Good evening, it's Friday, February
23rd, 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, it’s the comedy show, Nutty by Nature, with The Coconuts. The
Ken Serio Jazz Trio takes the stage Saturday night. The Hearing Voices Network
meets Monday morning. On the walls for February is a collective art show,
“Love is in the Air”, by local artists expressing their perception of love in a
myriad of ways. Featured artists included: Flo Bartosiak, Mylène Claire
Poitras, Marsha Borden, and Allison Plouse. Details @ buttonwood.org
At
the Russell Library in Middletown, on Saturday morning there’s French and
Spanish language classes for your kids. At 1:30 pm Saturday afternoon, the
library sponsors a performance by The Harlem Quartet at First Church on Court
Street. There’s Yoga in the Hubbard Room on Sunday at 2 pm. The exhibit by
Pierre Sylvain, “Fantastical Journey: Voodoo, Slavery, Jazz,” runs through
March. Details @ russelllibrary.org
New Haven’s Café Nine Friday’s Happy Hour features
Laura Dowding, at 5pm. The late show features The Hempsteadys, RYXNO, and On
The Fritz. Saturday’s weekly afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with the George
Baker Band, and the late show brings you Zero Years. The Sunday Buzz Matinee
features The Crown Street Orchestra, and The Red Planet, followed by a late
show with Gutter Demons and The Skeleton Bea. Details @ cafenine.com
In Hartford at
Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight it’s the Adam Falcon Band. Saturday night it’st
Sally’s debut of Say Yeah!! Details @ blackeyedsallys.com
Here
in Middletown, The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore on Saturday at 2 pm, has
Katherine and Caroline Brickley with Mom’s Choice Award-winner, “The Blossom
Shoppe.” Details @ wesleyanrjjulia.com
The Hartford Jazz Society offers a
comprehensive list, chock full of weekly events featuring jazz. Details @ hartfordjazzsociety.com
Infinity Hall Hartford
presents the pianist Howard Jones Solo: Songs & Stories tonight. On
Saturday, it’s country and folk rock with Jim Messina & POCO. At infinity
Hall Norfolk Friday night it’s Green River a Creedence Clearwater Revival
tribute band, Saturday night the Ryan Montbleau Band takes the stage and Sunday
there’s live music in the Bistro w/ Steve Dedman. Details @ infinityhall.com
This
evening at 8pm, at the Wesleyan Center for the Arts, Manual Cinema premiers
Ada/Ava, with sound, music, and shadow puppets, at the CFA Theater. Guided
tours of the new exhibit, A New Subjectivity: Figurative Painting After 2000,
are offered at the Zilkha Gallery Saturday at 1 pm. On Sunday at 3 pm, This Is
It! The Complete Piano Works of Neely Bruce: Part XIV (14), takes place at
Crowell Concert Hall. Details @ wesleyan.edu/cfa
Manic
Presents brings STRTFKR (sounds like Straight Faker) and Reptilians to the
College Street Music Hall in New Haven tonight. Details @ manicpresents.com
At Toad’s Place
in New Haven tonight it’s Shakedown playing the music of the (Grateful) Dead
and Beyond, alongside Reggae Bones, and Four Six Stix. Meanwhile, it’s a CT’s
Up Next Local Showcase in Lilly’s Pad. Details @ toadsplace.com
The Charter Oak
Cultural Center in Hartford hosts an event with the cast of The Vagina
Monologues on today at 5:30 pm. Enjoy music, refreshments and works on sale
from local artisans before the show performance at 7:30. The show runs through
the weekend. Details @ charteroakcenter.org
ConnectiKids is
sponsoring a Paint Night Friday at 6:30 pm at Asylum Hill Congregational Church
in Hartford. Proceeds benefit programs for Hartford children. Details @ hartford.com/events
The KNOX
Greenhouse in Hartford hosts an Urban Greenhouse Party tonight at 7 pm to
benefit this local environmental organization. Details @ knoxhartford.org
The MAC650
Gallery & Artist Co-Op in Middletown brings you Ports of Spain, Kali Masi,
Pleasure Beach, and Tier today at 6 pm. On Saturday, it’s Tranquility, Formerly
Bodies, In Response, and more at 7 pm. Sunday, they bring you Yndi halda,
Staghorn, Wess Meets West, and Mineva. Details @ facebook.com/CityArtsOffice
Cherry St.
Station in Wallingford holds its February METAL Mayhem tonight at 7:30 with My
Hamartia, Frank Vaturina, and Pinebox. On Saturday, they sponsor the
Virus of Ideals Album Fundraiser Show at 8 pm, with special guests
Thunderforge, Dialith, and Khasm. Details @ facebook.com/CherryStreetStation
Baby Grand Jazz
continues at the Hartford Public Library Sunday at 2 pm with a performance by
Haneef Nelson. Details @ hplct.org
And,
here's our rundown of cinema, off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s
Real Art Ways continues its 2018 Oscar
Nominated Short Films series through March 1st. Other films
being screened this week include The
Shape of Water, a Cold War fable by Guillermo Del Toro. The weekend
openings are Saturday Lover For a Day,
a French love story; and Sunday Water
Warriors, a film about an anti-fracking group in Canada, followed by a
Community Discussion. Details & screening times @ realartways.org
Tonight, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in
Hartford continues a run of Downsizing
and tonight’s Moonlight Movie is The
Princess Bride, Rob Reiner’s 1987 big screen fairy tale. Sunday’s National
Theatre Live matinee is Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof. Details & 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 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.
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.
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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