Friday, February 28, 2014

Friday's Jive 02-28-14

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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.

The written form for what you've heard on today’s jive is online at wesufm.org/jive

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!



Thursday, February 27, 2014

Thursday's Jive



Today's Jive was produced by,
J-Cherry... producer and host of, 'VOICE of the CITY'

 Airing on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown
Tuesdays from 8-9PM
Live and local... This ain't no commercial radio!


www.jcherrypresents.com



Good evening! It’s Thursday, Feb. 27th and this is the Jive at Five – our daily community calendar and rundown 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 weeknights and weekends. I'm J-Cherry producer and host of VOICE of the CITY, Tuesday from 8-9PM, Showcasing live and local music, arts, and culture. Thanks for joining us! 

Here’s a rundown of some of what’s happening in our area this week.

Tonight, Wesleyan Center for the Arts: presents a Graduate Recital for Gabriel Kastelle who invites “friends, singers, veterans of Sacred Harp, Billings, and Neely Bruce Bill of Rights”  for a community sing along as part of this performance. 

also tonight The CFA presents the Thesis Theater Production—“A la ronda/To the circle”, directed by Claire Whitehouse that 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 this Thursday through Saturday. 

Tonight Elisabeth Petry continues to lead The Veterans' Writing Group at 7:00 pm on in Meeting Room 2 at Russell Library  www.russelllibrary.org

Tonight Wesleyan Potters hosts an opening Reception for their new Student Exhibit-  Thursday, February 27, 5pm –7pm.  the exhibit  will be on display from February 26 – March 16. It he Gallery Shop. www.WesleyanPotters.com

Tonight Toad’s Place, in New Haven presents Dopapod, Lespecial, and The Bobby Paltauf Band. Shakedown plays The Dead and Beyond at Toads Friday night. 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.  www.toadsplace.com

Friday Night at 7pm Nate Respasz presents his Musical Senior Thesis recital entitled “Some Drums” in Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall.

This Friday 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 on Friday evening and continues all day on Saturday, with twelve papers delivered in four thematic sessions.  More online at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa

Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, Friday brings a night of Hip Hop to the Nine featuring “Sketch tha Cataclysm”, DJ Mo Niklz, and Old Self.  Saturday’s afternoon Jazz Jam session at will be 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 www.cafenine.com.


Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, Friday night Dana Fuchs (sounds like Fewks) for a night of soulful rock and blues. Saturday, southern blues man, Tinsley Ellis, takes the stage. www.blackeyedsallys.com

This week at The Buttonwood   Saturday morning at the there'll be quigong (Chi 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 song book. 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 7-9pm, you can catch some creative and funning improve comedy with The Great Make believe Society.   During February you can see "The Middle Towner" exhibit of stick figure drawings by drawings by Fred Carroll and Ebony Milling. More at www.buttonwood.org


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. http://www.greatermiddletownconcerts.org/ for ticket info 

Manic Productions Presents: Milagres, Plume Giant, and  Ports of Spain  for a free show at BAR in New Haven tonight at  9:00 pm. Friday Manic productions Presents Touché Amoré, mewithoutYou, Seahaven, and  Caravels at the Heirloom Arts Theatre in Danbury, CT. www.manicproductions.org

Scatz restaurant and Jazz Lounge on Main Street Extension in Middletown  Friday, Scatz presents an evening of live jazz with vocalist Theresa Wright.  http://www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com  That’s scatz with a “z”



Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

RealArtWays in Hartford, continues their run of Oscar-nominated live action and animated shorts through the end of the Month. 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. www.realartways.org 

Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, kicks off 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” . Cinestusio also host’s the National Theaters’s live stage production of War Horse, this Thursday at 2pm and Sunday afternoon at 2:30.  www.cinestudio.org. 


And now let’s take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU.


5:05-6pm
Homegrown with Rob DeRosa
Voted #2 Radio Show – Hartford Advocate “Best Of” Poll 2013
The best crop of Connecticut-connected music presented for a global audience.

