Mon., Oct. 29 Jive at Five

Mon., Oct 29 Jive

Good afternoon, it's Monday, Oct. 29th, and this is the Jive at Five - WESU's Daily community calendar and rundown of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown, your station for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs by day and the best in free-form community programming week nights and weekends. I'm Maria Johnson, host of “Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith,” which airs tomorrow, and every 1^st, 3^rd and, when there is one, 5^th Tuesday, from 4 p.m. to right before the Jive. Tomorrow’s episode will feature an interview with Judith Levitt, a photojournalist whose portraits of Catholic women priests appeared recently in the New York Times.

Thanks for tuning in on your battery operated radio or computer!
This episode of the Jive is being recorded as Hurricane Sandy has barely touched us, so you'd be wise to check with the venues listed before heading out to an event.

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Here's a rundown of some of what’s scheduled to be happening in our area:

Tonight at the Buttonwood Tree, it’s the Anything Goes open mic night at 7:30.

Thursday and every first Thursday, it’s Open Mic with Bob Gotta; sign-ups start at 6:30.

Friday brings a co-bill to the Buttonwood, with Kyle Carey & Sean Earnest and Liz Simmons & Flynn Cohen, an evening of roots-steeped Celtic Americana. Experience the camaraderie of traditional folk music– and inspired new compositions.

Saturday at the Buttonwood Tree, it’s An Evening with IYQ: The Isaac Young Quartet Jazz Band. 

Every Sunday at about 1 p.m. in front of the Buttonwood, Food Not Bombs shares vegetarian food. All are welcome. You are also invited to help prepare the meal at the First Church at 190 Court Street at 11:30 am. Information about all Buttonwood events can be found on their website at www.buttonwood.org.

For information about all Buttonwood events, go to Buttonwood.org.

Tomorrow at 7 p.m., The Middlesex County Historical Society and the Russell Library present “Panic in Connecticut: Accused Witches Have Their Say,” a one-woman show in which actress Virginia Wolf brings to life five women accused of witchcraft in 17th century Connecticut. The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Hubbard Room of Russell Library. For further information, call the Historical Society at 860-346-0746.

On Thursday afternoon, Wesleyan’s Music & Public Life series continues with: Instrumental influence: a discussion of musical trends in political advertising. Using the data from the Wesleyan Media Project, this presentation will analyze the content of current political ads and the type of music they contain. The free event will be at 4:15 p.m. at CFA Hall, 287 Washington Terrace.

Another Music & Public Life event on Thursday is: Kuromori Kagural a centuries-old folk music and dance tradition from northern Japan that even the ferocious earthquake and tsunami of 3/11 could not destroy. It will take place at 8 pm at Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys Avenue.

Thursday also begins the 4th Annual Middletown International Film Festival. Russell Library has partnered with Middlesex Community College and Wesleyan University to select and screen six acclaimed international films on Thursday evenings this fall. Each screening is at 7:00 p.m. and is followed by a scholarly discussion of the film’s cultural and societal themes. Thursday’s screening at Wesleyan’s Film Center will be of the 2010 Korean film “Poetry,” in which a sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.

Friday’s Music & Public Life event is a performance by Wesleyan University Jazz Ensemble Coach Noah Baerman at 8 p.m. at the Green Street Arts Center, 51 Green Street. He will be joined by his longtime trio partners bassist Henry Lugo and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza.

Also on Friday, at 8 p.m., the university’s Navaratri Festival continues with vocal music of south india with vocalist and artist in residence B. Balasubrahmaniyan in concert at the Crowell Concert Hall. The concert will open with a performance by Wesleyan students and there will be a pre-concert talk at 7:15pm by Wesleyan Ph.D. Candidate Joseph Getter.

Continuing Friday’s abundance of riches, over at the First Church of Christ Parish Hall, 190 Court Street,  the Diversion will present a comedy night at 7:30 p.m., featuring these four acts: Tick Tick… BOOM!; The Sticks Improv;  Wesleyan University's own Gag Reflex; and Desperate Measures. Reservations are recommended. Call 860-325-2386 or visit thediversion.com for more info.

For the latest in local arts and entertainment anytime you're not hearing it on our Jive, go to arts2GO.org – the City’s website for what’s going on and what’s to do with a highlight on the arts in Middletown. That's arts2GO.org

Now here’s a look at what’s going on down in New Haven.

