Friday, November 30, 2012

Friday's Jive 11-30-12


Good evening, it's Friday, November 30th, 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 The Buttonwood Tree in the forest city of Middletown, 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. Learn about all Buttonwood events at www.buttonwood.org.

Tonight, Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts 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, 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, in the World Music Hall, it’s the Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble and Javanese dance performance, an orchestra of bronze gongs, xylophones, drums. There is a candlelight concert at 7p Saturday in the Memorial Chapel featuring the Wesleyan Singers' performance of selections from Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt Sunday brings the Worlds of Dance performance to Crowell Concert Hall. For more information, go to 
www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.

Tonight through Saturday, the Oddfellows Junior Reporatory Company will present Huck Finn at the Oddfellow Playhouse on Washington Street.

Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" at the Performing Arts Center @MHS, 200 LaRosa Lane tonight and Saturday at 7pm is being presented by the MHS Drama Club. Tickets may be purchased at the door.

Violinist Emil Altschuler and pianist Artem Belogurov will perform Danzas Españolas on Saturday at 2pm in the Hubbard Room at Russell Library, 123 Broad St.

The Greater Middletown Chorale will perform Britten's A Ceremony of Carols with harp and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols for baritone soloist and cello Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 2pm in Zion Lutheran Church in Portland. Call 860-316-4854.

Tonight, down in New Haven at Toad’s Place The Machine performs Pink Floyd. And Saturday it’s the Original Saturday Night Dance Party. More information about all Toad’s shows can be found at 
toadsplace.com.

At Café Nine in New Haven tonight happy hour brings Malcolm Marsden, followed by a Tribute to the Anthology of American Folk Music, to benefit the CT Food Bank. 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 will be performing. More can be found at 
cafenine.com.

Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s tonight 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 track in Central Connecticut:

At Real Art Ways in Hartford opening today 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 tonight 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 Real Art Ways. Then on Sunday, the Story of Film: An Odyssey, concludes with Part 8: “Cinema Today and the Future” (2000s). This and more can be found at
realartways.org.

Tonight over at Cinestudio, Trinity College's cinema, "The Intouchables", a comedy in which a caretaker to a quadriplegic Parisian aristocrat tries to break through his patient’s wall of loneliness is having a run. Sunday begins a double-feature run: 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 about what's happening 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, November 29, 2012

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 evening, it's Thursday, Nov. 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 J-Cherry producer and host of VOICE of the CITY,  Tuesday from 8-9PM, Showcasing live and local music, arts, and culture.Thanks for tuning in. Here’s a 

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

Tonight at the Buttonwood Tree, 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.
Learn about all Buttonwood events at www.buttonwood.org.

Tonight, at Wesleyan’s 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. For more information, go to www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.

Tonight through Saturday, the Oddfellows Junior Reporatory Company will present Huck Finn at the Oddfellow Playhouse on Washington Street.

Tonight, down in New Haven at Toad’s Place 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 information about all Toad’s shows can be found at toadsplace.com.

At Café Nine in New Haven tonight it’s, Jazz Haven presents The 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 will be performing. More can be found at cafenine.com.

Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s tonight, it’s 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 track in Central Connecticut:

At Real Art Ways in Hartford, "Ingenious" continues through tonight, 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). This and more can be found atrealartways.org.

Tonight over at Cinestudio, Trinity College's cinema,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 about what's happening at cinestudio.org.

Now let's look at what's on tap here at WESU tonight.


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


Free Speech Radio News From The Pacifica Network
Your daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the Pacifica Network.


Total Praise with Minister Latrecia
A diverse and inspirational blend of contemporary gospel music to uplift your spirit!


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Songs Without Words with Jacob Feder
Songs Without Words offers an eclectic assortment of instrumental musics both new and old.


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.


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.


Rock Fatale with DJ Stella
Featuring the first ladies of rock, from The Marvelettes to Metric.


Sunspot Loops
A sporadic exploration of what exists in music at the moment.


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, November 27, 2012

Tuesday Nov. 27

 Good evening, it's Tuesday, Nov. 27th, 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, host of the FUSS, a free form interview show with interesting people from the Middletown area. 
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Here's a rundown of some of what’s happening in our area:
At the Buttonwood Tree on Wednesday, 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.
Learn about all Buttonwood events at www.buttonwood.org.
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.
For more information, go to www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
From Thursday through Saturday, the Oddfellows Junior Rep Company will present Huck Finn at the Oddfellow Playhouse on Washington Street.
Today, 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 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, 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 Michael Palin's Other Orchestra, an 18-piece band.
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, is showing Easy Money.
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 Five from 5:05 to 6:00pm it’s Sounds From the Global Village with Jason M. Longwell from Pacifica

From 6-6:30 is Free Speech Radio news from the Pacifica Network

From 6:30-8:00 is Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill

From 8-9pm is The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry

From 9-10:30 is Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat

From 10:30-11:30 is Record Roulette with Avery

From 11:30pm-12:30 am is Hardly Strictly Bluegrass with DJ Sleepy Girl

Wednesday, 12:30-1:30am is The Boss, with DJ Moe

Wednesday, 1:30-2:30am is Six Degrees of Separation with Monica Kornis

and from 2:30-3:30 is Vynlville with DJ Johnny

And that’s all for today’s Jive At Five. Tune in each 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 written form for what you've heard on today’s jive is online at www.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. Dont forget to tune in next week during our pledge drive, where you can donate online, or by phone. Thanks for listening!

Monday, November 26, 2012

Mon., Nov. 26 Jive



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.
I'm Maria Johnson, host of Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith, which airs every 1st, 3rd and 5th Tuesday, from 4 to 4:55, right before the Jive. It’s a thoughtful discussion of progressive issues of faith and action, with interviews and commentary. Look for it next on Tues., Dec. 4, WESU’s pledge week, when we’ll try to put your propensity to suffer Catholic guilt to use in a good cause!
There will be autographed copies of pioneering feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether’s books, as well as Catholic music CDs and issues of the progressive newspaper Today's American Catholic, among other goodies, offered as rewards for pledging.
Thanks for tuning in and being as generous as you can.

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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.
Learn about all Buttonwood events at www.buttonwood.org.
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.
For more information, go to www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
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.
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