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Today is Make Music Day 2018, an international musical celebration featuring live free concerts on streets, sidewalks, and parks. Here’s a rundown of tonight’s participating events in Middletown:
At Butternut Hollow Park, The Middletown Symphonic Band will perform at 5pm
At Harbor Park at 5pm there’s Hands on Drumming and Zoo Front performs indie Rock at 7:15.
Jedd Chlebowski performs electronic Jazz and funk at Klekolo World Coffee at 5:30 this evening and will be followed by Someone You can X-Ray, performing at 9pm.
Up main St at The Mac 650 Gallery and performance space, tonight, there’s a bill featuring Pleasure Beach, Dagwood, Pale Space, Tier and more!
GB Sneed performs Blues, Rock, and RnB at The Middletown Music Academy on Main St at 6:30 making way for a performance by GreenEyzMiami at The Academy at 7:30.
tonight, The Russell Library features Clara’s Journey: Why our Piano Goes to the Woods at 7pm.
Andrew Prue takes the Buttonwood Tree stage at 7pm.
right about now, starting at 5pm, you can catch Middlesex Music Academy Students performing live on the gazebo at Middletown’s South Green/Union Park.
you can visit http://www.makemusicday.org/middletown/ For more details about any of these performances or http://www.makemusicday.org for a complete listing of all events!
Now, here's some of what's happening in our region throughout the rest of the week.
The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown brings you The BadSlax Jazz Quartet this Friday night. The Aligned with Source Workshop happens Saturday morning, and the Sharp 5 Jazz Ensemble performs Saturday night. The collage and watercolor exhibit by Candice Weigle-Spier that runs through the month. www.buttonwood.org
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, on Thursday night's It's Liviu Pop's Jazz invitational with special guests. It’s the award-winning West Hartford teen band Gravitonik on Friday, and on Saturday they celebrate the 19th annual Black-Eyed & Bluesfest starting at 3 pm in Bushnell Park. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Friday at the College Street Music Hall, Manic Presents offers a triple bill featuring The Neighbourhood, HEALTH, and Field Medic. On Saturday, the Hamden Academy of Dance & Music presents its 16th Annual Recital: Birth of a Nation. www.manicpresents.com
The Russell Library in Middletown has a Microsoft Word workshop Friday morning, and Crafts for Adults at 11 am. They offer Yoga in the Hubbard Room and a Medical Massage on Saturday. Check the website for more activities and offerings for patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org
At the Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown Check out their events for kids on Saturday, and on Sunday Connecticut Writing Groups hold a Meet UP from noon to 2 pm. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Infinity Hall Norfolk features Quinn Sullivan - Young blues guitar master, tonight/Thursday. Its classic Rock with the Outlaws Friday night at Infinity Hall Norfolk. Saturday, at Infinity Norfolk it's Robert Earl Keen for a night of Folk, Country, Rock, & Bluegrass. Sunday, Guitarist, Glen Roth take the stage. At Infinity Hall in Hartford Saturday night it’s roots rock and restless mountain bluegrass with the Adam Ezra Group. www.infinityhall.com
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford invites you to check out their new outdoor sculptural installations Thursday from 3-7 pm. Enjoy artist and model interviews, a slow-moving light machine, and more. www.thewadsworth.org
The MAC650 Gallery & Artist Collective in Middletown brings Wreath, Snowpiler, Des Millions, and others will be in the house on Sunday. https://facebook.com/mac650gallery/
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, Among The Acres. They also invite you to a CitiCare Hackathon Challenge Friday through Sunday at their Church Street location. Bring your ideas to address the issue of youth bystanders to gun violence as part of the Bloomberg Mayor’s Challenge. Details at www.hartford.com/events/
The Pratt Street Plaza in Hartford offers an evening of free music and improv Friday from 5-7 pm, featuring The Professors of Sweet Sweet Music. www.hartford.com/events/
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford has an EP Release show Friday with Piercing Immortality, appearing with Casting Shadows, Our Own Destruction, and Enemy of Reason. Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
It’s Michele’s Salsa Night at the Hartford Ballroom this Friday at 7 pm. All levels of dance welcome. www.hartfordbalroom.com/
