Now here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
Here in Middletown, The Buttonwood Tree holds an Acoustic Open Mic with Bob Gotta this evening. The Buttonwood is proud to sponsor a benefit concert for the Oddfellows Playhouse Friday night at First Church on Court Street, headlining Tempest Celtic Rock Show with an opening by the Mulcahy Academy Dancers. The Aligned with Source Workshop comes your way Saturday morning, and in the evening, it’s bluegrass and more with Last Fair Deal by Phil Zimmerman. The Reiki Level 1 class continues on Sunday at 2 pm, and at 4 pm there’s an opening reception for local poet and author CC Arshagra’s exhibition to celebrate National Poetry Month. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, at Café Nine tonight, you can catch Baby Gramps and Liz McNicholl. Friday’s Happy Hour features Joyce “The Voice” Catalano, followed by an afterparty for Ceschi’s “Sad, Fat Luck” record release. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session is with Mike Coppola and Friends, and the late show’s got Surfer Joe, The Nebulas, and Ninth Wave. The Sunday Buzz Matinée features The Furors, The Sawtelles, and Even Twice, and they finish out the weekend with Japhoria. http://www.cafenine.com/
Manic Presents is at the Space Ballroom in Hamden tonight, bringing you Nostalgia Personified with Nickelodeon’s Pete & Pete. On Friday, Bronco brings their Bad Behavior Tour to the Space, appearing with Lemongrab and King Bongo. You can catch Old Sea Brigade, Jon Bryant, and Figurine on Saturday, and on Sunday it’s And The Kids, Bat House, and Mandala. At the College Street Music Hall, Cody Ko & Noel Miller bring you Tiny Meat Gang Live on Saturday. www.manicpresents.com
The Middletown Arts & Culture Office announces that there’s an Easter Breakfast Bingo with the Easter Bunny Saturday morning at the Senior Center; all ages welcome! They’ve also got rock garden and stained-glass kites workshops. Wesleyan Potters invites you to a Clay Date night for couples Saturday night. Artists for World Peace holds an interfaith dialogue on End of Life Customs Sunday afternoon at the DeKoven House. And the Rockfall Foundation invites you to bring broken items to the Repair Café on Sunday in Old Saybrook. Details on these and other events at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
The Russell Library in Middletown offers Poem In Your Pocket today and you can take a poem home with you. Cheryl Anne Hale, the new Poet Laureate of Middletown, will offer “Eat My Words” at tonight’s reception. The library celebrates its founding day on Friday and invites you in to take The Puzzle Box Tour. The First Fridays Book Group meets in the evening to discuss “Far From the Tree” by Robin Benway. They’re offering a Color Touch Meditation on Saturday morning, Check the website calendar for more events and happenings for all ages. www.russelllibrary.org
There’s a Latin Dance Class, Pasos &; Connections, this evening at the Hartford Public Library. The ActUp Theater performs “Raisin,” an adaptation of “A Raisin in the Sun,” on Friday and Saturday at The Lyceum. You’re invited to the How Bazaar Community Market at Art Space on Saturday and Sunday to check out local vendors, speakers, workshops, and entertainment. Country singer/songwriter Alex Forest is at the Hanging Hills Brewing Company on Saturday afternoon, and they host local folk musicians on Sunday in their Americana Afternoons series. Saturday evening, TheaterWorks is at The Royal for an interactive experience and celebration of identity and community with sounds by Trey Moore. The Firey String Sistas! performs at the Hartford Public Library on Sunday in their Baby Grand Jazz series. The Charter Oak Cultural Center hosts award-winning poets Brian Sneeden and David K. Leff on Sunday in the Charter Oak Readings series. The session starts with an Open Mic. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, Liviu’s Invitational comes your way tonight with special guests. Enjoy blues and jazz on Friday with the Danny Draher Band, and on Saturday they’ve got blues harmonica with Brandon Santini . http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At the State House in New Haven, the singer/songwriter showcase Pitch My Song happens tonight. Hear psych/rock on Friday with Iron Butterfly, Lord Fowl, and Sean Yox & The Streamers. On Sunday, the Blu s n’ Brisket East Rock Tap Takeover starts at 4 pm. www.statehousepresents.com
Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts in Middletown announces free events this week, starting with the Senior Thesis Exhibition Week Two open through the weekend at the Zilkha Gallery. Toby MacNutt speaks and performs at the Annual Disability Studies Lecture titled Beyond Assimilation: Seeking a Disabled Aesthetic today at the Schönberg Dance Studio and he’s offering an open class on Relational Dance on Friday. There’s an opening reception and gallery talk at the Davison Art Center this evening about “For Effect - Emphatic Bodies from the Renaissance to the Industrial Age.” Senior and Graduate Recitals happen on Friday and Saturday at various locations, and on Sunday there’s a premier performance of “spirit of clavier,” a work for piano and drums, at The Russell House with Pheeroan akLaff and Angelica Sanchez. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown hosts National Book Award finalist Elliott Ackerman this evening with his new novel, “Waiting for Eden.” Check the website for Kids’ Events all week, including Family Story Time and learning French. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
At Infinity Hall in Hartford tonight, you can get complimentary tickets to Between War & Here, a night of conversation and music with Ensemble Galilei and NPR correspondents Anne Garrels and Neal Conan. Enjoy disco and funk on Friday with Turquaz and Aqueous. On Saturday, it’s Who’s Bad, the world’s only sanctioned Tribute to Michael Jackson. At Infinity Norfolk you can catch blues and more on Friday with the Eric Gales Band. Next Sunday, they host the St. Anthony School Variety Show. www.infinityhall.com
Toad’s Place hosts a Springtime Spectacular local showcase on Thursday with Arcadia, Baystate, Carbon Based, and much more. On Friday they’ve got Konshens with their North American Raw Tour. www.toadsplace.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford brings you Brick by Brick, Carried by VI, BrutalRise, and more on Friday. On Saturday, it’s Screejay’s Dirty 30 with Chem-Trails, Flapjack Attack, Savage World, and much more. On Sunday they host Brutally Funny: A Night of Comedy & Thrash. Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation
Don’t forget about the biannual WESU Record Fair happening this Saturday at Beckham Hall on the Wesleyan University Campus. www.wesufm.org
The Middletown Recreation Division hosts an early Earth Day Nature Walk at the Hubbard Brook Preserve Sunday morning with Beth Lapin. E-mail Beth@HealingNatureCT.com for details.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues “CatVideoFest 2019,” this year’s collection of the latest and best cat videos, “Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church,” a film about his 1970 Atlanta concert, “3 Faces,” an Iranian film about a provincial girl studying drama, and “Woman at War,” a film about an environmental activist fighting the aluminum industry. On Friday they open “Ash Is Purest White,” a Chinese gangster movie, and “Buddy,” a Dutch film about service dogs and their owners. Check the website for details and screening times. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues their 20th April in Paris film festival of French masterpieces, old and new, with a different film each night. Next Sunday they’ll screen Part I of a restored version of Bernardo Bertolucci’s uncut epic “1900,” and their matinée Bolshoi Ballet offering is Shostakovich’s “The Golden Age.” Full details and screening times will be at http://www.cinestudio.org/
It’s LGBTQ Movie Night tonight at Tisane Euro-Asian Café in Hartford. www.hartford.com/events
Here’s the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on 88.1fm WESU
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"
9:30-10pm
After Evening Jazz, Beizo Bish and Jew Chains bring you (1,
3, 5) Spicy! Spicy! Hot! Hot! - Scalding hot takes on a new area of pop culture
each week, featuring topical tracks and a variety of dynamic guests.
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 is (1, 3, 5) Books Toujours with DJ Arctic
Penguin. Books Toujours is forever and only about books. Fiction, non-fiction,
and roman à clef, we discuss them all with guests each show.
From Midnight-1am, tune in for (1, 3, 5) Yowza with Connor
Clockwise. Always playing brand new rock n' roll, always full of surprises.
Following Yowza from 1-2am is (1, 3, 5) Middletown by
Moonlight with DJ Monsoon Moon - A tour of the rare and obscure best albums
from around the globe that you wish you had known
before.
From 2-3am, catch (1, 3, 5) Isn’t Life Strange with Lil
Kugel - Songs of any and all genres that epitomize our pasts, define our
present selves, and predict our futures.
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!
Thanks for listening!
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