Tuesday 8-29-17 Jive

Good evening, it's Tuesday August 29th. 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 Marianne O’Hare, producer of Conversations on Healthcare, heard Wednesdays at 4:30, right before the Jive at Five. Here's a rundown of what's going down in our area this week.

Tonight here in Middletown at Klekolo World Coffee, Bruce Gregori will perform. www.klekolo.com

Also this evening, here in Middletown, The Mac 650 Gallery in Middletown hosts Elephants, Zanders, Glambat and QG at 6:30 pm. On Thursday, at Mac 650 you can catch another concert featuring Mother Evergreen, Maxwell Stern, Pale Space, and more and on Friday Mac 650 presents: a Record Release party for Perennial’s debut album, The Symmetry of Autumn Leaves. Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/

At Middletown’s Russell Library tonight, their Mystery Discussion Group celebrates Nero Wolfe month with a focus on Fer-De-Lance at 6:30 pm. The Connecticut Poetry Society meets on Wednesday at 6 pm, and at 6:30 there’s a discussion of Henry David Thoreau’s’s essay, “Civil Disobedience,” in honor of the 200th anniversary of his birth. It’s a short week. The library is closed Saturday through Monday for the Labor Day holiday. www.russelllibrary.org

In New Haven at Café Nine tonight, you can catch Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys.  Tomorrow/Wednesday’s bill has Stephanie Harris Austin, Paul Panamarenko, and Terri Lynn. They headline Dangerous Animals on Thursday, appearing with Spectral Fangs, Lew Alcindor, and King Bongo. Friday’s Happy Hour 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, on Tuesday nights Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra works out new material on stage. Wednesday’s weekly Community Blues Jam is hosted by Tim McDonald this week. On Thursday, Sally’s house band, The Po’ Boys, take the stage. On 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!

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Riverfront Recapture in Hartford offers a free meditation class this Wednesday at 12:30 with instructor Liz Bacon. There’s free yoga later at 6 p.m. Bring your own mat. Then there’s Thursday Nights on the Plaza, with free music and more, all on the Plaza. www.riverfront.org

Mindfulness After Work happens every Wednesday at the Hartford Mindfulness Center starting at 6:15. Register at www.hartfordmindfulnesscenter.org

In Hartford, there’s free music at noon every Wednesday on Constitution Plaza, provided this week by Brian Dolzani. www.hartford.com/events/

Cherry St. Station in Wallingford features Consonance, Hyperdriver, and Hylda on Tuesday. On Friday, they bring you 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:

Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues their run of “The Last Dalai Lama?” a documentary about the future of the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leade, and “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World,” a film that explores the deep roots of Native Americans present in contemporary music legends. Their afternoon movie is “Maudie,” based on a true story of an unlikely romance between a reclusive and his fragile housekeeper. All run through Thursday. On 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 ends their run of “Beatriz at Dinner” tonight. Wednesday they open “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/

Now here's what's on the air tonight, on WESU:

Right after the jive, stay tuned for 3 hours of Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill.

From 8-9pm stay tuned for J-Cherry’s The Voice of the CITY.

At 9pm it’s WesSports and Beyond… with DJ Steve

From 9:30-10:30pm it’s The Test Patterns Show with Chaim O'Brien-Blumenthal

From 10:30-3am Sir Bruce offers a whole lot of old school soul, funk, and RnB on The Greatest Sounds Under The Sun.

At 3am stay tuned for RootsWorld Radio with Cliff Furnald, which 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.

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five. Tune in to WESU 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 WESU 88.1 FM, a community service of Wesleyan University since 1939.

Stay Tuned for Acoustic Blender, up next!