Good evening, it's Tuesday,
July 19th, and this is the Jive at Five, our daily community calendar and
rundown of nighttime programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown. By day, WESU
offers talk programs featuring NPR, Pacifica, and independent and local public
affairs broadcasts. Weeknights and weekends we bring you the best in free-form
community programming. Thanks for joining us. I'm Dr. Helen Evrard, host
of Your Mind Matters, the show that addresses the brain health issues we call
mental illness. Join me this Wednesday
at 6 pm for Part II of my conversation with Dr. Matt Genuchi of Boise State
University. We’ll be talking about masculine depression. Your Mind Matters airs
the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesday of the month at 6 pm here on WESU 88.1 FM, or
you can listen live at www.wesufm.org.
Now, here's a rundown of
what's happening in our area this week:
Tonight, down in New Haven at
Café Nine, Lines West, Silas Lowe, and Professor Leedy take the stage. On
Wednesday it’s Hiss the Villian, Jeremy Zombii, Honch, and The Oddbodies.
Thursday Arc Iris and Olive Tiger share a bill for a night of genre-bending
music. Friday’s early set at 5 features Gary Heriot & Mike Damico. Later
Friday night Manic Productions Presents Alex Calder, Freak Heat Wave, and
Furnsss at Café Nine. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session is with The George Baker
Band. Sat night brings the Lipgloss Crisis Summer Burlesque Cabaret to the
stage, featuring Dot Mitzvah, Vivienne LaFlamme, Fruitonthebottom, and Adam
Parisi. Cygnus Radio & Cafe 9
present "The Sunday Buzz" Matinee Featuring Bronson Rock Banc and La
Tunda to finish out your weekend. www.cafenine.com
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed
Sally’s, Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra works out their new material tonight.
On Wednesday it’s the Community Blues Jam, hosted by Gene Donaldson this week.
On Thursday it’s the West Hartford Jazz Jam, hosted by James Antonucci,
featuring artists from the greater Hartford area. Friday’s headliner is Cousin
Earth, a progressive rock ukulele band from Brooklyn. The Franklin Brothers
take the stage Saturday night. www.blackeyedsallys.com
Tonight, in Middletown Harbor
Park, the Summer Sounds Weekly Concert Series overlooking the CT River features
Trio 149 for an evening of jazz. Concerts are free and open to the public
and begin at 7pm. Details at www.arts2go.org
Tonight, Manic Productions
and Premier Concerts presents The Record Company and Lyle Brewer at College
Street Music Hall in New Haven. Wednesday, it’s Jounce (featuring Danny
Tamberelli of The Adventures of Pete & Pete), The Zambonis, and Chaser Eight
at Bar in New Haven. Thursday Manic presents Lucy Dacus, Quiet Giant, and
Mom Pop + Co at The Ballroom at The Outer Space in Hamden. Sunday they’ve got
Slightly Stoopid, SOJA, Zion I, The Grouch and Eligh at the Simsbury Meadows.
http://www.manicproductions.org/
At the Russell Library in
Middletown, Adult Coloring is offered this Wednesday at 2pm. If you’re looking
for a job, WESU’s own Dr. Helen Evrard, host of Your Mind Matters, speaks at
the Job Group meeting Thursday morning about dealing with depression when
you’re unemployed. The Veteran’s Writing Group meets Thursday night at 7.
The library has new hours starting this month, opening daily at 10 except for
Wednesdays, when they open at 1 p.m. Visit the website for more information on
the new hours, as well as additional programs and activities for all
ages. www.russelllibrary.org
There’s free music at noon tomorrow
at Constitution Plaza in Hartford presented by their Lunchtime Music Series,
“Audio Feed.” This week’s featured performer is Sarah Golley. Full info
at www.hartford.com
The Music at the Mansion
Summer Series continues Wednesday at the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown.
Grounds open at 5:30, with the concert at 6:30, and this year they’re adding
food trucks. This week’s musical guest is DooWop Deville. www.wadsworthmansion.com
Another option for Wednesday
in Hartford is the Elizabeth Park Rose Garden Summer Concert Series, featuring
Latanya Farrell this week. Rain date is Thursday. Information
at www.elizabethpark.org
The Middletown-based theater
company ARTFARM presents their second (and final) week of Carlo Goldoni's
Comedia Classic, “The Servant of 2 Masters.” at Middlesex Community College,
Wednesday through Sunday., A live music act is featured at 6pm, before the
nightly 7 pm performance. On Wednesday July 20th, you can catch Andrew
Biagiarelli; Thursday night Kritza Moon is the featured musical guest. Friday
night Nancy Tucker takes pre-show stage, Saturday's featured musical guest is
Anitra Brooks. Sunday Kate Callahan is on before the final performance of The
Servant of Two Masters. Lawn chairs, blankets and picnics are encouraged. www.art-farm.org
Also in Middletown, the
Buttonwood Tree holds a benefit dinner at Denny’s this Thursday, featuring John
Fong and his cast of musicians and poets. On Friday, Eric Kuhn, Noah Baerman,
and Dave Kopperman take the place by storm for a night of solo sets of mostly
original songs, along with a few collaborative jams and quite possibly a stump
speech by Eric for his presidential campaign. On Saturday mornings
Annaita Ghandy’s Aligned with Source workshop begins at 10:30 am. Saturday
night’s performance by the Alex Snydman Trio has been cancelled. The July art
exhibit is “Faces, Places and Things” by Middletown artist Tom Humphreys.
