Good evening, it's Monday, Nov. 26th,
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.
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Here's a rundown of some of what’s
happening in our area:
At the Buttonwood Tree tonight, it’s
the weekly “Anything Goes” Open Mic night.
Wednesday at the Buttonwood, it’s Karaoke
w/ Deni.
Thursday brings The Music of Miles
and Coltrane with the Noah Baerman Trio, featuring tenor saxophonist Jimmy
Greene.
The program is presented in
conjunction with pianist and educator Noah Baerman’s course on Miles and
Coltrain through Wesleyan University’s Graduate Liberal Studies program, and
there will be a demonstration and Q&A session preceding the concert.
Joining him and Jimmy Greene will be bassist Henry Lugo and drummer Vinnie
Sperrazza.
Friday at the Buttonwood, it’s the
Hartt School of Music: Classical Guitar Showcase. The Guitar Department at The
Hartt School University of Hartford is the oldest performance-based guitar
program in the country. The concert will feature ensemble and solo guitar music
including guitar quartets, flute and guitar, as well as solos.
Saturday night, the Eric Mintel Jazz
Quartet, which played last year at the White House, performs favorite jazz
tunes and originals.
Sunday, and every Sunday, at about 1
p.m. in front of the Buttonwood Tree, Food Not Bombs serves vegetarian food.
You’re invited to help prepare the meal at 11:30 a.m. at the First Church on
Court.
At Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts,
Wednesday night brings the Braxton Ensemble Concert to Crowell Concert Hall.
Also on Wednesday, as part of the
Adaptation Series, the film “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” starring Johnny
Depp, will be screened at the Goldsmith Family Cinema in the Center for Film
Studies. The Adaptation Series is a collaboration between the Friends of the
Wesleyan Library and the Center for Film Studies to explore the transformation
of literary texts to the movie screen. This adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s
novel details his road trip across Western America searching for the “American
Dream.”
Wednesday evening, an art lecture by
University of Pennsylvania Prof. Andre Dombrowki will cover the relationship
between Post-Impressionism and the history of modern, industrial time-keeping,
focusing in particular on the advent of universal time in 1884 and Georges
Seurat's pointillist art technique developed around the same time. It will be
held at 41 Wyllys Ave., Room 112.
On Thursday evening, the Wesleyan
Center for the Arts presents a festive concert of Ghanaian drumming and singing
with Prof. Abraham Adzenyah and his advanced drumming class at Crowell Concert
Hall.
Friday evening brings Music from East
Asia to Wesleyan’s World Music Hall, featuring Wesleyan's East Asian Ensembles
presenting a variety of musical styles and repertories from East Asian
cultures.
Also on Friday, at Crowell Concert
Hall, there will be a West African dance concert, in which choreographer and
Artist in Residence Iddi Saaka will be joined by students and guest artists for
an invigorating performance showcasing the vibrancy of West African cultures
through music and dance forms.
Saturday evening, at World Music
Hall, it’s the Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble and Javanese dance performance, an
orchestra of bronze gongs, xylophones, drums.
Sunday brings the Worlds of Dance
performance to Crowell Concert Hall.
From Thursday through Saturday, the
Oddfellows Junior Rep Company will present Huck Finn at the Oddfellow Playhouse
on Washington Street.
Tomorrow from 4-8pm at The Gallery in
Glastonbury, there will be a JINGLE BELL MINGLE. Co-sponsored by the
Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce and Women-Lead this free craft fair features
over 30 vendors and local artisans.
Down in New Haven at Toad’s Place
tonight, it’s A Night of Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence & Friends.
Wednesday brings the weekly EDM
night.
Thursday, it’s Dopapod; Soule Monde, featuring
Ray Paczkowski + Russ Lawton of the Trey Anastasio Band; and The Mushroom Cloud.
Friday, The Machine performs Pink
Floyd.
And Saturday it’s the Original
Saturday Night Dance Party.
More about all Toad’s shows at
toadsplace.com.
At Café Nine in New Haven tonight, it’s
the Acoustic Open Mic Night.
Tomorrow, Manic Productions Presents:
Mal Blum and Zoe Boekbinder; w/ An Historic; and Jacket Thor.
Wednesday, it’s Sugarbat; w/ Tet
Offensive.
