Good evening! It’s Wednesday, Nov. 20th and 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 Bill Denert, producer and host of Thursday night's Evening Jazz where "hearing is the best experience" and Connecticut's number 1 Washington Nationals fan! Thanx for tuning in!
Here’s a rundown of some of what’s happening in our area this week.
Here in Middletown, tonight at 7, the Buttonwood Tree Film Night feature is "You Can Heal Your Life", an entertaining and inspirational movie based on the best-selling book of the same name by author and teacher Louise L. Hay.
Friday at 8, classical pianist Jacob Smullyan will return to the Buttonwood in a program including one of Beethoven’s earliest masterpieces, the Sonata in E flat Opus 7, and one of Schubert’s last, the c minor Sonata, D958. Also, on the program will be works by Webern and Brahms.
Saturday morning, it’s Qigong (Chi Kung), Tai Chi and community yoga. And Saturday night at 8, Joe Fonda joins with jazz legend Harvey Sorgen and the “Mexican Guitar Wizard” Omar Tamez for an evening of jazz, blues, Mexican folk music and everything in between.
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 Food Not Bombs 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
Here in Middletown, tomorrow at 7pm at the Russell Library, Randi Oster, a leading speaker on health reform, will talk on The Affordable Health Care Act: What You Need to Know Now. Oster is the Consumer Advocate for Connecticut’s Health Exchange and is certified by the State on the Affordable Care Act and insurance products. She will be answering questions such as: What are the top 10 changes I need to know about? How much will the new insurance cost? What is the penalty if I don’t purchase insurance? Will my Medicare deduction change? To register for the free program, call the Russell Library Information Department at 860-347-2520 or send an email to infodept@russell.lioninc.org .
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight, it's the Wednesday’s Blues Jam, one of the longest running in New England, is with Tim McDonald.
Friday, the Kortchmar/McDonald Band, featuring famed session musician Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar, who worked with such singer-songwriters as David Crosby, Carole King, Graham Nash, Carly Simon and James Taylor to help define the signature sound of the ‘70s, takes the Sally’s stage. Saturday, it’s bluesman Tas Cru at Sally’s. www.blackeyedsallys.com.
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight, Drink Deeply presents "If Jesus Had Machine Guns", with Pocket Vinyl and Michael Kusek.
Thursday, the Café Nine Jazz Series features the Kevin St. James Band.
And Friday, the Weekly Wind Down Happy Hour at 5 p.m. features DJ Dave Coon. That’s followed at 9 by Goodnight Blue Moon, Great Elk, and The Naked Stills.
Saturday afternoon’s Jazz Jam Session is with the George Baker Band, followed at 9 by the New Haven CD Release Show of The Spampinato Brothers, with special guests The Zambonis. Sunday afternoon’s Bluegrass Jam is with Stacy Phillips. Then at 8, it’s The Original Sunday Night Jam with The Morris Trent Band. www.cafenine.com.
Also in New Haven at Toad’s Place, tonight it’s the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour’s Night Riot Experience, featuring 3LAU and Tommy Two Times; Carnage will not perform with the tour, after all, so a $5 refund will be granted. On Thursday, Asterisk Concerts brings the Event Horizon Tour to Toad’s, featuring MiMOSA, with Keys ‘n Krates, BOGL, and BIG I.C. On Sunday, the Party with Your Friends Tour features Hoodie Allen, OCD Moosh & Twist, Mod Sun, and D-Why. www.toadsplace.com.
Manic Productions brings several shows to nearby venues, including this evenings' appearance of Sound Garden’s Chris Cornell, with Sri Lanken/ American Folk artist, Bhi Bhiman, to the Shubert Theater in New Haven. Friday, River City Extension, with Elison Jackson and Johnny Mainstream, play The Space in Hamden. Saturday’s Manic Production presents Kevin Devine and The GD Band, with Now Now and Harrison Hudson, at The Space. www.manicproductions.com
On Friday, Sez Zion performs at the new Middletown venue, Scatz Restaurant and Jazz Lounge, on Main Street Extension. Saturday brings a performance by Nu Groove to Scatz stage. www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com for info.
Also on Friday at 7 p.m., Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts presents Music from East Asia, featuring Wesleyan’s East Asian Ensembles presenting a variety of musical styles and repertoires from East Asian cultures. That’s at Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys Avenue.
On Saturday, the Center for the Arts presents Gamelan—Classical Music of Central Java, featuring an orchestra of bronze gongs, xylophones, drums, strings and voices, at World Music Hall, 40 Wyllys Ave. And Sunday at 3, the World Guitar Ensemble Concert, featuring a variety of world music, comes to World Music Hall. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
On Saturday at 7 p.m, then again on Sunday at 4, the Greater Middletown Chorale presents ZIMRIYAH! A Festival of Jewish Choral Music, at Zion Lutheran Church, 183 William Street, Portland. No need to be Jewish to enjoy this eclectic program of gorgeous, whimsical, and mystical melodies drawn from a repertoire that spans several centuries. www.gmchorale.org.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, La Camioneta, continues through Thursday. This is a film about what happens to the decommissioned American school buses sent to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected. Also playing through Thursday at Real Art Ways is: "Escape from Tomorrow", called a "descent into the grotesque extremes of a Disneyfied society… a daring attempt to literally assail Disney World from the inside out." Opening Friday and running into next week is Broadway Idiot, which follows Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong from a punk rock concert at Madison Square Garden to the opening of his musical, American Idiot, on Broadway - only ten blocks away, but worlds apart. www.realartways.com.
At Cinestudio, The Trinity College cinema in Hartford, tonight, National Theater Live presents Frankenstein, a bold new production with a twist. Hint: what you see depends on which day you go.
Tonight, for one showing only, it’s the 1973 East German cult classic The Legend of Paul and Paula, which German Chancelor Angela Merkel lists as her favorite.
Thursday through Saturday at Cinestudio, it’s Austenland, a new romantic comedy. Starting Sunday and running through Tuesday, it’s Russian Ark, called an amazing technical tour-de-force: the entire film, shot inside St Petersburg’s Hermitage art gallery, is done in a single take by incredible Steadicam operator Tilman Büttner, (Run Lola Run). www.cinestudio.org.
And now let’s take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU.
Right after the Jive at Five stay tuned for: Explorers’ Hour with Pickup Sticks, Inviting you to Venture into the infinity of the unknown via a synthesis of science, spoken word, and a lot of popular music.
At 6pm each weekday Free Speech Radio News offers a daily dose of alternative international news and reporting from the Pacifica Network.
At 6:30,it’s Fusion Radio with James Fusion for 90 minutes of techno from around the globe mixed live.
And at 8:00, Mike Nyce slows it down a few Beats per minute on The Warehouse, another live DJ mix this time featuring underground house music.
From 9:30 to 11 it's The Vault with DJ Anton Banks. The Vault presents listeners with the very latest in techno, house, idm, and ambient as it was intended to be heard, in mixed form. Anton regularly features exclusive sets from international producers and DJs. Visit www.antonbanks.com for the latest schedule and show information
11pm-12:30am It's The Flipside with Radiodad.
From 12:30-2am The Chill Factory with Noah G. and DJ So Fresh So Clean presents quality hip hop analysis and dissection invariably favoring and promoting music which provides the best human interpretation for the Platonic form of "chill."
From 2-4am it's The Late Night Concert Series.
The BBC kicks on at 4, followed by NPR's Morning Edition at 5.
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 www.wesufm.org/jive
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