Good evening, it's Thursday, April 11th. 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.
Now here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
Here in Middletown on Friday, The Buttonwood Tree hosts the folk duo of Real Stormin’ Norman and Alessandra Levy. The Aligned with Source Workshop comes your way Saturday morning, and in the afternoon there’s a Music Workshop with Rob DeSorbo. It’s jazz standards and more on Saturday with Avery Sharpe and Zaccai Curtis. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, at Café Nine tonight, you can catch Glass Divide, Half Apology, and Murder Monday. Friday’s Happy Hour features Nathaniel Hintz, followed by the late show with Y La Bamba, Radio Jarocho, and Ani Cordero. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session is with Garry Grippo & Friends, and the Seth Adam Band, Jesse Gimbel, and Stephanie Austin take the stage later. The Sunday Buzz Matinée features Bush Tetras and Shirese, and the George Lesiw Band rounds out the weekend with evening blues. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, Liviu’s Invitational comes your way tonight with special guests. On Friday, Jason Ricci brings harmonica to Sally’s stage, and on Saturday, it’s R&B, funk, dance music, and more with Avenue Groove. http://www.blackeyedsallys.
At the State House in New Haven, this evening they've got Valley Queen, and Fiction come your way, and on Friday they’ve got a Lust for Life Dance Party with new wave, post-punk, and more. They’re hosting Junk Fed’s Pop Culture Bazaar on Satuday with a flea market of local vendors, and on Saturday it’s For the Love of Hip Hop with Edo G and Lord Finesse. Sunday’s headliner is Christian Marrone, appearing with Wolf Harbor and Portrait Party. www.statehousepresents.com
At the Russell Library in Middletown this evening, the Books and Brews group meets offsite at Stubborn Beauty Brewery to discuss “Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend” by Matthew Dicks. The Friends of the Library Book Sale happens Friday and Saturday. The Veterans Writing Group invites you to the Grand Opening of the greater Middletown Military Museum on Walnut Grove Road at 2 pm. You can enjoy the art exhibit by The Art Guild of Middletown throughout the month. Check the website calendar for more events and happenings for all ages. www.russelllibrary.org
On Friday in Middletown, the Wesleyan Center for the Americas holds its annual Americas forum, titled Anarchist Pedagogies of Practice from 1-6 in Russell House. The forum will include a full day of speakers, with opening remarks by Wesleyan professor and American Studies chair J. Kehaulani Kauanui and keynote lecture "A Black Anarchy: Abolishing Today in Search of Tomorrow" given by Zoe Samudzi and William C. Anderson. The event is free and open to the public.
Excerpts from finalist entries in the Jewish Playwriting Contest will be presented at the Charter Oak Cultural Center today. The ActUp Theater production of “RAISIN,” an adaptation of “A Raisin in the Sun,” continues on Friday and Saturday at The Lyceum. It’s Second Saturdays for Families this week at the Wadsworth Atheneum, with free admission, story-telling, music, and more. It’s Sensual Salsa Saturdays this week at the Red Rock Tavern. The Baby Grand Jazz series continues at the Hartford Public Library on Sunday with a performance by Matt Dwonszyk and the Dwonztet. And the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center holds a Family Tour next Monday at 1:30 pm. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/
Manic Presents is at the Space Ballroom in Hamden tonight with Yeasayer and Shana Falana on Friday, and on Saturday, you can catch Wild Belle and Jeffertitti’s Nile. At the Wall Street Theater in Norwalk, they’ve got Adrian Belew and Saul Zonana on Thursday. They’re at the College Street Music Hall on Friday with Twiddle and Lespecial, and on Saturday with The Claypool Lennon Delerium, and Uni. www.manicpresents.com
Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts in Middletown announces free events this week. The Elizabet Verveer Tishler Keyboard Recital happens today, along with the WesFest Organists’ Open Cass, both at Memorial Chapel. Or catch WesFest Concert II at World Music Hall this evening with performances by the Javenese Gamelan and Taiko Drumming Ensembles. Senior Music Recitals happen at various locations through the weekend. You can also enjoy a performance of “Eurydice,” with performances at the CFA Theater Friday through Sunday. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
At the Middletown Arts & Culture Office, the Recreation Division holds an Easter Candy Hunt Saturday at the Woodrow Wilson Middle School. Details on these and other events at www.facebook.com/
