Good evening, it's Tuesday, September 18th. 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 Mariann O'Hare, producer of Conversations on Healthcare, heard Wednesdays at 4:30 PM right before the Jive at Five.
Now here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
Here in Middletown tonight, The Buttonwood Tree brings an opportunity to experience Laughter Yoga and Crystal Bowl Sound Healing. Thursday the Buttonwood offers Shaking the Tree – Gong and Sound Meditation. The Rosemary Minkler Trio performs original compositions and Jazz standards on The Buttonwood Tree stage Friday night. Saturday evening singer/songwriters Cathy Kreger and Caroline Doctorow return to the Buttonwood Tree. Enjoy the art exhibit of paintings by Janine Janaki through the month. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, Café Nine brings you DARN IT ALL and HALF DRAGON. Wednesday night at The Nine, you can catch the Ian Moore Band. Thursday’s headliner is GREG FARLEY (Formerly of The Felice Brothers) with openers Pat Collins and Wolf Harbor. Friday, Café Nine’s Weekly Wind Down Happy Hour features LYNN MALAVOLTE with PETER MENTA followed by the Friday night triple bill featuring LYS GUILLORN & HER BAND, TINY OCEAN, and AUDIO JANE. Saturday Café Nine’s weekly afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with The George Baker Band at 4 pm. Saturday night Café Nine presents THE DOGMATICS, The Dents, and Heap. "The Sunday Buzz" Matinee from Cygnus Radio features WILD PONIES and RAY MASON. Then on Sunday eve, Café nine offers SHAKE 'N' VIBRATE FEATURING a LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM SADGIRL. www.cafenine.com
This evening, Manic Presents brings Dawes’ Passwords Tour to the Space Ballroom in Hamden. Also tonight, Manic present brings Dinsaur Jr to The College St Music Hall in New Haven. Wednesday, Manic Presents has Algiers and Kindling at the Space Ballroom and Thursday at the Ballroom, Manic presents Red Fang alongside Big Business and Dead Now. Friday Manic brings a night of comedy to College St with Anthony Jeselnik: Funny Games and Jacqueline Novak. Sunday Manic brings the Speak Up Storytelling’s “Now or Never” event to the Space Ballroom. www.manicpresents.com
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s tonight, Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra plays their weekly jazz, R&B, and soul classics. The Black-eyed Sally’s Community Blues Jam happens every Wednesday, and on Thursday its Liviu’s Jazz Invitational with special guests. On Friday, you can catch a special show by Kim Wilson at Black-eyed Sally’s and on Saturday DOUG DEMING & THE JEWEL TONES make for a night of Rocking Blues. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At Toad’s Place in New Haven GURU PRESENTS: WI-FI’S FUNERAL, with Zion, Billy Boat, TenzoTen, and more on Thursday. DRAKE BELL takes the Toad’s stage on Friday with opening acts Kira Kosarin, Ian Biggs, and Brett Cameron. www.toadsplace.com
At the Russell Library in Middletown, Thursday night brings their next installation of Books & Brews to Stubborn Beauty Brewery on Johnson St in Middletown at 6pm. Saturday at 1:30 brings Phoenix Performing Arts: Dancing for the Moon Festival to the Hubbard Room and there’s a Teen Volunteer orientation Thursday at 6pm. www.russelllibrary.org
Back here in Middletown, Wesleyan’s Departments of Music and African American Studies and are bringing the Grammy-nominated Haitian band Boukman Eksperyans to Middletown this Thursday night for an acoustic show and workshop at 7 pm in Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street. The concerts is part of a yearlong celebration of 50 years of African American Studies at Wesleyan. Boukman Eksperyans draws from Vodou rhythms, rock, and reggae, and they are Haiti's best known 'roots' band, known for political protest and cultural activism... https://www.wesleyan.edu
Friday night at 7:30, The Wesleyan Center for The Arts, Crackling with high-energy physicality, Raphael Xavier's Point of Interest features a series of solos, duets, and quintets set to his soundscape of beats, spoken word poetry, and musical rhythms. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/
Infinity Hall in Hartford brings The BoDeans to the stage this Friday night. LeAnn Rimes takes the Infinity Hall Hartford stage on Sunday. Badfinger is at Infinity Hall Norfolk on Friday night and legendary Blues and Soul Singer Betty Lavette performs at Infinity Norfolk Saturday night. www.infinityhall.com
Thursday night, Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown presents authors Murray Moss & Franklin Getchell, on "Please Do Not Touch" A witty and revealing memoir of the mid-1990s, when high design became art and there was no more exclusive club for high design than MOSS. The bookstore also offers all ages family story time every Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
This Saturday Cherry Street Station in Wallingford presents Stompfest featuring more than six bands including New Amsterdam Nobles, Dead Girls Don’t Lie, Downward Spiral, Torque, Falling Further, Eyes of Theia, Devils inside, Hyperdrive, and more. at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
CT Agricultural Fair season continues this weekend with the Guilford Fair at the Guilford fairgrounds open Friday through Sunday offering a tractor parade, draft animal contests, agricultural displays, food, a carnival midway and more. www.ctagfairs.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues several film screenings through Thursday. “We the Animals,” a coming-of-age story about working-class Americans. Mountain offers a portrait of some of the world's most formidable summits. The political Thriller, Dark Money also plays through Thursday as does 93 Queen, which follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their community by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City. www.realartways.org
Tonight, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford finishes up their run of Leave No Trace, which follows the story of a father and daughter who’s idyllic off grid lifestyle in the wilds of Oregon is interrupted by social services. On Thursday Cinestudio begins a run of The Incredibles 2.Sunday, Cinestudio begins a run of RBG, about the life and legacy of Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg. http://www.cinestudio.org/
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown as we roll out our New Fall Program Season:
Right after the jive at five stick around for Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat
From krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage, novelty to New Romantic, punk to prog,
Wonderland has a place for it.
from 6-8pm Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill offers An eclectic selection of new and older folk, Americana, bluegrass, blues and other music with a roots influence plus a concert listing at 7pm and frequent concert and festival ticket giveaways.
at 8pm The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry is a weekly show featuring live and local Connecticut arts and music.
from 9-10pm The Test Patterns Show brings you The sound of things falling
down the stairs.
at 10pm (1,3,5) The Audible Underground with DJ Joshinvents. Come explore a variety of underground music by independent or relatively unknown artists from many genres, while occasionally discussing current events neglected by mainstream media!
from 11-midnight, stay tuned for Mixed Media with DJ Pig in the City and DJ Megnanimous. We consume. Then we talk about it.
at midnight (1,3,5) Al's Bum Reviews with DJ In Da Wind and DJ Marjlin. A music show that searches for and reviews narratives, musical themes, and general continuity of albums. The show selects a collection of songs (on and off the album) to dig deeply into a new album every week.
from 1-2am (1,3,5) Road Trip with DJ Vix. Every show covers a different city, featuring new and rising artists from the same hometown. No gas money required.
from 2-4am stay tuned for Upfront Soul with Sanguine fromage from Pacifica.
That’s all for today’s jive at five stick around to go into the rabbit hole with DJ Cheshire Cat up next on Wonderland!
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