Good evening! It’s Friday, Nov. 29th,. 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
weeknights and weekends. I'm Ben Michael. Thanks for joining us!
Now for our rundown of some of what’s happening in our area this
week.
The
City’s of Middletown’s Holiday on Main Street festivities kicked
off at 4:00 pm this afternoon, starting at the South Green with Rockin' Around
the Christmas Tree. More online at www.arts2go.org
Tonight, here in Middletown Sez Zion takes the stage at Scatz Restaurant and Jazz Lounge, on Main Street Ext. Tomorrow, Saturday night Talented vocalist Rahsaan Langley takes the Scatz stage. www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com
Tonight, here in Middletown Sez Zion takes the stage at Scatz Restaurant and Jazz Lounge, on Main Street Ext. Tomorrow, Saturday night Talented vocalist Rahsaan Langley takes the Scatz stage. www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com
Also here in Middletown, at the Buttonwood Tree, tonight, the
Middletown High School Art Club hosts an opening event from @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
for their student sponsored gallery show. This Saturday morning at Thee buttonwood
Tree kicks off with Tai Chi and community yoga. Saturday night Jazz vocalist
Mary Ellen Lonergan will be performing songs from the Great American Songbook
and Standards. Alex Nakimovsky will be joining her on piano while Phil Bowler
plays bass. On Sundays, Food Not Bombs serves food outside the
Buttonwood at 1 pm, as Rumpus, an invitation to express the rhythm inside you,
takes place inside. All are welcome. You are also invited to help prepare the
vegetarian meal beforehand at 11 am at First Church Congregational on Court
Street. Sunday afternoon at 2:30 John Basinger performs from Book 11 of
Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost. Books will be provided to follow along
with. www.buttonwood.org
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight Steve Broderick and The 100 Watt Suns take
the stage with James Mauri Four and Chaser Eight opening the
show. Cafe Nine’s Saturday afternoon’s weekly Jazz Jam will be
hosted by Billy Cofrances. Saturday night Five in the
Chamber and the Amanda Gregg / Chris Wuerth Duo duo make for a night of roots
and bluegrass music at The Nine. Sunday Night brings Blues Boot Camp with Greg Sherrod. www.cafenine.com.
Up in Hartford, The Beehive Queen, Christine Ohlman
& Rebel Montez, return to the Blackeyed Sally’s stage. Tomorrow/Saturday night, the Mike Crandall
Band plays the blues at Sally’s. www.blackeyedsallys.com.
The Middletown
Symphonic Band will be performing a Christmas Concert at the First
Congregational Church in Wallingford, CT on Sunday at 2:00 PM. The church is
located at 23 South Main Street in Wallingford. Admission is free. Additional
information about the Middletown Symphonic Band and its schedule of holiday
concerts is available at www.artstogo.org
Vocalist Nekita Waller performs at the Mattabesett Canoe
Club at Harbor Park in Middletown on Sundays at 7pm. http://mattabesettcanoeclub.com
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central
Connecticut:
Tonight, Real Art Ways in
Hartford, opens, the documentary “Muscle Shoals” telling the story of the
unlikely breeding ground for some of the most creative music in American
history. The Film Motel Life, based on the popular novel by Willy Vlautin, also
opens on tonight. Learn more at www.realartways.org
At Cinestudio, The Trinity College cinema in Hartford,
Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine staring Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin continues
through Saturday. Sunday afternoon at 2:30pm The National Theatre presents a stage production of Shakespeare’s
complex and profound play about the human condition, Hamlet. Sunday evening Cinestudio
begins a run of Wong Kar-wai’s latest film, The Grandmaster for the action
packed historical look at Bruce Lee’s legendary martial arts teacher. www. cinestudio.org
And now here’s a rundown of tonight’s programming on WESU.
Right after the Jive at Five stay tuned for:
Chocolate
Cake with DJ Rob offering an hour long
musical sugar high featuring Power-pop plus Brit-pop and singer/songwriters
from the 60's to today.
at 6:30 Sistah Tee presents the Universal Sound Wave - 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, featuring up and coming
artists performing Caribbean R & B, Soca and international music alongside
the hit makers.
From
10 until Midnight, 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 Midnight until 2am Saturday we go
into OVERDRIVE with Clarence Scott and
Shantay Scott A contemporary mix of
Christian hip hop Rnb and Gospel.
At 2 to 2:30am it's Bassment Beats with DJ Lokash - bringing
you the latest in aboveground & underground hip-hop DJ Lokash switches over
to his new World Show – for the best
in Global Bass.
At
3am Maximum Rock & Roll Radio features 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 for a
weekly, hour- 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,
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Thanks for listening and stay tuned for a slice
of Chocolate Cake with Rob!
