Friday, April 29, 2016

Friday's Jive 04-29-16

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.

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.

The written form for what you've heard on today’s jive is online at wesufm.org/jive

And if you value WESU as a source for information and entertainment in your life, how about supporting the station with a donation? You can make that donation online at wesufm.org anytime. Thanks for listening!


Thursday, April 28, 2016

4-28-16 Jive

Good evening, it's Thursday, April 28th, 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 a diverse program of NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs. Each night and weekend WESU offers the best in free-form community programming. Thanks for joining us! We hope you will also join us in our Spring Pledge Drive. With over $15,000 left to raise, your donation goes a long way to suport the valuabel service WESU provides. Donate online at www.wesufm.org/pledge


Now here's a rundown of what's happening in our area this week:


This evening at the Buttonwood here in Middletown, you can join the Middlesex Drum Circle for an evening of rhythm. Friday 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 guided by spiritual and holistic healer Annaita Gandhy. Saturday evening, Cathy Kreger and Caroline Doctorow are the Buttonwood’s musical guest. This Sunday is the first of May, and you can catch the May Art Show featuring Ryan Gallagan. Sunday evening, it’s the Great Make Believe Society Improv Show at the Buttonwood. http://buttonwood.org/


Its a busy weekend at The Wesleyan Center For the Arts as the academic year wraps up. Tonight (Thurs), Wes Out-Loud: Stories of Place happens at 5:00pm in the CFA Courtyard -  This is a  a site-specific auditory experience conceived and created through a collaboration between theater students and Assistant Professor of Theater Marcela Oteíza.  The weekend brings more opportunities to participate in Stories of place.  
Tonight (Thurs) night at 6pm, Collegium Musicum presents a program of music from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods of European music history.  A concert by beginning students of the Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble, with a prelude by the Wesleyan Youth Gamelan Ensemble happen at The Wold Music Hall tonight (Thursday), at 7:00pm.

The Wesleyan University Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensembles present an exciting evening of classic and contemporary jazz repertoire Friday night at 8pm in Crowell Concert Hall.  "The Spring Dance Concert: What We Changed" also happens Friday, night at 8:00pm in the Patricelli '92 Theater and continues on Saturday night int he same venue.   also on Saturday night, 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 conert will be at 8:00pm in Wesleyan's Crowell Concert Hall The weekend also brings The Wesleyan university Orchestra year end performance, and a chines musical performance on Sunday. Monday night brings tha anual performance of The Ebony Singers's Wesleyan's Gospel Choir under the direction of WESU's own host of "The Gospel Express", Pastor Marichal Monts. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa  for details on all of these events. 

Tonight, down in New Haven at Café Nine, it’s performances from WRISTS and SOUR SPIRIT with Dave Go & the Guy from Beastmaster, Zak G and Slime Mob, hosted by Noise Box 2. The Friday Weekly Wind Down Happy Hour this week features SNAKE HILL BLUES and later Friday evening, MASTA ACE with Mister Burns, N.M.E., The Illest, Mister, MC, Johnny Wae take the stage. Café Nine’s Jazz Jam Session is with Billy Cofrances, Saturday afternoon. Saturday night, you can catch music from GREG SHERROD BAND and THE NEW DIRTY with Someone You Can Xray. Sunday afternoon “The Sunday Buzz “ Matinee features THE BIRDMEN and is hosted by Cygnus Radio and Cafe Nine. Sunday evening, Manic Productions & Cafe 9 Presents CORNERS with Mercy Choir and Oberon Rose. www.cafenine.com


Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight it’s the second Round of the Connecticut Blues Society Annual Band Challenge.  tonight's lineup includes sayWHAT?, Sadie & the Jumpcats, The Coffee Grinders, and the Rich Badowski Blues Band. Friday evening Relative Souls play old school funk, new age, soul and rock at Black-Eyed Sally’s. On Saturday, Loups Garou takes the stage to pay electric funk and folk harmonies. www.blackeyedsallys.com


Tonight at The Space in Hamden, it’s performances from musical guests G.O.T.H., A Simple Design, Mystic Seahorse, Double Negatives, Risk All in Life & Cmmit Samantha. On Friday Keynote Company presents The House on the Cliff and The Rise of the Broken. http://www.thespacect.com/


