Good evening, it's
Monday, June 25th. 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
Ben Michael, Thanks for joining us this afternoon! If it seems to you like our Spring Pledge
drive is lingering on… you’re right! Technically, is summer but we still need
over $4,000 to close out this pledgd drive. Luckily for all of us, we’ve got a
$2,500 matching donation to help us close out this drive. Thanks to an
anonymous donor, every donation received by Friday at midnight will be doubled
until we unlock the $5K potential value of this gift. Anyone can sit there and listen, become radio
active with your donation today! www.wesufm.org/pledge
Here’s our rundown
of events in our area this week as well as our evening lineup here on WESU
Middletown.
The Buttonwood Tree
in Middletown brings you the Anything Goes Open Mic & Moments of Gratitude
tonight with Bill Katz. The Middlesex Drum Circle meets at the buttonwood this
Thursday. Friday, and award-winning pop singer/songwriter Jann Klose (pronounced
Yann Close) takes the Buttonwood Tree stage Friday night. The Aligned with
Source Workshop happens Saturday morning, and The Buttonwood invites you to
enjoy the Food Truck on the Farm music festival at Lyman Orchards with a Silent
Auction to benefit The Buttonwood Tree from 11 am to 5 pm. Funds raised will support the purchase of a
new sound system for the Buttonwood. Back downtown, The Saturday evening show at
The Buttonwood a features the Dialect Trio with Mario Pavone for a night of Jazz.
www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, Café
Nine’s Manic Mondays presents Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin /Stones with
Chaser Eight, tonight. Tomorrow/ Tuesday Café Nine features a night of Hip Hop
with Old Self, Juswan, Jules Baxter, and more. It’s another Words & Music
on Wednesday. This Thursday you can catch Pearl Earl, Jacques LeCoque, and
Gvrden at The Nine. Friday, Café Nine’s 5pm Happy Hour features DW Ditty. The
Friday night main event features Heavy Weight, Indoor Living, and Adam Wolf. Café
Nine’s Saturday weekly afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with Billy Cofrances, this
week. Saturday night’s bill features Witch
Hair, appearing with Ports of Spain, Every Branch, and more. Sunday night, Café
Nine finishes out the weekend with Handsome Hound & Chris Peters. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at
Black-Eyed Sally’s, it’s the usual Jazz Mondays tonight with the Sanah Kadoura
Group. Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra plays jazz, R&B, and soul classics
on Tuesdays. The Community Blues Jam happens every Wednesday, and on Thursday
at Blackeye’s Sally’s Liviu’s Jazz Invitational features special guests. Friday
night, Sally’s spotlights guitarist Daniel Salazar, and Saturday’s headliners
are Dan Brother and Tom Forst. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At
Toad’s Place in New Haven, they have the Night of Smooth Jazz with Rohn
Lawrence & Friends tonight. Hard Rocker’s King’s X appear at Toad’s on
Friday, and Zach Deputy headlines the Saturday show, appearing with Sun-Dried
Vibes and Christopher Hawley. www.toadsplace.com
The
Middlesex County Historical Society invites you to a Book Launch event tonight
at 7 pm with Robert and Kathleen Hubbard, authors of “Hidden History of
Middlesex County, CT.” Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
The Russell Library
in Middletown hosts Dr. Helen Evrard on Tuesday evening with her new workshop,
Language for Brain Health. Also at
Russell Library Tuesday, there’s Origami in the evening, and the Classic
Mystery Book discussion series continues with Agatha Christie’s “A Pocketful of
Rye.” Scrabble Wednesday happens at 2 pm, and they’ll screen the movie “Wonder”
at 2:30 pm. In the evening, author Frank Connolly will speak on the Insider’s
View to City Hall. The Connecticut Poetry Society holds its monthly meeting.
They sponsor marriage and family therapist Tatiesha Perry Thursday evening with
her workshop, Practicing Self Care. There’s a LinkedIn Workshop Friday
morning. Check the website for more
activities and offerings for patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org
Up
in Hartford, Riverfront Recapture sponsors a weekly contemporary dance class,
Dance Current, Tuesdays at 6 pm at the Great River Park in East Hartford at 6
pm.
StartStruck: A Cosmic
Circus, performed by Cirque Us, happens Tuesday night at the CREC Theatre for
the Performing Arts in Hartford.
The Audio Feed music
series in Hartford continues Wednesday at noon on Constitution Plaza. This
week, enjoy Robert C Fullerton.
The
Pratt Street Patio Lunchtime Music Series continues Thursday at noon with this
week’s featured artist, The Magnetic
Its
Fourth Thursday again and the Hartford Hot Several Brass Band performs with a
special guest at the Hanging Hills Tasting Room on Ledyard St. starting at 6
pm.
Upward Hartford
sponsors Food Trucks and Music every Friday from noon to 2 pm at the Stilts
Building Plaza, with this week’s featured performers, Sarah Rose Jazz.
