Good evening! It’s Tuesday, June 10th.
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 celebrating our seventy-fifth
year of Community Radio that Matters and we still need to raise over $8000 to
complete our Spring Pledge drive. If you value the kind of important
programming WESU provides, we need your support to help us cover the daily
costs of operating WESU. Your donation
will also help us stay on track to implement some needed studio upgrades including
backup power to keep us on air during extended powered outages. Please make
your donation at our website, www.wesufm.org
, Thanks!
Now here's some of what's happening
in our area this week:
This evening, and every Tuesday in
June, WESU’s own DJ Lord Lewis presents The Rumpus Room on the Waterfront,
playing vinyl sets of the best in contemporary and vintage heavy funk, soul,
afrobeat, rare groove and more. That’s at the Canoe Club, 80 Harbor Drive, in
Middletown. www.mattabesettcanoeclub.com
Tonight the Buttonwood Tree here in
Middletown, features The Parlor Sessions, a four-person indie singer/songwriter
group who sing in the round. Tomorrow/Wednesday at 7:30 they offer the Jessica
Fichout Quartet. She’s an LA-based
chanteuse and songwriter with French/Chinese/American heritage. On Thursday, at
7, it’s the monthly Voices Out Loud literary prose open mic, hosted by Cocomo
Rock and Al Bower, Jr. On Friday at 8 you can catch Don White, a songwriter
from Lynn, Massachusetts. Saturday
morning, starting at 7:45, the Buttonwood offers Qigong, tai chi, and community
yoga. At 2 p.m. The Buttonwood participates
in Connecticut Open House Day, with an outdoor concert in the Rockabilly style
performed by The Whiskey Rebels. Also on
Saturday, at 8 p.m., the Omar Tamez and Angelica Sanchez duo performs,
presenting combined improvisational and original compositions. Sunday at 1
p.m., Food Not Bombs serves food outside the Buttonwood Tree. Anyone is
welcome. You’re invited to help prepare the meal at the First Church on Court
Street at 11:30 am. The Buttonwood’s
Monthly Poetry Potluck gathering will be at 4 p.m. on Sunday. More at www.buttonwood.org
Up in Hartford tonight Blackeyed
Sally’s, hosts the Connecticut Music Awards’ After Party, with a performance by
the McLovins at 9 p.m. On Wednesday at 8
Sally’s will showcase the winners of the Hartford Advocate Grand Band
Slam. www.blackeyedsallys.com .
Down in New Haven tonight, Café
Nine, presents Zoe Muth and The Lost High Rollers, along with K. Bestia. Tommorrow/Wednesday,
from 5 to 7, it’s La Cantina Flamenco, with guitarist Ed Peccerillo. That’s
followed at 8 by Ponybird, M.T. Bearington, and Lexi Weedge. On Thursday
they’ve got the Connecticut Music Awards Showcase. Friday at 5 you can catch an
early show with Mountains of the Moon, followed at 9 by the 2nd annual Luau
Caberet, including burlesque, circus, and music performances. Saturday’s jazz jam is with Gary Grippo and
Friends this week. Later Saturday night, Manic Productions presents Simone
Felice, and Elison Jackson. Sunday’s Original Sunday Night Jam at 8 features
The Langley Project. www.cafenine.com
Manic Productions brings a number of
additional acts to the area this week. Tomorrow/
Wednesday, at The Outer Space in Hamden, they offer Peter Murphy of Bauhaus,
and Ringo Deathstar. Also on Wednesday,
there’s Gringo Star and Atrina, at Bar in New Haven. On Thursday, at the Space in Hamden, Manic
presents Wakey!Wakey!, The Soldier Story, and Broadcast Hearts. On Saturday, at The Ballroom at The Outer
Space, they offer Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, as well as The Primate
Fiasco, and Frank Viele. On Sunday,
Manic presents Willie Nelson & Family to the Summer Concert Series at
Simsbury Meadows, with Alison Kraus & Union Station, and Kacey
Musgraves. www.manicproductions.org
At the Russell Library in
Middletown, the Veteran’s Writing Group
meets Thursday night at 7pm. On
Saturday there’s a book sale from 9-5, and at 3 p.m. international tap dance
star Kazunori Kumagai performs, accompanied by Joe Fonda. www.russelllibrary.org .
