Good afternoon, it's Friday, May
31st 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
Now, here’s a rundown of some of what’s scheduled in the community this weekend.
Tonight at Cafe Nine in New Haven, it's the anticipated Duece Bug Mantis album release show. The weekly Saturday Afternoon Jazz Jam is by Mike Coppola this week. Saturday night Nightbitch, Gasoline Therapy, Thrillhouse, and Feed the Pigs make for an all Heavy Metal lineup. Drinkdeeply Presents a Summer Surf Series with Ninth Wave and SPF-4 at 3pm Sunday afternoon. More can be found at cafenine.com.
At Blackeyed Sally's in Hartford tonight The Mighty Soul Drivers bring the classic Soul sounds of Memphis, Muscle Shoals and points South to the stage. Saturday, it’s the blues styling of the Roberto Morbioli Band. If you want more information, go to blackeyedsallys.com.
Down in New Haven at Toad's Place tonight Cosmic Dust Bunnies, The Manhattan Project, Full Spectrum, and Blessed & Gifted with ConnetiCON DJing set breaks. Saturday is the annual Toad’s Place Memorial Day Funkfest featuring Rearview & Sister Funk, Mr. Council, Soul Circus, and Funkinachea. Go to toadsplace.com for details.
Here in Middletown at the Buttonwood Tree on Main Street tonight you can catch a singer songwriter Double Bill featuring Marci Geller and Kristen Graves. On Saturday mornings The Buttonwood offers a series of wellness activities from Chi kung and yoga to self-empowerment workshops. This Saturday night The Buttonwood Tree presents another double bill, this time with singer/songwriter Frank Critelli and the banjo, trumpet, cello, violin, and upright bass wielding ensemble, Goodnight Blue Moon. Food Not Bombs shares food about 1 pm in front of the Buttonwood each Sunday. All are welcome to enjoy a meal and help prepare it before hand at the First Church on 190 Court Street at 11:30 am. Sunday afternoon at 3pm The Buttonwood Tree and ArtFarm present Clowning For Change - Canadian performance artist Jonathon Ellison will share his experiences of clowning for sustainable living. Sunday night at 7pm, The Great Make Believe Society performs different kinds of improv comedy at The Buttonwood offering an opportunity to experience improvised scenes created right before your eyes, based on your suggestions!
During June there will be a new mixed media exhibit on display in The Buttonwood gallery by Carole Dubiell. Her show Forest, Form and Fantasy features works on brown paper, copper, paint and more on canvas. Information about all Buttonwood events can be found at www.buttonwood.org
On Sunday afternoon, here in Middletown, from 4 to 6 p.m., the Shaped Note Singers meet at MAC650 gallery on Main Street. Contact Neely Bruce at nbruce@wesleyan.edu for further information or directions.
Bushy Hill Nature Center 253 Bushy Hill
Rd, Deep River is hosting its 2nd Annual Farm Fest, a benefit concert for
the farm at Bushy Hill! On Sunday from noon-5pm at the Activity Center field,
there will be performances from 4 local bands and musicians, including
Amalgamated Muck with WESU's own Lauren Agnelli. There will also be a Primitive
Studies Expo where kids and families can learn about primitive fire making,
tools, and much more! Come take a hay ride and tour the farm and meet the
animals! There will be food vendors, and many local artists selling their
crafts. Call (860)767-0848 or visit www.bushyhill.org for more
information.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Tonight Real Art Ways in Hartford begins a screening of Room 237, a subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining plus a screening of the original thriller itself. Visit realartways.org for details.
Cinestudio, Trinity College's cinema in Hartford, and Real Art Ways are presenting the 26th Gay & Lesbian Film Festival with films showing at both venues. You can find the details at cinestudio.org and realartways.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
Chocolate Cake with DJ Rob.
An hour long musical sugar high. Power-pop plus Brit-pop and singer/songwriters
from the 60's to today.
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.
At
6:30 until 8pm 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 - 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 –
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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Thanks for listening!