6-6:30pm
Words with Abigail Joella Shneyder
Tune in as slam poets perform live in the studio and talk about their work.

6:30-8pm
(1,3,5) The Movement with DJ Danni and DJ Aissa
Two Black Girls spinning discs and talking about the things we care about.
(2,4) Call it Anything with DJ Skim
Call it anything profiles improvisational music of various traditions that transcend the bounds of genre categorization. Strong emphasis on live recordings.

8-9:30pm
Evening Jazz with Bill Denert
Where hearing is the best experience. A broad range of swing, be-bop, and avant garde as well as a sprinkling of new releases.

9:30-10:30pm
(1,3,5) UnderCover with Rebecca Seidel
Bridging genres and generations, UnderCover explores the concept of inspiration through imitation.
(2,4) Muffin Top Colony with DJ Zing and DJ Vegetable
Muffin Top Colony is your place to discuss and listen to your favorite things: muffins and groovy tunes. There will be surprises. There will be recipes. There will be fun for the whole muffin-loving family.

10:30-11:30pm
(1,3,5) The Hip-Hop Kitchen with Alex and Jake
Welcome to hip hop kitchen where you’ll hear african, jazzy, soulful, upbeat hip hop and rap mixed with food news, recipes, reviews, tips, tricks, fun facts. basically food to eat while you listen.
(2,4) Live From The Paris Hotel with Grover Cleveland Jr. aka DJ Goat
A mercurial mixture of pop music and poetry, cavorting the ley lines of the human voice. Step outside the Dr. Luke degeneration into the magnificent streets of the city.

11:30-12:30am
(1,3,5) Underdogs Edge with DJ Malik1Fam
The Underdogs Edge will feature local hip hop artists across the region with tracks from mainstream artists normally not played on the radio.
(2,4) MidniteMunchiez with DJ Gus Lo
Below Ground Street music your ears have been craving.

12:30-1:30am
(1,3,5) Pop! Goes My Heart with Ian
Sad pop songs with a different title-based theme every show, with a focus on experimental pop, chamber pop, and Kate Bush.
(2,4) Army of Me with DJ Dora


The music that influenced and was influenced by the Riot Grrl sound of the 1990s, focusing on strong female fronted bands, with an emphasis on pop, rock and electronic music.

1:30-2:30am
(1,3,5) Your Turn with Rachel Day
Each episode, a different guest will chronologically share songs that were fundamental in shaping who they are.
(2,4) Teen Angst with The Kaiser and DJ LT
Discussions about the harrowing, confusing aspects of coming of age, with an indie/alt/pop-punk soundtrack. Listeners are invited to recount highlights and embarrassments of their adolescence.

2:30-4am
(1,3,5) #burnnotice with DJ Sabatoge
Underground HIP HOP, 90's Hip Hop 80's HIP HOP influenced show. Interviews with upcoming artists on local and national scale. Your mom's favorite radio show!

(2,4) The Weather Overair with Evan Bieder
social justice radio: “A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality.” – Yoko Ono
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 atwww.wesufm.org/jive

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

Thanks for listening! Stay tuned Home Grown with Rob Derosa


Tuesday, February 25, 2014

02-26-14

Good evening! It’s Wednesday, Feb. 26th and this is the Jive at Five – our daily community calendar and rundown 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 weeknights and weekends.  I'm Bill Denert, producer and host of Thursday night's Evening Jazz where "hearing is the best experience" and Connecticut's number 1 Washington Nationals fan! Thanks for tuning in!

Here’s a rundown of some of what’s happening in our area this week.

Tomorrow night, Wesleyan Center for the Arts: presents a Graduate Recital for Gabriel Kastelle who invites “friends, singers, veterans of Sacred Harp, Billings, and Neely Bruce Bill of Rights”  for a community sing along as part of this performance.

The CFA presents the Thesis Theater Production—“A la ronda/To the circle”, directed by Claire Whitehouse that 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 this Thursday through Saturday.

Friday Night at 7pm Nate Respasz presents his Musical Senior Thesis recital entitled “Some Drums” in Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall.