At Toad’s Place tonight, it’s A Night of Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence & Friends.

Tuesday brings Citizen Cope to the Toad’s stage.

Then Wednesday, it’s WPLR’s Kooks and Spooks Convention, with costume contests and prizes. That will be followed by the weekly EDM Night.

Thursday, it’s State Radio and Bronze Radio Return.

Friday brings Max Creek and the McLovins.

Sunday, it’s Matisyahu and The Constellations.

More at toadsplace.com.

And at Café Nine in New Haven, tonight is the Acoustic Open Mic Night with Miss Kriss.

Tomorrow, Manic Productions Presents: The David Mayfield Parade; w/ Hoots & Hellmouth and Elison Jackson.

Wednesday, it’s Halloween with Milksop: Unsung, featuring Jacques le Coque; Dr. Caterwaul with the Cygnet Sisters; and Modern Merchant. Hosted by Dan Rice • Prizes for best costume!

Thursday brings Jonathan Edwards to Café Nine.

And Friday, it’s The Manchurians; w/ Anne Castellano & the Smoke; and Forgotten By Friday.

Saturday, it’s the Afternoon Jazz Jam w/ host The Mike Coppola Trio, followed The Heritage Blues Quartet; w/ The George Baker Trio.

Then  Sunday at 8, it’s the Sunday After Supper Jam with host Kevin Saint James and the Legendary Cafe Nine All-Stars.

More at cafenine.com.

Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight is Jazz Monday.

And tomorrow brings Michael Palin's Other Orchestra.

Wednesday, it’s the Blues Jam with Tim McDonald.

And Thursday, it’s The Clams & 9th Wave. All of the shows are at 8 p.m.

Friday from 5 to 8 p.m., it’s the 5h annual Feed the People fundraiser, with music by Kumar Ramanan. Donations of non-perishable foods, cash and checks made payable to Feed the People are welcome. The fundraiser is followed at 9 by Forward Motion.

Saturday brings Joe Louis Walker to Sally’s for a 9 o’clock performance of electric blues.

More at blackeyedsallys.com.

Now let’s look at cinema outside the Cineplex box:

At Real Art Ways, the film “How to Survive a Plague” continues tonight through Thursday, as does “Bill W.”

Friday begins a run of “Stars in Shorts” and “Wake in Fright (Outback).” Friday is also the every-first-Friday Gaze event, featuring music by My Gay Banjo.

Opening Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and running into March, it’s the exhibition Intimate Science, showcasing works reaching beyond conventional approaches in up-close observation.

Then Sunday, The Story of Film: An Odyssey continues at 1 p.m. with Part 4: “European New Wave” and  “New Directors, New Forms” (the 1960s).

More at realartways.org

Over at Cinestudio, Trinity College's movie theater, “Robot and Frank,” with Frank Langella, continues through Wednesday.

Also on Wednesday and running through Saturday, it’s The Dark Knight Rises, which the theater calls your last chance to see the film on a screen bigger that your laptop.

Sunday, National Theatre Live presents Timon of Athens, followed by Sleepwalk with Me.

Details at cinestudio.org

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If you do venture out to any of the events listed on the Jive, we hope you'll be careful out there. A better idea, for today and tomorrow, anyway, is to stay put and listen to the amazing programming on WESU. Here's what's on tonight:

Right after the Jive At Five from 5:05 to 6:00pm it’s Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry, a well-rounded jazz show for true jazz heads.

That’s followed from 6-6:30pm by Free Speech Radio News, your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the Pacifica Network.

From 6:30-8pm, it’s Life is a Killer with Johnny Analog, moving through the blues diaspora from front porch country blues and big city electric blues to jazz, R&B and soul.

Then from 8-9:30pm, it’s Rumpus Room with Lord Lewis, the best in vintage and contemporary heavy funk, soul, club jazz, etc.  

From 9:30-11:30pm, it’s The Attention Deficit Disk Jockey with Lee, the music of yesterday's future, today.

Then from 11:30pm-12:30am, it’s A Hate Supreem with DJ AWOL, combining jazz and metal.

From 12:30-1:30am, it’s Maelstrom of the Weird with Phil Void, surveying punk in all its innovation and abrasion - be it first wave, hardcore, post-punk, or noise.

From 1:30-2:30am, it’s Live From The Paris Hotel with The Sparrow, a mercurial mixture of pop music and poetry.

