Good afternoon, it's Friday, April
13th, 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, RJ Ruotolo’s Jazz Workshop Quartet commands The
Buttonwood Tree performance room and Saturday night Al Copley, who’s played
with Room Full of Blues and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, brings in a night of
boogie, blues, jump, and jazz piano. The Hearing Voices Network meets Monday
mornings. Details
@ buttonwood.org
At The Russell
Library in Middletown Saturday morning, the Future Teachers Club of Middletown
High School presents a Spring Program at 11, with crafts, stories, and hands-on
projects. There are classes in Spanish and French for children Saturday morning
too. The library is closed Sundays starting this month; they’ll resume in the
fall. The next Reader's Theater presentation, "Doubt: a Parable," is
scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, and again at 7 p.m. on April 16, at the Durham
Library. Details @ russelllibrary.org
At Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts. This week
brings Graduate recitals, new gallery shows and year end concerts. The Spring
Senior Thesis Dance Concert happens today and Saturday night at 8pm in the
Patricelli '92 Theater. The Kronos Quartet performance for this weekend
at Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall is sold out. Details @ wesleyan.edu/cfa/
New Haven’s Café Nine Friday
5pm show features Laura Dowding and later, Go Kat Go! Presents: The Living
Deads alongside Bloodshot Bill. The weekly Saturday afternoon jazz jam will be
hosted by Gary Grippo and Friends and Saturday night you’ll hear Grammy
Award Winners the Lost Bayou Ramblers with guests, An Historic. Sunday
afternoon, Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles featuring Eric
"Roscoe" Ambel appear with Stefanie Austin and The Palomino Club. In
the evening it’s the Sex Beat Dance Party with DJ Kid Congo Powers. Details @ cafenine.com
Manic Presents has Colter Wall and Ian Noe at
The Space Ballroom tonight. Tonight Manic Presents and Premier Concerts present
They Might Be Giants at The College St Music Hall. Manic has Men I Trust at The
Space Ballroom Sunday night at 7pm. Details @ manicpresents.com
In Hartford at
Black-Eyed Sally’s tonight it’s The Mike Casey Trio. On Saturday you can
catch the Jay Collins Band. Details @ blackeyedsallys.com
At Infinity Hall Hartford tonight Max Creek celebrates their 47th
Creekiversary. Saturday The Trucks pay tribute to The Cars. Tonight at Infinity
Norfolk, you can catch The Slambovian Circus of Dreams. The Alpaca Gnomes
is there Saturday and Sunday Sessions Live at Infinity Norfolk features Bernice
Lewis.
Details @ infinityhall.com
Here in Middletown, LaBoca hosts Cosmos
Sunshine & the Butterfly Effect Saturday night. Details @ facebook.com/CityArtsOffice for
info on this and more of what Middletown has to offer.
Cherry St. Station in Wallingford has Ryder, from Brooklyn, making
their debut tonight along with Over The Line, All In All Out, & The
Sadists! Saturday brings the Apostasy 15th anniversary with special guests
VenomSpreader, The Aberration, Savage World, and Zombii. Details @ facebook.com/CherryStreetStation
WESU is hosting An Evening in Antarctica with
Jonathan Chester today at 6:30pm at Wesleyan University’s Shanklin Hall, Room
107, located at 237 Church St. in Middletown. Chester has traveled to
Antarctica on over forty expeditions as a professional photographer, author,
filmmaker, and environmentalist, and his lecture will showcase his Antarctic
photography, and its relation to global climate change. Details @ extremeimages.com.
Tonight at The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford,
you can catch a special performance of vignettes created by Anne Cubberly,
Casey Grambo, and Rosanna Karabetsos in celebration of the special exhibition
Gorey’s Worlds. Performers include Joey Batts, Studio 860, Sea Tea Improv, and
Night Fall cast members. This weekend brings the month Second Saturdays
for Families event: Paper Theater Take the stage! where you can explore
theatrical scenes in Gorey’s Worlds, then collaborate with a local artist to
create a cross-hatched paper costume and participate in a paper puppetry
workshop. Museum admission is free during Second Saturdays activities. Details
@ thewadsworth.org
Tonight at 7 p.m. brings a rare opportunity to
experience the internationally acclaimed Bread & Puppet Theater who will perform
at First Church in Middletown for onenight only! After the performance
Bread and Puppet will serve its famous free sourdough rye bread with aioli, and
Bread and Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and
banners from the Bread and Puppet Press – will be for sale. The Bread and
Puppet Practitioners-of-the-Pursuit-of-What String Band will welcome the
public. Admission by donation. Details @ breadandpuppet.org
The Unitarian Universalist Church in Meriden
is holding a FUNdrasier concert featuring The Coffee Grinders, a
Roots/Traditional Blues band with special guest Rocky Lawrence on Saturday, at
7pm. Details @ UUMeriden.org
or contact Donna at 203-237-1323
And,
here's our rundown of cinema, off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues the dark comedy, The Party. Today opens a run of the French film, Ismael’s Ghosts. Also begins a new
afternoon movie, Foxtrot, about the
emotional toll of active service on Israeli families. Details & screening times @ realartways.org
It’s the annual April in Paris Film Festival to Trinity College’s
Cinestudio in Hartford. Tonight’s showing is the dark comedy The Death of Louis XIV. Saturday, it’s a
dystopian animated tale of Paris in April
and The Extraordinary World, and Sunday the film festival concludes with
The French coming of age film Worst Case,
We Get Married. 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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