Monday, April 9, 2018

Monday 04-09-18 Jive


Good evening, it's Monday, April 9th. 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 Maria Johnson, producer and host of "Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith," which airs every first, third and fifth Tuesday from 4 to right before the Jive at Five. A week from tomorrow, on April 17th, we'll focus on a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Redding, Conn., which draws practitioners from a range of religions, including Catholicism. Can't listen live? Find the audio archived later that night at www.reasonablycatholic.com
Now here's some of what's happening in our area this week:

Here in Middletown, tonight, the weekly Anything Goes Open Mic at The Buttonwood Tree will be hosted by Ashley Hamel. Tuesday evening from 6-8pm, The Buttonwood hosts a reception for their new gallery show by photographer, Don Logie, who’s captured night time images of Buttonwood Tree performances as well as scenes from around the world.   Friday night Rj Ruotolo’s Jazz Workshop Quartet takes the Buttonwood Tree Stage and Saturday night Al Copley, who’s played with Room Full of Blues and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, makes for a night of boogie, blues, jump, and Jazz piano. The Hearing Voices Network ­meets Monday mornings.  www.buttonwood.org

In New Haven, Café Nine’s Manic Mondays brings you THE NATIONAL RESERVE and Hayley Thompson-King. Tomorrow (tuesday) there’s a triple bull featuring ANNA ROSE, ANDREA NARDELLO, &
LEILA CROCKETT.  Wed’s it’s Comedy night with Dan Rice at Café Nine. Thursday night Café Nine presents British Songwriter Bobby Long with opening act Nick DePuy.  At 5pm Friday, LAURA DOWDING takes the stage and later Friday night, GO KAT GO! Presents: THE LIVING DEADS alongside BLOODSHOT BILL. Café Nine’s weekly Saturday afternoon jazz jam will be hosted by Gary Grippo and Friends at 4:30.  Saturday night you can catch Grammy Award Winners LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS
with guests, An Historic.  Sunday afternoon at 4pm, SARAH BORGES & THE BROKEN SINGLES FEAT. ERIC "ROSCOE" AMBEL take the stage with Stefanie Austin and The Palomino Club. Later, Sunday at 9pm it’s the Sex Beat Dance Party with DJ Kid Congo Powers.   http://www.cafenine.com/

Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight’s Jazz Monday event features the Andrew Wilcox Quintet. Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra comes your way Tuesday night. The Community Blues Jam happens on Wednesdays and Its Liviu Pop’s Jazz Invitational on Thursday evenings with special guest artists. This Friday night, Sally’s presents The MIKE CASEY TRIO. On Saturday you can catch the JAY COLLINS BAND. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/

At the Russell Library in Middletown, tomorrow (Tues) at 6pm, The Racial Justice Book Group will discuss The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skloot. Wednesday afternoon its Gamer’s Realm from 4:30-5:30 in the Activity Room.  Thursday night The Veteran’s Writing group meets at The Russell Library. Friday at 1pm, The Library will Screen 2001 A Space Oddyssey. For information about these and more activities at  www.russelllibrary.org

Manic Presents Has Steve Earle & The Dukes along with The Mastersons tomorrow night (Tues) at The College St Music Hall.  Wednesday Manic Presents features Mirah, Secret Drum Band, and Olive Tiger at The Space Ballroom in Hamden.  Thursday they’ve got the Wolf Alice and The Big Pink at College St. They’ve got Colter Wall and Ian Noe at The Space Ballroom on Friday night. Friday night Manic presents and premier concerts present THey Might Be Giants at The College St Music Hall. Finally, closing out th weekend Manic has Men I Trust at The Space Ballroom Sunday night at 7pm.  www.manicpresents.com

At Wesleyan’s Center for the arts. This week brings Graduate recitals, new gallery shows and year end concerts.  Wednesday brings the opening reception for the second studio arts Senior Thesis Exhibition to Zilka Gallery.  WesFest Concert I: with Organ, Chamber, Jazz, and Laptop performances happens at Wesleyan’s Memorial Chapel Wednesday night at 7pm. Thursday at noon, you can catch The Elizabeth Verveer Tishler Keyboard Competition at Memorial Chapel.  WesFest Concert II with Choir, Gamelan, Korean, and Taiko Drumming Ensembles happens on Thursday evening at 6pm in the World Music Hall.  The Spring Senior Thesis Dance Concert happens Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 8pm in the Patricelli '92 Theater.  The Kronos Quartet performance for this weekend at Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall is sold out. ]www.wesleyan.edu/cfa

