Good evening, it's Tuesday,
October 14th, and this is the Jive at Five - WESU's Daily community calendar
and run down 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 week nights and weekends.
Here’s a rundown of
some of what’s going on in our area this week:
At the Russell Library,
here in Middletown, tonight at 7pm, the Russell Readers group will discuss “The
Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai. On Thursday, Elizabeth Petry leads the
Veteran’s Writing Group at 7. Details at www.russelllibrary.org
Down in New Haven tonight, at Café Nine, you can catch The Sawtelles, The Alpaca
Gnomes, and Kelly Kancyr. Tomorrow/Wednesday brings The Cabin Project, Krizta
Moon, and An Historic to the Café Nine stage. Thursday’s show
headlines Sean O’Reilly and Daniel Eugene, along with Ashley Hamel.
On Friday at 5 they have Victor Roland, followed at 9:30 by The Paul
Collins Beat, Matt Jaffe & The Distractions, and The 509ers.
Saturday’s jazz jam will be with Tony Dioguardi & Friends at 4:30, followed
at 9 by Circus Delecti, Falling Further, and Teenagers From Mars. The
Original Sunday Night Jam features The Langley Project this week. www.cafenine.com.
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, on
Tuesday nights Michael Palin’s Other
Orchestra, an 18-piece band, works out new material. Wednesday’s blues jam is
with Brandt Taylor this week. On Friday at 9, they bring you the
award-winning Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers, with vintage 1930’s
Mississippi delta blues. Saturday’s show features West End Blend, a
14-piece Afro-Funk/Jam Collective covering everything from classic funk and
soul to hip-hop. www.blackeyedsallys.com
Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts hosts a number
of events this week. Tomorrrow/Wednesday, Artist in Residence Keiji Shinohara is the guest speaker at the
Artful Lunch Series at noon in the Davison Art Center. On Wednesday
night, the Wesleyan Institute for Lifelong Learning offers “Painting for the
People: Lithography in France in the 19th Century.” This three-week
series meets at the Davison Art Center at 6 p.m. Find information about
all CFA events at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Manic Productions presents
a number of shows at area venues this week. Tonight, at The Ballroom at
the Outer Space in Hamden they’ve got Bishop Allen, along with The Shivers, and Roses.
Tomorrow/Wednesday, at The Space in
Hamden, they bring you JEFF the Brotherhood, Diarrhea Planet, and
Ceramics. At Bar in New Haven on Wednesday, Fly Moon Royalty is featured,
along with Yadda Yadda, and Frank Viele. www.manicproductions.org
Wednesday, Middletown Scottish Country Dancers hold classes for beginning and experienced
dancers from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at First Church on Court Street. Partners not
necessary. Wear soft-soled shoes. For information, call Lucile Blanchard at 860-347-0278
On Wednesday, the Hartford Public Library is
cosponsoring, along with the Noah
Webster House, a presentation and book signing by award-winning author Joshua
Kendall, who will speak about his book “The Forgotten Founding Father:
Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture,” at
5:30. The library’s annual meeting occurs Thursday at 8, and features
ESPN’s Doug Glanville speaking on “How Libraries Are a Home Run for our
Community.” www.hplct.org
At Infinity Hall in Hartford this week, they’re
featuring Puss N Boots with Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson, and Catherine Popper,
along with Van Hayride, on Wednesday at 8. On Thursday, they headline Australia’s Little River Band.
The Vienna Boys Choir performs on Friday at 7:30. On Friday, they have
guitarist Richard Thompson with Special Guest Kerri Powers. On Saturday
at 1, there’s a Martin and Lewis Tribute show, recreating the classic routines
of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Saturday night they bring singer
Jonathan Edwards to the stage, with Special Guest Kerri Powers, at 8. And
on Sunday, Black 47 performs at 7:30, giving you a chance to see this
Alternative/Celtic Rock group before they disband in November. www.infinityhall.com
Thursday night here in Middletown, The Buttonwood
Tree presents The April Verch Band performing
at the MAC 650 Gallery across Main St. This Canadian group brings you
old-time Appalachian music with fiddling, step dancing, and more. Back at
the Buttonwood Tree, Friday’s with Alba’s Edge, offers you live music with Scottish fiddle,
jazz, Latin, and funk influences. The Aligned With Source workshop, led by
Annaita Ghandy, continues on Saturday morning at 10:30, with this week’s theme
being “Seeing is Believing.” Saturday night’s show is Thollem’s Myriads,
featuring the solo piano music of composer/singer/songwriter Thollem McDonas. www.buttonwood.org
At Toad’s Place in New Haven, Thursday, you can catch a bill featuring Electron and
The Indobox. Friday brings Toads presents New Found Glory, We Are The In
Crowd, Fireworks, and Candy Hearts. www.toadsplace.com.
