Good evening, it's Tuesday, September 15th, 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.
I'm Marianne O'hare, producer of "Conversations on Healthcare" which airs every Wednesday, at 4:30, right before the Jive at Five.
Now here’s some of what’s going on in our area this week:
The Hartford Public Library holds its monthly Salsa Social at 6 in the downtown location. Dancers of all
levels are welcome. They
celebrate Envisionfest on Saturday starting at 10 with exhibits, a
vintage book sale, and music by the Orquesta Espada Latin Jazz band. In
honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, they have an author talk and book
signing at 12:30 with
Nelson Denis, presenting his book “War Against All Puerto Ricans.” http://www.hplct.org
At
the Russell Library in Middletown, at 6:30, they bring you “Three Toy
Theater Tales: A Puppet
Show,” featuring toy puppet works performed by Great Small Works from
New York City, Facto Teatro from Mexico City, and Barbara Steinitz from
Berlin. On Thursday at 6:30, they offer “The Body in a Library: Dance
Performance by Eiko,” with award winning dancer/choreographer
Eiko Otake. A discussion follows the performance. The Veteran’s
Writing Group meets on Thursday at 7. Full details of these events and
more at http://www.russelllibrary.
In
New Haven, at Café Nine, they have a Words & Music session with a
variety of performers. On Wednesday they feature 7-string Brazilian
Guitarist Rogerio Souza. On Thursday they’ve got The Lost Bayou Ramblers
and Orkestar BAM. On Friday you can hear Paul Panamarenko at 5,
followed by the Elm City Noise Festival at 8 headlining Oneida.
Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session at 4:30 is with Tony Dioguardi &
Friends, followed at 8 by Jonny Foz’s Bachelor Party, headlining
Bragging Rights, DJ Big Pete, and more. On Sunday at 8 it’s JW Louis,
along with Coda Blue.http://www.cafenine.com
At
Blackeyed Sally’s in Hartford, tonight, Michael
Palin’s Other Orchestra brings you new material. Wednesday’s Blues Jam
is with Gene Donaldson. On Friday they headline the Orb Mellon Trio,
performing delta blues. On Saturday you can catch the Street Life Rock
& Soul Review, with some of CT’s best singers
and players.http://www.
Connecticut’s Farmer’s Markets continue to offer you locally grown produce and more. The East Haddam Farmer’s market
happens every Wednesday from 4 to 7, Durham’s is on Thursdays
from 3 to 6. The Clinton market is every Thursday from 4 to 7.
Middletown’s North End market is on Friday from 10 to 2, with the
long-running market on the South Green on Tuesdays and Thursdays
through October. There’s one in Higganum Village on Friday from 3:30 to
6:30, and in Cromwell on Friday from 4 to 7. On the shore, Old Saybrook
markets are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays. A new market is open at
53 Broadway in New Haven every Friday from
10 to 2. The Chester market is open on Sundays from 10 to 1. Visit http://www.ctnofa.org
You can tour the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown every Wednesday at 2 p.m., with tea available every second Wednesday
of the month. http://www.
Manic
Productions brings you Greensky Bluegrass and Tom Hamilton’s American
Babies, appearing tomorrow at the College Street
Music Hall in New Haven. Also tomorrow, Little Racer, If Jesus Had
Machine Guns, and Oberon Rose on at Bar in New Haven. On Friday at the
College Street Music Hall, they headline Ride and DIIV. And Dan Deacon,
On an On, Eliot Sumner,
and Dosh come to the College Street Music Hall on Friday for an 8:00
show.http://www.
The
Wesleyan Center for the Arts presents an Artist Talk with R. Luke
DuBois Tomorrow at 4:30 in CFA Hall. He’ll
discuss his new exhibit, “In Real Time,” which includes real-time data,
videos, scores and more that raise questions of artistic privacy and
fair use. The exhibit opening follows at 5:30. On Friday, the Grammy
Award-winning trumpeter Nicholas Payton performs
with his Trio at Crowell Concert Hall at 8. On Saturday, Youth Gamelan
Ensemble classes start at World Music Hall at 10 a.m. Visit http://www.wesleyan.
In New Haven, at Toad’s Place--on Thursday--they’ve got Bayside, The
Early November, and Better Off. On Friday it’s Reverend Horton Heat and
The Adicts, with The Creepshow. On Sunday the headliner
is Ky-Mani Marley for a 9:00 show. http://www.toadsplace.