This Friday 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 on Friday evening and continues all day on Saturday, with twelve papers delivered in four thematic sessions.  More online at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa

Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight, Manic Productions presents Sera Cahoone, Toy Soldiers, and The Lawsuits at Café nine. Friday brings a night of Hip Hop to the Nine featuring “Sketch tha Cataclysm”, DJ Mo Niklz, and Old Self.  Saturday’s afternoon Jazz Jam session at will be 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 www.cafenine.com.


Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, is the Wednesday’s Blues Jam with Tim Mcdonald. Thursday night, Louisiana roots man Tommy Malone takes the Sally’s stage. Friday night Dana Fuchs (sounds like Fewks) for a night of soulful rock and blues. Saturday, southern blues man, Tinsley Ellis, takes the stage. www.blackeyedsallys.com


Tonight at 7:00 The Buddhist Film Festival continues at The Buttonwood with “Words of My Perfect Teacher.”  Saturday morning at the Buttonwood there'll be quigong (Chi 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 song book. 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 7-9pm, you can catch some creative and funning improve comedy with The Great Make believe Society.   During February you can see "The Middle Towner" exhibit of stick figure drawings by drawings by Fred Carroll and Ebony Milling. More at www.buttonwood.org


Thursday night Toad’s Place, in New Haven presents Dopapod, Lespecial, and The Bobby Paltauf Band. Shakedown plays The Dead and Beyond at Toads Friday night. 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.  www.toadsplace.com


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. http://www.greatermiddletownconcerts.org/ for ticket info


The CT Poetry Society Middletown Chapter holds its meetings on the last Wednesday of every month. The meetings are open to the public and take place at: 6 p.m. in The Russell Library’s Meeting Room 3 you can RSVP to Pamela: pamela.cps@hotmail.com or 860.563.5761


Tonight, author, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist and biographer Stanley Crouch, will be reading selections from his latest book KANSAS CITY LIGHTNING, The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker at Russell Library 


Elisabeth Petry continues to lead The Veterans' Writing Group at 7:00 pm on Thursdays in Meeting Room 2 at Russell Library  www.russelllibrary.org


Tonight, the Middletown Commission on the Arts February meeting happens at 7 pm in Room B-19, of the City of Middletown’s  Municipal Bldg., 245 Dekoven Drive. The public is welcome to attend.


Manic Productions Presents: Milagres, Plume Giant, and  Ports of Spain  for a free show at BAR in New Haven tonight at  9:00 pm. Friday Manic productions Presents Touché Amoré, mewithoutYou, Seahaven, and  Caravels at the Heirloom Arts Theatre in Danbury, CT. www.manicproductions.org


Scatz restaurant and Jazz Lounge on Main Street Extension in Middletown hosts a monthly night of open-mic Spoken Word poetry this tonight.  Friday, Scatz presents an evening of live jazz with vocalist Theresa Wright.  http://www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com  That’s scatz with a “z”


Wesleyan Potters hosts an opening Reception for their new Student Exhibit-  Thursday, February 27, 5pm –7pm.  the exhibit  will be on display from February 26 – March 16. It he Gallery Shop. www.WesleyanPotters.com


Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

RealArtWays in Hartford, continues their run of Oscar-nominated live action and animated shorts through the end of the Month. 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. www.realartways.org


Tonight,  Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, kicks off 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” . Cinestusio also host’s the National Theaters’s live stage production of War Horse, this Thursday at 2pm and Sunday afternoon at 2:30.  www.cinestudio.org.


And now let’s take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU.

Right after the jive at Five stay tuned for Wild, Wild, Live with Hibiki and Ethan Hill. A sneak peek into the magical live music scene of Wes. Tune in for in-station sets from campus bands and recordings of up-and-coming artists' campus shows.

That's followed by 30minutes Mind Matters with Doctor E. The show provides information and guest interviews on issues concerning mental illness. The focus is exploring holistic therapies and storis of individual achievement.