And Thursday, Jazz Haven presents New
Unity Quintet.
Friday’s happy hour brings Malcolm
Marsden, followed by a Tribute to the Anthology of American Folk Music, to
benefit the CT Food Bank. The performance by an extensive roster of musicians pays
tribute to an anthology compiled by folklorist, researcher and musicologist
Harry Smith. Originally released as a three-record set in 1952, the anthology
went on to influence folk musicians of the '50s and '60s, directly presaging
the folk revival and providing a basis for folk and Americana musicians who
followed.
Saturday’s Afternoon Jazz Jam will be
hosted by the Mike Coppola Trio. That will be followed by Oddball Events’ and
Café Nine’s presentation of Andre Williams; w/ Barrence Whitfield & the
Savages; and Bronson Rock.
Sunday, Manic Productions Simone
Felice; w/ Smoke Signals.
More can be found at cafenine.com.
Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s
tonight, it’s Jazz Monday, the best taste of live jazz in Hartford.
Tomorrow brings Michael Palin's Other
Orchestra, an 18-piece band, to Sally’s.
Wednesday, it’s the blues jam with Tim McDonald, one of the
longest running open blues jams in New England featuring a different host each
week.
Thursday, the Roots Music Series, a folk-blues show,
brings Detroit Rebellion and The Grimm Generation.
Friday, it’s Eddie Shaw & the
Wolf Gang. It was the original backup band for Howlin’ Wolf until his death in
1975.
Saturday brings Bad Rooster to
Sallys.
More can be found at
blackeyedsallys.com.
Now let’s take a look at cinema off the
beaten path in Central Connecticut.
At Real Art Ways in Hartford,
Ingenious continues through Thursday, as does Knuckleball, the story of a
handful of pitchers in the entire history of baseball.
Opening Friday is The Loneliest
Planet, in which a momentary misstep threatens to undo everything a young
engaged couple believes about each other and themselves.
Also opening Friday is Gregory
Crewdson: Brief Encounters. Crewdson’s riveting photographs are elaborately
staged, elegant narratives compressed into a single large-scale image. The film
is a profile of the acclaimed artist, featuring fellow artists commenting on
the motivation behind their friend's haunting images.
Sunday brings Improvisations, the
artist-curated performance series, to RealArtWays.
Then on Sunday, the Story of Film: An
Odyssey, concludes with Part 8: “Cinema Today and the Future” (2000s).
More at realartways.org.
Tonight over at Cinestudio, Trinity
College's cinema, Easy Money runs through tomorrow.
Wednesday begins The Intouchables, a
comedy in which a caretaker to a quadriplegic Parisian aristocrat tries to
break through his patient’s wall of loneliness.
Sunday begins a double-feature:
Searching for Sugarman and Neil Young’s Journeys. For music and movie fans: one
ticket, two unforgettable documentaries!
Searching for Sugarman is about two
South African fans’ search for Sixto Rodriguez, a ‘70s superstar who
disappeared after rumors of an onstage suicide.
Neil Young Journeys is directed by
Jonathan Demme who gets the rock legend to share tales about his childhood and
career, punctuated by classic songs as well as new ones.
Learn more at cinestudio.org.
Now let's look at what's on tap here
at WESU tonight.
Right after the Jive at 5,from 5:05
to 6, it's
Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry, a
well-rounded jazz show for true jazz heads.
From 6-6:30pm:
Free Speech Radio News from The
Pacifica Network
Your daily dose of alternative
international news and reporting.
From 6:30-8pm:
75% Folk with Michael Benson,
followed by
Rumpus Room with Lord Lewis
Then from 8-9:30pm it’s Anvil Isle
with Nate
From 9:30-11:30pm:
The Attention Deficit Disk Jockey
with Lee
From 11:30pm-12:30am:
The Noisy Wheelbarrow with Zach Schonfeld
and DJ Meat Pie
From 12:30-1:30am:
Bazaar Sounds with Mac Taylor
From 1:30-2:30am:
Live From The Paris Hotel with The
Sparrow
From 2:30-3:30am:
Maximum Rock and Roll Radio
From 3:30-4am:
DJ Vegetable Reads Missed Connections
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
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and if you know of any events that you'd like to have announced on the Jive,
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