Good evening! It’s Monday, April 7th. 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.
Tonight, beginning at 8 p.m., you can catch the Anything Goes
open Mic at the Buttonwood Tree, with this week’s host J-Cherry and The Strawberries.
Wednesday at 8:00pm, brings and Evening Oasis Belly Dancing presentation. Thursday Writers Out Loud calls prose writers
of every ilk come to share up & coming works-in-progress. Friday night The acoustic trio Ebin-Rose,
makes for a night of America, celtic and traditional folk music.
Saturday morning at
the Buttonwood there'll be quigong (Chi Kung), tai chi, and community yoga. Saturday
evening at 8 p.m. The Buttonwood presents a night of Jazz with John Uguccioni
Trio
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. More at www.buttonwood.org
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight’s brings the Hartford Jazz Society’s weekly Jazz Monday event. On Tuesdays, Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra, an 18-piece band, works out new material. Wednesday night Ed Bradley hosts Blackeyed Sally’s weekly Blues Jam. Friday night you can catch The Spampinato Brothers at Sally’s. Saturday night Avenue Groove makes for a night of R&B/Funk/Dance. www.blackeyedsallys.com
Tonight Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, you can catch The
plot-rock- ing, word-spouting, tale-spinning storytelling series, “Get to the
Point” , Hosted by writer Christopher Arnott. Tomorrow night Manic Productions Presents: the Soil &
the Sun, The
Soldier Story, and “Kyle Flynn and The
Vespers Nine”. Wednesday night at Café Nine you can catch some Psychedelic
Country Blues with Ramsay
Midwood.
Steve
Broderick and The 100 Watt Suns open that show. Thursday night David
Johansen of The New York Dolls appears at Café Nine for his gig that was rescheduled
from February 13th. All original tickets will be honored. Monster
Eats Pilot, Revolution,
I Love You, Hot Girl Roadkill, and All Riot take the Café nine stage Friday
night. Saturday, Café Nine’s weekly Jazz
Jam session will be hosted by Gary Grippo and friends. Saturday night, you can
catch a hip hop show featuring Duece
Bug, Joey
Batts and Them, Eli
Hazel, Wednesday
Atoms and more. www.cafenine.com.
Also in New Haven, at Toad’s Place, Tonight Rohn Lawrence
and Friends take the Lily Pad Stage for a night off smooth jazz. Wednesday night the Trillest Tour featuring “Bun
B. and Kirko Bangz” stops at Toads. Friday you can catch WYBC’s Ante Fling 2014
featuring WET on the Toads Main stage while Afton presents a bill of local
artists on the Lily pad stage. Sunday
night, Blast-Master KRS ONE returns to Toads Place for a night of conscious hip
hop. www.toadsplace.com
Best-selling author and Connecticut native Beverly Donofrio
visits Middlesex Community College’s Middletown campus this wednesday 9 for a
discussion on her first memoir, “Riding in Cars with Boys” from 12:30 – 1:20 p.m.). This event, which is
free and open to the public, will be held in Chapman Hall. Details online at www.arts2go.org
Middletown Scottish Country Dancers meet at First Church
Congregational Wednesday night at 7pm. Partners not necessary but soft-soled
shoes are! 860-347-0278
Wednesday from 4 to 6pm, Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts
invites you to experience the talents of the seniors in the Art Studio Program
of Wesleyan’s Department of Art and Art History, who’s Senior thesis work is on
display at Zilkha Gallery, 283 Washington Terrace, Middletown. The reception is
FREE and open to the public. Thursday
night you can also catch Simon Riker’s Senior recital, “Me Prometheus” in Wesleyans Beckham Hall. Also onThursday
night at Wesleyan you can catch the stage production Vatzlav. This panoramic
political farce is a mash-up of 18th-century French philosophical tales like
Voltaire’s “Candide” and the Marquis de Sade’s “Justine.” Saturday at 7pm in Wesleyan’s World Music Hall.,
you can catch the senior music recital: “Gratitude: Music by Jeff Berman.” Later
sat night at 9pm you can catch another music recital by Molly Balsam, called
“Unstuck in Time.” Detaisl for all fo these events online at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Wednesday night Manic Productions presents Arc Iris (formerly
of the Low Anthem) alongside Plume Giant at The Space in Hamden. Also on Wednesday night, Manic presents New
Year's Revolution, Circle//Circle,
and Dagwood at “Bar” in New Haven. Thursday night you can catch X Ambassadors,
Parade of Lights, and Grand Cousin at The Space. Manic presents Crowded House’s Neil Finn for
a solo show at the Shubert Theater. You can
also catch Cloud Nothings and Riley Walker at the Space in Hamden, Saturday
night. www.Manicproductions.org
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
The Riverwood Poetry Series, celebrates Poetry Month on
Thursday, April 10, at 7pm, with a rare CT appearance by Annie & Ted
Deppe [DEP-ee], direct from Ireland. Riverwood readings are held on the
2nd Thursday of the month at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, 814 Asylum
Ave., in Hartford (right down the street from Union Train Station with plenty
of parking. The evening begins with an open mic. Admission is free and
everyone is welcomed. Donations greatly appreciated. They also accept donations
of non-perishable items for The Crisis Food Support Program. More at www.RiverwoodPoetry.org
and Facebook.
