Good evening! It’s Monday, January 27th. This is the Jive at Five - our daily
community calendar and rundown of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown,
your listener supported 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.
Here’s a brief rundown of some of the cultural and entertaining
happenings in our area this week.
Here in Middletown, at the Buttonwood Tree, Monday nights bring the
weekly Anything Goes open mic, hosted by J-Cherry, who also hosts Voice of the City on WESU Tuesday
nights at 8pm. The S.W.E.E.T. Potato Society Meets at The buttonwood on tomorrow/Tuesday
evening from 6-8pm. Friday night, Donna Martin and Gail Wade joining forces for
a night of songwriting, great guitar playing and beautiful harmonies as they
weave their way through their combined catalogs of folk, country, bluegrass and
beyond.
Saturday morning kicks off
with Tai Chi and a self empowerment workshop.
You can catch the internationally acclaimed Laszlo Gardony Jazz Trio Saturday
night the Buttonwood. On Sundays, Food
Not Bombs serves food outside the Buttonwood at 1 pm, all are welcome. 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 of the improv-comedy
troupe, The Great Make Believe Society to the Buttonwood at 7pm. www.buttonwood.org
Down in New Haven at Toad’s Place, Monday night’s bring a weekly
dose of Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence & Friends. Wednesday night night
Toads presents a night of Americana with GREENSKY BLUEGRASS and Tumbleweed
Wanderers. Friday night SHAKEDOWN returns to the Toads Place Stage. Eggy and Leaf Jumpers open that show. www.toadsplace.com.
Also in New Haven, tonight you can catch Pat Dalton
& Friends Dan Greene
(of Mountain Movers), Sidewalk Dave live on
stage at Café Nine. Tomorrow Drink Deeply presents: A triple bill
with James
Fonicello, Michael
Kusek, and M.T. Bearington. Wednesday
night Cafe 9 presents Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound and The Hoolios for a night of
rocking roots and rhythm and blues with a New Orleans flavor!! Thursday night, Spirit
Family Reunion plays homegrown American music to stomp, clap, shake and holler
with at the Nine. That bill also features Quiet Life from Portland, OR. Friday night 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 to The Nine. www.cafenine.com
In Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight’s weekly, Hartford Jazz
Society “Jazz Monday” hosts Haneef Nelson's Birthday Bash . On Tuesday night’s,
Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra, an 18 piece band, works out new material.
Wednesday’s long running weekly Blues Jam will be hosted by Tim Mcdonald.
Friday Night, Shaka & the Soul Shakers take the Sally’s stage for a night
of authentic Bluesiana Swamp Soul. Saturday night Easy Baby plays electric post
war blues at Sally’s . www.blackeyedsallys.com.
on
Monday night’s The Arch Street Tavern in Hartford presents: The Hartford Jazz
Orchestra. Friday night Youc can catch
CT Indie Punk Rockers, Dangerous Animals at the Arch. Saturday night brings
the conscious hip hop of Political
Animals to The Arch St Tavern http://www.archstreettavern.com
The CT Poetry Society Middletown Chapter holds its monthly meeting at 6pm this Wednesday in meeting room 3 at Russell Library. The Middletown Scottish Country Dancers gather at The Library Wednesday evening at 7pm. Author Elisabeth Petry will continue to lead The Veterans' Writing Group at 7:00 pm on Thursday night in Meeting Room 2 at Russell Library. www.Russellllibrary.org
The CT Poetry Society Middletown Chapter holds its monthly meeting at 6pm this Wednesday in meeting room 3 at Russell Library. The Middletown Scottish Country Dancers gather at The Library Wednesday evening at 7pm. Author Elisabeth Petry will continue to lead The Veterans' Writing Group at 7:00 pm on Thursday night in Meeting Room 2 at Russell Library. www.Russellllibrary.org
Manic Productions Presents: a free show at Bar In NewHaven Wednesday
night featuring Brick +
Mortar from NJ and CT’s “Dance,
Charlatan!” Thursday night Manic presents
a bill featuring The Backyard Committee, Elijah Ocean, Daphne Lee Martin, &
Frank Critelli at The Outer Space in Hamden.
www.manicproductions.org
Wesleyan University Center for the Arts presents: The Opening
Reception and Gallery Talk for the new Davison Art Center’s show, "Planes,
Trains and Automobiles" on display through March 5th. Thursday and Friday
bring The New England Premiere of The Assembly’s production
"HOME/SICK" t 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.
There will be a post-performance Q&A with Mark Rudd on Thursday
January 30. Mr. Rudd was a student activist and organizer in the Students for a
Democratic Society at Columbia University, and helped found the Weather
Underground. He was a federal fugitive from 1970 to 1977. Upon his return to
the U.S., Mr. Rudd has worked as an organizer and community college instructor
in Albuquerque, New Mexico. www.Wesleyan.edu/cfa for
details
Friday night, here in Middletown you can catch the Nu Groove band at
Scatz Restaurant and Jazz Lounge on Main Street Ext www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com.
Now here's a rundown of some cinema you can catch off the beaten
track in Central Connecticut:
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central
Connecticut:
Showing through Thursday At Real Art Ways in Hartford, you can catch "The Rocket", in which a boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family on calamity-filled journey Laos to find a new home. Also showing through Thursday at Real Art Ways is “More Than Honey “, an informative, and suitably contemplative study of the bee world and the world wide bee-population crisis. This Weekend, Real Art Ways begins their series of Oscar nominate short films. www.realartways.org.
Tonight and Tomorrow at Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema you can catch the a controversial and widely-seen German television miniseries Generation War, part 1. Opening Wednesday at Cinestudio is “12 years a Slave”, a movie 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 stays I bondage for another 12 years. Sunday Cinestudio begins a run of Generation War, part 2. More can be found at www.cinestudio.org
Showing through Thursday At Real Art Ways in Hartford, you can catch "The Rocket", in which a boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family on calamity-filled journey Laos to find a new home. Also showing through Thursday at Real Art Ways is “More Than Honey “, an informative, and suitably contemplative study of the bee world and the world wide bee-population crisis. This Weekend, Real Art Ways begins their series of Oscar nominate short films. www.realartways.org.
Tonight and Tomorrow at Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema you can catch the a controversial and widely-seen German television miniseries Generation War, part 1. Opening Wednesday at Cinestudio is “12 years a Slave”, a movie 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 stays I bondage for another 12 years. Sunday Cinestudio begins a run of Generation War, part 2. More can be found at www.cinestudio.org
And
now here’s a rundown of tonight’s programming on WESU.
Right
after the jive at Five stay tuned for afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry.
At
6pm, listen to 30 minutes of commentary
from the World Socialist news Website.
From
6:30-8pm Chip Michael Benson presents 75% Folk for 90 minutes of contemporary folks,
blues, jazz, world music and more.
At
8pm Chip Austen keeps the Americana music going with his show, unfocused folk,
which features new and old folks and Americana with a spotlight on up and
coming Nashville artists.
From
9:30pm to Midnight: The Attention Deficit Disk Jockey with Lee presents The
music of yesterday’s future.
At
midnight DJ Otto Nation is in the hose for an eclectic mix of music until 3
when RootsWorld Radio with Cliff Furnald brings you to music from far flung
places around the world and sometimes from right in your own backyard. www.RootsWorld.org
The
BBC kicks on at 4, followed by NPR's Morning Edition at 5.
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 www.wesufm.org/jive
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