Good evening, it's Friday, February 7th, 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
We are now on our Spring schedule, stay tuned for the program line-up for tonight and overnight. Now, here’s a rundown of some of what’s scheduled in the community this weekend.
Tonight you'll find Oberon Rose, playing psych folk/rock, at The
Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, and Saturday, there'll be qigong (Chi Kung), tai
chi, community yoga and an empowerment workshop. Saturday at 8 p.m., the
Tekalli Duo, a brother and sister with Japanese and Libyan roots, presents “Re-imagine,"
a performance of original and classical works on violin and piano. 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. Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m. at The Buttonwood,
there will be an artists' reception for "The Middle Towner" exhibit featuring
stick-figure cartoons by Fred Carroll and Ebony Milling. Drawn exclusively with
a Pilot pen on recycled paper, this show is a “snapshot” style depiction of day
to day life in the “The Big M", also featured in this show is “The Art of
Clean” by The Mattabesset Broom Club. More at www.buttonwood.org
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, Damon Fowler takes the stage
playing a hybrid of roots-rock and blues. Saturday, it’s the Australian
vocalist and blues guitarist Anni Piper, along with guitarist Brent Johnson.
Find out more at www.blackeyedsallys.com
Also in Hartford, at Sully’s Pub, tonight it's Shag Frenzy.
Saturday brings Snuffbox. And Sunday is the electric open mic night. www.sullyspub.com has more.
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight brings Eddie Clendening
and the Blue Ribbon Boys; Saturday’s Jazz Jam session at 4:30 is with Gary
Grippo and Friends, followed at 8 by a Benefit for JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes,
with The Vultures, the Clams, and the Hulls. Sunday’s Original Sunday Night Jam
at Café Nine is with the George Baker Band. www.cafenine.com has more
details.
On the Wesleyan University CFA schedule, on Sunday at 3 p.m., is
the inaugural concert by the Wesleyan Consort, an instrumental and vocal
ensemble composed of Wesleyan faculty and invited guests. The works range from
early classics to contemporary compositions More info at the Wesleyan.edu/cfa
website.
In New Haven, at Toad’s Place tonight, it’s the Cosmic Dust
Bunnies, with Jimkata, the Mantras, Balkun Brothers and Father Time. Sunday
brings Emancipator Ensemble, featuring a live band and a new large-scale video
show, as well as Odesza and Real Magic. Go to www.toadsplace.com
Tonight from 6 to 7:30 p.m., there will be an opening reception
for the Wesleyan Potters' gallery shop’s show, “Hartford Art School: Dirty for
a Reason," an exhibit of work by University of Hartford ceramics faculty
and majors. Check out www.wesleyanpotters.com
The Middletown Art Academy will host its 2014 spring Free Open
Door and Open Studio on Saturday, between 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., with the
various time slots devoted to participants’ age groups. Light healthy
snacks, organic teas and beverages will be offered. www.middletownartacademy.com has the
schedule.
Also on Saturday, at 1:30 p.m., the Art Guild of Middletown will
present a rescheduled showing of the film "Camille Claudel," in the
Hubbard Room of the Russell Library, 123 Broad St. The film recounts the
troubled life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her long relationship with
legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin. www.middletownartguild.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central
Connecticut:
At RealArtWays in Hartford, Oscar-nominated shorts programming –
both live action and animated – continue through the end of February; Saturday,
it’s "Psychedelic Cinema," in which Super 8 films that were shot
between 1967 and 1969 – basically, a swirl of colors, lights, and images – are
projected in the style of the live light shows that were a fixture of concerts
in the 1960s. Visit realartways.org
Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, continues a
run of "Blue is the Warmest Color," winner of the Palme d'Or at
Cannes last year. Sunday, a run of "Philomena," nominated for a Best
Picture Oscar, begins. Visit 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.
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 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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