Then from 2:30-3:30am, it’s Maximum Rock and Roll Radio, a weekly radio show featuring the best DIY punk, garage rock and hardcore.

From 3:30-4am, DJ Vegetable Reads Missed Connections: You've lost someone. Let's find them.

From 4 to 5 a.m., the BBC World News kicks in, your chance to hear about the day's news from the famous British news network.

Then from 5-10am, it’s Morning Edition from National Public Radio, a daily offering of news and information from NPR.

And that’s it for today’s Jive at Five. The written form for what you've heard on today’s jive is online at wesufm.org/jive.

If you value WESU as a source for information and entertainment in your life, how about supporting the station with a donation? You can make that donation online at wesufm.org anytime. Thanks for listening! Oh, and be careful around your candles!

Friday's Jive 10-26-12

Good afternoon, it's Friday, October 26th, and 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, your station for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs by day and the best in free-form community programming week nights and weekends. I'm Stephan Allison, host of River Valley Rhythms heard Thursdays at 4 pm here at WESU. Thanks for tuning in.

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For the latest in local arts and entertainment anytime you're not hearing it on our Jive, go to arts2GO.org – the City’s website for what’s going on and what’s to do with a highlight on the arts in Middletown. That's arts2GO.org

Here's a rundown of some of what’s happening in our area:

Tonight at 8pm at The Buttonwood Tree it's “Woody Sed,” a one-man play performed by Thomas Jones, portraying the life, times and music of the great American folk hero, Woody Guthrie. A second performance will take place at 4p on Saturday. Also Saturday Sirius Coyote, a multi-talented group of musicians, storytellers and instrument makers, performs on more than thirty different ancient  and modern  instruments of the Americas. This performance will focus on one of Latin America’s most important holidays, Dia De Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead (November 1st and 2nd), a festive celebration to honor the dearly departed. Every Sunday at about 1 p.m. in front of the Buttonwood, Food Not Bombs shares vegetarian food. All are welcome. You are also invited to help prepare the meal at the First Church at 190 Court Street at 11:30 am. Information about all Buttonwood events can be found on their website at www.buttonwood.org.

The internationally acclaimed Linden String Quartet will perform at 2pm on Saturday in the Hubbard Room at Russell Library, 123 Broad Street.

halloween around the world at mac650 gallery – join in an art gallery reception and dance party 7p-midnight at Mac650 Gallery, 650 Main St. on Saturday. They will have free El Día de los Muertos style face painting by Melissa Astraea Escolas and a performance by Jennifer Hill at 9 P.M. recent winner of best singer and songwriter at Hartford's Grand Band Slam. For more information email MAC650rccr@gmail.com

Down in New Haven at Toad’s Place tonight it's  Skalapalooza 2012, with Spring Heeled Jack, The Pietasters, The Pilfers, the Hardcore Karaoke Pile-On Extravaganza, and Sgt. Scagnetti. Saturday brings The Original Saturday Night Dance Party, a Halloween costume party with prizes awarded in multiple categories. Then Sunday, it’s Capleton & The Prophecy Band. More at toadsplace.com.

And at Café Nine in New Haven, Friday’s happy hour features Solin, followed at 9 by Lipgloss Crisis Presents: a  Halloween/Day of the Dead Burlesque Show, with special guest host Hors D'oeuvers from Northampton, a spooky evening of burlesque, games and prizes for best costumes. On Saturday, it’s the Afternoon Jazz Jam w/ host George Baker, followed by a Punk Rock Halloween Party, featuring the Hulls; LA Trash; and Pickpocket.  Come as your favorite '70s punk icon! Sunday, it’s the Sunday After Supper Jam, with host Kevin Saint James and the Legendary Cafe Nine All-Stars. More at cafenine.com.

Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s tonight it's Anthony Gomes, a Canadian-born blues musician and rocker, for a night of guitar pyrotechnics. On Saturday, the Kortchmar/McDonald Band plays. Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar is a guitarist, session musician, and songwriter who’s worked with such icons as David Crosby, Carole King, Graham Nash, Carly Simon and James Taylor, helping define the signature sound of the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Jackson Browne and Don Henley have recorded many songs written or co-written by Kortchmar, and Kortchmar was Henley's partner in the 1980s. More at blackeyedsallys.com.

