Good evening, it's Monday, February 13th. This is the Jive
at Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of nighttime programming here
on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown. By day, WESU offers talk radio from NPR and
Pacifica, as well as independent and local public affairs sources. Weeknights
and weekends our student and community volunteers bring you the best in
free-form programming.
I'm Marianne O’Hare, producer of Conversations on Healthcare, heard Wednesdays at 4:30, right before the Jive at Five. Here's a rundown of some of what's
happening in our area this week:
In New Haven, tonight (Tuesday) at Café Nine you can catch conscious
roots reggae from Jamaica by EARTH-KRY with opening act, The Alpaca Gnome Trio.
Wednesday, it’s a Lovers Lounge-a-Palooza "VALENTINE'S DAY JAZZ LOUNGE
Show" WITH KEVIN SAINT JAMES. Thursday’s at Cafe Nine it’s JOE MILLER
& THE HIPSHAKERS alongside BRONSON ROCK. Friday night at The Nine,
Fernando Pinto Presents: Tragedy: All Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees &
Beyond plus American Trash, and more. Saturday, Café Nine’s Weekly
afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with Tony Dioguardi & Friends. Saturday night,
WITCH HAIR, LAUNDRY DAY, and THE RIGHT OFFS share a bill at Café Nine and
"The Sunday Buzz" Matinee From Cygnus Radio features ROBYN HITCHCOCK
and Lys Guillorn. Sunday eve it’s the original Cafe Nine Blues Jam with
GEORGE LESIW BAND http://www.cafenine.com/
Tonight (Tues), The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in
Middletown hosts: an Authors to Schools Program Open House at 6 pm this even.
Thursday they host a workshop for kids to Make Valentine Gifts at 6pm.
Friday at 7pm at Wesleyan RJ Julia is another book event featuring Tom Ryan, on
"Will's Red Coat". www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Up in Hartford, tonight Brings Black-Eyed Sally’s Annual Fat
Tuesday celebration with a New Orleans Dinner and dancing to Zydeco Slim and
The River City Hogs. Wednesday’s Weekly Community Blues Jam is hosted by Gene
Donaldson this week. It’s Liviu’s
Invitational on Thursday at Black-eyed Sally’s, and on Friday Mambo Sons take
the Sally’s stage. Saturday’s headliner is NEAL & THE VIPERS WITH CARL
RICCI & 706 UNION AVE. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Tonight (Tues) Infinity Hall Hartford, it’s a MARDI GRAS
PARTY starting at 5pm followed later by Krewe Orleans w/ members of Trey
Anastasio Band, Pink Talking Fish, Moe, Turkauz, and more. Friday at Infinity
Hartford, it’s The Weight Band "World Gone Mad" Album Pre-Release
Concert w/ members of THE BAND. Infinity Hall Norfolk present Griffin
House on Friday night and Welcomes the return of the legendary reggae group,
The Wailers, on Saturday night. www.infinityhall.com
Wednesday, Valentine’s Day at 6pm, The Buttonwood Tree in
Middletown, hosts an opening reception for
their February Art Reception “Love is in the Air”, a collective art show 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. On Friday you can catch Carolyn Halsted’s Piano Concert “The Ground
Doth Sing”. There’s a Teen open Mic at
The Buttonwood Tree on Saturday afternoon from 3-5pm. Saturday night brings a
performance by the Boston based Louis Apollon Jazz Trio. Sunday brings John Basinger’s continued one-man
rendition of John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, the ninth book. at 1:00
pm.
At the Russell Library in Middletown, Thursday night from 6:30PM-8:00PM
in the Hubbard Room there’s a Black History Month Film Screening for of Whose
Streets? Friday from 4:00PM-6:00PM, at the library, in the Hubbard
Room, it’s Poet's Corner with Middletown’s Poet Laureate Susan Allison: Calling
All Poets! Saturday from 10:00AM-2:00PM in the Hubbard Room, The NAACP presents
a Black History Extravaganza. You can also experience the powerful art
exhibition by Pierre Sylvaine “Fantastical Journey: Voodoo, Slavery, Jazz, on
display throughout the Library through the end of March. On Saturday morning
you can explore French and Spanish language classes for your kids at Russell Library.
