring Peter
Sellers, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, Sterling Hayden, James Earl Jones. Show schedules and descriptions can be
found online at www.cinestudio.org
Real Art Ways in Hartford has extended their run "First Position," which follows six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter the world of professionals. Also showing through Thursday at Real Art Ways is OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bi-polar, Asperger's Movie. Friday night Real Art Ways begins a run of The feature-length documentary film MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT:, which follows the contemporary artist as she prepares for what may be the most challenging performance of her life. Tickets, times, and more online at www.realartways.org
Now stay tuned. Here's what's playing on WESU tonight:
as we kick off our Summer Program guide.
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 Aaron Berger host of the Thursday night free form music program, ”The Art Project” fills in for Johnny Analog’s Lif is a Kiler.
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 Aaron Berger host of the Thursday night free form music program, ”The Art Project” fills in for Johnny Analog’s Lif is a Kiler.
at 8:00 Lord Lewis presents: the Rumpus Room for 90 minutes of schorching vintage and contemporary heavy funk, soul, club jazz, reggae, ska, afro and Latin dance floor grooves.
At 9:30 Tom Gatzen presents a 2 hr weekly does of loud and heavy music on Aaargh!!
From 11:30 - 12:30 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. For tonight’s
concert, Rick presents: Parliament Funkadelic Live at Howard
Theater at Howard University: Washington, DC. Nov 1 1978.
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
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