Good evening! It’s Friday, August 29th, and this is the Jive
at Five, our community calendar and rundown of nighttime 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.
Here’s a rundown of some of what’s going on in our area this week:
Tonight the Buttonwood Tree reopens after being closed for renovations and invites you to join Enzo Boscarino at 7pm for VIVA ITALY: A narrative and music Musical Tour of Italy’s regions. A portion of the proceeds from this event will support WESU 75th anniversary capital campaign. Saturday at 10:30 a.m. the Aligned with Source workshop continues, featuring spiritual and holistic healer Annaita Gandhi. The topic is “Living in the Light.” On the stage Saturday at 7, a variety of artists will present “Gilbert and Sullivan Highlights. www.buttonwood.org.
Also tonight here in Middletown, Scatz Restaurant and Jazz Lounge presents the
R&B group ADL performing at 8:30. Tomorrow/Saturday, the Scatz Comedy Show
starts at 8. www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com.
That’s scatz with a z.
Every Friday, at 9 p.m., Dave Downs hosts a weekly open mic here
in Middletown at The Nest, located at 129 Church Street. Songwriters are
invited to participate. Info at 860.788.2736.
Tonight at Blackeyed Sally’s in Hartford, they’ve got the Brandt Taylor Band, playing blues with elements of funk, soul, old school country, and rock. Tomorrow/ Saturday, Brooklyn’s Trinity takes the stage at 4 with her All Ages Show, followed at 9 by Tommy Whalen & the Ragged Edge, playing blues, rock, soul, and funk. www.blackeyedsallys.com
Manic Productions presents LVL UP, Krill, and others will be at The Space in Hamden for a 7 p.m. show on tonight. www.manicproductions.com.
Down at New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight’s entertainment begins at 5 with Irish folk artist Sean Conlon. Later at 9omFive Stories Falling, Moving Brooklyn, and Chaser Eight share a bill at Café Nine. Saturday afternoon Café Nine’s weekly jazz jam session will be hosted by Billy Cofrances. Tomorrow night at 9pm you can catch Elison Jackson, Kindred Queer, and Analog Sunset. On Sunday at 4, there’s a bluegrass jam with Stacy Phillips, and the Café Nine original Sunday Night Jam features The Cobalt Rhythm Kings this week. www.cafenine.com.
Infinity Hall’s new Hartford venue is now open. Tonight you can catch southern rockers, The Outlaws, and Tomorrow/Saturday night, you can catch Aztec Two Step. http://www.infinityhall.com for information
At Toad’s Place, in New Haven you can Celebrate Labor Day on Sunday at 7:30 with their annual Labor Day Funkfest, featuring 6 Train Soldier, Hearts & Thieves, Chew, and the Dave Kardis Band. www.toadsplace.com
Tonight at Blackeyed Sally’s in Hartford, they’ve got the Brandt Taylor Band, playing blues with elements of funk, soul, old school country, and rock. Tomorrow/ Saturday, Brooklyn’s Trinity takes the stage at 4 with her All Ages Show, followed at 9 by Tommy Whalen & the Ragged Edge, playing blues, rock, soul, and funk. www.blackeyedsallys.com
Manic Productions presents LVL UP, Krill, and others will be at The Space in Hamden for a 7 p.m. show on tonight. www.manicproductions.com.
Down at New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight’s entertainment begins at 5 with Irish folk artist Sean Conlon. Later at 9omFive Stories Falling, Moving Brooklyn, and Chaser Eight share a bill at Café Nine. Saturday afternoon Café Nine’s weekly jazz jam session will be hosted by Billy Cofrances. Tomorrow night at 9pm you can catch Elison Jackson, Kindred Queer, and Analog Sunset. On Sunday at 4, there’s a bluegrass jam with Stacy Phillips, and the Café Nine original Sunday Night Jam features The Cobalt Rhythm Kings this week. www.cafenine.com.
Infinity Hall’s new Hartford venue is now open. Tonight you can catch southern rockers, The Outlaws, and Tomorrow/Saturday night, you can catch Aztec Two Step. http://www.infinityhall.com for information
At Toad’s Place, in New Haven you can Celebrate Labor Day on Sunday at 7:30 with their annual Labor Day Funkfest, featuring 6 Train Soldier, Hearts & Thieves, Chew, and the Dave Kardis Band. www.toadsplace.com
Along with the end of summer, CT offers many agricultural fairs across the state. This weekend brings the Haddam Neck Fair to the Haddam Neck Fairgrounds. With Traditional agricultural exhibits & contests, Tractor, Truck, and draft animal pullinng cxompetitions, a carnival midway, fair court and more, this fair kicks off Friday evening and is open through Monday. Musical entertainment for this year includes, reunions of 2 local rock bands, “The Bus” and “Fountain head”, plus Good Night Blue Moon, Shakedown, Mark Mercier and friends, and Aztec Two Step. Details at www.haddamneckfair.com
Through September 14, you can catch, “Woody Sez”, a
stage show, about the life, times and music of the legendary American folk
musician, Woody Guthrie at Theater works in Hartford. www.theaterworkshartford.org /
Connecticut’s summer farmer’s markets are in full bloom, and
are located: in Middletown on Tuesdays; in East Haddam and Old Saybrook on
Wednesdays; in Clinton, Durham, and Middletown on Thursdays; in Higganum and
Middletown on Fridays; in Ivoryton on Saturdays, and in Chester on
Sundays. www.ctnofa.org fills in the
details.
Now, Here’s a rundown of cinema off the beaten path here in central CT:
Tonight, Real Art Ways in Hartford, starts a run of “Frank,” a comedy about a young wannabe musician who joins an eccentric pop band, which continues through Sunday. Also on the screen at Real Art Ways this weekend is “Jealousy,” a French drama about how a man’s life changes when he decides to leave his wife and daughter. www.realartways.org
tonight, Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, opens a run of “Begin Again,” starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo in a drama about New York musicians trying to reconcile integrity and success. www.cinestudio.org.
Now, Here’s a rundown of tonight’s programming on WESU Middletown.
Right
after the Jive At Five from 5:05 to 6:30pm it’s
Chocolate Cake with DJ Rob bringing you an hour long
musical sugar high with Power-pop plus Brit-pop and singer/songwriters from the
60's to today.
Coming in
at 6:30 it's a half-hour with of
children’s storytelling on Story land.
At 7 make way for 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
10:30pm, we take it
From the Otherside
with
Rok-A-Dee for Caribbean R & B, Soca and international
music from the hit makers alongside talent from our region.
Then
at 10:30pm 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 4am
Saturday we go into OVERDRIVE with
Clarence Scott and Shantay Scott - offering Urban Contemporary, Hip Hop,
and Traditional gospel music.
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
from 6:00 to 7:00am
on Saturdays it’s
the
Celtic Café
with Pat
Laffan and Mark Gallagher presenting traditional and
contemporary music with a Celtic connection.
Followed by Caffé Italia from 7:00 to 8:00am
with Francesco Fiumara, for a weekly roundup of news, music and memories from Italy.
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 atwww.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
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
