Hello, it’s Tuesday, May 13th. 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. We’re in the midst of celebrating our seventy-fifth year of Community
radio that Matters and we just kicked off our Spring Pledge drive. If you value
the service we provide, we you’re your support. You can make your donation on
our website, www.wesufm.org.
Here’s a rundown of some of what’s happening in our area
this week.
The Russell Library in Middletown offers Twilight Tales at
6:30, tonight with stories and crafts for kids age three to five and their
caregivers. Also for kids, there’s the Builder’s Club on Friday at 4,
with a chance for six to twelve-year-olds to build with Legos. Details
about all events at www.russelllibrary.org.
Tonight at The Buttonwood Tree here in Middletown brings an
“Evening Oasis” Belly Dancing presentation. Friday night there’s a CD Release
Party for Cricket Tell the Weather, an indie string band with
bluegrass-inspired original music. Saturday morning, beginning at 7:45, it’s
the usual offerings of quigong (Chi Kung), tai chi, and community yoga.
Saturday night at 8, you can catch Ricky Alfonso, a trumpeter and mainstay on
the East Coast jazz scene, playing compositions with elements of blues and
swing. 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. Throughout May, The
Buttonwood Tree is showing the paintings and photographs of WESU’s own, host of
Acoustic Blender, Bill Revill in the exhibit “Down by the Sea,”. More at www.buttonwood.org
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, on Tuesday evenings,
Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra, an 18-piece big-band, works out new
material. Tomorrow/Wednesday, Sally’s long running weekly Blues Jam, is
hosted by Brandt Taylor. And Thursday brings the CT Blues Challenge to the
Sally’s stage, with bands competing to represent CT at the finals in Memphis.
Friday at 8:30, it’s the afrobeat sounds of The Superpowers. Saturday at 9 they
offer singer/songwriter and guitarist John Fries and the Elements, highlighting
Blues and Roots Rock and Roll. More details at www.blackeyedsallys.com .
Down in New Haven, tonight, John Moreland, M. Lockwood
Porter, and Pat Dalton take the Café Nine stage. Wednesday, at Cafe
nine ElectronicHIC and Guitar Trio E take the stage with The New Haven
Improvisers Collective’s Large Magic Ensemble, Daniel Levin, and Juan Pablo Carletti.
Thursday at 8 Manic Productions presents Kingsley Flood, Golden Bloom, and Jay
Prince (of Eurisko) at The Nine. Then Friday brings Peelander-Z, Guerilla
Toss, and The Hymans to Café Nine. Saturday afternoon’s jazz jam session will
be hosted by Garry Grippo & Friends at 4:30, and Saturday night
there’s a Blue Grass Supergroup event with The Deadly Gentlemen and Goodnight
Blue Moon at 9. Sunday they’ll have Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School at 3:30,
followed by The Original Sunday Night Jam featuring The Langley Brothers Band
at 8 p.m. www.cafenine.com
Manic Productions presents a number of shows this week,
including Breton, Kid Karate, and Fake Babies at Bar in New Haven Wednesday
night. On Friday, Brick + Mortar, Yuppy Flu, and Branchwater will be at
The Outer Space in Hamden. On Sunday, at the Ballroom at the Outer Space,
they offer Geographer and Hooray for Earth at 8 p.m. www.manicproductions.org.
Wadsworth Mansion tours continue every Wednesday at 2
p.m. This week you can have Tea with your Tour. Call 860-347-1064
for reservations.
Wednesday at 7 p.m. First Church on Court St. in Middletown
hosts the Middletown Scottish Dancers. Partners not necessary. They
also offer Argentine Tango classes on Friday starting at 7:30 p.m.
860-347-0278 for information.
Also on Wednesday evening, at Middlesex Community College
you can hear Victor Triay’s story of the Cuban Underground freedom fighters, in
Chapman Hall on the Middletown campus at 8 p.m. Call 860-346-0746 for
more information.
