Friday's Jive 03-30-18

Good evening, it's Friday, March 30th, 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.

Here in Middletown, tonight, The Buttonwood Tree will host Charter Oak Jazz featuring Brett Bottomley on Chapman Stick playing jazz standards and originals.  Saturday night, Plywood Cowboy offers new Americana music.  The Hearing Voices Network ­meets Monday morning. Details @ buttonwood.org

New Haven’s Café Nine hosts the Monthly Women in Music Happy Hour at 5 this afternoon spotlighting Lynn Malavolte, Shannon Mcmahon, and Donna Santala. Later, The Stash! Band takes the stage with opening act Ayrhill. The weekly Saturday afternoon jazz jam will be hosted by Billy Cofrances at 4:30. Later, Wise Old Moon shares a bill with The Wolff Sisters. Details @ cafenine.com

In Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight it’s a night of blues/rock/country with The Redliners. On Saturday you can catch the blues with The Mike Crandall Band featuring Mike Williams. This Sunday, Sally’s features a special Easter “Soul” brunch w/ Elsie & Tee. Featuring a Southern brunch menu and soulful jazz, r&b and gospel music. Details @ blackeyedsallys.com 

Saturday night at 6pm the Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown holds their monthly discussion series of philosophy. Details @ wesleyanrjjulia.com

Saturday afternoon, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford is showing The Corpse Bride to complement their current exhibit, Gorey’s Worlds.  Sunday The Wadsworth presents an Easter Jazz Brunch with Sally Terrell and The Green Jazz Band. Details @ thewadsworth.org

At Infinity Hall Hartford tonight, Capricorn pays tribute to The Allman Brothers Band.  Saturday Delbert McClinton takes the stage.  Meanwhile tonight at Infinity Norfolk, Starman pays tribute to David Bowie. Details @ infinityhall.com

At The Space Ballroom in Hamden tonight Manic Presents has Beau Bolero and on Saturday night they’ve got Brandon Wardell and Jimmy Blair. Details @ manicpresents.com

Cherry St. Station in Wallingford offers loud music tonight with Control Scheme, Hounds of Justice, Soul Conversion, and Iblissian. Saturday is another loud night featuring Medicated Savage, Disguise the Curse, Dead Reflections, Years Of Vengeance and Hero And The Horror. Details @ facebook.com/CherryStreetStation

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 @ chs.org

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

Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues their run of Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy, and keep the change through Thursday. Tonight 2 films open: The China Hustle, a Wall St heist story as well as Journey’s End, based on R.C. Sherriff’s celebrated 1928 play about life in the trenches during WWI. The new afternoon movie, Phantom Thread, is set in the fashion scene of post WWII London.   Saturday at 11am Their Film 101 series spotlights the 1955 French film noir Bob le Flambeur. Details & screening times @ realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues showing Steven Spielberg’s “The Post” through Saturday, which explores the media’s 1971 coverage of the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000 page secret history of the Vietnam War. On Sunday, considered among the top of Italian “spaghetti westerns”, The Great Silence begins a run. 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 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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