Back in Middletown, the Fall 2012 Community Record Fair, sponsored by your favorite radio station, WESU, will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Beckham Hall, 45 Wyllys Ave. Vendors will be selling new and used music in all formats -- plus, there'll be food, games, WESU merchandise, and, best of all, WESU DJ's spinning vinyl all day! Learn more at wesufm.org.

At the Performing Arts Center at MHS on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. a performance of Bizet’s “Carmen”, one of the most popular operas of all time will be brought to Middletown by the Connecticut Lyric Opera company and the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. This is a live, fully-staged presentation with a full orchestra conducted and directed by Adrian Sylveen. This is a presentation by the Greater Middletown Concert Association. Call 860.347.4887 or 346.3369.

Sunday, the Music & Public Life series brings Los Trovadores de America to Iguanas Ranas Restaurant, 484 Main Street, Middletown at 5p. For more information, visit Wesleyan.edu/mpl

Now here's what going on in cinema off the beaten path in central Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways, tonight and Saturday, the film “How to Survive a Plague” is screening, followed by the “It’s Such a Beautiful Day Trilogy,” and both run into next week. Then on Sunday afternoon, the Story of Film: An Odyssey continues with part 3, “Postwar Cinema” (1940s); “Sex & Melodrama” (1950s). More at realartways.org

At Cinestudio, Trinity College's movie theater, tonight & Saturday it’s “Magic Mike,” a film about male strippers that the Boston Globe described as “so much better than it needs to be that it’s sick.” Saturday also brings “PixELATION,” a benefit celebrating Cinestudio’s newly installed 4k digital cinema --and the culmination of its FutureCinema Campaign. Join fellow film lovers for a 6 pm reception with food & prizes, and a 7 pm screening of “Hugo,” Martin Scorsese’s 2011 award-winning homage to cinema. The film will be followed at 9:15 by a lively panel discussion moderated by WNPR’s Colin McEnroe. Sunday begins three days of screenings of “Robot and Frank,” a film set in the not-too-distant-future.  Frank Langella gives a complex and intelligent performance. Details at cinestudio.org

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And now let’s take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU.

Right after the Jive At Five from 5:05 to 6:00pm it’s
 Wild Wild Live with MC Apper - A sneak peek into the magical live music scene of Wes. Tune in for in-station sets from campus bands and recordings of up-and-coming artists' campus shows.

From 6:00 to 6:30pm 
it’s Free Speech Radio News - Your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the Pacifica Network.

For the next half hour, until 7pm you have the Middletown Youth Radio Project - A weekly radio program featuring the thoughts, voices, creativity and talent of the kids in the WESU neighborhood.

At 7, until 8:30pm we have the Universal Sound Wave with Sistah Tee - Informing listeners about local and global issues with health, nutrition, and stress reduction tips, featuring a wide range of music including African, reggae, gospel, R&B, Latin, and blues.

Next up until 10pm, we take it
 From the Otherside with 
Rok-A-Dee - The Voice of Hartford, including local artists from Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He also features upcoming artists performing Caribbean R & B, Soca and international music.

From 10 until Midnight, take in
 the sounds of Rumba en el Patio 
with Michael
- Classic Salsa for the dancers, Afro-Latin Big Band for the discerning ear. Join us as we adventure through the history of Musica Latina!

At Midnight until 1:30am Saturday it’s 
N.E. Tempo with 
DJ Berk
- Serious turntablism - Dubstep, DnB, techno, ragga jungle, breakbeats mixed live.

At 1:30am we go 
In the Master Bedroom, Under the Bed with 
Dope Dave 
until 3am - Celebrating conscious hip-hop and its offshoots & influences. Acrobatic emcees and down-tempo poets mix it up over varied oceans of sound.

At 3, to 4am it's the Bassment Beats – the Real Hip-Hop is over here.

Then, we bring you
 Sing Out! 
from 4 to 5am, on a mission to preserve and support the cultural diversity and heritage of all traditional and contemporary folk musics, and to encourage making folk music a part of our everyday lives.

And we bring in the daylight from 5:00 to 6:00am with the 
BBC World News 
- a daily News roundup from the British Broadcasting Corporation

And staying on the other side of the big pond, from 6:00 to 7:00am it’s
 the Celtic Café
 with Pat Laffan and Mark Gallagher presenting traditional and contemporary music with a Celtic connection.

And now that the coffee’s hot enjoy Caffé Italia from 7:00 to 8:00am 
with Francesco Fiumara, the former host of WESU's own WESParla 
 - A weekly roundup of news, music and memories from Italy.

