Good evening, it's Friday, January 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 Wesleyan University Center for the Arts presents the New
England premiere of The Assembly’s production "HOME/SICK" at the CFA
Theater. The Assembly is a Brooklyn-based ensemble theater project of
multi-disciplinary performance artists. "HOME/SICK", explores the
political history of how a handful of student activist leaders, disgusted by
the Vietnam War and the U.S. government’s repression of those seeking equality
domestically, seized control of the Students for a Democratic Society movement
in 1969. On Saturday night at 8, the Ignacio Berroa Trio performs latin jazz in
Crowell Concert Hall with a pre-concert talk set for 7:15p. Visit www.Wesleyan.edu/cfa for details
Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul provide a night of rocking
Celtic-filled music at Infinity Hall in Norfolk tonight. Saturday night
NRBQ returns. http://www.infinityhall.com
Tonight, here in Middletown you can catch the Nu Groove band at Scatz Restaurant and Jazz Lounge on Main Street Ext. www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com has more info. That's Scatz with a "z"!
Tonight, here in Middletown you can catch the Nu Groove band at Scatz Restaurant and Jazz Lounge on Main Street Ext. www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com has more info. That's Scatz with a "z"!
Also in Middletown at The Buttonwood Tree, tonight Donna Martin
and Gail Wade join forces for a night of songwriting, guitar playing and
harmonies as they weave their way through their combined catalogs of folk, country,
bluegrass and beyond. Saturday morning kicks off with Qigong, Tai Chi and a
self empowerment workshop. You can catch the internationally acclaimed Laszlo
Gardony Jazz Trio Saturday night at The Buttonwood beginning at 8p. On
Sundays beginning at 1p, Food Not Bombs serves food outside and they invite all
to partake. You are also invited to help prepare the meal beforehand at 11 am
at First Church Congregational on Court Street. This Sunday evening brings the
return to The Buttonwood Tree of the improv-comedy troupe, The Great Make
Believe Society, at 7pm. www.buttonwood.org
Dave Downs croons in the morning on the 1st Sundays of the month at BrewBakers, 169 Main St. in Middletown beginning around 10 am. Call 860.852.0034 for info.
Dave Downs croons in the morning on the 1st Sundays of the month at BrewBakers, 169 Main St. in Middletown beginning around 10 am. Call 860.852.0034 for info.
In New Haven tonight at Café Nine, Drink Deeply presents: a night
of metal and loud rock with Intercourse, Grizzlor, Death Church, and Reptilian
Race. Cafe Nine’s weekly Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam will be hosted by Mike
Coppola and Friends this week. Saturday night Café Nine hosts a record Release
Show for Moving Brooklyn featuring Breakthrough Frequencies and Pat Mitchell.
Sunday evening brings the Blues Boot Camp with Greg Sherrod. Check in at www.cafenine.com
Also in New Haven tonight, Shakedown returns to the Toads Place Stage. Eggy and Leaf Jumpers open that show. www.toadsplace.com has more.
In Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s tonight, Shaka & the Soul Shakers take the stage for a night of authentic Bluesiana Swamp Soul. Saturday night Easy Baby plays electric post-war blues at Sally’s . Go to www.blackeyedsallys.com.
Tonight, The Arch Street Tavern in Hartford presents: CT Indie punk rockers, Dangerous Animals. Saturday night brings conscious hip hop of the Political Animals. More at http://www.archstreettavern.com
Now here's a rundown of some off the beaten path cinema in Hartford:
Also in New Haven tonight, Shakedown returns to the Toads Place Stage. Eggy and Leaf Jumpers open that show. www.toadsplace.com has more.
In Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s tonight, Shaka & the Soul Shakers take the stage for a night of authentic Bluesiana Swamp Soul. Saturday night Easy Baby plays electric post-war blues at Sally’s . Go to www.blackeyedsallys.com.
Tonight, The Arch Street Tavern in Hartford presents: CT Indie punk rockers, Dangerous Animals. Saturday night brings conscious hip hop of the Political Animals. More at http://www.archstreettavern.com
Now here's a rundown of some off the beaten path cinema in Hartford:
This weekend, Real Art Ways begins their series of Oscar nominate
short films. Visit their website at www.realartways.org.
At Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema, is showing “12 years a Slave”, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup, who was born a free man in the North, only to be sold into slavery when he visited Washington, D.C. where he lived in bondage for another 12 years. Sunday, Cinestudio begins a run of Generation War, part 2. More can be found at www.cinestudio.org
At Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema, is showing “12 years a Slave”, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup, who was born a free man in the North, only to be sold into slavery when he visited Washington, D.C. where he lived in bondage for another 12 years. Sunday, Cinestudio begins a run of Generation War, part 2. More can be found at www.cinestudio.org
2014 marks 75 years of alternative music, public affairs, and
community service for WESU. Look for information on special programming and
events online at www.wesufm.org. We also hope
you'll vote for WESU as the Best College radio station in the CT area through CTNow
/ Hartford Advocate Best of Hartford Readers Poll. Look for our DJs in the Best
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are only open through February 5th, so please help us out and spread the word!
Thanks!
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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.
Coming in at 6:30 it's a half-hour with the Middletown Youth Radio Project - A weekly radio program featuring
the thoughts, voices, creativity and talent of the
kids in the WESU neighborhood.
At
7 until 8:30pm 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, 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 - taking the word of God and mixing
it with the music of God then shifting it into overdrive! Praising God with the
best Urban Contemporary, Hip Hop, and Traditional gospel music on the planet!
At 2 to
2:30am it's Bassment Beats with DJ
Lokash - Celebrating its 10th year of bringing you the latest in
aboveground & underground hip-hop mixed live.
Then at
2:30 until 3am catch the New World Show
from Pacifica - The best in Global Bass mixed live. Baila coño!
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
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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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