Friday 3-15-19 Jive

Good evening, it's Thursday, March 15th. 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, Thanx for tuning in!  

Here's some of what's happening in our area this week:

Here in Middletown tonight at the Buttonwood Tree, Jim Paradis has a Record Release show for his new work titled, “Not Finished Yet.”  The Aligned with Source Workshop is on as usual Saturday morning, and there’s a Teen Open Mic at The Buttonwood Tree Saturday afternoon. The Secondary Messengers perform jazz Saturday night and you’re invited to view the #Balance for Better Women’s Art Show that runs throughout March. www.buttonwood.org

Oddfellows Playhouse Junior Repertory Company presents the classic Italian comedy The Servant of Two Masters on stage tonight and tomorrow at 7pm pm. www.oddfellows.org  

The Russell Library in Middletown hosts Yoga in the Hubbard Room Saturday morning. The Atwater-Donnelly Duo presents Irish Music in America on Sunday at 2 pm, along with vocalist Cathy Clasper-Torch. Check the Event Calendar website for more events and happenings, now color-coded by age group for easy browsing.   www.russelllibrary.org

In New Haven, at Café Nine, their 5pm Happy Hour set with Buzz Gordo is about to kick off and the Friday night main event later tonight features The Goddamn Gallows, Scott Biram, and Urban Pioneers. Saturday Café Nine’s weekly afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with Tony Dioguardi & Friends at 4pm. Saturday night Pinned and Sewtured presents a Puppet Cabaret & Variety Show. The Café Nine Sunday Buzz Matinée brings you Andrea Gillis, and Joey Wit and The Definition. Sunday night they round out the weekend with an Irish Pub Night, featuring Rich Bowering. http://www.cafenine.com/  

Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, you can enjoy American roots on Friday with Neal Vitullo & The Vipers, and on Saturday night it’s the return of Jeff Pitchell & Texas Flood for some rocking electric blues. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/ 

Down in New Haven, tonight (Friday), the Statehouse invites you to a celebrate the Ides of March with night of Burlesque, Aerial Art, Hoops & Games plus a toga contest and 90’s dance party.  Saturday brings a Statehouse Lust For Life Dance Party for a night of 80s/90s Alternative, New Wave and Post-Punk Music and dancing. On Sunday, “A Drop of the Pure” brings together a solid night of Irish folk songs while West Haven's West End Bistro sets up shop and to prove the corned beef sandwiches! https://statehousepresents.com  

At La Boca in Middletown tonight (Friday), One Time Weekend takes the stage and Saturday brings La Boca’s St. Patrick’s Day Party with music from Sonic Nation. On Sunday it’s Karaoke Night with DJ Stephanie Rivkin at La Boca. http://labocamexican.com/

The free Spring Greenhouse Show & Tour at Elizabeth Park opened today/Friday morning and continues daily for one week. The Hartford Flavor Company brings you live music with Anna May and Xavier Serrano in their Friday Night Flavor series. Mike Suddes is Coleus performs at the Hanging Hills Brewing Company on Friday. On Saturday, they’ve got the Podunk Throwbacks, and on Sunday you can catch their Americana Afternoons.  

There’s ballroom dancing tonight/Friday at the Hartford Ballroom. The Hartford Library sponsors a writing center with free advice by UConn consultants on Saturday. And Orice Jenkins presents Centennial Cole, a musical and historical celebration of Nat King Cole, on Sunday at 3 pm in the Baby Grand Jazz series at the Hartford Public Library. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/

Middletown Arts & Culture Office reminds you that on Saturday, Kathy Gallagher will present “Research Your Irish Ancestors” at the Godfrey Memorial Library. The Recreation Division hosts a variety of activities on Saturday, all are listed on the Facebook site. Wesleyan Potters holds a 2-day Pit, Smoke and Raku workshop with Vincente Garcia. And the Skating Rink is open on weekends. Details on these and other events at  www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/

Tonight, Manic Presents brings Punch Brothers along with with Gabriel Kahane to the College Street Music Hall. At the Space Ballroom in Hamden tonight Manic Presents features Chadwick Stokes and The Pintos, along with Brooke Annibale. On Saturday at the Space it’s Speak Up Storytelling presenting Exposed: Lies, Secrets, and Indiscretions Revealed.” At the Wall Street Theater in Norwalk, Manic brings you The Marshall Tucker Band, and Creamery Station, on Saturday. www.manicpresents.com

Toad’s Place brings you the New Haven Doom & Gloom Fest with a Punk Rock Room tonight/Friday, with performers on two stages. On Saturday, you can catch The Breakfast, and The Mushroom Cloud.  www.toadsplace.com

Infinity Hall in Hartford celebrates the Irish tonight/Friday with the Dublin City Ramblers. On Sunday, they bring you singer/songwriter and storyteller Todd Snider, appearing with Reed Foehl. At Infinity Norfolk, tonight/Friday you can hear Green River, a Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute Show. French jazz singer Cyrille Aimée takes the stage on Saturday. Their Sunday Sessions live music in the Bistro features Tim Hitchcock & Friends, and in the evening you can catch more Celtic music with Dicey Riley and Zoe Darrow. www.infinityhall.com

Cherry Street Station in Wallingford presents Ate Bit, Heavy Handed, Zombii, and others on stage tonight. On Saturday it’s Chem-Trails, Green Meteor, Ruin It!, and Makeshift Graves. Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation

First Church on Court Street in Middletown is hosting Aretha, Theresa & Me, an Aretha Franklin memorial concert, Saturday at 8 pm with performances by Theresa Wright and Linda Ransom backed by a 10 piece band and 20 piece choir. Tickets available at www.eventbrite.com

Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

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Hartford’s Real Art Ways is showing   3 films “To Dust,” is a dark comedy about a Hasidic cantor’s obsession with his dead wife’s remains. Tonight/Fri they open they open “Cielo,” a cosmic meditation on the night sky in Chile. Tonight they also begin a run of CatVideoFest 2019,” this year’s collection of the latest and best cat videos www.realartways.org

Friday and Saturday, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford is screening Vice,” a biopic of Dick Cheney. Sunday’s matinée opera is “Madama Butterfly” performed by Teatro Real, Madrid, and they open a run of “Capernaum,” about a Lebanese boy who sue his parents for having him. 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, stay tuned for some drive time nostalgia with Jack Sullivan of Cruisers Radio until 7pm when it’s time for …

The Universal Sound Wave with Sista Queen T., for a wide range of music including African, reggae, gospel, R&B, Latin, and blues. Plus health, nutrition, and stress reduction tips.

From 8:30-10pm it’s Grand Central Station with DJ Jenny Doll, inviting you to travel back in time to the 1940's and 1950's with a swinging upbeat show filled with big band, jazz, swing and rockabilly.

At 10 until 11:30pm, stay tuned for Chris M’s P Permanent Collection, offering an hour of creative Non-toxic radio.

Following Permanent Collection at 11:30 stay tuned for the Test Patterns show for mind expanding radio.

at Midnight stay tuned for 4 hours of music from Louisiana. Grab your partner for Louisiana Barn Dance until 2am when we go Back Down the Bayou  for 2 hrs of Louisiana swamp stomping music. 4am stay tuned for the hour of slack!

 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 and have a great weekend! stay tuned for Jack Sullivan up next!