Good evening! It’s Tuesday, April 8th.
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.
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed
Sally’s, 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, tonight, 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.
Best-selling author and Connecticut
native Beverly Donofrio visits Middlesex Community College’s Middletown campus
this Wednesday 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
Tomorrow/Wednesday
at 8:00pm at the Buttonwood Tree on Main St
in Middletown, you can catch a Belly Dancing presentation by Evening Oasis. 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’s Jazz concert
for Saturday nght has been cancelled. 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
Middletown Scottish Country Dancers
meet at First Church Congregational Wednesday
night at 7pm. Partners not necessary but soft-soled shoes are! 860-347-0278
The Meriden Land Trust is
having birch-bark canoeist Jim Dina (pronounce Dee-na) speak at its annual
meeting Wednesday evening at the Augusta Curtis Center, 175 East Main Street in
Meriden at 7pm. The event is free. Dina will be talking about the voyage he
took up the Connecticut River in the birch bark canoe he made by hand using
only stone tools. Go to meridenlandtrust.com
for information.
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 of
these events online at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
At
Toad’s Place in New Haven, 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
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 happens this Friday, April 11, 12 noon
In the The Atrium at Hartford Public Library’s Downtown Branch, at 500 Main St.,
This Saturday as part of WESU 75th
anniversary celebrations, WESU Presents a Free concert featuring Canadian
Rockers “Yamantaka Sonic Titan” at Wesleyan’s Memorial Chapel on High St. The
Concert is free and open to the public. For info look for our event details on
facebook.
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, 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 stay
tuned for Explorers Hour with DJ Pickup Sticks for an hour of indie pop rock
and experimental music.
At 6pm, stay tuned for The Production Report with Kiley and Allis, who bring you entertainment industry news, deliver predictions, review new movies and shows, and interview industry professionals.
Todays show features an
exclusive interview with actor, Bradley Whitford!
Bill Revill is in the chair for a 90 minutes of Americana roots music on Acoustic Blender at 6:30
J-Cherry and the Strawberry’s host an hour of live local arts and entertainment from 8-9pm.
At 9pm DJ Cheshire Cat offers presents a free form music show called, Wonderland.
At 10:30-catch This Southbound Train
with Mary Barrett for bluegrass, new-grass, and other acoustic sounds.
At 11:30pm Young & Restless with
DJ Sleepy Girl asks: You know what the Midwest is? Plunge in dressless, young and reckless, shun
the feckless. Run and catch this dumb
and fretless fun-filled funk that’s swung with less stress. Hold your questions: only yeses. Come and get
it.
At 12:30am Theme Party with Peninz and Stormin’ Norman
is a radio show centered on a specific idea, time period, region, or subgenre
every week.
At
1:30 Excursions on a Wobbly Rail with DJ Shoelace, DJ Sandwich, and
$pace Cadet will discuss a person/animal/phenomenon/historical event and play
music tangentially related to the subject.
From 2:30-3:30 Carpe Noctem with “DJ
Struggles” and “DJ Animal Ad” is where music meets the real world. The program
will present a variety of music accompanied by commentary on related social
affairs (both historical and contemporary).
From 3:30-4am its 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.
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!
Now stay tuned for Explorer’s hour
with Pickup Sticks!
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