Good evening! It’s Monday, Feb. 24th. 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.
Okay! Now for our rundown of some of what’s happening in our
area this week.
Right now, here in Middletown, Tryouts at the buttonwood
tree for the 2014 CT Youth Poetry Slam.
Its to olate to sign up but not too watch! Poets arebetween 13 and 19 years old.
Later you can catch the Anything Goes open Mic with J-Cherry
at the Buttonwood Tree, beginning at 8 p.m.
Wednesday at 7:00 The Buddhist Film Festival continues at
The Buttonwood with “Words of My Perfect Teacher.” This film takes us on a
journey from the World Cup in Germany to a the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan.
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 fromm the American song book. Saturday at 8 p.m. La Hot Jazz takes
the stage for a night of sophisticated Jazz. Later Sunday evening from 7-9pm,
you can catch some creative and funning improve comedy with The Great Make
believe Society. 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.
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
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight’s Jazz Monday featured performance is by Steve Davis. Tomorrow, 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
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight’s bill features authentic
Americana roots and blues music with Minnesota’s Charlie Parr and Orb Mellon. Tomorrow
at 8 café
Nine features Violent Mae, Eliso 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.
Also in New Haven, at Toad’s Place, tonight brings A Night
of Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence & Friends. Thursday Toad’s 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
Back here in Middletown Tomorrow/Tuesday evening at 8pm in
Wesleyan’s Fayerweather 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—and associated kids
and pets” for a community sing along as
part of this performance.
The CFA presents the Thesis Theater Production—“A la
ronda/To the circle”, a stage production 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
THE GREATER MIDDLETOWN CONCERT ASSOCIATION presents a night
of music at Church of The Holy Trinity 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, perhaps best
known for his jazz criticism and his novel Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome? 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
(860) 347-2528
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
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
Scatz restaurant and Jazz Lounge on Main Street Extension in
Middletown hosts a monthy 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
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
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 Way’s 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
At Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, tonight
and tomorrow you can see Visitors, by the director of the Koyaaniqatsi trilogy,
with music by Philip Glass. 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,
as we launch this season's new schedule.
Right after the Jive at Five, Stick around for afternoon
Jazz with Charles Henry for an hour of classic Jazz.
At 6pm stay tuned for Real Talk with Jonathan Spira
featuring interviews of professors from the Connecticut area, from Classics and
the Humanities to Sciences and Mathematics.
At 6:30 75 % folk with Michael Benson for 90 minutes of
folk, jazz, blues, world music and more.
From 8-9:30 stay tuned for Unfocused Folk with Chip Austin
featuring Americana music from Nashville and around the country including Folk,
acoustic Country and roots-Rock from both emerging and veteran artists. Plus,
interviews with performers and songwriters.
From 9:30-11pm The Attention Deficit Disk Jockey with Lee
brings you the music of yesterday’s future, today.
At 11pmGirl Power Hour with DJ Moe and DJ Jeffrey presents
an hour Chicks with picks and licks.
From 12-12:30am Romancipation with Dr. Love and DJ Smooth
present Tips on dating, love, and all of
the above – and some songs to go with them.
At 12:30 it’s The Late Night Format with Adi Slepack. Based
on a TV talk show format, the show will include a topical monologue, small and
large entertainment segments, with guests, and pseudo-"musical
performances".
At 1:30 Meet Music
with DJ Rami explores a specific artist and their work and discuss the artist's
influences, as well as how the artist has influenced their genre of music. I
will change the music genre each month.
From 2:30-4am Free
Association with DJ Robin Hood Traveling through the past half-century (and
beyond!) of popular music through song-by-song associations, from lyrical
similarities to historical connections to the occasional Freudian slip.
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 di dn’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
Now stay tuned for Charles Henry.
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