Good evening, it's Thursday August 31st. 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 student and community volunteers bring you the best in free-form
programming.
I’m Ben Michael, thanks for joining us!
This evening here in Middletown on Main St, at the Mac 650 Gallery, you can catch a concert featuring Mother Evergreen, Maxwell Stern, Pale Space, and more. Tomorrow/Friday Mac 650 presents: a Record Release party for Perennial’s debut album, The Symmetry of Autumn Leaves. Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
In New Haven at Café Nine tonight/ Thursday, they headline Dangerous Animals appearing with Spectral Fangs, Lew Alcindor, and King Bongo. Friday’s Happy Hour show at Café Nine features The Cut Loose Band with Calvin Decutlass. The late show is an evening with the George Baker Band. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session is with Mike Coppola and Friends this week, and later it’s Pleasure Beach, Ports of Spain, and more. The Sunday Buzz Matinee brings you Jenny Parrott, and they round out the weekend with The Schizophonics and The Rebel Set. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight, Sally’s house band, The Po’ Boys, take the stage. Tomorrow/Friday it’s a rock, reggae, and bluegrass mix with Roadside Manor. On Saturday, it’s more blues and rock with Jake Kulak and The Lowdown. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
On Friday, The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown presents Story City Troupe. On Saturday morning it’s the Aligned With Source Workshop, and in the evening, it’s American and Brazilian classics with Joe Flood and Pedro Iaco. http://buttonwood.org/
At Toad’s Place in New Haven, on Friday, they’ve got a Labor Day Rockfest with multiple artists on two stages, including Deafmute, Just a Pipe Dream, The Merks, Sky Swamp Orange, Static Charmer, Sunday Morning, Untouchablzz, Little Us, Mojo Dojo and more!
www.toadsplace.com
Tomorrow, Friday, in Wallingford, Cherry St. Station features VRSA, Sperm Donor, Witchkiss, and Undercliff. On Saturday it’s a Welcome Home party for Terry, with multiple acts. https://www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
As students head back to school and the tree leaves start to turn, we head into Agricultural Fair season, here in CT. This weekend you can catch the 106th Haddam Neck Fair. Opening Friday afternoon at 4pm the Haddam Neck Fair continues throughout the entire laborday weekend closing Monday at 4pm. This fair features live music, concessions, a petting zoo, a food court, agricultural exhibits, children's contests, and draft animal-, truck-, and tractor pulls! Plus, there will be pig races and educational displays as well a truck rock climbing demonstration. The bandstand will be filled with live music throughout the fair as well. Friday night you can catch Rock Landing and Night Flight, Saturday features The Mike Casey Trio, Belle of the Fall, Mercy Choir, and headliners Shakedown. Sunday’s music lineup includes Surf rock from 9th Wave, Someone you can X-Ray, The Girls from Ruby Falls, Tim Palmieri and Friends, and The Balkun Brothers. CT Bristol Old Tyme Fiddlers take the stage on Monday at 11:30am. www.haddamneckfair.org for all the details!
Connecticut’s Farmers Markets are still going strong and offer an opportunity to pick up home-grown goods and support local growers. Middletown’s long running market on the South Green is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8am to 1pm and Middletown’s North End Farmers Market is on Friday’s from 10am to 2pm. Cromwell’s market is on Fridays 4-7 pm; Durham is Thursdays 3-6 pm; and Glastonbury’s market happens Wednesdays 4-7pm,find more at www.ctnofa.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Tonight, Hartford’s Real Art Ways ends their run of “The Last Dalai Lama?” a documentary about the future of the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader. Today also brings and end to their run of their afternoon movie “Maudie,” based on a true story of an unlikely romance between a reclusive and his fragile housekeeper. Real Art Ways continues their run of “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World,” and tomorrow/Friday they open “Tales of an Immoral Couple,” a Spanish film about a couple who reconnect 25 years after their passionate romance in a strict Catholic high school. Details & screening times at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford is now showing “The Beguiled,” Sofia Coppola’s remake of a film about a Union Army deserter hiding out in a Southern girls school. It runs through Saturday. On Sunday they open “The Teacher,” a Czech film about a power-hungry middle school teacher in 1980’s Bratislava. Check the website for full schedule and screening times. http://www.cinestudio.org/
I’m Ben Michael, thanks for joining us!
