Good evening, it's Thursday, July 11th. Happy Birthday Amber
Belle!
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 Ben Michael, Thanx for joining us!
Here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
Here in Middletown
Tonight, The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore sponsors Bren Smith
in conversation with Brian Lewis to discuss his new book, “Eat Like a Fish.”
They continue kids’ events this week, including a writing workshop and Family
Story Time. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
At the Buttonwood Tree, the Hearing Voices Network, meets tomorrow/Friday
at 12:30 pm, and Friday evening, at The Buttonwood, you can enjoy progressive
rock by After the Fall with their latest release, Early Light. Teen Visual Art
Camp happens Saturday morning, focused on exploring new visual creations.
Saturday evening, Lara Herscovitch & The Highway Philosophers take the
stage with blues, pop, jazz, and more. You can Enjoy the retrospective of
Barbara Newton Hahn’s oil-on-canvas works all month, and on Monday the
Buttonwood co-sponsors a DIY framing class at 1 pm at Middletown Framing on
Main St. www.buttonwood.org
At the Russell Library in Middletown, the Start a Life
Discoveries summer program for kids begins on Saturday morning. If someone you
know is home insecure, the library can help. Learn more about the Solar for All
program and other events for patrons of all ages by checking the color-coded
website calendar. www.russelllibrary.org
The Middletown Arts & Culture Office wants you to know that
The Middletown Stage Company holds a dinner dance and silent auction Saturday
at Cantina Café Ristorante. The Shoreline Arts Alliance holds a Woodstock @50
Celebration Sunday from 11 am to 4 pm at Bishop’s Orchards Farm Market in Guilford.
Enjoy music, arts and crafts, food, family fun, and more. Details on these and
other events at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
In New Haven, at Café Nine tonight, you can catch Brook
Pridemore, Kevil Gaffey, Pat Dalton, and more.
Friday The Nine’s 5pm Happy Hour live music set, features Lynn
Malavolte. The main event Friday night features Wise Old Moon and The Wolff
Sisters as well as Chris Ross and The North. Café Nine’s weekly Saturday 4pm
Jazz Jam session is with Gary Grippo & Friends, and Saturday night they
headline Rockaway Bitch, appearing with The Redactions. The Sunday Matinée
features Mario Pavone and the New American Songbook Sextet, followed by a blues
jam in the evening with the George Lesiw Band. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, Liviu’s Invitational comes your way on
Thursday nights. On Friday they bring you Vitamin B-e with the mighty Hammond organ,
and it’s Chris “Bad News” Barnes on Saturday with Hokum Blues. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At the State House in New Haven, Young Southpaw hosts Bat
Soup Comedy Night tonight. Tomorrow/Friday, you can catch Nicole Dollanganger,
Crag Mask, Space Camp, and Reduction Plan. Multi-instrumentalist Trey Moore
performs at TheStatehouse on Saturday, along with June Jissle, Tekowa Lakica,
and IkeGotJuice. www.statehousepresents.com
Back in Hartford, The Cirque du Soleil performances of
“Luzia” continue through Sunday at the Big Top. The Riverfront Food Truck Festival kicked off
today and continues through Saturday from 11 am until 8 pm at Riverfront Plaza.
The Sunset Sounds Concert Series at the
Butler McCook House and Garden continues this evening with the Louis Hayes
Trio. The Bushnell Park Beer Garden is open from 4 to 8 pm on Friday, and Pratt
Street sponsors a salsa in the evening as well.
It’s Second Saturdays for Families this week at the
Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Riverfront Fireworks happen on Saturday evening on
the Plaza. The Hartford Mindfulness Center holds guided meditations every
Monday at noon on Constitution Plaza, and check the website for free yoga and
fitness classes, including some that are bilingual. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/
Sunday Manic Presents, brings Low Cut Connie and Jelani Sei
take the Spaceland Ballroom stage in Hamden. www.manicpresents.com
Friday, Infinity Hall in Norfolk features the comedy of
Paula Poundstone. On Saturday, it’s the Cast of Beatlemania. Paula Poundstone
moves to Infinity Hartford on Saturday, and on Sunday, they bring you the
fusion and jazz sounds of Spyro Gyra. www.infinityhall.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford holds a Sounds of
Summer event on Friday with Half Dragon, along with a birthday bash for Dan’s
40th. The 3rd annual Summer Punx Fest happens Saturday with Cry Havoc, The Lost
Riots, Oh The Humanity!, and much more on two stages starting at 3 pm. On
Sunday, it’s the Memorial Concert for Ray Smith, featuring Murder Monday, Our
Own Destruction, and Over the Line. 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 “Pavarotti,” a
documentary about The Voice, The Man, The Legend, and continues “Echo in the
Canyon,” a documentary about the Laurel Canyon music scene of the mid-60’s.
Both run through next week. Tomorrow/Friday RAW opens “Toni Morrison: The
Pieces I Am,” a documentary about the writer featuring peers, critics, and
colleagues, and “Wild Rose,” a British musical drama about chasing stardom.
Details and screening times at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford presents Out Film
CT Queer Thursdays tonight with a presentation of Just Friends, a light-hearted
Dutch coming-of-age story. On Friday they open “The Souvenir,” a mystery that
takes place during the Thatcher years in Britain, and the Sunday National
Theatre Live matinée is a performance of “Hamlet” starring Benedict
Cumberbatch. Details and screening times at http://www.cinestudio.org/
The Films on Foss Series on the Wesleyan campus invites you
to an outdoor screening of “The Princess and the Frog” this Saturday st 8:30pm.
https://www.filmsonfoss.com/
The Hartford Free Movies in the Parks series presents “The
Incredibles 2” Thursday in Keney Park. www.hartford.com/events/
Here's
the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown
Right
after the Jive, stay tuned for Homegrown with
Rob DeRosa. Voted “Best Radio show” in the 2019 CTNOW Hartford reader’s poll, Homegrown
exclusively features Connecticut connected artists where listeners often enjoy
pre-release material and in studio interviews with artists, and information
about live shows in the area.
From 6:30-8pm, stay
tuned for Imagine Radio with Karen Stein – offering Peace through music, where
you can hear great music from around the world and around the block!
From
8:00-10:0pm, 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"
at 10pm Yowza
with Connor Clockwise is always playing brand new rock n' roll and always full
of surprises.
from 11-midnight
Loxion Music Mix Show with M-Point offers a showcase of the newest and best of
Southern African Electronica.
at midnight stay
tuned for Permanent Collection with Chris for an hour of Non-toxic. creative
radio.
From 1-2am its
The Hour of Slack with Reverend Ivan Stang from the Church of the Subgenius
next up, at 2am
Modern Jazz Today offers music from today’s jazz improvisational makers,
standard’s arrangers and original composers
from 3-4am
weeknights this summer, we are broadcasting our noontime edition of Democracy
Now! from Pacifica.
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 Edition from 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!
Stay tuned for a
stiff dose of homegrown with Robbie DeRosa, up next!
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