Good afternoon, it's Friday,
April 19th 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 scheduled in the community this weekend.
The Russell Knitters will meet on Saturday from 11:00am-1pm in
Meeting Room 3. You are invited to bring your knitting projects and share ideas
and expertise. No registration is required. Amphion
String Quartet, one of the most respected
classical music ensembles in the country, will perform on Saturday, April 20 at
2pm in the Hubbard Room at Russell Library. More online at www.russelllibrary.org
Here in Middletown at The Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center
on Main St tonight the acoustic folk trio, Another Road is performing at 8pm.
Saturday night you can catch the CT-based sibling duo, The Light Hearts, for an
evocative spin on folk music. On Sunday at 4 pm, there is a Poetry Potluck, a
gathering for discussion and literary conversation using poetry as the focal
point. More online at www.buttonwood.org
At Toads Place in New Haven Saturday Bikers Against Animal
Cruelty, Inc. Presents Woofstock III featuring Slowpoke, Far From Here,
SmackSeven, The Travis Moody Band, and Bounty Hunter and will be collecting donations
of pet food (canned & dry), blankets, towels, cleaning supplies, & other
items to keep animals safe & healthy. Sunday at Toad’s Gorilla Music
presents the New Haven Battle of the Bands.
www.toadsplace.com
Tonight at Café Nine in New Haven
The Rationales; The Shellye
Valauskas Experience; and the The Streams take the stage.
Café nine’s weekly Saturday Afternoon Jazz Jam will be hosted by Tony Dioguardi
and Friends this week. Saturday night Manic Productions Presents: Acid
Mothers Temple; w/ Tjutjuna; and Snake
Oil for a night of serious freak out
music! www.cafenine.com
This Week at Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts, Senior Thesis gallery
shows, music recitals, and stage productions abound. You can find out more at
the CFA website, Wesleyan.edu/cfa. Additionally, this evening at 7:15 pm there
will be a pre-concert talk with Hugh Masekela before his sold-out performance
at 8pm. Saturday morning at 11:00 AM you can catch another talk: The Role
of Artist as Activist: A Conversation with Hugh Masekela in Crowell
Concert Hall. Saturday at 1 pm until 4 The Big Draw:
Middletown takes place in 3 locations in and around the CFA courtyard and
the Davison Art Center. Registration for this free family event takes place at
the Davison Art Center. Saturday evening at 8 pm The Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra
and Mixashawn's Ghostly Trio perform in Crowell Concert Hall. More
online at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
The Rusted Keys, a nouveau croon duet, perform at Higher Ground,
70 Main St. in East Hampton beginning at 10 am on Sunday. Call 860.467-6643 for
more details.
Now here’s a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central
Connecticut:
Tonight is the last night to catch "On The Road", based
on the Kerouac novel of the same name at Real Art Ways in Hartford. "A
Place at the Table", a documentary focusing on food insecurity in the US
begin a weeklong run tonight. And the weekend late show is Upstream Color. If
you want to know more, you can go to realartways.org
Cinestudio, Trinity College’s cinema in Hartford, is showing tonight
and Saturday Zero Dark Thirty. There is more information on other
shows 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 2am Saturday 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
2, to 3am it's the Bassment Beats with
DJ Lokash – the Real Hip-Hop is over here.
The
next hour 'til 4am it's Maximum Rock & Roll Radio - A
weekly radio show featuring the best international DIY punk, garage rock and
hardcore from the astounding, ever-growing Maximum Rock n roll radio record
collection.
+Sing Out! Radio Magazine with Tom Druckenmiller comes
on at 4 until 5am with a weekly, hour-long “magazine format” program,
featuring interviews in addition to “live” and recorded traditional folk
musics.
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.
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