Friday's Jive 11-03-17

Good afternoon, it's Friday, November 3rd, 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 hosts a special Tellabration with the Story City Troupe. The Aligned with Source Workshop happens Saturday morning, and you can enjoy blues, jugband, rockabilly mix, and more Saturday evening with Washboard Slim & The Bluelights. Details @ buttonwood.org

Writers working on National Novel Writing Month are invited to stop in at the Russell Library in Middletown on Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm to share their work. There’s an author talk on Sunday when Craig Grossi presents “Craig and Fred.” Enjoy their ongoing exhibit, Over the Top: Liberty and Victory Bond Posters from WWI, through the month.. Details @ russelllibrary.org

At the Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown tonight at 7, Wesleyan alumna and racism scholar, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum discusses her new book “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” Details @ wesleyanrjjulia.com

New Haven’s Café Nine Friday Happy Hour features Frank Critelli, and the bill for the late show includes Jonwayne, Danny Watts, Ceschi, and more. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session is with Mike Coppola and Friends, and it’s a Black Noise Scam Reunion show later with Savage World and Cry Havoc. The Sunday Buzz Matinee features The Beekeepers and Robert C. Fullerton, followed by a late show with The Wild One and a Forever: Tom Petty Tribute Night. Details @ cafenine.com

In Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight it’s dirty punk reggae with Danny Pease and the Regulators, and on Saturday Poppa Chubby is back in town Details @ blackeyedsallys.com

At Toad’s Place in New Haven tonight, the spotlight is on Kranium and Sunday’s show has Dirty Heads, The Unlikely Candidates, and Tyrone’s Jacket. Details @ toadsplace.com

The Wesleyan Center for the Arts Fall Senior Thesis Dance Concerts continue through Saturday. Details @ wesleyan.edu/cfa

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

Infinity Hall in Hartford brings you John Lodge of The Moody Blues with the 10,000 Light Years Tour tonight. It’s blues rock on Saturday with the Chris Robinson Brotherhood. On Sunday you can enjoy cabaret jazz with the John Pizzarelli Trio Details @ infinityhall.com

Cherry St. Station in Wallingford hosts Amanda Jean’s “F - Cancer” Benefit with a variety of performers. Saturday’s lineup includes HONCH, Dead on a Friday, City Mouse, and more. Details @ facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

On Sunday, Manic Presents brings Tune-Yards, and Miss Eaves to The Ballroom at The Outer Space in Hamden.  Details @ manicpresents.com

The Friends of the Wesleyan Library annual Book Sale happens this Saturday at the Olin Library on campus in Middletown. Details @ facebook.com/CityArtsOffice

The 6th annual Members Exhibit of the Art Guild of Middletown happens this Saturday at the Portland Library from 2-4 pm. Details @ facebook.com/CityArtsOffice

The Mac650 Gallery & Artist Co-Op in Middletown brings you Strange Ranger, Spit-take, The Foresters, and Dawson on Saturday at 7 pm. Details @ facebook.com/CityArtsOffice

The Hog River Brewing Company in Hartford hosts a dance performance by The Dance Collective this Saturday, celebrating female choreographers and dancers from across the nation. Details @ hartford.com/events/

The Middletown Stage Company invites you to audition for their next production, “Footloose,” on Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm. Details @ facebook.com/CityArtsOffice

The Connecticut Historical Society invites you to their ongoing exhibit, Visions/Revisions: The Print Transformed, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Printmaker’s Network of Southern New England. Details @ chs.org

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

Today, Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues the run of Loving Vincent, a feature-length painted animation on Vincent Van Gogh. Jane opens today and runs at least through next Thursday. It’s a documentary about conservationist Jane Goodall. Details & screening times @ realartways.org

Tonight and tomorrow, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues the run of mother!, about the haunting results when a married couple encounters strange visitors. Sunday opens a run of Indivisible, an Italian film that’s a mysterious fable about conjoined twins. Details and screening times @ 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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