Good evening, it's
Tuesday, June 11th, 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. Thanks
for Tuning in. I'm Kate Rushin
Thanks to all of the
WESU supporters who contributed to our Spring Pledge Drive. With their help we
are able to keep our unique brand of community radio going strong. Here’s our
community calendar for this week.
Tomorrow (Wednesday)
at the Hillstead Museum in Farmington it's the return of the annual Sunken
Garden Poetry Festival, internationally renowned, award-winning poets every
other Wednesday preceded by muisc and the work of emerging poets. Tomorrow's
event features CT Student Poets - young poets from around the state will read
their work at the beginning of the event which features music by Jackie Mclean
Youth Jazz Orchestra and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tracy K. Smith, author of
Life on Mars.
Also kicking this
weekend - the Internationl Festival of Arts and Ideas at multiple venues
throughout New Haven. Hundreds of artists, performers, theatrical and music
events for two weeks in. It kicks off
Saturday night, June 15 on the New Haven Green with a free concert featuring
Aaron Neville. To find out more about
all the events go to artidea-dot-org.
This week, here in
Middletown, at the Russell Library.... The Russell Knitters will meet on
Saturday, June 15, 11:00am-1pm in Meeting Room 3. Mustard’s Retreat, the
classic folk duo with David Tamulevich and Michael Hough, will perform on
Saturday, June 15 at 2pm in the Hubbard Room. More online at russelllibrary.org
At the Buttonwood Tree this week, Evening
Oasis presents belly dancers with traditional dress and music tomorrow night
(wednesday) at 7:00 PM. Every second Thursdays it's Writers Out Loud at the
Buttonwood - Talented prose writers of every ilk come to Writers Out Loud!
Writers Out Loud!, a literary prose open
mic w/host Cocomo Rock & co-host Al Bower, Jr.
Friday night The
Buttonwood Tree presents a singer songwriter Double Bill featuring An Evening
with Joy Ike & Hannah Christianson. Joy Ike has been compared to the likes
of Corinne Bailey Rae, Norah Jones, and Regina Spektor. On Saturday mornings The Buttonwood offers a
series of wellness activities from Qigong (sounds like > Chi gung) and yoga
to Self empowerment workshops. Saturday
night the buttonwood tree presents
George Cole and his band for an Evening of Gypsy Jazz & Uptown Swing.
Sunday, is a busy day
the Buttonwood. With a worship service at 10am. Then 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 them before hand at the First Church
on 190 Court Street at 11:30 am.
Sunday afternoon at
1pm brings Rumpus, a platform for others to explore their own music. At 4pm The
monthly Poetry Potluck is an opportunity for people who enjoy poetry to get
together to share and discuss their favorite works. It isn’t an open mike.
Sunday night at you are invited to Celebrate James Joyce by sharing his works
with others. Music TBA. Irish breads
provided by O’Rourke’s Diner. The event is hosted by hosted by Abby Reynolds.
Costumes are optional. Information about all Buttonwood events can be found at
www.buttonwood.org .
Tonight at Cafe Nine
in New haven, at MANIC PRODUCTIONS Presents: Christopher Paul Stelling; The Proud Flesh and Jason Prince. Tomorrow (Wednesday), the
ODDBALL EVENTS Roots Music Series presents a bill featuring The Chris Massey
Band and Seth Adam. Thursday night at Café Nine there’s a BURLESQUE-A-PADES
BEACH PARTY. Friday night brings The
Joiner Inners, Fiesta Brava, and Back From Earth to Café nine. The weekly Saturday Afternoon Jazz Jam is
hosted by Tony Dioguardi and Friends this week. Then, Saturday night Elison
Jackson, Ports of Spain, and Head with Wings
take the stage. Sunday night MANIC PRODUCTIONS Presents: Ivan &
Alyosha; w Neulore at the Nine. go to
cafenine.com for details.