Full details at http://buttonwood.org
Toad’s Place in New Haven
brings you Cardi B on Friday. On Saturday, the “Ran Off on the Plug Tour” with
Plies stops by Toads Place. Details at www.toadsplace.com
This week brings more music
to Cherry Street Station in Wallingford. Friday Jimmy Junk Bird and the Stiffs
are releasing their first full length album at Cherry St. Kali Ma, Composing The Apocalypse, Our Own
Destruction, and Kaos Reign share the bill. Saturday’s lineup, starting at 2
pm, features ten bands, including She Walks Without Legs, Fear The Masses, The
Aberration, Stone Thrower and more. Sunday at 5 Cherry Street
presents Shallow Ground, Epicenter, Thrashole and more. Find Cherry
Street Station on Facebook or call (203) 265-2902 for info www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation
There’s Music Among the
Memorials this Friday in Hartford, with free music at the Cedar Hill
Cemetery. This week’s artists are The
Professors of Sweet Music, featuring covers from Johnny Cash to The Grateful
Dead and more. www.cedarhillfoundation.org
Bovano Cheshire is partnering
with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to host an open-air artisan fest at Bartlem
Park in Cheshire this Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm, and Sunday from 10 to
4. Enjoy offerings from more than eighty local artisans and gourmet
specialty food vendors, as well as the music of Greg Sherrod. Admission
is free, and a silent auction benefits Make-A-Wish. Details at www.facebook.com/bovanofest
Asylum Hill Congregational
Church in Hartford offers free Jazz on the Lawn this Sunday at 4 pm, featuring
Conga Boop, an Afro-Cuban group playing originals along with the standards.
Kid-friendly activities are also offered.
www.asylumhill.org
Connecticut’s Farmers'
Markets are in full gear now. Here in Middletown you can you can support local
farmers and get nutritious home-grown goods on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the
long running market at the South Green on Old Church Street from 8am-1pm.
On Fridays, The Middletown North End farmers market happens on Main Street
outside Its Only Natural Market. For times and dates, as well as info on the
many more in our area you can visit www.ctnofa.org
Now here's a rundown of
cinema, off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Through Thursday, Hartford’s
Real Art Ways continues their run of “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” a combination
road comedy/coming-of-age film about a foster child being raised in the New
Zealand countryside. Also continuing is “My Love Don’t Cross That River,” a
Korean film about the twilight days of a centenarian couple and the love they
shared for a lifetime. Two films open Friday at RAW. First it’s “The Innocents,” a film set in
post WWII France that explores nuns whose faith is pushed to the limits. They’re
also opening “Tickled,” a documentary into an under-the-radar industry serving
those with a fetish for tickling. www.realartways.org
Through Thursday, Trinity
College’s Cinestudio is showing “Sing Street,” an Irish film about the ups and
downs of a group of young musicians hoping to be heard. Opening Friday is
“Sunset Song” an adaptation of the Scottish classic novel by Lewis Grassic
Gibbon about a young woman in Scotland dreaming to escape her tyrannical father.
Details at www.cinestudio.org
The free Movies in Riverside
Park series in Hartford continues, with this week’s screening of “The Martian”
starring Matt Damon happening Friday beginning at sunset. www.riverfront.org
Now here's what's on the air
tonight on WESU:
Right after the Jive, Stay
tuned for three hours of Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill, for an
eclectic selection of new and older folk, Americana, bluegrass, blues and other
music that has a roots influence with a concert listing at 7pm and frequent
concert and festival ticket giveaways.
From 8-9pm The Voice of the
CITY with J-Cherry is a weekly show featuring live and local Connecticut arts
and music.
From 9-10:30pm its time for
Radio Obscura, whose hosts claim your eyes won’t believe what you hear on their
show.
At 10:30 it’s an hour of
underground hip hop with DJ Malik-1Fam (sounds like Muh-leek – One – Fam)
on Underdog’s Edge.
At 11:30 Upfront Soul with
Sanguine Fromage offers Funk, soul, and jazz, plus sprinklings of R&B,
gospel, and hip-hop for two hours until.
RootsWorld Radio with Cliff
Furnald takes you on a tour across borders and genres, introducing you to music
from far flung places and sometimes from right in your own backyard, from
1:30-2:30am.
At 2:30 stay tuned for All
Mixed Up with Peter Bochan from Pacifica Presenting a collage of great music
and current events soundbites.
BBC World report comes your
way at 4 am and we begin tomorrow’s broadcast day with Morning Edition from NPR
at 5am.
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