Tonight at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook, you can catch The New Christy Minstrels performing under the direction of Randy Sparks. Friday evening, Tusk: The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute plays at the Kate. Saturday evening, it's the Met in HD, this week featuring the Opera Elektra. The Ladies of the Boston Comedy Festival featuring Kendra Cunningham, Bethany Van Delft and Carolyn Plummer, happens this Saturday at the Kate. Rounding out the week, the world's oldest and best-known collegiate a capella group, The Yale Whiffenpoofs perform. ://katharinehepburntheater.org/


Saturday evening in New Haven, Manic Productions and Redscroll Records present YOUTH CODE with Statiqbloom and Faithbloomer at The Space. www.manicproductions.org


Also in New Haven, at Toad’s Place, this evening it’s the PARTY GODZ TOUR featuring DJ Relly Rell, Zombie, Myke Green, DJ Double T, Rowdy Nova, DJ Prestige and Dead by 5am.  Friday evening, MAX CREEK plays their 45th anniversary show with Eggy and Creamery Station. Saturday evening you can catch the Original Saturday Night College Dance Party featuring DJ Action & Marc. www.toadsplace.com


At Russell Library here in Middletown, tonight, the author of ‘To The Nines” speaks on the early history of golf courses in CT; The Veterans Writing Group also meets at 7pm. Friday morning, Judi Margolin leads the workshop on grant programs: “Cultivate Your Individual Donors.”  Saturday morning, it’s Resume Reviews with Tracy Nixon-Moore and in the afternoon, it’s the poetry event “Who in the what is Poetry?” with Susan Allison. www.russelllibrary.org


Saturday evening J-Cherry and The Strawberries perform at The Performance Hub in Torrington. www.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 much more. www.daffodilfest.com


On Sunday, The Haddam Historical Society presents a special Daffodil Daze garden concert, featuring Belle of the Fall, to cap the town of Haddam's wide Spring Weekend event. the concert will be from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. http://www.haddamhistory.org/ 

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


Tonight, up in Hartford at Real Art Ways, through Thursday, you can catch the Japanese  film Sweet Bean about a sad Chef who's life is transformed when an eccentric old woman signs on as his assistant. Also showings through Thursday, is The First Monday in May, a documentary on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended exhibition in history, “China: Through the Looking Glass.” Real Art Ways opens two more runs on Friday. Mountains May Move is a new film examining China’s economic boom has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love. FRANCOFONIA, directed by master Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK), is an urgent meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and 20th century European history, set in occupied Paris circa 1940. www.realartways.org


Through Saturday, Trinity College’s Cinestudio, it’s a showing of recent Oscar winner, The Revenant starring Leonardo DiCaprio. On Sunday, Cinestudio screens the French coming of age film, My Golden Days www.cinestudio.org





Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU: Right after the Jive at Five, stay tuned for 5:05-6:30pm For Homegrown with Rob DeRosa, who plays. Connecticut Connected music presented for a global audience.  Hey, It's Homegrown...want some?

At 6:30 stick around for Imagine with Karen Stein, offering peace through music! Listen to the best music from around the world and around the block!

Up next at 8 it’s Bill Denert Evening Jazz with a broad range of swing, bebop and experimental jazz with a sprinkling of new releases.

From 9:30-10:30pm stay tuned for UnderCover with Ali and Ben exploring the concept of inspiration through imitation in cover tunes that bridge genres and generations.

At 10:30 it’s Meet Music with DJ Rami, who presents a new artist with each show by delving into artists' backgrounds, influences, and personal stories.

From 11:30-12:30am The Weirding Way with DJ Atreides who explores the expression of thoughts through sound: a cross-genre exploration of a sonic mood with an indie/alternative focus. New soundscapes each show.

At 12:30 Hard on the Spot with DJ Matty C and DJ Nikki brings you the best new music of each week!

From 1:30-2:30am stick around for The Karl Marx History Hour with DJ Fat Marco and DJ Ninjoo Pinjoo for a history-infused radio show, in which the hosts play tracks inspired by that episode's historical figure or event.

At you can catch 2:30- R-Evolution with Hyphy and DJ Mos Def Not, presenting socially-conscious music curated by two divergent musical backgrounds. From Public Enemy to Lou Reed, they'll explore tracks that give voice to movement.

The BBC World Report takes over from 4-5am and we start each weekday off bright and early 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.

Thanks for listening - stay tuned for a stiff dose of Homegrown with Rob DeRosa!

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

4-27-16 Jive

Good evening, it's Wednesday, April 27th, 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 a diverse program of NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs. Each night and weekend WESU offers the best in free-form community programming. Thanks for joining us!