Down in New Haven at
Toad's Place- tomorrow (Wednesday) it's
the weekly Electronic Dance Music Night. Thursday VADO & TROY AVE Take the
Toad’s Main stage. Friday SHAKEDOWN returns
to Toad’s to play music of the Grateful DEAD & BEYOND with Off The Dome and
The Big Takeover opening. Saturday night
LESS THAN JAKE Hostage Calm, Pentimento, and Wolves at Bay play the Toad’s main
stage while Afton presents 8 bands on upstairs on the Lily pad Stage. www.toadsplace.com for details.
Tonight at Blackeyed
Sally's in Hartford, you can catch Michael Palin’s other orchestra, an 18 piece
big band. Tomorrow night (Wednesday) it's
the long-running weekly Blues jam, hosted this week by Willie J. Laws. Friday Atlanta Singer Songwriter Chris Massey
and his Band take the stage Sally's. Saturday, it’s the blues stylings Jeff
Pitchell & Texas Flood..blackeyedsallys.com for more. - and hey don't
forget to order up some delicious bar-b-que while you're there.
Through tomorrow, The
Middletown Scottish Country Dancers gather every Wednesday from 7-9:30p at
Middletown’s First Church on Court Street, offering Classes for beginners/experienced dancers.
Partners are not necessary. For info call 860-347-0278
Hear What's In The
Heart - A Shoemaker's Tale, is set against the backdrop of a post-funeral
gathering to celebrate the life of Michael Scionti's (shan-Tee) grandfather,
Angelo Morello (who owned Angleo's Shoe Repair on Main Street in Middletown) is
Playing Thursday nights through June 20, at Oddfellows Playhouse in
Middletown. for more information go to
oddfellows.org 860-347-6143
The acoustic duet,
Rusted Keys, play this Sunday
morning beginning at 10:00 a.m.- at
Higher Grounds, 70 Main Street, East Hampton, , (860-467-6643).
Now here's a rundown
of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways in
Hartford, this week you can catch
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay, the
world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor who regularly provokes
astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. realartways.org for details.
Today Cinestudio,
Trinity College's cinema in Hartford, is closed for maintenance. Wednesday
Cinestudio reopens with The new Italian Film, Reality which runs through next
Tuesday. Thursday and Sunday, National
Theatre Live’s newest production staring Helen Mirren reprising her role of
Queen Elizabeth II in a new play by
Peter Morgan broadcast from London’s Gielgud Theatre at Cinestudio. HBO and Cox
you to a special screening of the first episode of Season 6 of True Blood on
the big screen at Cinestudio on Friday, June 14 at 7 pm. You can find show times and info at
cinestudio.org.
Here’s tonight’s
rundown of programming here on WESU Middletown
Right after the Jive
at Five stay tuned for: An hour of folk and Americana roots music with Bill
Revill.
Then at 6 Free Speech Radio News From the Pacifica
Network offers a daily dose of alternative international news and reporting.
At 6:30 Bill Revill
is back in the air chair for another 90 minutes of roots music on Acoustic
Blender.
At 8pm, J-Cherry
presents Voice of the City, for a 60 minute spotlight of local arts and
culture.
At 9pm It’s
Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat, who warns of a chemical imbalance in his head
and a musical library at his fingertips.
from 10:30- Midnight
tune in for Stage Presence with J-Rock who invites you to: Put your hands
together in applause for some of the greatest live musical performances ever
captured on recording. From Led Zeppelin to John Coltrane, Bob Dylan to Victor
Wooten, and YoYo Ma to Daft Punk, Stage Presence has a place for all live
musical performances. no tickets required!
At Midnight it’s
Amateur Hour with Omardaslayer and Tree Paths.
At 1am Our summer
Late Night Concert Series Features 3 hrs of live recordings of concerts in
their entirety, from a wide range of musical genres.
The BBC World News kicks on at 4am and Morning
Edition from NPR kicks off our Broadcast day tomorrow at 5am.
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 wesufm.org/jive.
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Thanks for listening!
Now stay tuned for an
hour of acoustic roots music with Bill Revill
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