Friday, February 23, 2018

Friday's Jive 02-23-18

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.

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 theBBC 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’sthe 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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