Good evening, it's Friday, January 24th, 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 in Hartford, Bragging Rights w/ Sadplant & Two Fisted
Law take the Sully’s Pub stage. Saturday brings an appearance by Dirty Sanchez.
Visit www.sullyspub.com
At Toad’s Place in New Haven, tonight is the Opus Blizzard B-Day
Bash 2014, presented by Mindsnap Music, featuring Alcoholica, Earth,
Darkitecht, Nasty Disaster, Kings & Liars, NightBitch, and Curse The Son.
Sunday brings Lotus and The Werks to Toad’s. www.toadsplace.com has your
details.
Also in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight it’s Tom Hearn, followed
by The Dictators NYC and Dead City. Café Nine’s weekly Saturday afternoon jazz
jam session will be hosted by Tony Dioguardi & Friends. That’s followed
at 9pm by the Go Kat Go! Birthday Bash, with Screamin' Rebel Angels and The
Bloodshots. Sunday’s bluegrass jam at Café Nine is with Stacy Phillips,
followed by The Original Sunday Night Jam with The Morris Trent Band. www.cafenine.com will
provide more info.
In Middletown tonight, at The Buttonwood Tree, it’s Cricket Tell
the Weather, a five-piece indie string band featuring bluegrass-inspired
original music. Saturday morning brings Qigong (chee gung), community
yoga and an empowerment workshop to the Buttonwood, and then at 8 p.m., Asylum
Quartet performs - four saxophonists performing classical masterpieces, pulsing
electronic sounds of minimalism, and klezmer at breakneck speeds. Visit www.buttonwood.org .
On Sunday at 3 pm the Greater Middletown Concert Association
presents "The Emperor of Atlantis", a short opera by Viktor Ullman
which is an allegorical depiction of a Kaiser that eventually was considered a
satire on Adolf Hitler. The opera is sung in German with English subtitles
projected above the stage. Call 860.347.4887 or 346.3369 or visit greatermiddletownconcerts.org
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s Friday, Blues Man -Poppa
Chubby, takes the Sally’s stage. Saturday, it’s Ryan Hartt &the Blue
Hearts. www.blackeyedsallys.com has
details.
Manic Productions brings several shows to nearby venues this week.
Saturday at Hamden’s Spaceland Ballroom, it’s a night of Ska with
Mephiskapheles, Flip Ya For Real, Inspector 7, and the Hempsteadys. Visit manicproductions.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central
Connecticut:
At RealArtWays in Hartford, opening tonight and running until the
end of January is "The Rocket", in which a boy who is believed to
bring bad luck leads his family (and a couple of ragged misfits) through Laos
to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by
war, the boy builds a giant rocket to prove he's not cursed and to enter the
most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: a rocket festival.
Saturday, for one matinee showing only, it’s Blue is the Warmest Color, winner
of the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year. The film centers on a 15-year-old girl
named Adèle, who is climbing to adulthood and dreams of experiencing her first
love. Learn more at www.realartways.org
Tonight at Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, they
continue a run of the thriller, "Captain Phillips" starring Tom
Hanks. Sunday brings Generation War, part 1 and part 2, a controversial and
widely-seen German television miniseries that has finally gotten a film release
in the United States. It tells the story of five friends who, on Christmas Eve
1941, celebrate and promise to meet again in one year’s time. It turns into the
last moment of their youth, as the war begins, affecting them each in different
ways. www.cinestudio.org has complete
info.
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 Radio show category too! You can find a link to the
poll on our website or at www.CTnow.com . The
polls 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
WESU, a community service of Wesleyan University since 1939.
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.
And if you value WESU as a source for information and
entertainment in your life, how about supporting the station with a donation?
You can make that donation online at wesufm.org anytime.
Thanks for listening!
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