That’s all for today’s Jive At Five, tune in each and every weekday at 4:55 pm to hear about what’s going on in the community and on the air right here at 88.1 FM WESU, a community service of Wesleyan University since 1939.

The Music behind today’s Jive At Five is from Kevin Norton’s Metaphor Quartet, a CD entitled Not Only In That Golden Tree . . . featuring (the late) Wilber Morris, Masahiko Kono, Hitomi Tono’Oka and Kevin Norton, the selection “not drunk, but stunned” and it’s out on clean feed records.

The written form for what you've heard on today’s jive is online at wesufm.org/jive 

And if you value WESU as a source for information and entertainment in your life, how about supporting the station with a donation? You can make that donation online at wesufm.org anytime. Thanks for listening!

Thursday's Jive

Today's Jive was recorded and produced by: 

J-Cherry... producer and host of, 'VOICE of the CITY'
 Airing on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown
Tuesdays from 8-9PM
Live and local... This ain't no commercial radio!
jcherrypresents.com

Good afternoon, it's Thursday, October 25nd, and this is the Jive at Five - WESU's Daily community calendar and rundown of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown, your station for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs by day and the best in free-form community programming week nights and weekends. I'm J-Cherry producer and host of VOICE of the CITY now airing in our new timeslot,  Tuesday from 8-9PM, Showcasing live and local music, arts, and culture.Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for tuning in!!

Now here's a rundown of some of what’s happening in our area:

Tonight's Performance Now film series at Wesleyan brings “The Films of Jesper Just,” a Danish artist using 3-D technology. The film will be at Film Studies 190, the Powell Family Cinema.

Tonight! gigglejuice live at the Hungry Tiger down in Manchester. Show starts at 9PM.  For more information visit gigglejuice.com

Friday at The Buttonwood Tree it's, “Woody Sed,” a one-man play performed by Thomas Jones, portrays the life, times and music of the great American folk hero, Woody Guthrie.
Saturday, Sirius Coyote, a multi-talented group of musicians, storytellers and instrument makers, performs on more than thirty different  ancient  and modern  instruments of the Americas. This performance will focus on one of Latin America’s most important holidays, DIA DE  LOS MUERTOS, the Day of the Dead (November 1st and 2nd) , a festive celebration to honor the dearly departed. Every Sunday at about 1 p.m. in front of the Buttonwood, Food Not Bombs shares vegetarian food. All are welcome. You are also invited to help prepare the meal at the First Church at 190 Court Street at 11:30 am.
Information about all Buttonwood events can be found on their website at www.buttonwood.org.



Down in New Haven at Toad’s Place tonight it's Walk Off the Earth, with special guests Julia Nunes and the Mowgli's.Friday, it’s Skalapalooza 2012, with Spring Heeled Jack, The Pietasters, The Pilfers, the Hardcore Karaoke Pile-On Extravaganza, and Sgt. Scagnetti.
Saturday brings The Original Saturday Night Dance Party, a Halloween costume party with prizes awarded in multiple categories.Then Sunday, it’s Capleton & The Prophecy Band.
More at toadsplace.com.

Over at Café Nine in New Haven, tonight brings the Coney Island Rock  & Roll Roadshow Fall Tour Kickoff,  featuring the Arkhams and  special guests Tigress.
Friday’s happy hour features Solin, followed at 9 by Lipgloss Crisis Presents: a  Halloween/Day of the Dead Burlesque Show, with special guest host Hors D'oeuvers from Northampton, a spooky evening of burlesque and games. Prizes for best costumes.
On Saturday, it’s the Afternoon Jazz Jam w/ host George Baker, followed by a Punk Rock Halloween Party, featuring the Hulls; LA Trash; and Pickpocket.  Come as your favorite '70s punk icon!Sunday, it’s the Sunday After Supper Jam, with host Kevin Saint James and the Legendary Cafe Nine All-Stars.
More at cafenine.com.

Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s Friday night, it's , Anthony Gomes, a Canadian-born blues musician and rocker, returns to Sally’s stage for a night of guitar pyrotechnics.
On Saturday, the Kortchmar/McDonald Band plays. Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar is a guitarist, session musician, and songwriter who’s worked with such icons as David Crosby, Carole King, Graham Nash, Carly Simon and James Taylor, helping define the signature sound of the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Jackson Browne and Don Henley have recorded many songs written or co-written by Kortchmar, and Kortchmar was Henley's partner in the 1980s.More at blackeyedsallys.com.

