Good evening, it's Tuesday, November 25th,
and this is the Jive at Five – Our 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 Ben Michael, Thanks for listening.
Here’s a rundown of some of what’s going on in our area this
week:
Down in New Haven, at
Café Nine, tonight Isabel Stover takes the stage at 8. On Wednesday, they
offer Dean Falcone’s 18th Annual Thanksgiving Vomitorium, with a special
tribute to the Kinks. Friday’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. www.cafenine.com.
Up in Hartford, at
Blackeyed Sally’s, on Tuesdays Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra, an 18-piece
band, works out new material on the Black-eyed Sally’s Stage. Sally’s
longstanding Wednesday night blues jam will be hosted by Tim McDonald this
week. Friday night’s 9:00 show headlines Christine
Ohlman & Rebel Montez. Saturday they bring you jazz with the Allegra Levy
Band featuring Sean Clapis. 8. www.blackeyedsallys.com
At Toad’s Place in
New Haven, Tomorrow/Wednesday’s Annual Thanksgiving Eve Show features Deep
Banana Blackout. On Friday they bring Chris Webby and MarBar to the
stage. Saturday’s at 9:00 show brings you George Clinton Parliament
Funkadelic, along with Amy Lynn & The Gunshow.. www.toadsplace.com.
Connecticut’s own
NRBQ takes the stage tomorrow/Wednesday at 8 At Infinity Hall in Hartford,. On
Friday they’ve got “The Weight” performing the music of THE BAND at their 8:00
show. On Saturday, Max Creek takes the Infinity 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. www.infinityhall.com
also tomorrow/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 Friday, the 29th Annual Holiday on Main Street festival
takes place in Middletown, starting with a Holiday Train Exhibit at 11 at
Amato’s Toy & Hobby. There’s an Open House at the Mansfield House at
2, food, hot chocolate, and hayrides, and a carol sing. The Middletown High
School Marching Band performs, and the evening concludes with a tree lighting
on the South Green at 6, with a second lighting at Eli Cannon’s lighting at
8:15 and the arrival of Santa by horse and carriage. http://www.holidayonmain.com
Winterfest Hartford opens Friday at 4:30, and includes
music, ice skating, and free photos with Santa. http://www.hartford.com/winterfest
At the Buttonwood
Tree, here in Middletown, On Friday 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. www.buttonwood.org
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: www.foodnotbombs.net
And on Friday the Holiday Light Fantasia opens in Hartford
at Goodwin Park. http://hartford.gov/parks/200-goodwin-park
On Friday there’s a show of the paintings of David Schulz at
Middletown Framing, 502 Main St. A reception will be held from 5-8
p.m. 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 through Wednesday. Also continuing is
“Diplomacy,” a French drama about Hitler’s plan to destroy Paris in WWII.
They’re closed on Thanksgiving. On Friday they start a run of “Pelican
Dreams,” Emmy-Award-winner Judy Irving’s documentary that follows a California
brown pelican from an arrest on the Golden Gate Bridge to care at a
rehabilitation facility. Also opening is “BFFs,” a female buddy comedy
about posers in a weekend couples retreat. Both 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, “Holbook/Twain: An
American Odyssey,” with the award-winning show “Mark Twain Tonight” and a
post-film discussion with Director Scott Teems. www.realartways.org
At Cinestudio, Trinity College’s cinema in Hartford, the run
of “The Blue Room,” a French crime drama based on the novel by
Georges Simenon, continues through Tuesday. Wednesday 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 def
version of the 1945 classic about Italian resistance fighters being hunted by
the Gestapo, which continues through next week. 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.
At 6:00 it’s Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill for 2 hrs 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. Atwww.wesufm.org, you can also make a
donation I support of WESU
Thanks for listening and stay tuned for Wild Wild Live with
Rachie and Hibiki.
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