Friday's Jive 02-02-18

Good evening, it's Friday, February 2nd, 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 at The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, The Story City Troupe takes the stage. The Aligned with Source Workshop and Meditation happens Saturday morning, and in the evening, the Secondary Messengers bring you jazz with a hard bop edge.  The Hearing Voices Network meets Monday morning. Details @ buttonwood.org

New Haven’s Café Nine Friday 5pm Happy Hour performance features Sean Conlon, followed by the late show with Murphy’s Law, Flapjack Attack, and Pull It Together. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session is with Mike Coppola and Friends, and the late show features The Hickups and The Bandidos. The Sunday Buzz Matinee has Des Demonas and Dust Hat. Details @ cafenine.com

In Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight they debut Rock Solid Alibi.  It’s blues on Saturday with the Chris Bergson Band. Details @ blackeyedsallys.com

At Toad’s Place in New Haven tonight, there’s a Blacklight Glow Party on two stages. Details @ toadsplace.com

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

Infinity Hall sponsors the 3rd annual Comedy & Community to benefit Horizons at the Ethel Walker School on Friday. On Saturday, it’s Who’s Next, playing the music of The Who. Details @ infinityhall.com

Cherry St. Station in Wallingford presents Outside My Head, Imbroglio, Disease Party, and Destination Dimension tonight. On Saturday, it’s Values, and Fateless, appearing with To Fear The Fall and The Devil Inside. You’re invited to watch the big game on Sunday at their Stupor Bowl Sunday celebration. Details @ facebook.com/CherryStreetStation

The Middletown Recreation Division invites you to Unified Celebration, a production by the Unified Theater Students, tonight at the Middletown High School. Call 860-638-4500 for details. They also invite you to a guided walk along the Connecticut River Sunday at 10 am, starting at Harbor Park. Email Debbie.stanley@middletownct.gov for details and registration.

The Wesleyan Center for the Arts invites you to explore a collaborative, durational performance and installation project, “between systems and grounds”, on Saturday and Sunday at the Russell House. The second annual Wesleyan FluteFest Concert happens Sunday at 7 pm at Crowell Concert Hall. Details @ wesleyan.edu/cfa

Manic Presents brings comedian Brian Posehn to the Space Ballroom in Hamden on Saturday. Details @ manicpresents.com

Sinking Ships Productions’ adaptation of Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” is performed through Sunday at the Carriage House Theater in Hartford. Details @ hartford.com/events/

This Saturday, La Boca on Main St. in Middletown brings Someone You Can X-Ray and Straddledaddy to the stage. Details @ facebook.com/labocact   

The Connecticut Historical Society offers That’s Weird, their ongoing exhibit of strange objects connected to our state’s material culture happening every Saturday. They also invite you to their ongoing exhibit, Passing It On: Traditional Arts Apprenticeships through March 10th. Enjoy photographs of artists, and learn more about the apprenticeship program. Details @ chs.org

There’s an opening reception at the MAC650 Gallery & Artist Co-Op in Middletown tonight at 7 pm for the photography of Rafael Conception. His work examines the relationship between the US and Puerto Rico. Details @ facebook.com/CityArtsOffice

Baby Grand Jazz at the Hartford Public Library presents Sinan Bakir this Sunday at 2 pm. Details @ hplct.org

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

Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues their extended run of Loving Vincent. The afternoon movie is Molly’s Game, based on the true story of an Olympic-class skier running an illegal poker scam. Today they open Vazante, a Portuguese historical film about a young woman forced to marry a slave trader. They also open British Arrows Awards, a celebration of innovative British advertising. Details & screening times @ realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues the Oscar-nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, about a defiant woman trying to solve her daughter’s murder. The Sunday matinee Bolshoi Ballet performance is The Lady of The Camellias, with music by Chopin. Also, beginning a run Saturday is The Disaster Artist. Details & screening times @ cinestudio.org 

The Connecticut Science Center is screening two films in 3D at the Hoffman Foundation Science Theater in Hartford. You can enjoy Dream Big: Engineering Our World, about inventions and structures from across the globe, or National Geographic’s Extreme Weather: Powerful Forces Are Colliding. Details @ ctsciencecenter.org  

The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford is screening Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, throughout the weekend. Costumes from her movies will be on display, and there’s a triple feature on Saturday including Experiment Perilous and Dishonored Lady. Details @ thewadsworth.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 DJ Balsamic & DJ Pig in the City 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 12:30am 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.

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