Now here's a rundown of what's happening in our area this week:


This evening at the Buttonwood here in Middletown, it’s a electric gypsy tribal jazz show from the 2016 Musical Residency: The Grays. Thursday night, you can join the Middlesex Drum Circle for an evening of rhythm. Friday 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 guided by spiritual and holistic healer Annaita Gandhy. Saturday evening, Cathy Kreger and Caroline Doctorow are the Buttonwood’s musical guest. This Sunday is the first of May, and you can catch the May Art Show featuring Ryan Gallagan. Sunday evening, it’s the Great Make Believe Society Improv Show at the Buttonwood. http://buttonwood.org/

Its a busy weekend at The Wesleyan Center For the Arts as the academic year wraps up. Tonight, the Wesleyan Taiko Drumming ensemble performs in the World Music Hall at 7pm. Tomorrow (Thurs), Wes Out-Loud: Stories of Place at 5:00pm happens in the CFA Courtyard -  This is a  a site-specific auditory piece conceived and created through a collaboration between theater students and Assistant Professor of Theater Marcela Oteíza.  The weekend brings more opportunities to participate in Stories of place.
Tomorrow (Thurs) night at 6pm, Collegium Musicum presents a program of music from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods of European music history.  A concert by beginning students of the Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble, with a prelude by the Wesleyan Youth Gamelan Ensemble happen at The World Music Hall Tomorrow (Thursday), at 7:00pm
The Wesleyan University Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensembles present an exciting evening of classic and contemporary jazz repertoire Friday night at 8pm in Crowell Concert Hall.  The Spring Dance Concert: What We Changed also happens Friday, night at 8:00pm in the Patricelli '92 Theater and continues on Saturday night int he same venue.   also on Saturday night, 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 concert will be at 8:00pm in Wesleyan's Crowell Concert Hall. The weekend also brings 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 own host of "The Gospel Express", Pastor Marichal Monts. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa  for details on all of these events. 

Tonight, down in New Haven at Café Nine, it’s performances from JAMIE KILSTEIN with Decasa and King Bongo, presented by Citizen Radio! Tomorrow (Thursday) evening at Café Nine, Noise Box 2 hosts WRISTS and SOUR SPIRIT with Dave Go & the Guy from Beastmaster, Zak G and Slime Mob. The Friday 5pm Weekly Wind Down set, features SNAKE HILL BLUES, this week and later Friday evening, Living legend of Hip Hop, MASTA ACE comes to Cafe Nine with Mister Burns, N.M.E., The Illest, Mister MC, Johnny Wae and more for a night of classic hip hop. Café Nine’s Saturday afternon Jazz JamSession is with Billy Cofrances. Saturday night, you can catch music from GREG SHERROD BAND and THE NEW DIRTY with Someone You Can Xray. Sunday afternoon “The Sunday Buzz “ Matinee features THE BIRDMEN and is hosted by Cygnus Radio and Cafe Nine. Sunday evening, Manic Productions & Cafe 9 Presents CORNERS with Mercy Choir and Oberon Rose. www.cafenine.com


Tonight in New Haven, Manic Productions presents SEAN ROWE + His Band with The Sea The Sea at BAR. Saturday evening, you can check out music from YOUTH CODE with Statiqbloom and Faithbloomer at The Space. www.manicproductions.org


Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight's weekly Wednesday Community Blues Jam Session will be hosted by Ed Bradley. Thursday night, it’s the second Round of the CT Blues Society's Annual Band Challenge.   Thursday’s lineup includes Say WHAT?, Sadie & the Jumpcats, The Coffee Grinders and the Rich Badowski Blues Band. Friday evening Relative Soul play old school funk, new age, soul and rock at Black-Eyed Sally’s. On Saturday, Loups Garou takes the stage to pay electric funk and folk harmonies. www.blackeyedsallys.com


Tonight at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook, two-time Grammy nominated Kim Richey plays psychedelic, indie-pop. Musician Ken Yates opens the show. On Thursday, you can catch The New Christy Minstrels performing under the direction of Randy Sparks. Friday evening, Tusk: The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute plays at the Kate. Saturday evening, it's the Met in HD, this week featuring the Opera Elektra. The Ladies of the Boston Comedy Festival featuring Kendra Cunningham, Bethany Van Delft and Carolyn Plummer, happens this Saturday at the Kate. Rounding out the week, the world's oldest and best-known collegiate a capella group, The Yale Whiffenpoofs perform. ://katharinehepburntheater.org/


