Friday's Jive 10-20-2017

Good afternoon, it's Friday, October 20th, 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.

Tonight, The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown offers the George Washington Carver Project with Avery Sharpe & Kris Allen, presenting an original musical piece to honor the great scientist. On Saturday morning it’s the Aligned With Source Workshop, and in the evening you can catch an acoustic folk pop show with The Kennedys. On Sunday at 3 there’s a reception for the current art exhibition by contemporary impressionist painter Bonnie Byrne LeMan. Details @ buttonwood.org

New Haven’s Café Nine Friday Happy Hour brings you The Buttondowns, followed by the late show with Luke Elliot and Danny Henry. Saturday’s weekly afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with Tony Dioguardi & Friends. later Café Nine headlines Ed Cherry. The Sunday Buzz Matinee features John D’Amato, followed in the evening by a blues jam with the George Lesiw Band. Details @ cafenine.com

Tonight Manic Presents features The Front Bottoms, Basement, and Bad Bad Hats at The College Street Music Hall in New Haven. At The Ballroom at the Outer Space in Hamden on Saturday it’s Sinkane, and The Kominas.  Details @ manicpresents.com

In Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight it’s hip hop, reggae, dub, and soul with The Alchemystics and Saturday’s headliner is the John D’Amato Blues Band. Details @ blackeyedsallys.com

At Toad’s Place in New Haven, tonight’s show with Amin and Towkio includes a VIP Meet & Greet package. Details @ toadsplace.com

The Flying Particles perform live music accompaniment to the original silent version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde this Friday at the DeKoven House in Middletown, hosted by Artists for World Peace. Details @ artistsforworldpeace.org

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

Saturday, Infinity Hall in Hartford hosts another Backyard Music Series, with funky blues and jam rock performed by Creamery Station, Eggy, and The Mushroom Cloud.  Enjoy blues, gospel and more on Sunday with Melvin Seals and JGB (Jerry Garcia Band). Details @ infinityhall.com

The vocal chamber ensemble, Alchemy,continues its debut season tonight at Bethany Lutheran Church in Cromwell with their performance, “We Shall Begin to Shine.” Details @ facebook.com/CityArtsOffice

You can learn about Harriett Beecher Stowe’s involvement with the paranormal and use a ghost hunting meter today and Saturday at Spirits at Stowe: An Otherworldly Tour, at the Stowe house in Hartford. Details @ harriettbeecherstowecenter.org

Cherry St. Station in Wallingford holds it annual Halloween Bash and Costume Party tonight at 8 pm. Saturday’s bill includes Cockpunch!, Intercourse, Lift, Kidnapped, and more Details @ facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

Naturally Dogs and Cats in Hartford sponsors a Halloween Scavenger Hunt & Pooch Parade this Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm. Details @ hartford.com/events/

The Connecticut Historical Society invites you to their Behind-the-Scenes Tour: CHS Gets Creepy, this Saturday at 11 am. Learn about vampires, corpses, and death portraits. Details @ chs.org

The CT Science Center in Hartford hosts Bridge Wars as part of their Women in Science: Saturday Science series. Project Engineer Nancy Rolfe helps you build a small-scale bridge and test its strength. Their Spooktacular Science Weekend happens on Saturday and Sunday as well. Details @ ctsciencecenter.org

The Mac650 Gallery & Artist Co-Op in Middletown brings you Mineva, huo, Ourselves Alone and more this Saturday at 7 pm. Details @ facebook.com/CityArtsOffice

You are invited to a free Jazz & Poetry Concert, featuring Nat Reeves State of Emergency with Kate Rushin, poet, on Sunday afternoon, from 4-6pm, at South Congregational Church, 242 Salmon Brook Street, Granby, CT.  This event kicks off The 2017-2018 Bruce Porter Memorial Music Series. Donations accepted. Details @ southchurchgranby.org or call: (860) 653-7289.

Many of Connecticut’s Farmers Markets are still in session through the end of October. You can find out which ones at ctnofa.org

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

Today, Hartford’s Real Art Ways begins the weekday afternoon run of Tulip Fever, also Loving Vincent, a feature-length painted animation on Vincent Van Gogh, begins an extended run. Screening Saturday & Sunday afternoon is Walk With Me, capturing the life of a monastic community. Details & screening times at realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues their run of Wind River tonight and Saturday. Sunday’s matinée is the Bolshoi Ballet performance of Le Corsaire and in the evening they open a restored version of Luis Buñuel’s French classic, Diary of a Chambermaid. Details and screening times at cinestudio.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 6:30pm, it'll be Wild Wild Live! with Babe and Beth expounding on that Wesleyan music scene.

And from 6:30-7pm 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 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 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.

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.

The written form for what you've heard on today’s Jive is online at wesufm.org/jive

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