Good evening, it's Friday, January
29th 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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Now, here’s a rundown
of some of what’s scheduled in the community this weekend.
Here in Middletown, at The Buttonwood Tree, tonight Connecticut’s own Darren Sechrist brings together some of New England’s top comics for a night of laughs. Saturday mornings, Aligned with Source: A guided meditation workshop takes place from 10:30 a.m.-noon. Saturday night Moto performs their brand of Soca music from Trinidad, plus traditional roots reggae and creative interpretations of rock, R&B and soul music with elements of jazz, salsa and afro-beat. www.buttonwood.org has more.
In New Haven, Café Nine has their weekly Friday 5pm set, today with Tim Payson. Later, Chaser Eight, Mr. Council, and The Hooch take the stage. Café Nine’s weekly Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam session is with Billy Cofrances and friends at 4:30. Later you can catch the Go Kat Go! Birthday Show featuring Jeff Deware & The Bop Thrills, The Dukes Of Hamden, and Rumble. Sunday afternoon at Café Nine, they feature Lys Guillorn & Her Band and Her Band’s Bands featuring Lys Guillorn And Her Band, The Sawtelles, and Chica Non Rata. Later Sunday catch a night of contemporary puppetry when Pinned and Sewtured Presents: Dames In The Dark. Details at cafenine.com
Hartford's Black-eyed Sally’s tonight
hosts The Alchemistics playing reggae, hip hop, & soul. Saturday night is
the return of the Balkun Brothers, fresh off their European
tour. Go to www.blackeyedsallys.com
Tonight Toad’s Place in New Haven
there’s an Electro Glow Party on the main floor while Afton presents 10 bands
on the Lily Pad Stage. Saturday Toads offers their Saturday night college
dance party. Sunday night Lotus performs and El Ten Eleven opens that show.
Check for details at www.toadsplace.com
Also in New Haven tonight at Pacific
Standard Tavern, Lucius Dylan Prolyte Productions presents a night of roots and
dub reggae with Roots of Creation. Miz-eyesis spins the drum and bass, dubstep,
and dub reggae to start off the night. Visit pacificstandardtavern.com
Tonight, Infinity Hall Hartford’s
Backyard Music Series presents Wise Old Moon, Atlas Gray & Kerri Powers. Saturday
it's Five for Fighting with string quartet. You can find more, including
events at their Norfolk venue at infinityhall.com
The art festival Hygienic Art XXXVII
(37) begins tonight and runs through Feb. 13 in New London. Nearly a dozen
activities will be held in the Bank Street neighborhood, including the reason
for the festival's existence: Salon des Indépendants. The annual art exhibit is
open to any artist who wants in. Each can bring one artwork and hang it in the
Hygienic Art Gallery. There is no censorship, so parental discretion is
advised. Another highlight is the Ice Carnival on Saturday at the art park next
to the gallery. Admission to the carnival is free and you'll see fire breathers
and ice sculptures. Those who want the free tickets to play games must sing a
song to get them. Other activities include a rock concert, a hootenanny, a
cabaret, a fashion show and a youth art exhibit. A photo scavenger hunt and
exhibit has the theme "Shoot Pictures, Not People!" emphasizing
nonviolence. Admission is free while some events ask for a suggested
donation. Free parking is available in the municipal parking structure near
Hygienic Galleries. Details at hygienic.org.
Wesleyan university Center for the Arts
presents David Davis--"Sax In the City" featuring
vocalist Charmagne this Sunday at 3pm at the Russell House. Find out more at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Sunday in Middletown, Dreamville Team
2016 presents their Black and White Inaugural Poetic Justice
Night in Honor of Jermaine Lamarr Cole. The event happens at the MAC 650
Gallery on Main Street from 5-9pm. For more information, email lifecoachdreamville2016@gmail.com
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the
beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford's Real Art Ways continues their
run of Mustang tonight through next
Thursday. Also tonight, they begin their run of 2016 Oscar Nominated
Animated Shorts. Learn more at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues
a run of Truth starring Kate
Blanchette and Robert Redford, a tale that exposes the perils facing
journalists covering volatile material. Also, tonight is a one-time late show
of Labyrinth, featuring David Bowie.
A run of Youth, an intimate look at
two artists (Michael Caine, a composer and Harvey Keitel, a filmmaker) nearing
the end of their career, begins on Sunday. And there's a showing of National
Theatre Live's production of Les Liaisons
Dangereuses on Sunday at 1pm. Visit www.cinestudio.org
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
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And now let’s
take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU and to be safe, it's best to check
the WESU website for the up-to-date schedule.
Right after
the Jive At Five from 5:05-6 pm, it'll be Wild Wild Live with Ethan and Rachel. A sneak peek
into the magical live music scene of Wes. Tune in for in-station sets from
campus bands and recordings of up-and-coming artists' campus shows.
From 6 to
6:30pm it's Progress for the Planet w/Eric Hagen. Environmental news with a pro-green stance,
including some environmentalist music from a variety of genres.
From 6:30-7pm it's 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 - offering listeners a wide range of music including African, reggae, gospel, R&B, Latin, and blues. Plus health, nutrition, and stress reduction tips.
Next up until 10pm, we take it From the Otherside with Rok-A-Dee where 60% of the show is love songs of different genre and the others Reggae Dancehall, R&B, and new artiste.
Then from 10 to 11pm it's People, Places and Things with jackalope. Each week brings a new theme, each theme brings an exciting smorgasbord of songs relating to it.
From 6:30-7pm it's 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 - offering listeners a wide range of music including African, reggae, gospel, R&B, Latin, and blues. Plus health, nutrition, and stress reduction tips.
Next up until 10pm, we take it From the Otherside with Rok-A-Dee where 60% of the show is love songs of different genre and the others Reggae Dancehall, R&B, and new artiste.
Then from 10 to 11pm it's People, Places and Things with jackalope. Each week brings a new theme, each theme brings an exciting smorgasbord of songs relating to it.
That's
followed until Midnight by Easy List-ening with DJ Rebag whose lists, particularly at their most strange and
offbeat, can be some of the best ways to organize countless songs. He tackles
something new each week.
At Midnight until 3am Saturday we go into OVERDRIVE w/Clarence & Shantay Scott - offering Urban Contemporary, Hip Hop, and Traditional gospel music.
And then, from 3 until 5am you are taken to Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat, who has a song in his heart, a chemical imbalance in his head and a musical library at his fingers. From krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage, novelty to New Romantic, punk to prog, Wonderland has a place for it.
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, serving up a slice of Italy every Saturday morning. You
don't have to speak Italian to taste it: just relax, listen, and enjoy!
That’s all
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and re-mastered as a cd on the innova label in 2011. The original vinyl was
released in 1987.
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