Good evening, it's Tuesday April 25th. 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 radio from NPR and Pacifica,
as well as independent and local public affairs sources. Weeknights and
weekends our students and community volunteers bring you the best in free-form
programming.
I'm Marianne O’Hare, producer of conversations on Healthcare.
Here's a rundown of what's going down in our area this week.
Quinn Miller plays at Klekolo World Coffee in Middletown tonight
(Tuesday). www.klekolo.com
Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts presents the fourth week of
the Senior Thesis Exhibition Receptions, opening on tomorrow/Wednesday, at
4:00pm. Between Charms: Piano Recital by
Yvonne Troxler will take place on Tuesday, April 25, in Russell House. Thursday
sees Senior Talks in the History of Art in Boger Hall. Here, Seniors in the Art
History Program of Wesleyan's Department of Art and Art History present their
thesis talks. Thursday, Advanced Javanese Gamelan performs in the World Music
Hall, and the Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble plays on Friday. The
Spring Dance Concert will be held on Friday, April 28, 2017 at 8:00pm in the
Patricelli '92 Theater. Full details at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/
Tonight in New Haven at Café Nine features a triple bill
with Eilen Jewell, Miss Tess and The Talkbacks, and Seth Adam. Tomorrow/Wednesday,
Sophie Auster with SEE takes the Café Nine stage. Thursday night Café Nine
features Western Estates, Straight to VHS, and Witch Hair. DW Ditty plays at the Weekly Wind Down Happy
Hour on Friday. Later Friday night, GO KAT GO! Presents THE 5.6.7.8'S and
Sasquatch, as well as Bloodshot Bill. Café Nine’s Saturday's Jazz Jam Session
is with Billy Cofrances this week. The ELM CITY FOLK FESTIVAL brings in Michael
Hunton, Oh Cassius, Rusty Things, The Can Kickers, and The Goddamn River to Café
nine Saturday night. "The Sunday
Buzz" matinee from Cygnus Radio presents SARAH BORGES & THE BROKEN
SINGLES, with The Backyard Committee. Café Nine ends their weekend with music
from THE WILD REEDS and Blank Range on Sunday night. www.cafenine.com
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, every Tuesday night,
Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra gets funky as they jam and work out new
material. Wednesday's COMMUNITY BLUES JAM is W/ TIM MCDONALD this week. Thursday night at Sally’s you can catch the
premiere of the CT Blues Society’s ANNUAL BAND CHALLENGE, where Four blues
bands compete to win a chance to represent CT at the national competition in
Memphis! Thursday nights, Sally’s house
band, The Po Boys, feature special guests. This Friday ELIZA NEALS & THE
NARCOTICS bring their award-winning, blues-rock-soul to Sally’s. Saturday night
features Robert Frahm. www.blackeyedsallys.com
Tongiht Manic presents Acid Mothers Temple with Babylon, and
Sun Dagger in The Ballroom at The Outer Space in Hamden. Wednesday Manic's free
weekly event at Bar in New Haven feartures Honeysuckle, Sam Moss, and the
Balkun Brothers. Saturday, Manic
Presents: Tokyo shoegaze rockers, MONO alongside Holy Sons at The Ballroom at
The Outer Space. This Sunday, you can see The Wild Reeds, an LA based band,
with Blank Range at Cafe Nine. www.manicproductions.org
Mindfulness After Work happens every Wednesday at the Hartford
Mindfulness Center starting at 6:15. Register at www.hartfordmindfulnesscenter.org
At RUSSELL Library in Middletown, this Thursday, it’s The
Middletown World War I Digitization Day. In an effort to help preserve this significant
piece of our history, the Russell Library will be partnering with the Connecticut
State Library’s Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories
project to hold a digitization day event. The event Healthy Me, Healthy Start happens
on Fridays at Russell Library. This is a free early childhood nutrition program
designed to support parents in establishing healthy eating habits in their
young children. On Saturday, in Meeting Room 3, the library offers How to find
a grant – where you can learn about Grants Databases available through the
Russell Library. Saturday evening there's Yoga in the Hubbard Room. Next Monday, The Russell Library in is
holding an all-day Youth Mental Health First Aid Training from 9 am to 5 pm.
