08-13-13 Jive
Good evening, it's Tuesday, August 13th. This is the Jive at Five - our 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. Here’s a
rundown of some of what’s happening in our area this week.
Here in Middletown,
from 10 am – 2 pm during July and August, the Buttonwood Tree,
offers Arts and Crafts activities for
kids & adults.
Every Monday at 8pm J-Cherry presents the Anything Goes
open mic at The Buttonwood. Wednesday
brings a night of Kirtan Yoga and Music to the Buttonwood Tree. Saturday evening Christa Joy & The World
Cup Rodeo perform at The Buttonwood Tree
at 8pm for an evening of folk and
country. On
Sundays, Food Not Bombs serves food outside the Buttonwood
Tree. You're invited to help prepare the vegetarian meal
at 11:30 a.m. at the First Church on Court Street. Sunday afternoon at 4pm
brings the Poetry Potluck to The
Buttonwood Tree , providing and opportunity for people who enjoy poetry to get
together to share and discuss their
favorite works. www.buttonwood.org for details about all
events.
Down in New Haven, tonight, at Cafe Nine, Whitey Morgan
and the 78's a Honky Tonk band from Flint, Michigan take the stage. Dave Hill
opens the show.
Wednesday, at Café Nine you can catch a night of
Americana from the Carolinas with The Boston Boys, sharing a bill with the Mike
Dillon Band.
Thursday night Jazz Haven presents a free night of Jazz with M.O.B. (aka
The Matt
Oestreicher Band). Then on Friday,
Dave Milone and Jeremy
Sage share an early bill from 5-7pm followed by
Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer, and one-man cheering section for the blues, Duke Robillard .
Paul Gabriel opens the show. Saturday’s Afternoon Jazz Jam will be
hosted by Tony Dioguardi and Friends, this week. Saturday
night you can catch Hate Breed guitartist, F. Sean Martin at Café Nine with
Benn Grim
opening. www.cafenine.com for details.
At Blackeyed Sally's in Hartford, tonight at 8 brings a
weekly session with Michael Palin's Other Orchestra, an 18-piece band.
Wednesday’s Blues Jam at Sally's will be hosted by Ed Bradley, this week.
Friday, The Blu Union trio featuring, Felicia's Vibe, takes the Sally’s stage.
Saturday brings an evening of R&B and Swing with THE MYSTIC HORNS www.blackeyedsally’s for details.
Down in New Haven,at
Toad's Place, on Wednesday night,
Living Legend of Reggae, Beres Hammond, takes the Toad’s Place Main
stage. Thursday night you can catch a solo acoustic performance by Kevin
Seconds on the Toad’s Lily Pad stage. Shakedown plays "The Dead and
Beyond" on Friday night on the Toads main stage with Downstairs Sally and
Rhythmic Circus opening the show.
Arch-nemesis hits the Lily Pad on Friday night. Saturday night, Manic
Productions Presents JOSH RITTER & THE ROYAL CITY BAND at Toads with The
Low Anthem and "You Won’t," opening the show. www.toadsplace.com
Here in Middletown tonight, The Middletown Commission on
the Arts, Tuesday night, weekly Summer Sounds Concert Series features the Americana bluegrass sounds of Last Fair
Deal. The concerts are on The City's
South Green (Union Park) just off Main st. and are free and open to the public.
You are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets.
Concerts begin at 7 p.m. Rain location is just across the street at South
Congregational Church.details online at www.artstogo.org
The Mattabessett Canoe Club at Harbor Park in Middletown
has live entertainment most nights. Tuesdays feature Acoustic Solo Music and there's a weekly Irish music session on
Wednesdays. Thursday, there’s a new Jazz Series. Friday brings live Blues to
The Canoe Club. Sunday, vocalist Nekita Waller
performs at the Canoe Club.
details at www.mattabessetcanoeclub.com
.
On Thursday at 7:00 pm, also in Middletown, author
Elisabeth Petry continues to lead The Veterans' Writing Group; We Were There:
Writing Your Military Experiences at Russell Library www.russelllibrary.org
On Saturday from 1pm - 9pm The Trinbago American Cultural
Explorers present the 2nd Annual Middletown Trinidad-Style Caribbean Festival
at Harbor Park. Admission is Free with musical entertainment by Patch, Baba
Shanta, Randy Isacc, and Benji hosted by Naomi Rogers. There will be Caribbean
and American food available, as well as other vendors. For info you can
contact: Michael Charles, 860.818.0678 or visit www.artstogo.org
This Saturday also brings the the 2nd Annual West Side
Reggae Festival to Ives Concert Park in Danbury featuring the legendary Reggae
artists Beres Hammond & Maxi Priest. Doors open at 4pm show time is 5.
Tickets at e - t – i - x.com,
'Tis the season for farmers' markets and several in our
area are in full swing. In Middletown, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to
1 p.m.
there's a market on the South Green, and another in
Middletown's North End at the corner of Main & Liberty, on Fridays, from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m.
In Durham, the farmers' market is on Thursdays, on the
town green. In Cromwell, on Wednesdays from 2 to 5 p.m., the farmers' market is
at Covenant Village. In Higganum There’s
a Market on Fridays from 3:30 to
6:30 p.m on the town green. In East Haddam, there's a
farmers' market from
4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays at the town grange on Town
Street. Learn about farmers' markets all over the state by going to www.ctnofa.org/FarmersMarkets.htm
.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central
Connecticut: at 5:15 pm Today through Wednesday, you can
catch 2013 SUNDANCE SHORTS at Real Art
Ways . The Sundance shorts will continue over
the weekend.
Blackfish has been extended all week. This documentary
tells the story of a performing killer whale that killed
several people while in captivity and challenges the ethics of the
mulit-billion dollar sea-park industry. Friday night there’s a special showing
of the classic thriller, Jaws. This
weekend Real Art Ways also continues runs of "Crystal Fairy" and The
New York International Children's Film Festival:
Tonight, Cinestudio, The Trinity College cinema in
Hartford, wraps up their run of the colorful 4K ultra high definition digital
restoration of "Hello, Dolly."
Wednesday Cinestudio begins a run of the 2013 remake of The Great
Gatsby, the screen through next Tuesday. You can find show times and info at www.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 stay tuned for an hour of folk and Americana roots music with Bill
Revill.
Weekdays 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 on local arts and culture.
At 9pm, It's Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat. He's got a
chemical imbalance in his head and a musical library at his fingertips.
At 10:30 tonight, tune in to "Unfocused Folk"
with Chip Austen, offering a mix of Americana: folk, alt-Country, roots-Rock
and a taste of the up-and-coming "East Nashville"
sound.
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.
At 4 am, The BBC brings news from around the world,
followed by Morning Edition from National Public Radio at 5 am.
And 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. Thanks for
listening! Now
stay tuned for Bill Revill
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