Friday 10-13-17 Jive

Good evening, it's Friday October 13th. 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 so much for joining us!

Here's what's going on in our area this week:

Here in Middletown, at 7pm this evening, Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore hosts Jenny Fran Davis speaking about her debut novel, “Everything Must Go.” Full info at www.wesleyanrjjulia.com

At the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown on tonight, the Matabasset String Collective takes the stage for a night of bluegrass, blues, and more. On Saturday morning it’s the Aligned With Source Workshop, and in the evening it’s another double bill with singer/songwriters Cathy Kreger and Caroline Doctorow. The Hearing Voices network meets on Monday mornings at 10:30. The month-long Art Show features the work of Bonnie Byrne LeMay.   www.buttonwood.org

Also tonight in Middletown, the Wesleyan Center for the Arts hosts  jazz chanteuse Somi performing at Crowell Concert Hall. On Sunday, you can enjoy two performances of Vertical Influences presented by the Montreal-based company Le Patin Libre at the Freeman Athletic Center skating rink. Professor Neely Bruce presents Part XIII of his This Is It! Complete piano works series Sunday at 3 at Crowell Concert Hall. Details at www.wesleyan.edu.cfa/

Through Saturday, The Hartt School Community Division presents a free performance of “August: Osage County” happening at the Handel Performing Arts Center in Hartford. Reservations required. www.harttweb.hartford.edu/

Tonight, Toad’s Place in New Haven, presents Westside Gunn & Conway Benny, Smoke DZA, and Brilliant Mindz.  www.toadsplace.com

Tonight, Infinity Hall in Hartford features Aztec Two-Step – The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook Show. Tomorrow/Saturday, it’s bluegrass and Southern rock performed by An Evening With Shovels & Rope. You can hear blues and soul on Sunday with JJ Grey & Mofro. www.infinityhall.com

Tonight, Cherry St. Station in Wallingford present their 2017 Connecticut MetalFest featuring FirtBourne, Suicide Dream, Within the Abyss, Blind Revision, and Aversed. On Sunday you can catch Stargazer, To Fear The Fall, and more. Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

In New Haven at Café Nine right now, you can catch Shellye Valauskas & Dean Falcone, along with Kamryn in their Friday Women in Music Happy Hour. Later tonight, Café Nine presents Danny Pease and the Regulators, Dutty Winehouse, and more. Saturday’s weekly afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with Gary Grippo & Friends, and the late show has Nihiloceros, Witch Hair, and Lew Alcindor. The Sunday Buzz Matinee features The Furors and Big Fat Combo, followed by a late show with the Gibson Brothers.  http://www.cafenine.com/

Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight, it’s high-energy acoustics with Primate Fiasco. On Saturday, it’s the return of the Northeast Blues Guitar Summit. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/

At the Russell Library in Middletown tomorrow/Saturday they begin a Local Authors! series with Middletown authors Sandy Berenbaum and Matthew James Alexander Simmons, and the Friends Book Sale happens this weekend. They’re open Sundays from 1-4 pm. Check the website for details these and more ongoing events for all ages. www.russelllibrary.org

Bon Appetit and Long Lane Farm invites you to a Pumpkin Festival this Saturday here in Middletown from noon to 4 pm at 281 Long Lane in Middletown offering free veggie burgers, live music, farm tours and more. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/

Saturday night at 9pm, here in Middletown, you can catch THE BASUKES! & OLD LONESOME DAVE AT THE PICKLE STAND on MAIN STREET, 860-788-3570

The Eversource Hartford Marathon happens this Saturday at Bushnell Park. A full schedule can be found at www.hartfordmarathon.com

Naturally Dogs and Cats hosts an organized dog walk at Keney Park in Hartford this Saturday from 9 to 11 am. Details at www.hartford.com/events/

It’s free admission with the Second Saturdays for Families event at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. Details at http://www.thewadsworth.org/

The Connecticut Gilbert & Sullivan Society performs “Princess Ida!” this Saturday and Sunday at the Valley Regional High School Performing Arts Center in Deep River. Details at www.ctgands.org

The region’s newest vocal chamber ensemble, Alchemy, opens its first season this Saturday with their performance, We Begin to Shine, at the First Congregational Church in Cheshire. More information at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/

The Buttonwood Tree hosts a Music for Giving Fundraiser Sunday at 4 pm at First Congregational Church in Middletown. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/

Sunday, Manic Presents brings Phoenix and Lo Moon to The College Street on Sunday with. Details at www.manicpresents.com

This Sunday, The Hartford Record Riot features over 40 tables of records, CDs & music memorabilia from some the East Coast's finest music dealers all under one roof at the Pratt & Whitney Club, on Clement Road in East Hartford. www.Recordriots.com

Many of Connecticut’s Farmers Markets are still in session. find out 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 “Walk With Me,” a peek inside the Zen Buddhist monastery of Thich Naht Hahn, through Sunday. Their afternoon movie “Wind River,” a thriller about a murder on a Native American reservation continues through next Thursday. Tonight/Friday they open “Lucky,” about the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist in a desert town.  Details & screening times at www.realartways.org

Tonight, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford, opens “The Big Sick” about a Pakistani-American comedian navigating a non-traditional relationship. Check the website for full schedule and screening times. http://www.cinestudio.org/

Now, stay tuned for a rundown of evening programming here on WESU!

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 6:30pm, it'll be Wild Wild Live! with Babe and Beth expounding on that Wesleyan music scene.

From 6:30-7pm you can catch 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 Sista Queen T- offering 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 featuring lover’s rock, dancehall reggae, and RnB from international hit makers alongside artists from right here in CT!

                                                       
Then from 10 to 11:30pm it's Strickly Off the Head where DJ Cocomotion 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.

Bridging the night to the morning hours, from 11:30pm to 12:30am you’ll have An A and a B with DJ N following the premise that every band has its hits - and a multitude of unknown, hidden gems. Songs played per band (70s-2000s rock) seek to highlight this dichotomy.

From 12:30pm until 3am Saturday we go into serious OVERDRIVE w/Clarence & Shantay Scott - offering the best urban contemporary, hip hop, and traditional gospel music on the planet!

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 Pacifica.

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.

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