The workshop teaches how to help an adolescent experiencing a mental health or
addictions challenge or crisis and includes action plans for both crisis and
non-crisis situations. Registration is required. Call 860-347-2520 for details,
and to register. Details at www.russelllibrary.org
Thursday evening brings the Middlesex drum circle to the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown. Friday, The Buttonwood features folk artists Kristen Graves and Natalie Gelman. Saturday morning brings the Weekly “Aligned with Source” guided meditation and workshop. Saturday evening 71 Strings, Three Men, and a Concertina featuring Larry Kaplan, Dave Paton, and Tom White return to the Buttonwood Tree with a special mix of contemporary songs as traditional music from around the world. Sunday, John Basinger continues his performance of Miltons Paradise Lost, performing the epic poem from memory! http://buttonwood.org
At Toad’s Place in New Haven, Thursday brings the SPRING
MUSIC FEST 2, featuring artists Crosby, Exist, Placeville, Pre-Owned, Street
Tiger, Torque and Treehouse of Bees. Friday night BADFISH, pays TRIBUTE TO
SUBLIME on THE HERB & LEGENDS TOUR, playing alongside with Roots of
Creation, Ian Biggs & the Ruckus, and Tales of Joy. www.toadsplace.com
This Friday, Circophony's Circus Indivisible opens at the
Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater Company in Middletown for a 2 day run. This production
is about communication, acceptance and working through differences and combines
circus, dance, acrobatics and comedy to build connections across the
communication gaps in our contemporary culture. www.Oddfellows.org for details.
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 “Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” an educational
journey into the Beatles' creative process. Also n screen through Thursday is,
Tomorrow, a film about French actress and director Mélanie Laurent who decided
to travel the world in search of concrete solutions that can be implemented
throughout the world by hundreds of communities. Opening on Friday at Real Art
Ways, A Quiet Passion stars Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson as she personifies
the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only
came to be recognized after her death. Details & screening times at www.realartways.org
Through Wednesday, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford
is showing I Am Not Your Negro, a film
on author, black activist and gay icon James Baldwin. Cinestudio screens T2 - Trainspotting
Thurs-Sat, depicting Edinburgh’s underworld and how it has changed as director
Danny Boyle and the original cast drop in 20 years after Trainspotting’s
original glory. Sunday, Cinestudio offers: Personal Shopper, the tale of a
young American working as the personal shopper to an obnoxiously wealthy
socialite in Paris, and trying to connect with her dead twin at the same time. Details
and screening times at www.cinestudio.org
Now here's what's on the air tonight, on WESU:
Right after the jive, stay tuned for The Soul Spoke with DJ
Skaz for a weekly sampling of tunes from around-the-world that uplift, realign,
and educate, giving soul to your world and backbone to your day.
From 6-8pm stay tuned for Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill
offering 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. Tonight show will
feature a ticket give away to see the Legendary Kink Friedman!
At 8:00 stay tuned for the Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry,
a weekly show featuring live and local Connecticut arts and music.
At 9pm, he Big Controversy with Eric Kuhn, is a public
affairs show with discussion and analysis of current events, current
personalities, and the current state of the reality/fake reality flux.
at 9:30 stay tuned for UnderCover with Ali & Ben10-11pm
takes over for an hour at 10 pm to explore the concept of inspiration through
imitation (cover songs).
From 11-midnight Nouns! with Jackalope wraps an hour of
radio around a different noun, each week.
At Midnight its Down The Lineage with DJ MosDefNot &
Hyphy Taking the "Oh Geez" out of the OGs.
From 1-4am Sir Bruce presentsThe Greatest Sounds Under The
Sun featuring 2 hrs of old school RNB and Soul music.
Weekdays, we begin our program day at 4am with BBC world
Report, followed by NPR’s Morning Edition at 5am.
At 9am stay tuned for Rising up with Sonali from Pacifica.
NPRs 1A with Joshua Johnson comes your way at 10 am and at 11am (Monday through Thursday) it’s Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod from Pacifica.
On Friday’s at 9am, we are proud to present First Voices updating us on the news affecting indigenous and first nation communities.
Of Course, at noon every weekday, it’s our flagship independent daily news hour, Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.
That’s all for today’s Jive at Five. Tune in to WESU 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
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