Good evening, it's Wednesday, April
11th. 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 Bill Denert, producer and host
of Thursday night's Evening Jazz where "hearing is the best
experience" and Connecticut's number 1 Washington Nationals fan! Thanx for
joining us!
Here's some of what's happening in
our area this week:
At the Russell Library in
Middletown, this evening/Wednesday 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
Here in Middletown, on 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
Tonight/Wednesday Manic Presents has
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 the weekend Manic has Men I Trust at The
Space Ballroom Sunday night at 7pm. www.manicpresents.com
In New Haven, at Café Nine this
evening?Wednesday 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, it's the Wednesday night Community Blues 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 Wesleyan’s Center for the arts.
This week brings Graduate recitals, new gallery shows and year end
concerts. Tonight/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
This evening/Wednesday 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
Tonight/Wednesday here in
Middletown, Laboca hosts and Open Bluegrass Jam with The Pitkin Pickers.
Saturday night Cosmos Sunshine & the Butterfly Effect w/s/g No Mind take
the Laboca Stage. https://www.facebook.com/pg/CityArtsOffice/events/
for info on this and more of what Middletown has to offer.
Thursday night at 7:30pm in
Middletown, you can catch The Vintage Players production of “Outside Mullingar”
at Oddfellows Playhouse www.oddfellows.org
for tickets ad information.
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
WESU is hosting An Evening in
Antarctica with Jonathan Chester this Friday, at 6:30pm at Wesleyan
University’s Shanklin Hall, Room 107, located at 237 Church St. in Middletown.
Jonathan has traveled to Antarctica on over forty expeditions as a professional
photographer, author, filmmaker, and environmentalist, and his lecture will
showcase his Antarctic photography, Antarctica in general, and its relation to
global climate change. You can find more about Jonathan at his website www.extremeimages.com.
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:
Through Thursday, 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). Friday
Real Art Ways begins a new afternoon movie, Foxtrot about the emotional toll of
active service on Israeli families. www.realartways.org
This week brings the annual April in
Paris Film Festival to Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford.
Tonight’s showing is 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 Jive at Five on
Wednesdays its the Latin Music Hour with Isabel Calione Latin music from the
80s, 90s and early 2000s.
At 6pm Captured with DJ Aurah
Explores the art of writing about other people.
From 6:30-8pm Fusion Radio with
James Fusion presents a 90 minute techno mix.
At 8pm The Warehouse with Mike Nyce
features underground house music, mixed live for your listening pleasure.
From 9:30-11pm The Vault with
DJ Anton Banks wraps up our electronic dance music block.
From 11-midnight dumpster dive with
smelly and yourstruly presents punk, art pop and diy coming from a garbage
compactor near you.
At midnight THE TONIGHT SHOW with
Balsamic and Shlomo is a Late-Night talk show style show concerning pop
culture, politics and new music
From 1-2am Kellex and Kleenog’s
Radio Hour keeps the fun going with experimental music and talk.
From 2-4am DJ Coroner’s Last Will
and Testimony Haunts the Midnight airwaves with an eclectic mix of oneiric,
experimental sounds. Ambient, noise, drone, poetry readings and more--sonic
flotsam from the abandoned station.
And at 4am, the BBC World News comes
on board and we begin our broadcast day with Morning Edition from NPR at 5am.
That's all for today's Jive at Five.
Join us weekdays at 4:55 for a daily rundown of area happenings a rundown of
evening programming on WESU Middletown!
Thanks for listening. Now stay tuned
for the Latin Music Hour!
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