Good evening, it's Monday, May 4th,
and this is the Jive at Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of night
time programming here on WESU 88.1 FM 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.
Now here’s some of what’s going on in
our area this week:
Tonight, Middletown High School goes
to the symphony in Hartford, at the Bushnell Center for the Arts, at 7 p.m.
Students from chorus, band, and orchestra will perform with the New Haven
Symphony Orchestra. Visit http://www.arts2go.org for details.
At the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown,
tonight brings Moments of Gratitude at 7:45, followed by the Anything Goes Open
Mic hosted by Alan Bradley. On Thursday it’s the monthly Writers Out Loud, a
prose Open Mic, hosted by Cocomo Rock and Al Bower, Jr. On Friday they bring you singer songwriter
Davey O, along with the Connecticut State Troubadour Kristen Graves. The
Aligned with Source workshop series with Annaita Gandhy continues this Saturday
at 10:30. This week’s theme is Spiritual Growth. Later at 8, internationally known
guitarist/composer Peter Griggs takes the stage with “Music for Here and Now.” 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. Next Monday
morning at 10:30 the Hearing Voices Network meets. http://www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven tonight, at Cafe Nine it’s
Monday Night Jazz with Kevin St. James and Joe McWilliams. On Tuesday it’s Words and Music at 8. On Wednesday they bring you Sketch the
Cataclysm, An Historic, and IBN Orator. On
Thursday you can catch the Supersuckers frontman Eddie Spaghetti, along with
Slim Francis. Friday’s 5:00 Happy Hour artist is Victor Roland, followed at 9
by Agent Orange, In the Whale, and Drug Shock. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session at
4:30 is with Tony Dioguardi & Friends, with Manic Productions bringing you
Mystic Braves and more for a 9:00 show. Their Sunday Soul Service happens at
noon. http://www.cafenine.com
Also this week in New Haven, at
Toad’s Place, tonight they’ve got the Grow Wild Tour featuring IM5 and more.
VIP packages are available. It’s also the usual Night of Smooth Jazz with Rohn
Lawrence in Lilly’s Pad. On Friday you
can enjoy Cosmic Dust Bunnies, The Hornitz, and more at 8. Saturday, it’s the
Hot Rod Circuit, with Small Brown Bike, The So So Glos, and Smoke Signals. www.toadsplace.com has the complete line-up.
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s,
tonight is the usual Jazz Mondays at 8. On Tuesday, Michael Palin’s Other
Orchestra, an 18-piece band, works out new material. Wednesday’s Blues Jam is
with Ed Bradley. Tommy Whalen. Their CT Blues Challenge happens on Thursday
at 8. Friday they bring you The Marks Brothers, a Connecticut jamband playing
rock-n-roll. On Saturday you can hear Bluesiana Swamp Soul with Shaka & the
Soul Shakers. www.blackeyedsallys.com for more.
Manic Productions brings Lady Lamb,
Rathborne, and Violent Mae to The Space in Hamden this Tuesday. On Wednesday they feature Broncho and more at
Bar in New Haven. Friday’s headliner is
The Feelies, at The Ballroom at The Outer Space in Hamden. http://www.manicproductions.org
At the Russell Library in Middletown,
the Great Conversation 6 series continues this week, discussing “The Lifted
Veil” by George Eliot on Tuesday at 7.
On Thursday, along with Resonant Motion, it’s the ongoing Jazz Up Close
series, featuring a performance and discussion by drummer Johnathan Blake. The Veterans’ Writing Group meets every
Thursday at 7. The award-winning Tesla
Quartet performs in concert on Saturday at 2, with chamber music by a variety
of composers. Visit http://www.russelllibrary.org for details and information on additional community
activities.
The Heart City Story Club holds an
open mic this Wednesday at 6 at the Hartford Public Library’s downtown
location. Bring a story and share it
onstage live. http://www.hplct.org
You can tour the Wadsworth Mansion
every Wednesday at 2 p.m. This Saturday,
it’s also free admission during their ongoing Second Saturdays for Families
series. Details at http://www.wadsworthmansion.com
The Middletown Scottish Country
Dancers meet Wednesday at First Church on Court St. Partners not
necessary. Call 860-347-0278 for details.
