Good evening, it's Friday, January 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 Leith Johnson, Host of The Light Fandango, heard every
1st, 3rd, and 5th Sunday at 4pm, where you'll hear uncommon songs of the 1960s
and 70s from across genres. I hope you'll tune in.
Here in Middletown, at The Buttonwood Tree, you can catch
Gary Oleyar’s Soft Jazz Violin live on stage. Saturday from 7-10 pm at The
Buttonwood you can learn to play the dulcimer and hear about its history at
this “string side up” workshop given by local musician and singer/songwriter
Carolyn Brodginski. (Dulcimers are provided for participants.) Then stay for a
concert afterwards to hear the many voices of this original American instrument. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, right about now, The Café Nine wekly Friday
5pm Happy Hour showcase features Dittymack. The Friday night main event at The
Nine features The Fleshtones and Jacques LeCoque. Café Nine’s weekly Saturday
afternoon Jazz Jam Session is Bill CoFrances. Saturday night’s main event is a
Go Kat Go! Birthday Bash! Featuring the Rockabilly, psychobilly honky tonk
sounds of SCREAMIN' REBEL ANGELS. At 3pm on Sunday at Café nine there’s a
New Haven St Patrick’s Day Parade fundraiser with Jon McMillen. Sunday
evening at The Nine it’s time to Shake and Vibrate at 8pm. http://www.cafenine.com
Also down in New Haven tonight, at The Statehouse you can catch their Lust For Life Dance Party
for a night of 80s/90s Alternative, New Wave and Post-Punk Music.
Saturday night Leeway, Year of the Knife, Zero Hour, Regulate, & Typecaste
make for a night of metal, punk, and hardcore. Sunday The Statehouse
debuts MULTIPLEX, a new series presenting improvised music at The State House
in New Haven. https://statehousepresents.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight/Friday Tim McDonald, Ray Morant, Neal Hatcher & Liviu Pop come together as the Wells Band. Saturday night at Café nine you can catch rising blues star VANESSA COLLIER and her BAND http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Saturday at The Space Ballroom Manic presents fetures Petal,
Sir Babygirl, and Cave People and on Sunday at The Ballroom you can catch a
night of loud rock with Madball, Death Before Dishonor, Palehorse, and Cast In
Blood www.manicpresents.com
Sunday at Russell Library, The Institute for Municipal and
Regional Policy (IMRP) at Central Connecticut State University will hold a
screenings/community conversations of Life on Parole in the Hubbard Room. The
panel will be led by Richard Frieder of IMRP and other special
guests. www.russelllibrary.org
Friday, Infinity Hall Norfolk brings acclaimed folk singer,
Dar Williams, to the Infinity Norfolk stage. Saturday, they offer The Machine,
a Pink Floyd experience. Sunday session live features guitarist Glenn Roth at
the Infinity Hall Norfolk Bistro. Tonight at Infinity Hall Hartford you
can catch Changes in Latitude, a Jimmy Buffet Tribute. Jane Monheit performs
Saturday at Infinity Hartford and where you can catch the Sounds of Frank
(Sinatra) on Sunday afternoon. www.infinityhall.com
Tonight at Toad’s Place in New Haven, there’s a BLACKLIGHT
GLOW PARTY featuring 10 DJs on 2 stages. www.toadsplace.com
On the Shoreline at The Kate, tonight you can catch A Simon
and Garfunkel Experience with The Guthrie Brothers. Saturday at The Kate you
can catch “The Sixties show” a live performance by an all-star band playing the music of the 1960s.
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford presents a triple bill
of loud music tomorrow/Saturday featuring The Sadists, The Number 19, and Bitch
fit. Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues several films this week
including “Shoplifters,” a Golden Globe-nominated Japanese film about a family
of thieves and an abandoned child. Also continuing at RAW is: Free Solo, a
portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve
his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock … the
3,000 ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park … without a rope. The World
Before Your Feet, is a documentary showing one man’s five-borough journey that
stretches from the barbershops of the Bronx to the forests of Staten Island,
from the Statue of Liberty to Times Square. Also continuing on the Real Art
Ways screen, Genesis 2.0 take you to remote Siberian islands which are now experiencing
a white gold fever as hunters search for the valuable ivory tusks of wooly
mammoth carcasses, as the permafrost melts.
www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford is now showing Roma,
a luminous portrait of a family in Mexico City on the 1970’s. Sunday, Cinestudio opens a run of Tom Volf's MARIA BY
CALLAS, the first film to tell the life story of the legendary Greek/American
opera singer completely in her own words. At 1pm on Sunday at Cinestudio you
can experience National Theatre Live: THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND
with Simon Russell Beale playing William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast
live from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London. info at http://www.cinestudio.org/
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM
Middletown:
Right after the Jive, stay tuned for some Free Form radio
with Deni, Host of Loving the 70’s, fillign in for Wild Wild Live until 7pm.
at 7pm, the Universal Sound Wave with Sista Queen T offers a
wide range of music including African, reggae, gospel, r&b, latin, and
blues. Plus health, nutrition, and stress reduction tips.
from 8:30-10 Its time for Permanent Collection with Chris ,inviting
you to participate in a nontoxic to listening experience.
From 10 - 11:30, DJ Connor Clockwize is back in action after
winter break for some loud rock and roll.
from 11:30-3 it’s
OVERDRIVE with Clarence and Shantay Scott presenting a unique mix of
contemporary and traditional Christian praise music.
Rounding out the night from 3-5 am it’s Louisiana Barn dance
with classic country, western swing, hillbilly, rockabilly, and Americana
music.
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!
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