Good evening, it's Valentine's Day, Friday, February 14th,
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.
Up in Hartford tonight at Blackeyed Sally’s, Latanya Farrell and
The Bookman Style command the stage. Saturday, independent artist and
multi-instrumentalist Eliot Lewis, takes the stage.You can learn more at www.blackeyedsallys.com
Down in New Haven at Café Nine tonight, there is a
"Valentines Day Cabaret" and Lipgloss Crisis Birthday Party!
featuring The Blondettes, Dot Mitzvah, Uber Dami, Kitty Katastrophe, Robin
Banks, Scarlett Damnation, and DJ E-Bomb. Saturday’s Jazz Jam session at 4:30
is with Tony Dioguardi & Friends. At 8pm, Oddball Events presents
a bill featuring Leyla McCalla with Lara
Herscovitch and Leila Crockett.
Visit cafenine.com
Here in Middletown tonight at The Buttonwood Tree, Uri Shaham and
Julian Reid on electric keyboards are playing favorite jazz standards for a
Valentine’s Day special concert.
Saturday morning at The Buttonwood there'll be quigong (Chi Kung),
tai chi, community yoga and an empowerment workshop. Then, Saturday at 8 p.m. there
is a CD release concert by Harpeth Rising – it's an evening of acoustic
Americana, Folk, Blues and more. 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.
Also, during February you can see "The Middle Towner"
exhibit of stick figure drawings by Fred Carroll and Ebony Milling, also
featuring “The Art of Clean” by The Mattabesset Broom Club. There's more
at www.buttonwood.org
Tonight Scatz Restaurant and Jazz Lounge on Main Street Extension
in Middletown presents an evening of live jazz with Ian Woods. scatzrestaurantandlounge.com has more.
Manic Productions Presents a triple bill at the Spaceland Ballroom
in Hamden this Sunday, featuring Dead Meadow, Lord
Fowl, The Mountain Movers, and DJ Tim Daltrey.Visit www.manicproductions.org
Sunday brings The Expendables Winter Blackout 2014 tour to Toads
Place in New Haven. Stick Figure and Seedless are the opening acts. Sunday also
brings The Bold And The Brutal Tour Presented By Gorilla Music to Toads. Find
out more at www.toadsplace.com
Tonight Wesleyan University's CFA invites you to enjoy an evening
of classical and Romantic music in concert by 27-year old Ukrainian pianist
Vadym Kholodenko, the Gold Medalist of the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition.
Also tonight and Saturday at 8pm, Wesleyan University Center for
the Arts presents: Margaret Jenkins Dance Companies 40th anniversary
production: “Times Bones”, a play on the myth of Osiris. There will be a
pre-performance talk by Wesleyan DanceLink Fellow Cynthia Tong tonight at
7:30pm in the CFA Hall. Sunday afternoon at 3pm, hear “This Is It!” The
Complete Piano Works of Neely Bruce—Part II in Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert
Hall. There is more online at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central
Connecticut:
Real Art Ways in Hartford continues their run of Oscar-nominated
live action and animated shorts through the end of February; Tonight Real Art
Way opens a run of The Girls in the Band, which sheds long overdue light on the
many unsung female jazz instrumentalists of the 1930s and 1940s. Visit realartways.org
At Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, they kick
off a run of the 1942 classic film, Casablanca. And then, on Sunday they begin
showing the classic, Rebel Without A Cause, featuring James Dean. 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 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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