Back in Middletown, the Fall 2012 Community Record Fair, sponsored by your favorite radio station, WESU, will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Beckham Hall, 45 Wyllys Ave. Vendors will be selling new and used music in all formats -- plus, there'll be food, games, WESU merch, and, best of all, WESU DJ's spinning vinyl all day! Learn more at wesufm.org.

Sunday, the Music & Public Life series brings Los Trovadores de America to Iguanas Ranas restaurant, 484 Main Street, Middletown.
For more information, visit Wesleyan.edu/mpl

Now here's what going on in cinema off the beaten path in central Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways, “Bill W.” and “Detropia” continue through tonight
On Friday and Saturday, the film “How to Survive a Plague” is screened, followed by the “It’s Such a Beautiful Day Trilogy,” both running into next week. then on Sunday afternoon, the Story of Film: An Odyssey continues with part 3, “Postwar Cinema” (1940s); “Sex & Melodrama” (1950s). More at realartways.com
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At Cinestudio, Trinity College's movie theater, it’s “Magic Mike,” a film about male strippers that the Boston Globe described as (quote) “so much better than it needs to be that it’s sick.” 
Saturday also brings “PixELATION,” a benefit celebrating Cinestudio’s newly installed 4k digital cinema --and the culmination of its FutureCinema Campaign. Join fellow film lovers for a 6 pm reception with food & prizes, and a 7 pm screening of “Hugo,” Martin Scorsese’s 2011 award-winning homage to cinema,  The film will be followed at 9:15 by a lively panel discussion moderated by WNPR’s Colin McEnroe. Sunday begins three days of screenings of “Robot and Frank,” a film set in the not-too-distant-future.  Frank Langella gives a complex and intelligent performance.Details at cinestudio.org

Now let’s take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU.



Thursday, 5:05-6pm
Homegrown with Rob DeRosa
The best crop of Connecticut-connected music presented for a global audience.

Thursday, 6-6:30pm
Free Speech Radio News From The Pacifica Network
Your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the Pacifica Network.

Thursday, 6:30-8pm
Total Praise with Minister Latrecia
A diverse and inspirational blend of contemporary gospel music to uplift your spirit!

Thursday, 8-9:30pm
Evening Jazz with Bill Denert
Where hearing is the best experience. A broad range of swing, be-bop, and avant garde as well as a sprinkling of new releases.

Thursday, 9:30-10:30pm
Bridging the Gap with Jesse Brent
Exploring how music has changed forms through the years, and the links that tie together seemingly disparate genres such as blues and rap, or funk and Krautrock.

Thursday, 10:30-11:30pm [alternating - 1st, 3rd, and 5th weeks]
Alphabet Soup with DJ Blaze
An anti-genre, request-based melting pot. Each episode, we randomly select a letter from the alphabet, and play bands or artists whose names start with that letter. A wild romp through the annals of WESU's music library, supported and guided by the interests of our listeners.

Thursday, 10:30-11:30pm [alternating - 2nd and 4th weeks]
Bach Party with Canyon Girl
Bach Party will feature a unique theme each week showcasing work from a grand pool of classical composers and compositions. Tune in, remain composed, and keep it classy.

Thursday, 11:30pm-12:30am [alternating - 1st, 3rd, and 5th weeks]
Hip-Hop Kitchen with Alex G
We play positivistic, afrocentric and jazz influenced hip-hop/rap that's mixed with food news, recipes, reviews, tips, tricks, fun facts. Basically good food to eat while you listen to good hip-hop.

Thursday, 11:30pm-12:30am [alternating - 2nd and 4th weeks]
Songs Without Words with Jacob Feder
Songs Without Words offers an eclectic assortment of instrumental musics both new and old.

Friday, 12:30-1:30am [alternating - 1st, 3rd, and 5th weeks]
UnderCover with Rebecca Seidel
The best covers take original tracks and transform them into their own creations. Bridging genres, musical styles, and time, Undercover explores the concept of inspiration through imitation. Sometimes they surpass the original, sometimes they miss the mark - it's your call.

Friday, 12:30-1:30am [alternating - 2nd and 4th weeks]
Jack's Jazz and Jam with DJ Jack
I will be playing music that features that blends styles, genres, and interesting melodic and harmonic arrangements. I would focus specifically on jazz and jazz influenced music, rock n' roll, jam bands, bluegrass, funk, and any blending of the above genres.

