Good evening, it's Tuesday, January 22nd. 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 Marianne O’Hare, Producer of conversations on HealthCare,
heard on Wednesdays right before the Jive at Five.
Now here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
Singer songwriter Alex2e shares his musical skills at
Klekolo world coffee in Middletown tonight. Tues, night. https://klekoloworldcoffee.com/
In New Haven, tonight at Café Nine, you can catch queer-core
punk and more with BITCH FIT, ALETHEA, & EVELYN GRAY. Wednesday at The Nine you can catch CT Rock
with Haunting Titans and Every Branch. Thursday at Café Nine AUDIO JANE,
PORTRAIT PARTY, and PRIVATE LANGUAGE share a bill. The 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
WSHU and Manic Presents bring Bob Woodward and Bill Curry to
the College St Music Hall, tonight (Tues). Wednesday Manic presents: Vacationer
(feat. Kenny Vasoli of The Starting Line) & Sun Parade at The Space
Ballroom in Hamden. Saturday at The Space Ballroom they’ve got, 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
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, on Tuesday nights,
Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra brings you jazz, R&B, soul classics, and
more at Black-eyed Sally’s. Wednesday’s weekly community Blues Jam features
Tommy Whalen, and Thursday night at Café nine, West Coast Blues legend, Junior
Watson takes the stage. Friday night 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/
This year’s Wesleyan’s MLK Commemoration will be held on
Wednesday, January 23rd from 12:15 pm -1:15pm in Crowell Concert Hall, followed
by a reception in Beckham Hall. This
year our keynote speaker will be award-winning author and Associate Professor
of Educational Theory & Practice at the University of Georgia, Dr. Bettina
Love. Dr. Love is one of the field’s
most esteemed educational researchers in the area of Hip Hop education and is
the author of the book We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of
Educational Freedom (Beacon Press).
The event is free and open to the public, https://www.wesleyan.edu
Here in Middletown, Thursday night brings the Middlesex Drum
Circle to the Buttonwood Tree. Friday night you can catch Gary Oleyar’s Soft
Jazz Violin. 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
Thursday night, here in Middletown, at Russell Library, our
new state troubadour, Nekita Waller, celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. with an
evening concert featuring her five piece band in The Hubbard Room. She will be
singing songs of motivation and inspiration in a classic soul style as a tribute
to King. The evening will also include a Martin Luther King reading by actor
Michael Scott.
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 night brings the Lust For Life Dance Party to the
Statehouse in New Haven 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/
Thursday at Infinity Hall Norfolk, there’s an open Mic night
in the Bistro. Friday 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. Friday night, 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
Friday at Toad’s Place in New Haven, there’s a BLACKLIGHT
GLOW PARTY featuring 10 DJs on 2 stages. www.toadsplace.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford presents a triple bill
of loud music on 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 this week 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, 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. Bathtubs Over Broadway, a documentary about the forgotten realm of
Broadway musicals with corporate product themes and storylines. www.realartways.org
Tonight, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in
Hartford ends their run of “The Hate U Give,” about a poor black girl attending a
mostly white prep school, on Sunday, too. Wednesday Cinestudio begins a run of
the Roma, a luminous portrait of a family in Mexico City on the 1970’s. Full
details and screening times will be at http://www.cinestudio.org/
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM
Middletown:
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 stay tuned for a real mind bender on The Test
Patterns Show
from 10- Midnight Stephen M is in to play some smooth sounds
until Franco takes over with his studio 54 disco mix from midnight til 2am.
From 2-4am stay tuned for Upfront Soul with Sanguine fromage
from Pacifica for 2 hrs of funk, soul, and RnB.
Each weekday at 4am WESU kicks off our public affairs
programs with the BBC world report and followed by a mix of daily NPR and
weekly specialty programs 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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