Good evening, it's Friday, January 10th, 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 the Bruce Gregori Trio takes the Blackeyed Sally’s stage
in Hartford. Saturday it’s the Alexis P. Suter Band, playing roots, blues and
soul. The web has details at www.blackeyedsallys.com
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, early tonight the Weekly Wind Down Happy Hour at 5 is with Buzz Gordo’s Ski Lodge. That’s followed at 9 by Sarah Borges and Girls, Guns, and Glory. Saturday afternoon’s Jazz Jam session at 4:30 is with Gary Grippo & Friends. At 9, The Iguanas bring New Orleans roots rock to the Café Nine stage. Sunday afternoon at 4, there’ll be a free pre-release listening party for the original cast recording of The Devil Plays Poker. That’s followed at 8 by The Original Sunday Night Jam, with the George Baker Band. The web has details at www.cafenine.com
Tonight in New Haven, at Toad’s Place Riders on the Storm pay a musical tribute to The Doors on a long bill featuring Action Potential and Annie Nirschel, Circadian Rhythm, Eightfold, INK, the Nate Moore Band, Stephen Gonza, Terra Firma and Trag. Saturday, it’s Keeping Company, with Aye-Jay, Metasine, J Crow, Dr. Ink, Scats and Ysanne & Guests. For more information and times you can check out www.toadsplace.com.
Tonight Manic Productions presents David Dondero and Jay Prince at The Outer Space in Hamden. The web has details at manicproductions.org.
In Middletown tonight at 8 p.m., The Buttonwood Tree presents music by singer/songwriter Ellen Bukstel. Opening for Ellen will be an old friend of the Buttonwood, Eric Kuhn, who has been on the Middletown music scene since the early 1980s. Saturday morning, it’s Qui Gong (chee-kung), community yoga and an empowerment workshop. At 8 p.m. Saturday, it’s Noise in the Key of Bliss with trumpeter Saskia Laroo and pianist/vocalist Warren Byrd. The web has details at www.buttonwood.org
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, early tonight the Weekly Wind Down Happy Hour at 5 is with Buzz Gordo’s Ski Lodge. That’s followed at 9 by Sarah Borges and Girls, Guns, and Glory. Saturday afternoon’s Jazz Jam session at 4:30 is with Gary Grippo & Friends. At 9, The Iguanas bring New Orleans roots rock to the Café Nine stage. Sunday afternoon at 4, there’ll be a free pre-release listening party for the original cast recording of The Devil Plays Poker. That’s followed at 8 by The Original Sunday Night Jam, with the George Baker Band. The web has details at www.cafenine.com
Tonight in New Haven, at Toad’s Place Riders on the Storm pay a musical tribute to The Doors on a long bill featuring Action Potential and Annie Nirschel, Circadian Rhythm, Eightfold, INK, the Nate Moore Band, Stephen Gonza, Terra Firma and Trag. Saturday, it’s Keeping Company, with Aye-Jay, Metasine, J Crow, Dr. Ink, Scats and Ysanne & Guests. For more information and times you can check out www.toadsplace.com.
Tonight Manic Productions presents David Dondero and Jay Prince at The Outer Space in Hamden. The web has details at manicproductions.org.
In Middletown tonight at 8 p.m., The Buttonwood Tree presents music by singer/songwriter Ellen Bukstel. Opening for Ellen will be an old friend of the Buttonwood, Eric Kuhn, who has been on the Middletown music scene since the early 1980s. Saturday morning, it’s Qui Gong (chee-kung), community yoga and an empowerment workshop. At 8 p.m. Saturday, it’s Noise in the Key of Bliss with trumpeter Saskia Laroo and pianist/vocalist Warren Byrd. The web has details at www.buttonwood.org
The Friends of Russell Library continues a book sale on Saturday
from 9am to 5pm and Sunday from 1-4pm. Fiction and non-fiction in many
categories as well as children's books are priced to sell. Purchases
support library programs that benefit the community. Also on Saturday at
2pm in the Hubbard Room at Russell Library, violinist Hye-Jin Kim and guitarist
João Luiz team up for a classically-rooted, dance-inspired. The two offer music
by Paganini, Piazzolla & Paquito D’Rivera and original arrangements of
traditional folksongs from their native cultures—Korea and Brazil. The web
has details at www.russelllibrary.org
On Saturday at 8pm the Branford Folk Music Society hosts Connecticut-based Mestizo Manta, a group of Peruvian aficionado musicians joined to cultivate Andean music from Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and other neighboring countries of South America. Performance takes place at Branford Folk Coffeehouse, First Congregational Church of Branford, 1009 Main St. in, you guessed it! – Branford. Call 203-488-7715.
On Saturday at 8pm the Branford Folk Music Society hosts Connecticut-based Mestizo Manta, a group of Peruvian aficionado musicians joined to cultivate Andean music from Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and other neighboring countries of South America. Performance takes place at Branford Folk Coffeehouse, First Congregational Church of Branford, 1009 Main St. in, you guessed it! – Branford. Call 203-488-7715.
Tonight in East Hampton, Old Bank Flowers & Greenery on Main
St hosts an opening reception for their new gallery installation including
recent work from featured Middletown artist, Pierre Slyvain. WESU’s own David
Bauer will also have some of his photography on display. The event is
open to the public and features light refreshments and live jazz from 6:30-8:30pm.
Visit https://www.facebook.com/OldBankFlowersGreenery for
info.
Speaking of WESU connected visual artists, you can see the watercolor paintings of Bill Revill, host of Acoustic Blender, on display at The Infinity gallery, Infinity Hall in Norfolk through April. The web has details at http://www.infinityhall.com/
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
At RealArtWays in Hartford, you can catch "Bettie Page Reveals All", an intimate look at the rise, and fall, and rise again of one of the world's most recognized and controversial sex symbols. With her razor sharp wit and Tennessee twang Bettie Page emerges from decades of seclusion to reveal her secret past and narrate her life story. Showing through next Thursday, Jan. 16. Tonight's opening night special event is with Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School. The web has details at www.realartways.org.
Running through Saturday at Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema, is “All is Lost”, starring Robert Redford, alone in the ocean. Sunday at Cinestudio begins a special week-long premiere of "The Great Beauty", which has been both hugely popular and sharply dividing audiences with its overarching question, Is Italy in Decline? More can be found at www.cinestudio.org
Speaking of WESU connected visual artists, you can see the watercolor paintings of Bill Revill, host of Acoustic Blender, on display at The Infinity gallery, Infinity Hall in Norfolk through April. The web has details at http://www.infinityhall.com/
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
At RealArtWays in Hartford, you can catch "Bettie Page Reveals All", an intimate look at the rise, and fall, and rise again of one of the world's most recognized and controversial sex symbols. With her razor sharp wit and Tennessee twang Bettie Page emerges from decades of seclusion to reveal her secret past and narrate her life story. Showing through next Thursday, Jan. 16. Tonight's opening night special event is with Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School. The web has details at www.realartways.org.
Running through Saturday at Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema, is “All is Lost”, starring Robert Redford, alone in the ocean. Sunday at Cinestudio begins a special week-long premiere of "The Great Beauty", which has been both hugely popular and sharply dividing audiences with its overarching question, Is Italy in Decline? More can be found 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 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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