Friday, 1:30-2:30am
Rock Fatale with DJ Stella
Featuring the first ladies of rock, from The Marvelettes to Metric.

Friday, 2:30-3:30am
Sunspot Loops
A sporadic exploration of what exists in music at the moment.

Friday, 3:30-4am
Corporate Radio Talk Show Live Superstar 9000 with \.com
The talk show that has the FCC raving! We never cease to disappoint.

The BBC World News Service kicks on at 4AM and we begin tomorrow's broadcast at 5 a.m. 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 tojive@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.

Please take a moment to make a donation of any size online at www.wesufm.org, every dollar counts and we need to hear from you.Thanks for listening and stay tuned for Homegrown with Rob DeRosa

Tuesday's Jive

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

 Good afternoon, it's Tuesday, October 23nd, and this is the Jive at Five - WESU's Daily community calendar and rundown of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown, your station for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs by day and the best in free-form community programming week nights and weekends. I'm Isabelle Gauthier the host of a free form interview show every 1st and 3rd Friday from 1:00-1:30 pm
Now here's a rundown of some of what’s happening in our area:
Tomorrow night at The Buttonwood Tree it’s Karoake with Deni.
Friday, “Woody Sed,” a one-man play performed by Thomas Jones, portrays the life, times and music of the great American folk hero, Woody Guthrie.
Saturday, Sirius Coyote, a multi-talented group of musicians, storytellers and instrument makers, performs on more than thirty different  ancient  and modern  instruments of the Americas. This performance will focus on one of Latin America’s most important holidays, DIA DE  LOS MUERTOS, the Day of the Dead (November 1st and 2nd) , a festive celebration to honor the dearly departed.
Every Sunday at about 1 p.m. in front of the Buttonwood, Food Not Bombs shares vegetarian food. All are welcome. You are also invited to help prepare the meal at the First Church at 190 Court Street at 11:30 am.
Information about all Buttonwood events can be found on their website at www.buttonwood.org.
On Wednesday afternoon at Wesleyan University, there will be an exhibition opening reception and talk, “Saved from Europe: The Kallir Family Collection of Austrian and German Literature,” in the Smith Reading Room at Olin Memorial Library, 252 Church Street.
 Also on Wednesday afternoon, Wesleyan’s Music & Public Life series continues with a performance by John Troutman of “In Honolulu – There is Music Everywhere: Making Meaning of Hawaiian Guitar Culture in the Era of the Overthrow.” In rehearsal hall 003, the Daltry room.
On Wednesday night, poet/performer/librettist Douglas Kearney reads at Wesleyan’s Russell House at 8 pm
Thursday’s Performance Now film series at Wesleyan brings “The Films of Jesper Just,” a Danish artist using 3-D technology. The film will be at Film Studies 190, the Powell Family Cinema.
Sunday, the Music & Public Life series brings Los Trovadores de America to Iguanas Ranas restaurant, 484 Main Street, Middletown.
For more information, visit Wesleyan.edu/mpl
Over at Russell Library on Wednesday evening, author Saloma Miller Furlong will give a talk titled “Why I Left the Amish,”  based on her book of that name.
Down in New Haven at Toad’s Place tomorrow night, it’s the weekly EDM Night, with DJ HighLife & DJ JiggaWompz.
Thursday brings Walk Off the Earth, with special guests Julia Nunes and the Mowgli's.
Friday, it’s Skalapalooza 2012, with Spring Heeled Jack, The Pietasters, The Pilfers, the Hardcore Karaoke Pile-On Extravaganza, and Sgt. Scagnetti.
Saturday brings The Original Saturday Night Dance Party, a Halloween costume party with prizes awarded in multiple categories.
Then Sunday, it’s Capleton & The Prophecy Band.
More at toadsplace.com.
Over at Café Nine in New Haven, tonight brings Nickle P presents a Connecticut indie/hip hop showcase.
Wednesday, Fake Four Inc. presents  Ceschi & Anonymous Inc.; w/ Louis Logic; Sketch Tha Cataclysm & DJ Mo Niklz; and Child Actor.
Thursday, it’s the Coney Island Rock  & Roll Roadshow Fall Tour Kickoff,  featuring the Arkhams and  special guests Tigress.
Friday’s happy hour features Solin, followed at 9 by Lipgloss Crisis Presents: a  Halloween/Day of the Dead Burlesque Show, with special guest host Hors D'oeuvers from Northampton, a spooky evening of burlesque and games. Prizes for best costumes.
