Good evening, it's Monday, May 25th, Memorial
Day, established as Decoration Day in 1868 as a day to decorate the graves of
Civil War veterans. It’s the day we honor those who gave their lives for our
country. 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.
I’m Billy Johnstone, host of the Broadway Radio Hour,
heard on the 2nd and 4th Sundays from 5:30-6:30pm.
Here’s a rundown of some of what’s happening
this week throughout our listening area.
In New Haven tonight, Cafe Nine tonight brings you 80’s
dance, electro, and more with Michael Illian at 9. On Tuesday you can catch Ray McMorrin and
Jovan Alexandre. The Tony Purrone Trio
takes the stage on Wednesday. On
Thursday, it’s The Lost Bayou Ramblers and Orb Mellon on stage at Café Nine.
Friday’s early show at 5 Calvin DeCutlass, followed by Live Mike Live at 9 with
comedy, interviews, and more on the Café Nine stage. Saturday’s weekly Jazz Jam
Session at 4:30 headlines Billy Cofrances.
Saturday night it’s Bella’s Bartok, The Asberry Boys, and Huntinanny
featuring David Ramos. Café nine present
Haunted Cities and more at 3 p.m. on Sunday, followed by the usual Sunday Soul
Service at 8. http://www.cafenine.com
At Toad’s Place in New Haven, tonight
it’s the usual Night of Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence at 9. On Thursday it’s Local Punk Night, with over
10 bands live on stage. Friday they
bring you Shakedown, playing The Dead & Beyond. Saturday Toad’s features Bright Night 18:
Electro Glow Party, with a big list of acts.
Also on Saturday, in Lilly’s Pad, Afton Presents brings you Mike Sands,
Devolve, and more. www.toadsplace.com
Up in Hartford, Black-eyed Sally’s is closed tonight. Tomorrow/
Tuesday nights you can catch Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra, an 18-piece band,
working out new material. Black-eyed Sally’s Wednesday Blues Jam features Tim
McDonald this week. On Friday it’s a double bill, with Turbine and The Balkun
Brothers. Saturday, the Northeast Blues Harmonica Showcase starts at 9, with
regional and national blues harmonica talent including Handy Award winner Steve
Guyger. www.blackeyedsallys.com
At the Russell Library in Middletown,
the Connecticut Poetry Society meets this Wednesday at 6. The Veterans Writing Group meets on Thursday
at 7. Visit http://www.russelllibrary.org for details and information on additional community
activities.
Manic Productions brings you Alberta
Cross, City Streets Country Roads, and more this Wednesday at Bar in New
Haven. You can also catch
Grammy-nominated Tig Notaro at the College Street Music Hall in New Haven on Saturday
at 8. http://www.manicproductions.org
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
Oddfellows Playhouse in Middletown offers the
premier of “The Adventures of Super Margaret,” a new comedy for young audiences
performed by the Junior and Senior Repertory Companies. It opens this Thursday night and runs through
Saturday, when you can catch a matinee performance. www.oddfellows.org
On Thursday at the Buttonwood Tree in
Middletown, you are invited to join the Middlesex Drum Circle this Thursday for
a 7 p.m session. Bring your own
instrument, or use one on site. On
Friday you can enjoy music with the Trio 149 Jazz Group, the brainchild of jazz
pianists Jen Allen and Noah Baerman. The
Aligned with Source workshop series with Annaita Gandhy continues this Saturday
at 10:30 a.m. This week’s theme is Open Questions. Later Saturday evening at 8, you can hear the
Stanley Maxwell quartet, returning to the Buttonwood for the first time in over
a decade. 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.
The Hearing Voices Network meets weekly on Monday morning at 10:30. http://www.buttonwood.org
At Infinity Hall,Hartford, you can hear world music artist
Ottmar Liebert and his band Luna Negra this Thursday at 8. On Friday, the Boston comedy Festival
presents Boston Irish Comedians, featuring Joe Carroll, Jack Lynch, Jim McCue,
and PJ Walsh. On Saturday, it’s the Soul
Sound Revue, featuring the best Motown band in the land. Details at http://www.infinityhall.com
You can take a free tour of the Soldiers & Sailors
Memorial Arc every Thursday at noon in Bushnell Park in Hartford. More information is available at http://www.bushnellpark.org
Artists for World Peace is holding its last concert of the season this
Thursday at 7:30 at The Hubbard House in Middletown. The featured artist is bellydancer Gia,
performing with her troupe Venusrising.
