Good
afternoon, it's Friday, April 15th 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 check out Don Minott and the High Voltage Reggae Band. On Saturday, it’s a morning class of Transitional Tai Chi followed by Aligned with Source meditation guided by Annaita Gandhy. Saturday evening, La Hot Jazz & Co introduces songs off their new album. Visit buttonwood.org
Friday evening Cyprus Restaurant in
Middletown hosts musical guests, The Mighty Soul Drivers. Visit cypressgrill.com
At New Haven's Café Nine, the Friday
Weekly Wind Down Happy Hour features Buzz Gordo’s Ski Lodge and later Friday
evening Fernando Pinto Presents Jane Lee Hooker, The Naked Heroes and Catalina
Shortwave. The weekly Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with Gary Grippo
& Friends. Saturday evening, you can catch Painted Zeros with Witch Hair,
Izzy True and Pug. And “The Sunday Buzz” Matinee at Cafe Nine hosts the Elm
City Folk Festival. Full details at cafenine.com
On Saturday, Ghost and Tribulation
perform at College Street Music Hall, hosted by Manic Productions, Redscroll
Records and Irockradio. Sunday evening, you can catch the show Esperanza
Spalding Presents Emily’s D+Evolution at College Street Music Hall, hosted by Premier
Concerts and Manic Productions. Visit manicproductions.org
Tonight at 7pm at Middletown's First
Church on Court St. in Middletown you can experience “Everything is
Connected—An evening of stories—most true, many weird” with Peterson Toscano
who explores the serious worlds of gender, sexuality, privilege, religion, and
environmental justice. On Saturday at noon at the South
Congregational Church, Toscano offers “A Discussion-driven performance”, think
of it as the Q&A session where the audience’s questions and interests
determine the content of the presentation. There'll be plenty of room for
your own input or simply sit back and watch the discussion unfold. Call (860)346-6657
for info.
Performing tonight at New Haven's Toad's
Place are rappers Junglepussy & Speedy Oritz with Rizzla, Naytronix and
99Sublime. On Sunday, you can catch Ro James and JR Castro with Ru Williams,
Elisha Richards, Kendall, J-Delice and Kaeli Rose at Toad’s Place, presented by
Hot 98.7. Visit toadsplace.com
Meanwhile Hartford's Black-Eyed Sally’s
has blues singer Sari Schorr with special guest Chris Bergson on Saturday night.
Go to blackeyedsallys.com
At The Space in Hamden, Sam Woolf, Como
Brothers, Sarah Barrios and Dylan Brady play blues, pop, rock, indy, and folk.
On Saturday, it’s an All Ages Open Mic and on Sunday, Sadistik, Ceschi, Mega
Ran, Weerd Science (of Coheed & Cambria), and Early Adopted share the bill.
Visit thespacect.com
Saturday at the Katharine Hepburn
Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook, view the Met in HD with a screening of the
opera Roberto Devereux. Visit katharinehepburntheater.org
Sunday at Infinity Hall Hartford, The
Curtis Brothers Quartet & Orice Jenkins featuring Grammy winning bassist
Luques Curtis and award winning pianist Zaccai Curtis return to their hometown
to play jazz. Learn more at infinityhall.com
At Middletown's Russell Library Saturday
afternoon, it’s Shakespeare On Screen, a film series event with Richard Alleva,
this week showing The Tempest. Visit russelllibrary.org
Tonight and Saturday Wesleyan Center for
the Arts presents the faculty dance concert "Storied Places". Saturday
morning, the CFA presents Ideas that Move: A Conference In Honor of Mark
Slobin, followed by an evening concert. Saturday afternoon, it’s the fifth
annual community event, The Big Draw: Middletown, a invitation for all members
of the community to celebrate drawing with workshops for people of all skill
levels. Learn the details at wesleyan.edu/cfa
Now here's a rundown of cinema, off the
beaten track in Central Connecticut:
At Hartford's Real Art Ways you can
catch Where to Invade Next, a film from political provocateur Michael Moore
presenting an expansive, subversive comedy confronting the pressing issues
facing America today. Showings through Sunday. Tonight, Louder than Bombs, starring
Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Bryne and Jesse Eisenberg and the film, Take Me to
the River, a drama about a queer Californian teen trying to stay above the
fray during his Nebraskan family reunion open and run through next Thursday.
Visit www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford
has the latest Coen Brothers adventure Hail, Caesar! tonight and
Saturday. On Sunday, they begin a run of Where to Invade Next. 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
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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