At 6:30,it’s Fusion Radio with James Fusion for 90 minutes of techno from around the globe mixed live since 1992. It's a vinyl world!

And at 8:00, Mike Nyce slows it down a few Beats per minute on The Warehouse. The best of underground house music, mixed live for your listening pleasure.

From 9:30 to 11 it's NE Tempo with DJ Berk. Serious turntablism - dubstep, DnB, techno, ragga jungle, breakbeats mixed live

at 11pm It’s 75 Years of...  For 75 years, WESU has broadcast underground music and under-represented genres. During our 75th Anniversary, this program will feature a different genre or theme each month, with songs chosen by our listeners and staff.

At 12:30 it's the Chillin' Factory with Noah G. and DJ So Fresh So Clean. Quality hip hop analysis and dissection invariably favoring and promoting music which provides the best human interpretation for the Platonic form of "chill"..

At 1:30 am The Jangle Power Pop Hour with Adriana, playing music ranging from the 1960's bands that helped develop the genre to artists of the early 2000's that carried on their legacy; a focus on music from the past.

From 2:30 to 4am, stay tuned From A to B with Ali and Ben; DJs individually choosing the first and last songs of the show and collaboratively building the set around connecting the first and last songs.

The BBC World News kicks on at 4am followed by Morning Edition from NPR at 5am.

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

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

Thanks for listening! Stay tuned for Wild Wild Live with Hibiki and Ethan Hill.

02/25/14 jive



Good evening! It’s Tuesday, Feb. 25th. This is the Jive at Five – our daily community calendar and rundown 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 weeknights and weekends.  I'm Ben Michael – Thanks for joining us.

Here’s a rundown of some of what’s happening in our area this week.
Here in Middletown tonight at 8pm, in Wesleyan’s Beckham Hall, “Touch Tones, TVs, and Time: An Elegy for Debased Media” is an evening length work by Wesleyan Professor of Music Ronald Kuivila for singing and speaking voices, live electronics, and various media past their prime.  

Thursday night Wesleyan Center for the Arts: presents a Graduate Recital for Gabriel Kastelle who invites “friends, singers, veterans of Sacred Harp, Billings, and Neely Bruce Bill of Rights”  for a community sing along as part of this performance. 

The CFA presents the Thesis Theater Production—“A la ronda/To the circle”, directed by Claire Whitehouse that 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 this Thursday through Saturday. 

Friday Night at 7pm Nate Respasz presents his Musical Senior Thesis recital entitled “Some Drums” in Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall.

This Friday 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 on Friday evening and continues all day on Saturday, with twelve papers delivered in four thematic sessions.  More online at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa


Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight’s bill features Violent Mae, Elison Jackson, and Titanics. Wednesday night Manic Productions presents Sera Cahoone, Toy Soldiers, and The Lawsuits at Café nine. Friday brings a night of Hip Hop to the Nine featuring “Sketch tha Cataclysm”, DJ Mo Niklz, and Old Self.  Saturday’s afternoon Jazz Jam session at will be 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 www.cafenine.com.


Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, on Tuesday nights, Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra, an 18-piece band, works out new material. Wednesday’s Blues Jam is with Tim Mcdonald. Thursday night, Louisiana roots man Tommy Malone takes the Sally’s stage. Friday night Dana Fuchs (sounds like Fewks) for a night of soulful rock and blues. Saturday, southern blues man, Tinsley Ellis, takes the stage. www.blackeyedsallys.com
 

Wednesday at 7:00 The Buddhist Film Festival continues at The Buttonwood with “Words of My Perfect Teacher.”  Saturday morning at the Buttonwood there'll be quigong (Chi 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 song book. 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 7-9pm, you can catch some creative and funning improve comedy with The Great Make believe Society.   During February you can see "The Middle Towner" exhibit of stick figure drawings by drawings by Fred Carroll and Ebony Milling. More at www.buttonwood.org


Thursday night Toad’s Place, in New Haven presents Dopapod, Lespecial, and The Bobby Paltauf Band. Shakedown plays The Dead and Beyond at Toads Friday night. 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.  www.toadsplace.com