E-mail Rastamail@aol.com for details.
Hartford’s award-winning saxophone ensemble, the Asylum
Quartet, performs a free concert at noon this Thursday at Christ Church
Cathedral in Hartford. Call 860-527-7231
to learn more.
The Greater Middletown Concert
Association brings you Puccini’s La Bohème this Friday at 7:30 at the Middletown
High School Performing Arts Auditorium.
Details at http://www.arts2go.org.
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours happen this Friday and
Saturday evenings at the Mark Twain House in Hartford. Reservations are required. Find out more at http://www.marktwainhouse.org
This Saturday at 10 a.m., the Hartford Public Library
presents Poets on Poetry, a monthly discussion of poetry collections. This month’s focus is the work of Wallace
Stevens. http://www.hplct.org
WESU DJ Karen Stein, host of WESU’s
Imagine radio show airing on Thursdays, performs acoustic guitar every Saturday
from 12:15 to 3 p.m. at the original Brewbaker’s on Main Street in
Middletown.
You can celebrate the planet this
Sunday from noon to 5 at the Hartford Earth Festival, where you can enjoy food,
music, exhibits, and more at Mortensen’s Riverfront Plaza. http://www.hartfordearthfestival.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off
the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Through Thursday, Real Art Ways in
Hartford, they continue their run of “Iris,” a documentary about nonagenarian
Iris Apfel, a longstanding style maven on the New York fashion scene. Also
continuing is “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window &
Disappeared,” a comedy about a mischievous centenarian on the run. Both run
through Thursday. On Friday they’re screening “Man From Reno,” a Japanese/English
murder mystery that enters the world of a crime novelist. Also opening is “Every Secret Thing,” another
crime thriller based on the novel by Laura Lippman, about the deception
surrounding a series of missing child cases.
Both run through the weekend. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio is
screening an Ultra High Def restoration of the 1952 British classic “The Tales
of Hoffman,” an adaptation of Jacques Offenbach’s popular opera. It runs through Thursday. On Friday the 28th Connecticut
LGBT Film Festival brings you “Boulevard,” with Robin Williams in his last
dramatic role. Several shorts will be
shown first, and screenwriter Douglas Soesbe will be in attendance. An Opening Night Gala follows. The festival
continues on Saturday with screenings of “20 Lies, 4 Parents and a Little Egg,”
“While You Weren’t Looking,” and “Velociraptor.” On Sunday they offer “Liz in September and
“Lady Valor: The Kristen Beck Story.
Check the website for times and details. http://www.cinestudio.org
Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU:
Right after the Jive stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with
Charles Henry until 6 p.m..
From 6 to 6:30 it’s Think Twice Radio with Al Robinson, a
“watchdog” show of media covering Connecticut issues in a nonpartisan
manner.
After that it’s 75% Folk with Michael Benson from 6:30 to
8, bringing you contemporary folk and acoustic music, along with blues, world,
pop, and more.
At 8pm, Unfocused Folk with Chip Austin, presents
Americana music from Nashville and around the world from both emerging and
veteran artists.
At
9:30 Aargh!!! with Tom Gaten returns to the airwaves for 2hrs of stoner, cosmic, doom, avant garde, and more.
From 11:30 to 1 DIY Haircut with DJ Tim Daltrey,
celebrates punk, hardcore, garage, indie, and metal.
From 1-2am Maximum Rock and Roll Radio keeps the
loud rock music pumping!
At 2 DJ Otto
Nation takes over until 3am when we will rebroadcast today’s noontime broadcast
of Democracy Now, with Amy Goodman.
That’s all for today’s Jive At Five.
Tune in each and every weekday at 4:55 p.m. to hear about what’s going on in
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