There’s an Armenian
Food Festival happening this Friday and Saturday at St. George Armenian Church
in Hartford. It features Armenian delicacies to eat in or take out,
novelty items, and more. www.sgarmenianchurch.net
Every Friday and
Saturday in October, “Spirits at Stowe: An Otherworldly Tour” happens at
6:30 at the Harriett Beecher Stowe House in Hartford. Join them for a
flashlight tour in the dark and learn about unexplained events from past and
present. www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org
Hartford’s Hooker Day
Parade happens this Saturday, celebrating the founder of the city, Thomas
Hooker. There’s a first annual Mayor Mike’s Classic Car Show, along with
bands, costumes, beads, and more. www.hartford.com/event/
The Hartford
HodgePodge street fair and festival continues through October 18 every Saturday
from 11 to 4 at State House Square. Visit www.hartfordhodgepodge.com
The Connecticut
Historical Society has a Behind-the-Scenes Tour this Saturday at 2 p.m. Tour
the galleries and storage areas and learn about vampires, séances, and
more. www.chs.org
The Greater Middletown
Concert Association presents the celebrated three Sicilian Tenors in concert
this Saturday at 7:30 at the Performing Arts Center at Middletown High
School. Ticket information at 860-347-4887 or 346-3369.
Now here's a rundown
of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Tonight at 7
p.m., Common Ground, the 6th Annual Middletown International Film Festival
continues at the Center for Film Studies on the Wesleyan campus. They’re
showing “Monsieur Lazar,” a film about an Algerian immigrant who helps a
Montreal grade school class deal with grief after a tragic event. Russell
Library, Middlesex Community College, and Wesleyan University have partnered to
show acclaimed international films on Tuesday evenings through November 4. www.russelllibrary.org
At Real Art Ways in
Hartford, the run of “Kelly and Cal,” a film about the relationship between a
punk-rocker turned suburban mom and her 17-year-old neighbor continues.
Also showing is “The Two Faces of January,” a thriller set in Greece and
Istanbul involving an expat American scam artist, starring Viggo Mortensen and
Kirsten Dunst, . Both films run through Thursday. “The Blue Room”
opens Friday and runs through the weekend. It’s a French thriller about
two lovers who go from pillow talk to the possibility of murder. The film
“20,000 Days on Earth A Documentary about, Nick Cave”, will be shown on Friday
and Saturday, and portrays the international cultural icon and musician in a
fictitious 24 hour period. On Friday night, Slate’s Mike Pesca hosts a
panel discussion, “Masculinity and Its Discontents,” leading authors and
bloggers in discussing football, war, and the American way. www.realartways.org
At Cinestudio, Trinity
College’s cinema in Hartford, “The Conformist,” ends its run tonight.
It’s a restoration of Bernard Bertolucci’s 1970 masterpiece about a
philosophy professor who’s fear of being gay draws him into the murky world of
Italian fascism. On Wednesday, there’s a one-night showing of “The Immoral
Daughters in the Land of Honor,” a documentary of the resistance movement that
fights against honor crimes and discrimination in contemporary India. The
Connecticut NOW chapter is among the sponsors of this screening. On Thursday
afternoon they’re showing “Tarnation,” with a special appearance by director
Jonathan Caouette, who made this documentary about growing up with a
schizophrenic mother. Thursday they open a run of “Lucy,” starring
Scarlett Johansson as an actress whose abilities transform after an accidental
overdose of an experimental drug. It runs through Saturday. On
Saturday afternoon there’s a singalong to the 1965 classic, “A Sound of
Music.” On Sunday they open a run of the 1958 Hitchcock classic
“Vertigo,” now showing in a 4K ultra-high definition version on the wide
screen. www.cinestudio.org.
Now here's a rundown
of what's on air on WESU-FM tonight.
Right after the Jive
at Five, stay tuned for:
Wild Wild Live with
Rachie and Hibiki for a peak into the live music scene at Wesleyan.
From 6-6:30pm check
out “30 Minute Cut” from Pacifica.
At 6:30 it’s Acoustic
Blender with Bill Revill for 90 minutes of Americana, country, folk, bluegrass,
and other music that has a roots influence, Plus a comprehensive concert
listing at 7pm, live guests on occasion and ticket giveaways too!
From 8-9pm it’s The
Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry, for a weekly show featuring area artists and
musicians of all genres.
At 9pm it’s
Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat a free form music show offering a wide range of
music from krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage, novelty to New Romantic,
punk to prog.
From 10:30-11:30pm
tonight, Galactic Thematics embark on a cosmic musical odyssey that
transgresses the hermetic bounds of genre itself.
From 11:30-12:30am The
Wily Windy Moors with Ian McCarthy presents pop or pop-adjacent
tunes to get you revved up for bed, with a different title-based theme every
week
After that at 12:30,
Cryfest with Orlando Gloom invites you to take a stroll down this trail of
musical tears with some of the most melancholy and grim, yet cathartic songs
from across the decades.
At 1:30 Phantom
Transmissions with DJ Scarecrow for Spoken Word, Poetry, Prose and
Rap over Fluid Beats.
From 2:30-3:30am
It’s the The Blast Zone with Baggins and the G-O inviting you to step into The
Blast Zone for bantering about sports and interviewing student athletes.
From 3:30-4am
it’s The Graveyard Shift with DJ Otto Nation an eclectic mix of music from the
WESU library.
The BBC world
news kicks on at 4 and we start tomorrow’s broadcast day at 5am with Morning
Edition from NPR.
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 where you’ll also find our live
internet stream, program archives, and our program schedule as well as news and
information about WESU’s 75th anniversary. At www.wesufm.org, you can also make a donation I support of WESU
and learn more about our Annual, Fall Record fair and sale, happening on Sunday
October 26.
Thanks for listening
and stay tuned for Wild Wild Live with Rachie and Hibiki.
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