This Thursday’s Jammin Thursdays lineup at Toad’s Place in
New Haven, includes Back from Earth, Balkum Brothers, The High Council, Lewd
Buddha, and Stealhead. Friday at 9:30 there’s the Bright Night EDM Glow
Party, featuring ChiCe, Scatz, UP Tone, and ZTB. Saturday’s Viral Sound
show includes Eggy and Neon Ducks. On Sunday in Lilly’s Pad, bands will
compete in Aspen Presents: Soundcheck, a Pilot TV show taping, hosted by
Jessica Wolf. www.toadsplace.com
This Thursday brings Real Art Way’s monthly Creative
Cocktail Hour. This month the Raya Brass Band performs and and there’s free
admission for anyone who rides their bike to the event. It’s also the
reception night for their two new exhibits: iPad Prints by Olu Oguibe,
and Cat Balco’s The Ellipses Project, which explores how art-making can help
individuals connect with hidden aspects of themselves. www.realartways.org
At Oddfellow’s Playhouse in Middletown, the Elementary
Repertory Company presents “For Feet’s Sake”, a take on Hans Christian
Anderson’s The Little Mermaid this Friday and Saturday, by Krista Knight under
the direction of Kristen Palmer. More at www.oddfellows.org
Now on Fridays, Dave Downs hosts an open mic at The Nest,
129 Church St. in Middletown, starting at 9 p.m. Details at 860-788-2736.
Friday night Gregory Glover and special guests take the
stage at Scatz Restraint and Jazz Lounge on Main St Extension in Middletown. An
author’s luncheon and Southern Style Tea is happening this Saturday at 1 p.m.
at Scatz and Sez Zion takes the holds it down on Sunday. Call
860-685-0348, or visit www.soulpassages.org
.
Spring Bird Walks happen every Saturday at 8 a.m. at The
Audubon Shop, 907 Boston Post Rd in Madison. Call 203-245-9056.
Also on Saturday, Middlesex Hospital’s Vocal Chords choral
group will present its annual spring concert at Portland High School, 95 High
St. This year’s performance includes ballads, Broadway hits, classic pop
and selections from the Great American Songbook. Call 850-342-3120, or
visit www.vochalchords20.org.
Continuing in the Wesleyan Potters Gallery shop on South
Main St in Middletown, this week, you can catch “Black and White: a
Member’s Show.” www.wesleyanpotters.com
At Wesleyan University, ongoing art exhibitions include
Silent Faces/Ahgkor, a multidimensional exhibition by Mary Heebner at the
Freeman Center. Hyperrealist drawings by Julia Randall are found in the
“Oral Exhibitions” collection shown at the Davison Art Center. The Zilkha
Gallery showcases the work of 2014’s thesis students of Art and Art History,
and they’re celebrating the center’s fortieth anniversary on Friday with the
exhibition: Roche and Dinkeloo’s Architecture for the CFA. The Film
Studies Rick Nicita Gallery is showing posters representing thirteen
collections from the Wesleyan Cinema Archives, also on Friday. More
information about all shows can be found at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
or by calling 860-685-3355
The Middletown Commission for the Arts is now accepting
applications for the summer Kids Arts enrichment program including The
Children’s Circus and North End Arts Rising’s kids art program. 860-638-4510
(MCA Office).
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, the films Mistaken for
Strangers, a band documentary, and Finding Vivian Maier, about a mysterious
nanny who took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen in her lifetime
continue tonight through Wednesday. Friday through Sunday they’re showing For a
Woman, a French film about a woman examining her parents’ lives through old
photographs and letters. On Saturday at 8 is Speak Up, an evening of live
true stories with a common theme. Details at www.realartways.com .
Cinestudio, Trinity College’s cinema in Hartford, continues
its week-long run of Nymph()maniac, Volumes One and Two, about a woman’s erotic
adventures with the chilly intellectual who found her collapsed on a Parisian
street. On Sunday at 7:30 they open the newly-restored 1952 classic,
Orson Welles’ Othello. www.cinestudio.org.
Now, here’s a rundown of 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.
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 The Wayfaring Stranger with Lily
Meyers.
At 11:30pm it’s the final episode of Young & Restless
with DJ Sleepy Girl.
At 12:30am catch Songs without word with Jacob Feder.
At 1:30 It’s the Scene with Zach.
From 2:30-4am it’s an unknown program filling in for DJ
Strept throat
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
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