Good evening, it's Friday, February 28th, 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.
The CFA presents the Thesis Theater Production—“A la ronda/To the circle”,
directed by Claire Whitehouse. This is an English-language adaptation of testimonies
by mothers of those who disappeared under the rule of the Argentine dictatorship
from 1976-1983. The production asks: "Where is there a place to mourn in a
society that refuses to acknowledge that the dead ever existed?" On stage at
Wesleyan’s 92 Theater tonight and Saturday at 8 pm. Tonight at 7pm Nate Respasz
presents his Musical Senior Thesis recital entitled “Some Drums” in Wesleyan’s Crowell
Concert Hall. Also tonight and Saturday Wesleyan’s Art History Program hosts a two-day
symposium on architectural palimpsests, which opens with a keynote lecture by F.
Barry Flood this evening and continues all day on Saturday, with twelve papers delivered
in four thematic sessions. This is a busy week at the CFA so be sure to visit arts2go.org or wesleyan.edu/cfa for the
complete listings.
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine tonight, is a night of Hip Hop featuring
“Sketch tha Cataclysm”, DJ Mo Niklz, and Old Self. Saturday’s afternoon Jazz Jam
session is hosted by Mike Coppola this week. Saturday night Thinman Records presents
The Downbeat 5, The Manchurians, and Big Fat Combo. Sunday brings 10,000 blades,
Make it up, and Gregory McKillop to The Nine. Find details at cafenine.com
Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally’s tonight, Dana Fuchs (sounds like Fewks) is in for a night of
soulful rock and blues. Saturday, southern blues man, Tinsley Ellis, takes the stage.
Visit blackeyedsallys.com
Saturday morning at The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown there will be
qigong (pronounce chee kung), tai chi, and community yoga. Saturday afternoon at 1pm, the
Free Poets Collective gathers featuring Glastonbury’s Meeting House Poets performing
to jazz and music from the American songbook. Saturday at 8 p.m. La Hot Jazz takes
the stage for a night of sophisticated Jazz. 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. Later
Sunday evening from 7 to 9pm, you can catch some creative and fun improv comedy
with The Great Make Believe Society. Find out more at buttonwood.org
Toad’s Place in New Haven presents Shakedown playing The Dead and beyond
tonight. The Mushroom Cloud and The Great Blue open that show. Sunday, Dweeezil
Zappa offers an intense guitar master class clinic during the day before his band
Zappa Plays Zappa brings their Roxy and Elsewhere 40th anniversary tour to the main
stage. toadsplace.com provides more
info.
The Greater Middletown Concert Association presents a night of music
at Church of The Holy Trinity on Main St in Middletown Saturday night at 7:30 featuring
mezzo-soprano D’anna Fortunato accompanied by Peter H. Bloom on flute and Mary Jane
Ruper on piano and harp. Visit greatermiddletownconcerts.org for ticket info.
Tonight Manic Productions Presents: Touché Amoré, mewithoutYou, Seahaven,
and Caravels at the Heirloom Arts Theatre in Danbury, CT.Check out manicproductions.org
Scatz restaurant and Jazz Lounge on Main Street Extension in Middletown
presents an evening of live jazz with vocalist Theresa Wright tonight. Visit scatzrestaurantandlounge.com and keep in
mind that it’s scatz with a “z”.
Dave Downs returns on Sunday at 10am to BrewBakers at 169 Main St.
in Middletown for a few hours of crooning and acoustic guitar playing. Call 860-852-0034.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
RealArtWays in Hartford, ends their run of Oscar-nominated live action
and animated shorts tonight. This week Real Art Ways is also showing, “The Best
Offer” , which has been described as a sumptuous and entertaining mystery of passions,
neuroses and intrigue. Friday Night RAW opens
a run of the new Italian Film, The Great Beauty, a 2014 Academy Award Nominee for
Best Foreign Language Film. Find more at realartways.org
Tonight and Saturday, Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford,
finishes up a run of Nebraska, taking viewers on a poignant, humorous father-and-son
road trip through the Midwest. Sunday evening Cinestudio begins a run of “The Act
of Killing”. Cinestudio also host’s the National Theaters’s live stage production
of War Horse Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Visit cinestudio.org for details.
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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.
From 6 to 6:30pm, pick up Blackout with dj smoothchilD. Upon
waking up, dj smoothchilD and dj ROCK find out they are lost. Having no idea where
they are, they must explore, listening to music, speeches, poetry, and anything
else they can find to figure out where they are and how to get home. The first person
to call in and guess the correct mystery location win's a prize (of the dj's choosing).
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 with DJ
Lokash 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 the Anthony Braxton
Quartet, 8 Standards (Wesleyan) 2001, featuring Anthony Braxton, Kevin O'Neil,
Andy Eulau, and Kevin Norton. The selection is Nuages and it's out on Barking Hoop
Records.
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