Good evening, it's Friday, November
28th, 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. I'm Stephan
Allison, host of River Valley Rhythms heard Thursdays at 4 pm here at WESU.
Thanks for tuning in.
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For the latest in local arts and entertainment anytime you're not
hearing it on our Jive, go to arts2GO.org – the
City’s website for what’s going on and what’s to do with a highlight on the
arts in Middletown. That's arts2GO.org
Now, here’s a rundown of some of what’s scheduled in the community
this weekend.
Down in New Haven at Café Nine, tonight’s early show at 7:30
features cellist and singer Leyla McCalla, and at 10 you can catch the Late
Show with Hank and Cupcakes, and Mission O. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session will be
with Billy Cofrances at 4:30, followed at 9 by their Skansgivin’ Skaturday with
The Hempsteadys, The Dialtones, and Llama T Ska. Sunday’s 3 p.m. Jam is with
Stacy Phillips, followed by The Original Sunday Night Jam with The Cobalt
Rhythm Kings. Visit cafenine.com
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight’s 9:00 show
headlines Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez. Saturday night they bring you
jazz with the Allegra Levy Band featuring Sean Clapis. Visit blackeyedsallys.com
At Toad’s Place in New Haven, this evening they bring Chris Webby
and MarBar to the stage. Saturday’s 9pm show brings George Clinton Parliament
Funkadelic, along with Amy Lynn & The Gunshow. Visit toadsplace.com
Tonight at 8 at Infinity Hall in Hartford, they’ve got "The
Weight" performing the music of THE BAND. On Saturday, Max Creek takes the
stage, offering electric rock jam starting at 8. On Sunday, they offer Ryan
Montbleau and Band, with special guest Jesse Dee, for a 7:30 show. Visit infinityhall.com
Tonight, the 29th Annual Holiday on Main Street festival begins in
Middletown. The evening includes a tree lighting on the South Green at 6, the
arrival of Santa by horse and carriage, the Middletown High School Marching
Band performs, and the evening concludes with a tree lighting at Eli Cannon’s
lighting at 8:15. Visit http://www.holidayonmain.com
Winterfest Hartford opens tonight and includes music, ice skating,
and free photos with Santa. Visit http://www.hartford.com/winterfest
At The Buttonwood Tree here in Middletown, tonight at 8 you can
hear the Omar Tamez Quartet play their unique blend of jazz and traditional
Mexican music. On Saturday, the Buttonwood celebrates its new Steinway piano
with a Musical Offering by Carolyn Halsted, playing Bach, Beethoven and more,
at 7:30. Every Monday morning, the Hearing Voices Network meets at the
Buttonwood at 10:30 a.m. "Beyond Visible," a meditative photographic
exhibit by Emily Zeitlin and Scotty Giffen, continues through the week. Visit buttonwood.org
And on Sunday’s Food Not Bombs serves food outside The Buttonwood
Tree around 1pm. All are welcome to enjoy the meal and to help prepare it beforehand,
at First Church on Court Street in Middletown at 11:30am. You can learn more at
foodnotbombs.net
And tonight the Holiday Light Fantasia opens in Hartford at
Goodwin Park. Visit http://hartford.gov/parks/200-goodwin-park
Beginning right now and continuing until 8p, there’s an opening
reception for a show of the paintings of David Schulz at Middletown Framing,
502 Main St. Visit http://www.arts2go.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central
Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, the run of Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’ documentary of the events of the Edward
Snowden security leak, continues. Also continuing is Diplomacy, a French drama about Hitler’s plan to destroy Paris in
WWII. Opening tonight is BFFS, a
female buddy comedy about posers in a weekend couples retreat. All continue
through the weekend. On Saturday they’re showing the Internet Cat Video Festival, for cat lovers of all ages. On Sunday
at 2 there’s a one time event, Holbrook/Twain:
An American Odyssey, with the award-winning show Mark Twain Tonight and a post-film discussion with director Scott
Teems. Visit the newly redesigned realartways.org
At Cinestudio, Trinity College’s cinema in Hartford, tonight
through Sunday you can see "Boyhood," a film that follows a boy in
his journey from childhood to adulthood. On Sunday they open Rome, Open City, a restored ultra high
definition version of the 1945 classic about Italian resistance fighters being
hunted by the Gestapo, which continues through next week. Visit cinestudio.org.
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And now let’s
take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU.
Right after
the Jive At Five from 5:05 to 6pm it’s
Chocolate Cake with DJ Rob. An hour long musical sugar
high. Power-pop plus Brit-pop and singer/songwriters from the 60's to today.
Coming in at 6 it's a half-hour with (1,3,5) Argus News
Radio on the 1st, 3rd
and 5th Fridays of the month with campus and Middletown news,
from our microphones to your ears and on the 2nd and 4th
Fridays it's Ear-Candy with DJ
Sick Nelden
where you hear the newest in Indie Rock, through the lens of pop
and the absurd.
Then from 6:30 to 7pm listen to the Middletown Youth Radio Project - A weekly radio program featuring
the thoughts, voices, creativity and talent of the kids in the WESU
neighborhood.
At
7 until 8:30pm we have 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 10pm, we take it
From the Otherside
with
Rok-A-Dee - The Voice of Hartford, including local artists from Connecticut,
New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He also features upcoming artists performing
Caribbean R & B, Soca and international music.
Then
at 10pm 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 3am Saturday we go into OVERDRIVE
with Clarence Scott and Shantay Scott - offering Urban Contemporary, Hip
Hop, and Traditional gospel music.
At 3, it's Bassment Beats with DJ LOKASH, celebrating
its 10th year of bringing you the latest in aboveground &
underground hip-hop mixed live; followed by his New World Show, with the
best in Global Bass mixed live til 4. Baila coño!
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
And
staying on the other side of the big pond, from 6:00 to 7:00am it’s
the Celtic Café
with Pat Laffan and Mark Gallagher
presenting traditional and contemporary music with a Celtic connection.
And now that
the coffee’s hot enjoy Caffé Italia from
7:00 to 8:00am
with Francesco Fiumara,
the former host of WESU's own WESParla
- A weekly roundup of news, music and memories
from Italy.
That’s all
for today’s Jive At Five, tune in each and every weekday at 4:55 pm to hear about
what’s going on in the community and on the air right here at 88.1 FM WESU, a community
service of Wesleyan University since 1939.
The Music behind today’s Jive At Five is from the Anthony Braxton
Quartet, 8 Standards (Wesleyan) 2001, featuring Anthony Braxton, Kevin O'Neil,
Andy Eulau, and Kevin Norton. The selection is Nuages and it's out on Barking Hoop
Records.
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in your life, how about supporting the station with a donation? You can make that
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for listening!
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