At Infinity Hall in Hartford,
they bring you Southern Rock with the Georgia Satellites on Friday at
8. On Saturday,
it’s blues and rock with Savoy Brown, featuring Kim Simmonds and
special guests Kal David, Lauri Bono, and the Real Deal. On Sunday at
1:30 it’s the Rising Star Music Festival, presented with the CREC Great
Hartford Academy of the Arts, followed at 7:30 by
Indian Ocean, bringing you Indian Rock and Jazz Fusion. http://www.
The Art Guild of Middletown hosts a workshop with acrylic artist Bill Colrus this Saturday at the Woodside Intermediate
School in Cromwell. The workshop runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. www.arts2go.org
Envisionfest happens this Saturday in Hartford, celebrating art, theater, music, innovation, and more. There’s free
admission to many city venues, food trucks, and an artisan marketplace. Visithttp://www.
The
first annual Jack n’ Jill Music Festival happens this Saturday at Mezzo
Grille in Middletown, starting at 3 p.m.
Featured artists include Nekita Waller, guitar virtuoso Dave Giardina,
Ali McGuirk, and more. Proceeds benefit the COMPASS Youth
Collaborative, which runs after-school programs to reduce youth
violence. Full details at http://www.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Trinity College’s Cinestudio continues its run of “Testament of Youth,” a British film about the horrors of WWI, based
on the memoir by Vera Brittain. It runs through Today.
Tomorrow, they open “Mad Max: Fury Road,” George Miller’s fourth of the
post-apocalyptic films. It runs through Saturday. On Friday there’s a
one-time screening of “Ghosts of Amistad,” a documentary
that traces the Africans of Sierra Leone who rebelled against slavery.
Saturday’s matinee is “Tomka and His Friends,” the restored version of a
1977 Albanian film about Nazi occupation. On Sunday they open a run of
“The Stanford Prison Experiment,” a reenactment
of the notorious 1971 psychological experiment that explores abuse of
authority. Full details at www.cinestudio.org.
At
Real Art Ways in Hartford, the run of “Steve Jobs: The Man in the
Machine,” an unflinching portrait of the Apple
founder and his legacy, continues. Or you can see “Rosenwald,” a
documentary of the Jewish philanthropist and President of Sears who was a
silent partner in America’s 20th Century Civil rights movement. Both
run through Thursday. On Friday they open “Blind,”
a Norwegian thriller about a recently blinded woman whose reality is
distorted by her obsession with writing. It runs through the weekend. http://www.
Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU, as we work our way through week two of our new fall programming schedule:
Right after the Jive at Five, stay tuned for
Brass & Sass with DJ Thrasher,
Orbiting
the New Orleans music scene, Brass & Sass features a wide range of
jazz, big band jazz, blues and R&B artists from the 1920’s to the
present.
From 6-6:30pm stay tuned for Your English is Good with Mizael Robledo, an exploration of the contextual experiences
of people who learned English as a second language, with music in the guests' native tongue.
From 6:30-8pm its Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill offering an eclectic selection of Americana, country, folk, folk-rock,
bluegrass, acoustic, blues, Celtic, old-time, singer-songwriter and other music that has a roots influence.
From 8-9pm The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry is a weekly show featuring live and local Connecticut arts and music.
At 9:00pm Radio Obscura with Joe McCarthy and Paco Winebox who suggest that “you won't believe your eyes”, when you
listen to their show.
From 10:30-11:30pm stay tuned for Oblique Strategies with Biscuit inviting you to twist and turn through an hour of
constrained musical drifting.
The at 11:30pm Food Court Friends with Sierra Mist and Orange Julius who offer a punk soundtrack.
From 12:30-1:30am Noah G. and DJ So Fresh So Clean present The Chillin Factory offering hip hop analysis.
At 1:30 DJ Henny presents Sleep Walk Radio
2:30-4am
After that stay tuned for
High Times with DJ Woo Playing bringing you the sounds of
tomorrow, High Times features up and coming electronic artists with
music that will elevate your existence.
BBC World news comes your way from 4 to 5 a.m., followed by Morning Edition from NPR.
That’s all for today’s Jive At Five. If you missed anything, you can find the script online atwww.wesufm.org/jive.
And tune in each and every weekday at 4:55 p.m. to hear about what’s
going on in the community and on the air right here at WESU 88.1 FM, a
community service of Wesleyan University since 1939.
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