Wednesday at Noon here in Middletown, The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore ipresents "Books on the Menu" a talk with RJ Julia Booksellers Chief Operating Officer Lori Fazio and Book Buyer Brian Wraight. Patrons can get the inside scoop on all the latest new releases.  Wednesday evening at 7pm at Wesleyan RJ Julia you can catch another bookstore event: Richard Adelstein, "The Exchange Order: Property & Liability as an Economic System"   www.wesleyanrjjulia.com

Thursday night at Infinity Hall Hartford, you can catch Frankie Justin w/ Plywood Cowboy. Friday night  Max Creek celebrates their 47th Creekiversary at Infinity Hall Hartford. SaturdayThe Trucks pay tribute to The Cars. Thursday night at Infinity Hall Norfolk, The Artimus Pyle Band takes the stage.   Friday at Infinity Norfolk, you can catch The Slambovian Circus of Dreams.  The Alpaca Gnomes takes the infinity Hall Norfolk stage Saturday eve and Sunday Sessions Live at Infinity Norfolk features Bernice Lewis. www.infinityhall.com


Cherry St. Station in Wallingford offers loud music this Thursday night with Wait and Shackle alonside The Refectory and Snowpiler. Ryder (from Bklyn, NY) makes their debut at Cherry Street Station on Friday April 13th along with OVER the LINE, All In All Out, & The Sadists! Saturday at Cherry St, brings the Apostasy 15th anniversary with special guests VenomSpreader, The Aberration, Savage World, and

Friday night 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.www.thewadsworth.org


Friday night 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 ONE night 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. For more information on the event, please visit http://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. for tickets and information visit www.UUMeriden.org  or contact Donna at 203-237-1323

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:


This week Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues their afternoon movie run of A Fantastic Woman, about a waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, dealing with the death of her older boyfriend. Through Thursday Real Art Ways continues their run of Outside in which follows a newly released ex-con navigating the personal and societal challenges that follow 20 years on the inside. The Dark Comedy. The Party, continues through Wednesday at Real Art Ways.  In Cinemas Worldwide for One Night Only: this Thursday at Real Art Ways you can catch Distant Sky – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen. Thursday, Real Art Ways opens runs of French films, Ismael’s Ghosts and Back to Burgundy (Ce qui nous lie). www.realartways.org


This week brings the annual April in Paris Film Festival to Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford.
Tonight’s showing is The Nun about a young girl forced to join a convent. Tomorrow night you can catch Black Girl, about the effects of racism on a young woman from a poor village in Senegal. Wednesday night Latest News From the Cosmos explores autism and the profound bond between mother and daughter.  Thursday night at Cinestudio you can catch Fatima, bringing the life and challenges of a working class North Africa mother to screen.  Friday night, The April in Paris Film Festival continues at Cinestudio with the dark comedy in 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 @ www.cinestudio.org

Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown:

Right after the The Jive at Five, stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry From classic bop to smooth contemporary sounds.

At 6 it’s Radical Radiowaves with DJ ORacle

At 6:30 until 8pm Jake fills in for Michael Benson’s 75% folk.

From 8-9:30pm tonight Stay tuned for Unfocused Folk with Chip Austin.

From 9:30-11pm, it’s Cruiser’s Radio Program with Jack Sullivan bringing listeners back to the 1950s and 60s.

And at 11pm it’s Hits of the 60’s and 70’s with Jimmy Z Playing billboard hot 100 hits of the 60’s and 70’s. Win a WESU mug on our weekly “Name That Tune” contest.

AT 12:30 lit-mus with DJ Chi and DJ baby ruth Explore the intersections of literature and music with anonymous submissions from students across the country.

Then at 1:30 check out Weekly Ketchup wit DJ Oat Neal and DJ Opal.

at 2:30, On This Day with DJ Celiac and Jamsterdam Explores what was musically and historically significant on this day and listen to the #1 songs and fun facts from past decades.

At 3:30 Spoiler Alert Radio Conversations on the craft of filmmaking.

The BBC world Report comes your way at 4am and we begin our weekday program with Morning Edition from NPR at 5am.

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five, Now stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry, up next!


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