Good
afternoon, it's Friday, April 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.
In Middletown, at The Buttonwood Tree this evening Greg Wilfrid & Friends play music from their recent folk album “Dust and Soil.” On Saturday, it’s a morning class of Transitional Tai Chi followed by the Aligned with Source meditation with Annaita Gandhy. Saturday evening, Cathy Kreger and Caroline Doctorow are the musical guests. Sunday evening, the Great Make Believe Society Improv Show returns. Details at buttonwood.org
Its a busy weekend at The Wesleyan
Center For the Arts as the academic year wraps up. Wes Out-Loud: Stories of
Place, a site-specific
auditory experience conceived and created through a collaboration between
theater students and their professor, takes place throughout the weekend. The
Wesleyan University Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensembles present an evening of
classic and contemporary jazz tonight at 8pm in Crowell Concert Hall.
"The Spring Dance Concert: What We Changed" also is tonight
and Saturday at 8:00pm in the Patricelli '92 Theater. And Saturday
night at 8 in Crowell Concert Hall, vibraphonist, composer, and Adjunct
Professor of Music Jay Hoggard presents music from his new album, Harlem
Hieroglyphs, in celebration of 40 years since his Wesleyan senior recital. The
weekend also features The Wesleyan University Orchestra year end performance,
and a chinese musical performance on Sunday. Monday night brings the annual
performance of The Ebony Singers's Wesleyan's Gospel Choir under the direction
of WESU's host of "The Gospel Express", Pastor Marichal Monts.
Details at wesleyan.edu/cfa
At New Haven's Café Nine, the Friday
Weekly Wind Down Happy Hour features Snake Hill Blues and later, Masta Ace with
Mister Burns, N.M.E., and others take the stage. Saturday afternoon's Jazz Jam
Session is with Billy Cofrances. Later, it's the Greg Sherrod Band & The
New Dirty with Someone You Can Xray. “The Sunday Buzz “ Matinee features The
Birdmen, hosted by Cygnus Radio and Cafe 9. Sunday evening, Manic Productions
& Cafe 9 present Corners with Mercy Choir and Oberon Rose. Details at cafenine.com
At Hartford's Black-Eyed Sally’s this
evening, Relative Souls play old school funk, new age, soul and rock. On
Saturday, Loups Garou takes the stage to pay electric funk and folk harmonies.
Details at blackeyedsallys.com
Tonight at The Space in Hamden, Keynote
Company presents The House on the Cliff and The Rise of the Broken. Details at thespacect.com Saturday evening, Manic
Productions and Redscroll Records present Youth Code with Statiqbloom and
Faithbloomer at The Space. Details at manicproductions.org
At the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts
Center in Old Saybrook this evening Tusk: The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute
plays.
Saturday
evening, it's the Met in HD featuring the opera Elektra. The Ladies of the
Boston Comedy Festival featuring Kendra Cunningham, Bethany Van Delft and
Carolyn Plummer also is this Saturday. Sunday, the Yale Whiffenpoofs perform.
Details at katharinehepburntheater.org
At New Haven's Toad’s Place this evening
Max Creek plays their 45th anniversary show with Eggy and Creamery Station.
Saturday take part in the Original Saturday Night College Dance Party featuring
DJ Action & Marc. Details at toadsplace.com
At Middletown's Russell Library Saturday
at 2pm “Who in the What is Poetry?” -
a discussion and celebration of poetry for all - with Middletown's Poet
Laureate Susan Allison is taking place. Details at russelllibrary.org
Saturday evening J-Cherry and The
Strawberries perform at The Performance Hub in Torrington. Details at performancehubusa.com
This Saturday and Sunday, the 2016
Daffodil Festival returns to Meriden's Hubbard Park, offering three stages
jam-packed with Connecticut homegrown bands, food and fun for the family. Plus,
there's a fireworks display Saturday night and the event is free and open to
the public. Highlights from the music lineup of over over 30 bands include,
Daphne Lee Martin, West End Blend, The Balkun Brothers, Frank Viele, Frank
Critelli, Wise Old Moon, Jose Oyola and the Astronauts, River City Slim and the
Zydeco Hogs, Chaser Eight and many more. Details at daffodilfest.com
On Sunday, The Haddam Historical Society presents a special Daffodil Daze garden concert from 4 to 6 pm, featuring Belle of the Fall, to cap the town of Haddam's Spring Weekend event. Visit haddamhistory.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema, off the beaten track in Central
Connecticut:
In Hartford at Real Art Ways opening
tonight are Mountains May Depart, a
new film examining how China’s economic boom has affected the bonds of
family, tradition, and love; and Francofonia,
directed by master Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK), which is
an urgent meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and
20th century European history, set in occupied Paris circa 1940. You can learn
more at realartways.org
Through Saturday, Trinity College’s
Cinestudio, is showing a recent Oscar winner, The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. On Sunday, Cinestudio
screens the French coming of age film, My
Golden Days. Visit 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
for today’s Jive At Five, tune in each and every weekday at 4:55 pm to hear about
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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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