In partnership with the Hartford Public Library, the
Hartford Symphony Orchestra will present a Musical Dialogues concert
celebrating National Poetry Month. Award-winning Connecticut poet and educator,
Kate Rushin, will weave together the texts of great poets like Allen Ginsberg,
e.e. cummings, and Julia de Burgos with the music of renowned composers such as
Vivaldi, Schubert, and Duke Ellington, performed by the HSO’s A Piacere String
Quartet. Bringing to life both art forms in an intimate setting, guests are
invited to enjoy their lunch during the performance.
All this happened this
Friday, April 11, 12 noon In the The Atrium at Hartford Public Library’s
Downtown Branch, at 500 Main St.,
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut: Through Thursday, Real
Art Ways in Hartford, continues their run of “Particle Fever”. The film
follows six scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking
the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the
planet. Tomorrow/ Tuesday night Raw’s
Science on Screen film seris presents: Mission to Mars. Friday Real Art Ways begins a run of The
Unknown known a documentary offering a portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, one of the
key architects of the Iraq War, who provoked equal levels of fury and adulation
from the American public. Saturday RAW
also offers a onetime showing of Inequality for All presents a powerful look at
Robert Reich and his theories on the growing divide between America's rich and
poor. Over the weekend, weekend Real Art
Way’s continues to show New York International Children's Film Festival
Animated Shorts www.realartways.org
Tonight and tomorrow, Cinestudio, The Trinity College cinema
in Hartford, concludes their run of the 1965 French dystopian future classic,
Alpha Ville where a dictator suppresses love and poetry, and rules that “people
should not ask ‘why’, but only say ‘because’.
Wednesday Cinestudio kicks off a run of Gravity, Winner of seven Academy
Awards this year. www.cinestudio.org.
Thursday, at 7:00 pm WWUH 91.3 presents Gas Land II, the sequel to the controversial documentary exposing
the harms of Fracking. This happens at The
University of Hartford’s Hillyer Hall - Auerbach Auditorium 200 Bloomfield Ave, West Hartford, CT
Dr. Beth Weinberger, MPH, PhD will be speaking prior to the
movie about health concerns related to hydraulic fracturing & waste. The Movie is free & open to the public. www.foodandwaterwatch.org for
details
Now, let’s take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU.
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.
At 6:30 Johnny Analog presents an eclectic mix of Blues and
Bluesy sounds on Life is a Killer until
8pm, when Lord Lewis,
The Velvet Knight brings you 90 minutes of Funk soul and international grooves
on The Rumpus Room.
From 9:30‑11pm stay tuned for The Attention Deficit Disk
Jockey with Lee for the sounds of yesterday’s future today!
At 11pm it’s Girl
Power Hour with DJ Jeffrey and DJ Moe
for an hour spotlighting Chicks with Picks and licks.
At midnight Dr. Love
and DJ Smooth dish out the love advice on Romancipation.
At 12:30 DJ Willie
Zabar presents an hor of comedy on The
Laugh Infection.
From - 1:30 am -2:30
its Good Times with MKC, Omardaslayer,
and djspecialk.
Followed by Free
Association with DJ Robin Hood from 2:30‑4am
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 and support this great community resource online at www.wesufm.org
Now, stay tuned for afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry.
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