Good evening, it's Tuesday,
August 30th, 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.
I’m Marianne O’Hare, Producer
of CHC Radio. Now, here's a rundown of what's happening in our area this
week:
Tonight in
Middletown's Harbor Park, the Summer Sounds Weekly Concert Series closes out with
the Middletown Symphonic Band bringing you popular classics. Concerts are free
and open to the public, and begin at 7pm. Details at www.arts2go.org
At the Russell Library
in Middletown, it’s Origami this Tuesday evening at 6:30. The Veterans Writing
Group meets every Thursday at 7. Check the website for more information on the
new hours, as well as additional programs and activities for all ages. www.russelllibrary.org
Tonight, down in New
Haven at Café Nine, you can catch The
34’s, The Joiner Inners, and Black River Union. Wednesday’s headliner at
Café Nine is The Big Easy, appearing with Ourselves, Alone, The Right-Offs, and
S.G. Carlson. Thursday, brings The Revelers to the Café stage. Friday’s Happy
Hour artist is the Blasphemy Boys, with Matt Wixson’s Flying Circus, PUS, and
The Abductors on board for the Friday night late show. Saturday’s Jazz Jam
Session is with Mike Coppola and Friends, followed by Sarah Golley, Smillz, and
more for the evening show. On Sunday, Cygnus Radio & Cafe 9 present
"The Sunday Buzz" Matinee with The Ebin-Rose Trio and Tommy Cosmo
& Bobo. Manic Productions and Premier Concerts bring you The Helium
Brothers and Frank Critelli later Sunday night to round out your weekend. www.cafenine.com
Up in Hartford at
Black-Eyed Sally’s, Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra works out new material on
Tuesday nights. Tomorrow/Wednesday it’s the Community Blues Jam, hosted by Tim
McDonald this week. On Thursday, the Balkun Brothers host a Rock-N-Roll
Residency, with special guests each week. Friday, you can hear blues standards
and originals by the Salty Dog Blues Band. On Saturday, singer/songwriter Lazer
Lloyd takes the stage to bring you blues/rock. www.blackeyedsallys.com
Through September 14th,
tThere’s free music at noon Wednesdays at Constitution Plaza in Hartford
presented by their Lunchtime Music Series, “Audio Feed.” This week’s featured
performer is Daniel Salazar III. Full info at www.hartford.com
Manic Productions
brings you Pavo Pavo, Uni Ika Ai, and Ports of Spain to Bar in New Haven tomorrow/
Wednesday night. On Saturday, Manic presents Willie Nelson & Family at the
College Street Music Hall in New Haven. Full details at http://www.manicproductions.org/
On Thursday at the
Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, it’s the long running monthly Acoustic Open Mic
with Bob Gotta. On Friday, G2 (G Squared) from across the river in Portland
offer bluegrass and folk at The Buttonwood. On Saturday morning Annaita
Ghandy’s Aligned with Source workshop happens at 10:30 am. At 2 pm there’s
Kerouac Café, a Free Poets Collective celebrating the legacy of the Beat
Generation of poets. The August art exhibit features works by Sicilian native
Sal Italia. Full details at http://buttonwood.org
This Thursday from 5-8
pm, you’re invited to Art Walk at City Hall in Middletown, featuring the
exhibit “Middletown: Landscapes, History, People.” Tour guides from the
Middletown Commission on the Arts will be available to answer questions.
Ninety-four works by seventy-four artists are part of the collection,
celebrating thirty-nine years of expressions created by Middletown’s vibrant
arts community. Details at www.arts2go.org
At Toad’s Place in New
Haven, Thursday they bring you Electric University and the EDM College Dance
Party. On Friday, they headline Basement, appearing with Hotelier and OVLOV. www.toadsplace.com
On Thursday, Cherry
Street Station in Wallingford brings you Toxic Holocaust with Cemetery Piss,
Xenosis, and Orcumentary. On Saturday, you can catch Pus, The Abductors,
Blastmat, Bragging Rights, and Horns of Ormus. You can find Cherry Street
Station on Facebook, or call (203) 265-2902 for info. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation
The Connecticut
Historical Society brings you a free “Growing Up With Grandparents” workshop
this Saturday at 10 am in Hartford. Design garden pots and pick seeds to
plant together. Details atwww.chs.org
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
With the end of summer
on the horizon, Connecticut’s Agricultural fair season is in full swing! This
Labor Day weekend brings The 105th Haddam neck Fair, opening Friday night and
continuing through Monday, offering, agricultural displays and competitions, plus
stock and modified truck and tractor pulls, a carnival midway, live music, and
much more. Music performers include, Basically Blues and Rock Landing Friday
night. Saturday’s lineup includes Alpaca Gnomes, Chaser Eight, Run Jenny, Phono
synthesis and more. Sunday’s featured music includes The Balkan Brothers,
Fountainhead, Someone You Can X-ray, Parson field, and Belle of the Fall.
CT Old Time Fiddlers also take the stage Sunday. http://www.haddamneckfair.com/
Now here's a rundown
of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Through Thursday,
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues the run of “Nuts!,” a Sundance Award-winning
documentary about an eccentric genius who built an empire during Depression-era
America. Also continuing is “Summertime,” a French film about two young
women who fall in love in France’s 1971 early feminist era. Both run
through the weekend. Opening Friday is “My King (Mon Roi)”, a film about a
woman who examines a turbulent relationship after a skiing accident. They also
bring back a run of “Life, Animated,” a true story about a family discovery
that Disney animated films will help them communicate with their troubled son.
Both run through the weekend. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s
Cinestudio continues the run of a new 25th anniversary 4K restoration of
“Howards End,” starring Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Hopkins, a saga of class
relations in Edwardian England. On Friday and Saturday they’re screening
“Captain Fantastic,” starring Viggo Mortenson as a parent bringing up six kids
off the grid in an Oregon forest. It runs through the weekend. Sunday
opens the run of ‘Heironymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil,” a Dutch film that
explores the depth of this artist’s legacy as they celebrate the 500th
anniversary of his death. Details and screening times at www.cinestudio.org
The Hartford Free
Summer Movies series brings you the Academy Award-nominated “The Martian,”
starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain, on Friday at Riverfront Park. Details
at 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.
That’s all for today’s
Jive At Five. If you missed anything, you can find the script online at
wesufm.org/jive. And tune in each and every weekday at 4:55 p.m. to hear about
what’s going on in the community and on the air right here at WESU 88.1 FM, a
community service of Wesleyan University since 1939.
