Friday's Jive 02-26-16

Good evening, it's Friday, February 26th 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, Switch Factory takes the stage for musical improvisation and down-home vocal harmonies. On Saturday, you can catch a new class of Transitional Tai Chi, in the morning and the weekly Aligned with Source guided meditation workshop right after. The Jolly Beggars bring a blend of Celtic folk music and storytelling to the Buttonwood Saturday evening. Visit buttonwood.org

Tonight New Haven's Café Nine offers Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen for soulful and funky pop tunes. The weekly Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with the George Baker Band and Saturday night Manic Production and Café Nine present Greyhounds with Tracy Jo and the Toads. The Sunday matinee features Snake Hill Blues playing a wide range of blues standards with a rock edge while Sunday evening showcases Drag Bingo with Robin Banks. cafenine.com has the details. 

Also tonight at New Haven's Toad’s Place, you'll find the Bright Night Winterfest 2 where Ragepak, Daps, DJ I95, Gringo Loco and Jorce perform. Also this evening, Afton Present the Get Your Bread University, Interstate Underground, Lawnchair Pilots, Madman, Savage Panda and Yesteryear. Learn more at toadsplace.com

Saturday night Pacific Standard Tavern in New Haven hosts the bands Consider the Source, Mushroom Cloud, & Polluter in a night of Middle Eastern scales, psychedelics jams & hard rocking rhythm. Learn more at pacificstandardtavern.com

At Hartford's Black-Eyed Sally’s tonight you can catch the traditional blues and progressive blues-rock of the Nick Moss Band originating form Chicago. Saturday evening, it’s Henricks plays Hendrix, a musical homage to Jimi Hendrix. 

Visit blackeyedsallys.com

The 5^th Connecticut Printmakers Invitational exhibition, Multiple Impressions continues showcasing various fine artists and designers in Hartford. Artist Alina Gallo has painted a life-sized egg tempera mural directly on the walls of Real Art Ways depicting a train station in Budapest where thousands of Syrian and Afghani refugees were stranded in route to Germany during 2015. The mural is open through April. Visit realartways.org

On Saturday The Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, or The Kate, has Broadway star and Tony-winner Betty Buckley in concert. The Kate’s annual red-carpet Oscar Party is Sunday evening. Visit katharinehepburntheater.org

Tonight Wesleyan University Center for the Arts presents, Tales from a Small New England Town by performance artist Yan Xing in connection with the exhibition We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art. This Saturday is a panel discussion, China’s Youth: Another Cultural Revolution Special. Also this Saturday it’s the Orchestra Children’s Concert and Musical Petting Zoo. And rounding out the weekend, This is It! The Complete Piano Works of Neely Bruce Part VIII is being performed by the composer Sunday afternoon. wesleyan.edu/cfa has details.

At Russell Library here in Middletown, Saturday they offer Says Who: A Steven Liskow Writing Workshop on character creation and screenwriting techniques. The last week of Tai Chi lessons is this Saturday and on Sunday, the Hip Hop Culture Slam comes to Russell Library. russelllibrary.org has your details.

This Sunday at the Cypress Restaurant in Middletown, is the release party for Eric Kuhn's new album Politics and the kickoff of Eric's campaign for the presidency. The album is a satiric romp through American politics from 1776 up to today, focusing on the Obama years. 

Now here's a rundown of cinema, off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

Up in Hartford at Real Art Ways, you can catch Oscar nominated Live Action Shorts tonight through Thursday and Animated Shorts Saturday and Sunday. The film Rams, a winner at the Cannes Film Festival about two estranged brothers in Iceland reuniting to save the family sheep opens tonight and runs through Thursday. Details at realartways.org 

Trinity College’s Cinestudio is showing Joy! through Saturday. National Theater Live in HD performing Shakespeare’s comedy, As You Like It is on Sunday and the provocative 1959 film by Marcel Camus, Black Orpheus begins a run. cinestudio.org provides details.

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.

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 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 the title track from Talking Drums' Some Day Catch Some Day Down, re-issued and re-mastered as a cd on the innova label in 2011. The original vinyl was released in 1987.

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