Good evening, it's Friday, March
6th, Spring is only 2 weeks away, 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.
Tonight at The Buttonwood Tree in
Middletown, the Ehud Ettan Trio performs jazz at 8. The Aligned with Source
workshop series with Annaita Gandhy continues this Saturday at 10:30. This
week’s theme is Choose Your Expression. There’s a free Poets
Collective Open Mic at 1 pm. Saturday night at 8, The Buttonwood
brings you saxophonist and vocalist Kendra Emery, along with Lisa Dowling on upright
bass. Food Not Bombs serves food outside the Buttonwood Tree every Sunday at
about 1 p.m. Help prepare the meal at First Church on Court Street at
11:30. Celebrate International Women’s Day at 4 at the opening
reception for The Wonder of Women art exhibit, which runs through March and
features a variety of women artists. Next Monday morning at 10:30
the Hearing Voices Network meets. Visit buttonwood.org
Down in New Haven, at Toad’s
Place,tonight tonight at 7 it’s the final show of Hostage Calm, with
a variety of performers, brought to you in association with the ARC
Agency. Saturday’s feature is Bright Night 15: Electro Glow party at
9:30. toadsplace.com has the complete line-up.
At Infinity Hall in Hartford tonight, Sister
Sparrow & The Dirty Birds with special guest West End Blend, take the stage. On
Saturday at 8 you can enjoy Juno Award-winner Jesse Smith and his nuevo
flamingo music. On Sunday at 7:30 they bring you Mike & the Mechanics, with
Special Guest Daryl Stuermer. There's more at infinityhall.com
The Wesleyan Center for the Arts DanceMasters
two-day immersion in contemporary dance series happens this weekend, with a
Choreographers Conversation on Saturday at 12 at the Exley Science Center. The
series’ Master Classes happen Saturday and Sunday with multiple teachers at a
variety of locations. The Opening Reception for the Middletown Public
Schools Art Exhibition happens Saturday at 5, at the Zilkha Gallery on
Washington Terrace. It’s co-sponsored by the Middletown Board of Education and
the Middletown Public Schools Cultural Council. Details at wesleyan.edu/cfa
At the Hartford Public Library, their
Baby Grand Jazz series continues this Sunday at 3 p.m. with guest artist Matt
DeChamplain. Visit hplct.org
On Saturday, at the Space in Hamden,
Manic Productions presents Gladshot, The Zambonis, and others for a 7:15
show. Visit them at manicproductions.org
In New Haven at Café Nine, today at
5, there’s an Opening Reception and party for “It’s a Black & White World,”
the photos of John Lawler. Tonight’s performers include The Hymans,
Shock Pistols, and Bomber. Saturday afternoon’s Jazz Jam session is with
Mike Coppola and Friends. At 8 they bring you Protest Karaoke,
celebrating with Artspace the exhibition “Vertical Reach.” The 10
p.m. headliner is Lea. Sunday afternoon brings you The Excitement
Gang and others at 3, followed by The Original Sunday Night Jam with the George
Baker Band at 8. Visit cafenine.com
In Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s tonight
rock n' roll favorites The Mambo Sons, with special guest Jack Sonni, return at
8. On Saturday night, the Kortchmar/McDonald Band takes the stage at 9. blackeyedsallys.com has more.
The Iktus Percussion Ensemble performs tonight
at 7:30 at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford. They’ll
offer compositions from the Women Composers Festival of Hartford international
score competition. The Alpaca String Quartet performs music of local
women composers on Saturday at 7:30. Visit charteroakcenter.org
This Saturday, and on Monday,
Middletown’s ARTFARM is conducting public auditions for their Shakespeare in
the Grove production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Middlesex Community
College. Visit arts2go.org for details.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the
beaten track in Central Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, Girlhood opens tonight and
continues through Mar. 12th. The Village Voice calls Girlhood "raw and insistent, bold
and brawling . . .". Also Queen and
Country, John Boorman's follow up film to Hope and Glory, opens as the early show and continues through Mar.
12th. Visit realartways.org for more info.
At Trinity College’s Cinestudio two films receiving Oscar nominations are highlighted this weekend. Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon, screens tonight and Saturday. Beginning Sunday, they're showing Whiplash, an indie film dealing with jazz, art, and the pursuit of perfection. 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 on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Fridays of the
month. An hour long musical sugar high. Power-pop plus Brit-pop and singer/songwriters
from the 60's to today. Then at 6, following Chocolate Cake it's half an hour with Argus News Radio 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 straight through to 6:30.
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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