At Vinnie’s Jump and Jive in Middletown you can learn the Lindy Hop in the second annual Gby Cook Workshop on Friday and Saturday. Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
If you’re a veteran or military service member you can learn about kayaking or rowing Saturday at 9:30 am at Riverside Park in Hartford courtesy of the Connecticut Adaptive Rowing Program and Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital. Details at www.hartford.com/events/
The fourth annual Greater Hartford Latino Fest takes place Saturday starting at noon at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Wyllys Avenue. Enjoy music, food, and more while celebrating the region’s Latino heritage. www.hartfordlatinofest.com
It’s CT Historic Garden Day on Sunday and the Butler-McCook House & Garden in Hartford invites you to tour the Weidenmann Garden installed in 1865. Details at www.ctlandmarks.org
At the Middlesex Music Academy in Middletown, it’s Summer Music Camp 80’s Week next week, along with the Songwriting 101 Summer Class. Learn more at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues “The Gospel According to André,” a fashion documentary about André Leon Tally, and “The Desert Bride,” a South American romance. Also continuing is “Final Portrait,” a story about the friendship between a writer and an artist. Opening Friday are “Summer 1993,” a Spanish film about grief and memory, and “The Most Unknown,” a documentary about science and discovery. Check the website for details and screening times at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford this Friday opens “Tully,” a film exploring a mother-nanny relationship. On Sunday they screen “I Claude Monet,” a film about the artist using his own words. Check the website for offerings and times. http://www.cinestudio.org/
It’s Movies Under Moonlight Thursday at Elizabeth Park in Hartford. This month’s feature is “What About Bob?” www.elizabethparkct.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Tonight, Hartford’s Real Art Ways ends their run of 3 films: “The Gospel According to André,” a fashion documentary about André Leon Tally, “The Desert Bride,” a South American romance. Also ending its run at Real Art Ways tonight is, “Final Portrait,” a story about the friendship between a writer and an artist. Opening tomorrow/Friday are “Summer 1993,” a Spanish film about grief and memory, and “The Most Unknown,” a documentary about science and discovery. Check the website for details and screening times at www.realartways.org
Tonight, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford ends thier run of “A Quiet Place,” a horror film about silence. Tomorrow/Friday, Cinestudio opens their run of “Tully,” a film exploring a mother-nanny relationship. On Sunday they screen “I Claude Monet,” a film about the artist using his own words. Check the website for offerings and times. http://www.cinestudio.org/
It’s Movies Under Moonlight tonight (Thursday) at Elizabeth Park in Hartford. This month’s feature is “What About Bob?” www.elizabethparkct.org
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup as we wrap up week #3 our new Summer program here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown:”
Right after the jive at Five stick around for Homegrown with Robbie DeRosa playing Connecticut connected artists treating listeners to pre-release material and in studio interviews with artists, and information about live shows in the area.
At 6:30, its Imagine with Karen Stein offering 90 minutes of Peace through music.
from 8:00-9:30pm you can enjoy Evening Jazz with Bill Denert offering a broad range of swing, be bop and avante garde with a sprinkling of new releases, where "Hearing is the best experience"
at 9:30 Crispix with Chris features indie rock to folk to electronic and more, Chris picks whatever he’s feeling each week to share with you.
from 11-midnight Precious Metal with MC Monster Deconstructs ideas within metal culture. New, hot, and classic metal songs along with news from the metal community.
from midnight-2am Noize in the Attic with Greg Schmitt is Where Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You. Serving Connecticut it’s hard rock fix of classic Heavy Metal as well as the latest from the genre!
from 2-4am its All Mixed Up from Pacifica for 2 hrs of great free form music connected to the week’s events.
at 4am its BBC World Report offering International news coverage fand we kick off each weekday at 5am with Morning Edition from NPR
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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!
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