This evening here in Middletown on Main St, at the Mac 650 Gallery, you can catch a concert featuring Mother Evergreen, Maxwell Stern, Pale Space, and more. Tomorrow/Friday Mac 650 presents: a Record Release party for Perennial’s debut album, The Symmetry of Autumn Leaves. Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
In New Haven at Café Nine tonight/ Thursday, they headline Dangerous Animals appearing with Spectral Fangs, Lew Alcindor, and King Bongo. Friday’s Happy Hour show at Café Nine features The Cut Loose Band with Calvin Decutlass. The late show is an evening with the George Baker Band. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session is with Mike Coppola and Friends this week, and later it’s Pleasure Beach, Ports of Spain, and more. The Sunday Buzz Matinee brings you Jenny Parrott, and they round out the weekend with The Schizophonics and The Rebel Set. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight, Sally’s house band, The Po’ Boys, take the stage. Tomorrow/Friday it’s a rock, reggae, and bluegrass mix with Roadside Manor. On Saturday, it’s more blues and rock with Jake Kulak and The Lowdown. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
On Friday, The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown presents Story City Troupe. On Saturday morning it’s the Aligned With Source Workshop, and in the evening, it’s American and Brazilian classics with Joe Flood and Pedro Iaco. http://buttonwood.org/
At Toad’s Place in New Haven, on Friday, they’ve got a Labor Day Rockfest with multiple artists on two stages, including Deafmute, Just a Pipe Dream, The Merks, Sky Swamp Orange, Static Charmer, Sunday Morning, Untouchablzz, Little Us, Mojo Dojo and more!
www.toadsplace.com
Tomorrow, Friday, in Wallingford, Cherry St. Station features VRSA, Sperm Donor, Witchkiss, and Undercliff. On Saturday it’s a Welcome Home party for Terry, with multiple acts. https://www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
As students head back to school and the tree leaves start to turn, we head into Agricultural Fair season, here in CT. This weekend you can catch the 106th Haddam Neck Fair. Opening Friday afternoon at 4pm the Haddam Neck Fair continues throughout the entire laborday weekend closing Monday at 4pm. This fair features live music, concessions, a petting zoo, a food court, agricultural exhibits, children's contests, and draft animal-, truck-, and tractor pulls! Plus, there will be pig races and educational displays as well a truck rock climbing demonstration. The bandstand will be filled with live music throughout the fair as well. Friday night you can catch Rock Landing and Night Flight, Saturday features The Mike Casey Trio, Belle of the Fall, Mercy Choir, and headliners Shakedown. Sunday’s music lineup includes Surf rock from 9th Wave, Someone you can X-Ray, The Girls from Ruby Falls, Tim Palmieri and Friends, and The Balkun Brothers. CT Bristol Old Tyme Fiddlers take the stage on Monday at 11:30am. www.haddamneckfair.org for all the details!
Connecticut’s Farmers Markets are still going strong and offer an opportunity to pick up home-grown goods and support local growers. Middletown’s long running market on the South Green is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8am to 1pm and Middletown’s North End Farmers Market is on Friday’s from 10am to 2pm. Cromwell’s market is on Fridays 4-7 pm; Durham is Thursdays 3-6 pm; and Glastonbury’s market happens Wednesdays 4-7pm,find more at www.ctnofa.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Tonight, Hartford’s Real Art Ways ends their run of “The Last Dalai Lama?” a documentary about the future of the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader. Today also brings and end to their run of their afternoon movie “Maudie,” based on a true story of an unlikely romance between a reclusive and his fragile housekeeper. Real Art Ways continues their run of “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World,” and tomorrow/Friday they open “Tales of an Immoral Couple,” a Spanish film about a couple who reconnect 25 years after their passionate romance in a strict Catholic high school. Details & screening times at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford is now showing “The Beguiled,” Sofia Coppola’s remake of a film about a Union Army deserter hiding out in a Southern girls school. It runs through Saturday. On Sunday they open “The Teacher,” a Czech film about a power-hungry middle school teacher in 1980’s Bratislava. Check the website for full schedule and screening times. http://www.cinestudio.org/
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That’s all for today’s Jive at Five. Thanks for joining us
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