It
Pop Up Shakespeare this Friday at 12:30 pm with members of the Capital Classics
Theatre Company as they present scenes from “Pericles, Prince of Tyre.”
The
Hartford Proud drill, Drum & Dance Corp. performs Friday at 5 pm at the
Pratt Street Patio. Details at
The Elizabeth Park
Concert Series in Hartford continues this Wednesday with a performance by the
Goza Latin Band at 6:30 pm. www.elizabethparkct.org
At the Wesleyan RJ
Julia Bookstore in Middletown, they host Matthew Dicks on Wednesday with
“Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade and Change Your Life through the Power of
Storytelling.” It’s Philosophy Night on Saturday and you’re invited to join in
the reflective discussion. Check out the website for kids’ events all week,
including a scavenger hunt next Monday. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Manic Presents offers
Tim Barry, Roger Harvey, and Chistian Marrone this Thursday at the Space
Ballroom in Hamden. Manic presents a Blues
Super Session on Friday with the James Montgomery Band featuring Christine Ohlman, Cliff Goodwin and the Uptown Horns. On Sunday they feature Mihali, and Tim
Palmieri. Details on the website. www.manicpresents.com
Cherry Street
Station in Wallingford brings you Bucky Harris and more on Thursday, On Friday,
it’s Fund The Wookie Fest Round 4, featuring The Shape, She Walks Without Legs,
Fear The Masses, and more. It’s a split Record Release Show on Saturday for The
Lost Riots and Cry Havoc, appearing with Step 13, Easy Killer, and more.
Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
The MAC650 Gallery
& Artist Collective in Middletown brings you Edgar Clinks, Beeef, Older
Brother and more on Friday. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
At Infinity Hall in
Hartford this Friday, you can catch Blessed Union of Souls – 9. On Saturday, you
can enjoy funk, jazz, and more with the Average White Band. 10,000 Maniacs take the Infinity Hall Norfolk stage Friday night
and on Saturday Room Full of Blues performs at Infinity Norfolk and Sunday,
Asleep at The Wheel appears at Infinity Hall, Norfolk. www.infinityhall.com
Now here's a
rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art
Ways continues. “Summer 1993,” a Spanish film about grief and memory, and “The
Most Unknown,” a documentary about science and discovery. Also continuing is
“Adrift,” based on the true story of two sailors lost on the ocean after a
hurricane. On Friday they open “Breath,” a coming of age story based in remote
Australia, and “Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf,” a documentary of the
artist/designer. The afternoon movie is “First Reformed,” a thriller about a
middle-aged pastor’s crisis of faith. Check the website for details and screening
times at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues the run of “Tully,” a film exploring a mother-nanny relationship. On Sunday they screen the National Theatre Live production of “Yerma,” about a woman’s desperate desire to have a child. Check the website for offerings and times. http://www.cinestudio.org/
Free
Movies in the Park continues in Hartford on Saturday with a performance of “Willy
Wonka” with Free carousel rides & Arch tours from 6:30-8:30pm. Show time is 8:45pm
Films
on Foss an outdoor movie series created by the Middletown Mayoral Youth Cabinet
in partnership with the City of Middletown and Wesleyan University returns to Wesleyan’s
Foss Hill this summer family films screening that are FREE and open to the
public. This Saturday night June 30, you can catch Toy Story. All events start
at 7:00 pm with a community picnic with games and food trucks, and the movies
start at 8:30 pm (or shortly after, depending on the time of the sunset). https://www.filmsonfoss.com/
Now, Here's
the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown:”
Right after the jive at Five stick
around for Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry for an hour of classic bop.
at 6pm, stick around for Michael
Benson’s 75% Folk.
At 8:00 it’s time for Chip Austin’s
Unfocused Folk bringing you new and familiar Americana from Nashville and
beyond.
From 9:30pm-11pm Cruiser’s Radio
Program with Jack Sullivan features Music from the 1950s & 1960's as well
as LIVE requests, TV Trivia, and lot of fun.
And from 11-12:30am stay tuned for more
Hits of the 60s and 70s with Jimmy Z
Franco is in the house from
12:30-2:30am for a mix of Disco and dance floor hits from the 70’s and 80s.
After that things get weird with The
Hour of Slack from The Church of the SubGenius Radio Ministry. The compendium
of ranters, media barrage collage artists, for an hour of weird indie audio
underground.
from 3:30-4am its Spoiler Alert Radio
featuring Conversations on the craft of filmmaking
at 4am we turn to the BBC World Report
for world news headlines.
With less than a week
left until the end of our fiscal year, and over $4,000 left to raise we hpie
you take advantage of a $2500 matching gift that will double every donation received by Friday at midnight up
to the $5K potential value of this gift. Anyone can sit there and listen, become radio
active with your donation today! www.wesufm.org/pledge
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!
Now stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with
Charles Henry, up next!
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