Infinity Hall in Hartford brings you Grammy Award-winner Denny Laine & The Moody Wings Band on Saturday. At Infinity Norfolk they’ve got the Bring It To The Light Music Festival on Thursday, to benefit Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Three bands will perform, and health care providers will speak on raising awareness to the opioid crisis. On Saturday they bring you the Ryan Montbleau Band. www.infinityhall.com
Toad’s Place holds a Blacklight Glow Party tonight, and they headline Buckethead on Friday. On Sunday, it’s the Polyphia Look But Don’t Touch Tour, along with I The Mighty and Tides of Man. www.toadsplace.com
The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown hosts Dani Shapiro on Sunday at 4 pm, who presents her new memoir, “Inheritance.” Check the website for Kids’ Events all week, including Poet-Tree Story Time and African Art. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
The Mac 650 Gallery and Artist Co-Op in Middletown host family-friendly event Friday at 6 pm with a screening of Elmwood Productions’ “Animal Behavior,” starring the Elmwood Puppets. Details at www.facebook.com/
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues “Ash Is Purest White,” a Chinese gangster movie, and “Buddy,” a Dutch film about service dogs and their owners. Also continuing is “Woman at War,” a film about an environmental activist fighting the aluminum industry. There’s a post-film talk with director Erik Bloomquist. On Friday they open “Storm Boy,” a retelling of an isolated child raising a pelican in Australia, and “Ramen Shop,” a Japanese film about broken families and noodles. Also opening is “The Brink,” a film that follows Steve Bannon through the 2018 mid-term elections. Check the website for details and screening
times. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues Part I of a restored version of Bernardo
Bertolucci’s uncut epic “1900,” and this evening they’re screening “Coming Up,” a 1985 film
about a gay man with HIV, as part of their Out Film CT Queer series. Their weekend offering is
“Everybody Knows,” a film about an Argentinian woman who reconnects with an old lover. On
Sunday there are two matinée times for “Rembrandt,” a film in their Exhibition On Screen
series, and they open a run of Bernardo Bertolucci’s “1900: Part 2.” 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 Homegrown with Robbie DeRosa. Homegrown is the award winning (Best Radio Program 2016 Hartford Magazine/CT NOW) Connecticut Connected Music Show-playing Connecticut connected artists of multiple genres. Often treating the listeners to pre-release material and in studio interviews with artists, the show also provides information about live shows in the area.
From 6:30-8pm, catch Imagine with Karen Stein - Peace through music! Listen to the best music from around the world and around the block!
From 8:00-9:30pm, it’s Evening Jazz with Bill Denert. A broad range of swing, be bop and avante garde with a sprinkling of new releases. "Hearing is the best experience"
Following Evening Jazz from 9:30-10pm is (2, 4) In the Middle with Peanut and Lemon
A show for eavesdroppers and erroneously hopeful mind-readers alike! Tune in to conversations
with the voices of those you walk past and live among.
From 10-11pm, it’s The American Empire with Yours Truly, Tootse Mutant: an exploration of the influence of American cultural imperialism on foreign music, such as Korean Hip-Hop, Japanese Jazz, and Peruvian Punk and so much more.
11-midnight, DJ Goosegg brings you (2, 4) The Holland Tunnel: Hidden gems and sleeper hits from New York and New Jersey artists, new and old.
From midnight-1am, catch (2, 4) Butter Fingers with Sam
Dropping funky tunes, one groovy slip at a time.
After Butterfingers until 2am is (2, 4) The Sonic Hour with DJ Jackson
Music from a variety of modern and contemporary film composers and soundtracks from
independent films
From 2-3am, tune in for (2, 4) WTF! (What the Funk) with DJ Jagged Little Thrill and DJ Amoroso
Exploring George Clinton’s concept of “the Funk,” as it appears across genres and generations.
From 3-4am, it’s The Hour of Slack. Reverend Ivan Stang presents his own commentary, along with recorded material from all SubGenius radio and stage shows, bands, ranters, media barrage collage artists, and selections from the indie audio underground created by various SubGenii and others
And finally, rounding out the night from 4-5am is the BBC World Report offering International news coverage and we kick off each weekday at 5am with Morning Editionfrom NPR.
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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