Thursday down at Toad’s Place in New Haven, you can catch the
legendary monster horn band Tower of Power, and the Greg Sherrod Duo. On
Friday, Getter & AFK’s “Gnartillery Tour,” passes by Toads. www.toadsplace.com
This week, The Buttonwood displays
the artwork of Kathy Parrish Peterson.
Also, Michelle Podgorski’s exhibit, “Fragmented Landscape,” will be on
view all month at the Green Street Arts Center downtown. The Art Guild of
Middletown offers their 2014 exhibit tonight through Saturday at the Zilkha
Gallery South daily from one to four p.m.
The Middlesex Community College 10th
Annual Arts and Media Festival continues at the Middletown Campus. Information at 860-343-5806.
Also, every Friday, at 9 p.m., Dave
Downs hosts a new weekly open mic and invites songwriters to perform at The
Nest, located at 129 Church Street, Middletown. Info at 860.788.2736.
Spring Bird Walks happen every
Saturday at 8 a.m. at The Audubon Shop, 907 Boston Post Rd in Madison.
The number to call is 203-245-9056.
On Saturday the Green Street Arts
Center in Middletown hosts an Open House, with an arts and crafts sale and
music. There will be door prizes, and
the unveiling of the Green Street Mosaic Project, as well as the presentation
of a new donor tree. Information at
860-685-7871.
The Middletown Artists Co-op
presents the Occom Woods Trio in concert at the MAC650 Gallery on Sunday at 7
p.m. Information at 860-347-0834.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off
the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, through
Thursday you can catch Ida, a Polish film about a woman who, before taking
final vows a nun, discovers a family secret from the Nazi occupation. Also
showing through Thursday, is the 2014 Sundance Shorts Tour, which includes
fiction and documentary. On Wednesday
night at 7 there’s Purple Light Poetry, with both featured readers as well as
an open mic. On Friday the run of
“Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago” begins, and continues through
Sunday. This film follows pilgrims from
all walks of life as they attempt to cross an entire country on foot. On Friday there’s also a post-film discussion
with Annie, on of the pilgrims featured in the film. Information at www.realartways.org .
Cinestudio, Trinity College’s cinema
in Hartford, is closed for maintenance and reopens Thursday with National Theatre Live’s “A Small
Family Business,” a comedic exposure of entrepreneurial greed by
Olivier-award-winning playwright Alan McCracken with a second show on
Sunday. Friday they offer a high-def
restoration special director’s cut of Queen Margot, a French film about the queen married to Henri
VI. This is. More at www.cinestudio.org
.
Right after the jive stay tuned for: Explorers’ Hour with Pickup
Sticks, which aims to take you places
that you’ve never been before!
Inviting you to venture into the infinity of the unknown via a synthesis
of science, spoken word, and a lot of popular music.
From 6-8pm
enjoy Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill for an eclectic selection of
Americana, country, folk, folk-rock, bluegrass, acoustic, blues, Celtic, old-time,
singer-songwriter and other music that has a roots influence.
From 8-9pm The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry
presents live and local Connecticut arts and music , in this weekly show
featuring area artists and musicians.
From 9-11pm Wonderland with DJ Cheshire
Cat presents a free form music show
spanning the scope of krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage, novelty to New
Romantic, punk to prog, and more!
From 11-12:30 Stage Presence with J-Rock
invites you to Put your hands together in applause for some of the greatest
musical performances ever captured on recording. From Led Zeppelin to John
Coltrane, Bob Dylan to Victor Wooten, even YoYo Ma to Daft Punk, Stage Presence
has a place for all live musical performance. Tune in and get excited; no
tickets required for this free show.
From 12:30-2am Ian
is in the house for a free form mix of radio goodness until…
2 am when its time for RootsWorld Radio with Cliff
Furnald to take you on a tour across borders and genres, introducing you to
music from far flung places and sometimes from right in your own backyard.
From 3-4am it’s
the The Graveyard Shift with DJ Otto Nation for an An eclectic mix of
music from the WESU library.
And 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 from WESU. Look for information on
special programming and events online at www.wesufm.org
where you can also make a donation to support community programming during our
Spring Pledge drive. We are hard pressed to raise over $8,000 in community
support in the next 10 days. S, please step up to the place and make an investment
in WESU if you value the service we provide. Many thanks to those of you who
have already contributed!
Now stay tuned for some great musical
exploring with Pickup Sticks
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