Friday's Jive 08-25-17

Good afternoon, it's Friday,August 25th, 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.

Now, here’s a rundown of some of what’s going on in the community this weekend.

At the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown tonight Connecticut’s purveyors of American roots music – Stacy Phillips and His Bluegrass Characters - perform. On Saturday morning it’s the Aligned With Source Workshop, and in the evening, The Lost Tribe with Jocelyn Pleasant brings you Afro-funk fusion. Details @ buttonwood.org

New Haven’s Café Nine monthly Women in Song Happy Hour brings you Lys Guillorn and Julie Beman at 5pm today. Tonight it’s Ceschi (sounds like Chess-Key), Spoken Nerd, Quiet Entertainer, and more. The Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with the George Baker Band. Later it’s the Balkun Brothers, Chaser Eight, and This Criminal Soul. The Sunday Buzz Matinee brings you Carrie Johnson, Libby Johnson, and Nick Depuy, and they end the weekend with the George Lesiw Band Sunday evening. Details @ cafenine.com

At Toad’s Place in New Haven tonight they headline DonQ, Loso Loaded, A1, and Nun Balla. Details @ toadsplace.com

Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight features IBM: Iacobucci/Bonito/Montano with classic blues and rock ‘n’ roll. On Saturday, it’s singer/songwriter Grayson Hugh and The Moon Hawks. Details @ blackeyedsallys.com

At Russell Library in Middletown, there’s Yoga in the Courtyard on Saturday. On Monday at noon, it’s Bending Gravity with Eric Girardi, blending circus performance skills with music to celebrate the solar eclipse. Details @ russelllibrary.org

The Hartford Jazz Society offers details on many events, including a comprehensive list, chock full of weekly events featuring jazz. Details @ hartfordjazzsociety.com   

Cherry St. Station in Wallingford brings you Come to Grief, Sea of Bones, Curse the Son, and Stone Titan tonight. On Sunday, it’s The Road to Milestone, To Fear the Fall, If Not For Me, and Everybody Hates Me. Details @ facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

At Infinity Hall in Hartford tonight it’s fusion/jazz/funk band Spyro Gyra. You can catch more of the genre on Saturday with Kung Fu, appearing with Hayley Jane and the Primates. Singer/songwriter Gaven DeGraw makes his Infinity debut on Sunday with his Raw Tour. Details @ infinityhall.com

You can enjoy a Mushroom Walk this Saturday at 10 am at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford with Joe Lenoce of Connecticut Valley Mycological Society. Details @ cedarhillfoundation.org

Wesleyan Potters in Middletown invites you to an opening reception Saturday at 4 for the Pottery Exhibit by husband and wife team John Macomber and Pat Burke entitled “Together in Artful Clay.” Details @ facebook.com/WesleyanPotters

Sunday, the annual Open Air Market and Festival at the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown is from 10 am to 4 pm rain or shine. Enjoy the products of local vendors and artisans while listening to live music including the Middletown Symphonic Band, CJ West and the Downtown Train, and Juice Box. Shuttle parking is available. Details @ facebook.com/CityArtsOffice

Here are some of Connecticut’s Farmers Markets open now: Middletown’s North End Farmers Market on Friday’s from 10am to 2pm, as well as Middletown’s long running market on the South Green on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8am to 1pm. Cromwell’s market is on Fridays 4-7 pm; Durham, Thursdays 3-6 pm; and Glastonbury, Wednesdays 4-7pm, Plainville Fridays 3-6 pm, and Berlin Saturdays, 9-1 pm. Details @ ctnofa.org

And, here's our rundown of cinema, off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

Through August 31^st, Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues the run of The Last Dalai Lama? a documentary about the future of the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader. The afternoon movie through the 31^st is Maudie, starring Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins. The late afternoon weekend movie is Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge. Tonight they open Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, exploring the deep roots of Native Americans present in contemporary music legends. Details & screening times at realartways.org

Tonight, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford opens a run of Beatriz at Dinner. Details and screening times at cinestudio.org 

The Hartford Free Movies in the Parks series brings you Finding Dory this Friday at Bushnell Park. Details & screening times @ bushnellpark.org

If you are looking for more information on the arts in Middletown, please visit the City's Facebook page at facebook.com/CityArtsOffice

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 to 7pm, it'll be Free Talk Radio with Al Robinson and Deni addressing news, politics, entertainment & weather and featuring listeners’ call-ins.

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 11:30pm it's Strickly Off the Head where DJ Commotion the Music Mixologist provides a live mixshow done on the fly or freestyle, with no pre-planned mixes or blends - R&B, old school, hip hop, rap and house.

From 11:30pm until 2am Saturday we go into serious OVERDRIVE w/Clarence & Shantay Scott - offering Urban Contemporary, Hip Hop, and Traditional gospel music.

From 2 until 4am 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.

The Hour of Slack from The Church of the SubGenius Radio Ministry covers the hour from 4 to 5am with a compendium of the best and newest from all SubGenius radio & stage shows, bands, ranters, media barrage collage artists, plus the weirdest of the indie audio underground.

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 Pacifica

And staying on the other side of the big pond, from 6 to 7am 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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