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. http://www.greatermiddletownconcerts.org/ for ticket info 


The CT Poetry Society Middletown Chapter holds its meetings on the last Wednesday of every month. The meetings are open to the public and take place at: 6 p.m. in The Russell Library’s Meeting Room 3 you can RSVP to Pamela: pamela.cps@hotmail.com or 860.563.5761


Wednesday night, Author, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist and biographer Stanley Crouch, will be reading selections from his latest book KANSAS CITY LIGHTNING, The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker at Russell Library  


Elisabeth Petry continues to lead The Veterans' Writing Group at 7:00 pm on Thursdays in Meeting Room 2 at Russell Library  www.russelllibrary.org
 

Wednesday night The Middletown Commission on the Arts February meeting happens at 7 pm in Room B-19, of the City of Middletown’s  Municipal Bldg., 245 Dekoven Drive. The public is welcome to attend.


Manic Productions Presents: Milagres, Plume Giant, and  Ports of Spain  for a free show at BAR in New Haven Wednesday night at  9:00 pm. Friday Manic productions Presents Touché Amoré, mewithoutYou, Seahaven, and  Caravels at the Heirloom Arts Theatre in Danbury, CT. www.manicproductions.org


Scatz restaurant and Jazz Lounge on Main Street Extension in Middletown hosts a monthly night of open-mic Spoken Word poetry this Wednesday.  Friday, Scatz presents an evening of live jazz with vocalist Theresa Wright.  http://www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com  That’s scatz with a “z”


Wesleyan Potters hosts an opening Reception for their new Student Exhibit-  Thursday, February 27, 5pm –7pm.  the exhibit  will be on display from February 26 – March 16. It he Gallery Shop. www.WesleyanPotters.com
 

Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
 RealArtWays in Hartford, continues their run of Oscar-nominated live action and animated shorts through the end of the Month. 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. www.realartways.org 


Tonight,  Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, ends their run of  Visitors.  Wednesday Cinestudio kicks off 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” . Cinestusio also host’s the National Theaters’s live stage production of War Horse, this Thursday at 2pm and Sunday afternoon at 2:30.  www.cinestudio.org


And now let’s take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU..

Right after the Jive at Five, Stick around for Explorers’ Hour with Pickup Sticks for a show that aims to  take you places that you’ve never been before!  Venture into the infinity of the unknown via a synthesis of science, spoken word, and a lot of indie popular music.


At 6pm stay tuned for The Cultural Variety Show with Ting.

From 6:30-8pm Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill presents an eclectic selection of Americana, country, folk, folk-rock, bluegrass, acoustic, blues, Celtic, old-time, singer-songwriter and other music that has a roots influence.   Tonight, Eben Pariser of Roosevelt Dime and Goodnight Moonshine, and Molly Venter, also of Goodnight Moonshine and Red Molly, will be Bill's special guests live in the studio.

  
At 8 The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry invite you for an hour long live spotlight of local Connecticut arts and music.

At 9pm  Bill Revill fills in for DJ Cheshire Cat and you'll get some more roots and Americana music.

From 10:30-11:30pm The Wayfaring Stranger with Lily Myers presents contemporary folk, folk-rock, bluegrass, and Americana from around the country.

At 11:30 it’s Young & Restless with DJ Sleepy Girl.  

From 12:30-1:30am, Songs Without Words with Jacob Feder presents an eclectic mix of instrumental tunes from jazz to folk to electronic and back again.

From 1:30-2:30am  The Scene with DJ Zach Ezer  who checks out a new music scene each week.

From 2:30-3:30am it’s DieCast with DJ Scarecrow.

From 3:30-4am How We Met the Mother with Mizael Robledo features the diverse music that is background to the story of the television show, How I Met Your Mother.

The BBC kicks world news comes your way 4am and Moring Edition from NPR kicks off our broadcast day tomorrow at 5am.

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 wesufm.org/jive.

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

Thanks and stay tuned for  Explorer’s hour with DJ Pickup Sticks.