Check the website for more activities and offerings for patrons of all ages,
and for information on the current online auction fundraiser. www.russelllibrary.org
The Wesleyan Center for the Arts invites you to experience a
virtuoso of the koto, Masayo Ishigure (Mah SIGH yoh Eesh ee GOO ray), Friday,
February 16 at 8pm in Crowell Concert Hall. “Koto 360 Degrees”, is a musical
dialogue between the east and west, with Japanese instruments alongside western
elements.
Wesleyan Private Lessons Teacher and Principal Harpist with
the United States Coast Guard Band Megan Sesma returns to The Russell House
with her Coast Guard Band colleague and saxophonist Dr. Joshua Thomas, a
Conn-Selmer artist, Sunday, February 18, 2018 at 3:00pmwww.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Friday night, you can catch The Michael Cleary Band at La
Vita Gustosa in East Haddam, CT 860-873-8999
Saturday night, at The College St Music Hall, PREMIER
CONCERTS AND MANIC PRESENTS: Bring Less Than Jake, Four Year Strong, Direct
Hit, and Bearings to the stage. Sunday they’ve got Declan McKenna and
Chappell Roan at The Space Ballroom in Hamden. www.manicpresents.com
The Connecticut Historical Society invites you to their
ongoing exhibit, That’s Weird, of strange objects connected to our state’s
material culture, happening every Saturday. Details at www.chs.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues their annual Oscar
Nominated Short Films series through Feb 22nd. They’ve also
extended their run of “Loving Vincent,” through Feb 18th. Through Thursday
they are showing FACES PLACES a French film described as ”a lively, fun,
stirring tribute to art and its ability to touch people and bring souls
together”. The Bread Winner, is the an animated tale of an 11-year-old girl
growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan who cuts her hair to work as a boy
to support her family after her father is wrongfully arrested. Opening tonight is the Lebanese film, The
insult. Tomorrow you can catch Academy
Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature: LAST MEN IN ALEPPO Check the
website for details and screening times at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues their run of the 1942 classic love story, “Casablanca.” Through Thursday. Friday they open a run of the film Lady Bird/. Check the website for full schedule and screening times. http://www.cinestudio.org/
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM
Middletown:
Right after the Jive stick around for spilled milk with Charlotte until 6pm
From 6-8pm it’s Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill, offering
an eclectic selection of new and older folk, Americana, bluegrass, blues and
other music with a roots influence plus a concert listing at 7pm and frequent
concert and festival ticket giveaways.
At 8pm stay tuned for The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry, A
weekly spotlight of Connecticut arts and culture.
From 9-10pm IT’s The Test Patterns Show with Chaim
O'Brien-Blumenthal
At 10 stick and stay for Universal Time Traversal with Hyphy
- Taking the "Oh Geez" out of the OGs.
From 11-midnight, tonight, it’s “Profile”, With Maile and Sage
for and an hour-long deep dive into an artist's life and career.
From midnight-1am stay tuned for Mixed Media with DJ
Pig in the City and DJ Megnanimous
From 1-2am stay tuned for Women's Music, Women's Wisdom with
DJ Sensibility
At 2am it’s Fish and Chips, With DJ Chee, A music show
dedicated to British bands and artists.
Maxium Rock and Roll Radio Comes your way at 3am and you can
catch the BBC World Report at 4am.
We kick off our weekday program at 5am with Morning Edition
from NPR, followed by a diverse mix of talk radio from Pacifica and NPR
throughout the day.
That’s all for today’s Jive at Five, tune in each weekday at
4:55 for our rundown of local events and entertainment and our evening lineup
here on WESU Middletown.
Find the script for this show, our current program schedule,
a link to listen live, program archives and more, online at www.wesufm.org
Stay tuned for Spilled Milk with Charlotte, up next!
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