Also in New Haven, at Toad’s Place, Thursday evening it’s the PARTY GODZ TOUR featuring DJ Relly Rell, Zombie, Myke Green, DJ Double T, Rowdy Nova, DJ Prestige and Dead by 5am.  Friday evening, MAX CREEK plays their 45th anniversary show with Eggy and Creamery Station. Saturday evening you can catch the Original Saturday Night College Dance Party featuring DJ Action & Marc. www.toadsplace.com


At Russell Library here in Middletown, this week is Money Smart Week featuring several workshops on budgeting. Tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 you can catch the evening workshop on Social Security and Medicare. tomorrow/Thursday morning, Russell Library hosts the Job Group at 9AM for a chance to network with other job seekers and receive advice from professionals. Thursday evening, the author of ‘To The Nines” speaks on the early history of golf courses in CT. The Veterans Writing Group also meets Thursday evenings. Friday morning, Judi Margolin leads the workshop on grant programs: “Cultivate Your Individual Donors.”  Saturday morning, it’s Resume Reviews with Tracy Nixon-Moore and in the afternoon, it’s the poetry event “Who in the what is Poetry?” with Middletown's Poet Laureate, Susan Allison. www.russelllibrary.org


The Middletown Scottish Country Dancers meet every Wednesday at First Church on Court St. Call 860-347-0278 for details.


Saturday evening J-Cherry and The Strawberries perform at The Performance Hub in Torrington. www.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 much more. www.daffodilfest.com

On Sunday, The Haddam Historical Society presents a special Daffodil Daze garden concert, featuring Belle of the Fall, to cap Haddam's town-wide Spring Weekend event. the concert will be from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. http://www.haddamhistory.org/ 

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


Tonight, up in Hartford at Real Art Ways, through Thursday, you can catch the Japanese  film Sweet Bean about a sad Chef Sentaro who's life is transformed when an eccentric old woman signs on as his assistant. Also showings through Thursday, is The First Monday in May, a documentary on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended fashion exhibition in history, “China: Through the Looking Glass.” Real Art Ways opens two more runs on Friday. Mountains May Move is a new film examining China’s economic boom has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love. FRANCOFONIA, directed by master Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK), is an urgent meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and 20th century European history, set in occupied Paris circa 1940. www.realartways.org


Through Saturday, Trinity College’s Cinestudio, it’s a showing of recent Oscar winner, The Revenant starring Leonardo DiCaprio. On Sunday, Cinestudio screens the French coming of age film, My Golden Days www.cinestudio.org


Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU: as we work our way through the our new Spring Schedule.


Right after the Jive at Five, stay tuned for Ear Candy featuring Sick Nelden. Hear the old, hear the new, hear the songs that get in your head and won’t leave you alone.
From 6-6:30 it’s "All About" with Isabel and Emily. Each episode they feature a guest comes who talks about a topic they love.


Fusion Radio with James Fusion follows from 6:30 to 8, with the best Techno mix on radio.


From 8 to 9:30 it’s The Warehouse with Mike Nyce, bringing you deep underground sounds mixed live for your listening pleasure.


And at 9:30, it's NE Tempo with DJ Berk. Expect serious Turntablism featuring Dubstep, DnB, Ragga Jungle and Breakbeats mixed live since 1998.


From 11 to midnight, stay tuned for #blackmusicmatters with DJ Frau Miau. Dedicated to playing music by black people for black people. Ranging from slave songs to Kendrick Lamar, this show serves as yet another reminder why black lives matter


At midnight to 1, The Dungeon with DJ Reaper keeps the music loud with Black Metal, Doom Metal, Thrash Metal, US Black Metal, Blues Metal and other metal of the ages.


At 1 it’s an hour of Nocturnal Mom, Stories and the songs we remember our mothers by.


From 2 – 2:30 it’s Scripted Sounds. From the classics to indie movies, Scripted Sounds plays a variation of movie soundtracks to show how music and moving image can work together harmoniously.


From 2:30 to 4 it’s Background Sounds with DJ Sonia and DJ Aurora. A weekly context-focused exploration of regional American music featuring exclusive interviews and discussions aiming to illuminate the larger socio-political climate of the music played.


The BBC World News follows at 4, and we start your day bright and early with Morning Edition from NPR at 5 a.m.


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.

Now stay tuned for Ear Candy featuring Sick Nelden!