On Saturday, it’s the Afternoon Jazz Jam w/ host George Baker, followed by a Punk Rock Halloween Party, featuring the Hulls; LA Trash; and Pickpocket.  Come as your favorite '70s punk icon!
Sunday, it’s the Sunday After Supper Jam, with host Kevin Saint James and the Legendary Cafe Nine All-Stars.
More at cafenine.com.
Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s tonight is Jazz Monday.
Tonight brings Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra, an 18-piece band, to Sally’s.
Wednesday, it’s the Blues Jam, with this week’s host Tommy Whalen.
Then Friday, Anthony Gomes, a Canadian-born blues musician and rocker, returns to Sally’s stage for a night of guitar pyrotechnics.
On Saturday, the Kortchmar/McDonald Band plays. Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar is a guitarist, session musician, and songwriter who’s worked with such icons as David Crosby, Carole King, Graham Nash, Carly Simon and James Taylor, helping define the signature sound of the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Jackson Browne and Don Henley have recorded many songs written or co-written by Kortchmar, and Kortchmar was Henley's partner in the 1980s.
More at blackeyedsallys.com.
Back in Middletown, the Fall 2012 Community Record Fair, sponsored by your favorite radio station, WESU, will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Beckham Hall, 45 Wyllys Ave. Vendors will be selling new and used music in all formats -- plus, there'll be food, games, WESU merch, and, best of all, WESU DJ's spinning vinyl all day! Learn more at wesufm.org.
Now here's what going on in cinema off the beaten path in central Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways, “Bill W.” and “Detropia” continue through Thursday
On Friday and Saturday, the film “How to Survive a Plague” is screened, followed by the “It’s Such a Beautiful Day Trilogy,” both running into next week.
Then on Sunday afternoon, the Story of Film: An Odyssey continues with part 3, “Postwar Cinema” (1940s); “Sex & Melodrama” (1950s).
More at realartways.com
Tonight  at Cinestudio, Trinity College's movie theater, it’s “Keep the Lights On,” Ira Sachs’s semi-autobiographical film about his decade-long, loving, erotic, destructive love affair in New York City.
Wednesday through Saturday, it’s “Magic Mike,” a film about male strippers that the Boston Globe described as (quote) “so much better than it needs to be that it’s sick.”
Saturday also brings “PixELATION,” a benefit celebrating Cinestudio’s newly installed 4k digital cinema --and the culmination of its FutureCinema Campaign. Join fellow film lovers for a 6 pm reception with food & prizes, and a 7 pm screening of “Hugo,” Martin Scorsese’s 2011 award-winning homage to cinema,  The film will be followed at 9:15 by a lively panel discussion moderated by WNPR’s Colin McEnroe.
Sunday begins three days of screenings of “Robot and Frank,” a film set in the not-too-distant-future. Frank, a lonely widower, is starting to worry his two children. Their solution is to purchase a help robot that will monitor Frank in his own home. Frank Langella gives a complex and intelligent performance.
Details at cinestudio.org
Now let’s take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU.

Right after the Jive At Five from 5:05 to 6:00pm it’s Finding Bliss:
words and music with DJ Lauren "Bliss" Agnelli, an interview, free-form talk show about people who are collowing their hearts and living authentically.
From 6-6:30 is Free Speech Radio news from the Pacifica Network, your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting.
From 6:30-8:00 is Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill, an eclectic selection of Americana, country with root influence.
From 8-9pm is The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry, your source for live and local Connecticut arts and music at its best.
From 9-10:30 is Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat, he writes in, Ive got a song in my heart, a chemical imbalance in my head, and a musical library at my fingers. From krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage, novelty to New Romantic, punk to prog, Wonderland has a place for it.
From 10:30-11:30 is Record Roulette with Avery, featuring random, risky vynl
From 11:30pm-12:30 am is Hardly Strictly Bluegrass with DJ Sleepy Girl, the dulcet tones of bluegrass and folk--just not entirely.
Wednesday, 12:30-1:30am is the Boss with DJ Moe bringing you Bruce Springsteen: revered, remembered and relived
Wednesday, 1:30-2:30am is Six Degrees of Separation with Monica Kornis

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