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford
now offers free admission every Wednesday through Friday from 4 to 5 p.m. www.thewadsworth.org
At Infinity Hall in Hartford, on
Wednesday they bring you Grammy Award-winning country star Vince Gill, at the
Warner Theatre. Thursday’s headliner is
folksinger Dar Williams, with special guest Lucy Wainwright. On Friday, it’s the Mississippi-born blues
singer Charlie Musselwhite at 8. On
Saturday, the “Spirit of Johnny Cash” tribute band takes the Infinity stage. Blues and jazz legend Diane Schurr will be
with us for a Sunday performance at 7:30.
http://www.infinityhall.com
The Art Guild of Middletown invites
you to a demonstration by Elizabeth Rhoades, award-winning pastel artist, at
their monthly meeting on Thursday at the Woodside Intermediate School in
Cromwell.
http://www.arts2go.org has the details
The opening reception of the 2015
Arts & Media Festival at Middlesex Community College happens this Friday at
6 in Chapman Hall on the Middletown campus.
Call 860-343-5806 to learn more.
The Victory Over Domestic Violence
Charity Motorcycle Ride happens this Wednesday, with benefits supporting the
Domestic Violence Services of Middlesex County.
The ride starts in East Hampton, ending in Old Saybrook and taking the
scenic route through Middlesex County.
Visit http://www.newhorizonsdv.com/Calendar for details. Rain date is Sunday, May 17.
WESU DJ Karen Stein, host of the
Imagine show, performs acoustic guitar every Saturday from 12:15 to 3 p.m. at
the original Brewbaker’s on Main Street in Middletown.
The monthly “Journey Writers’
Workshop” for poets, playwrights, singers and more is this Sunday from 1 to 3
at Sweet Harmony Café in Middletown. http://www.arts2go.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off
the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, they
continue their run of “La Sapienza,”
about a Frenchman who returns to Italy to complete a book on the architect
Borromini. Also continuing is “3
Hearts,” a French drama about a classic love triangle. Both run through Thursday. On Tuesday there’s a one-time screening of
“Every Secret Thing,” as part of the ongoing NY Film Critics series. This film explores the mystery surrounding
missing children, and there’s an exclusive pre- and post-screening broadcast
and discussion hosted by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone. On Friday they open “Iris,” a documentary
about nonagenarian Iris Apfel, a longstanding style maven on the New York
fashion scene. It runs through the
weekend. www.realartways.com.
At Trinity College’s Cinestudio, the
run of “Seymour: An Introduction,” about an octogenarian piano teacher in New
York City, continues through Tuesday. On
Wednesday they open a run of “Still Alice,” starring Academy Award winner
Julianne Moore as a linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset
Alzheimer’s disease. It runs through
Saturday. On Thursday their National Theatre
Live series brings you Bernard Shaw’s “Man and Superman.” Also on Thursday, the Out Film CT series
presents “Boys,” a Dutch film about a teenager who discovers love during the
summer holidays. On Sunday they open
“Effie Gray,” a British film about the repressive Victorian marriage of author
James Ruskin and Effie Gray. http://www.cinestudio.org
Now here's what's on the air tonight
on WESU:
Right after the Jive at Five Stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with Charles
Henry.
From 6 to 6:30 it’s Think Twice Radio with Al Robinson, which
reasserts the “watchdog” role of media by ramping up coverage of Connecticut
issues in a nonpartisan manner.
75% Folk with Michael Benson follows from 6:30 to 8, bringing
you contemporary folk and acoustic music with side orders of blues, jazz,
world, pop, movie soundtracks, readings and occasional live interviews.
From 8 to 9:30 it’s Unfocused Folk with Chip Austin, brings you
Americana music from Nashville and around the world including Folk, acoustic
Country, and roots-Rock from both emerging and veteran artists.
The Attention Deficit Disk Jockey with Lee follows from 9:30 to
11, bringing you the music of yesterday’s future today.
At 11pm, Chip Austen slips back into the studio to cover songs
without words.
Nick and Ethan are in the air studio for some free form radio fun
from Midnight til 2am, as they wrap up another year at Wesleyan.
Next is All Mixed Up from Pacifica, airing until 3 a.m. for an
eclectic mix of arts and information, featuring mood-driven music mixes and
interviews.
We follow that with Maximum Rock and Roll Radio until 4,
followed by BBC World News from 4 to 5 a.m., bringing you international news
coverage from the famous British news network.
Morning Edition from NPR comes your way at 5.
That’s all for today’s Jive At Five.
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