Thursday's Jive

Good evening, it's Thursday, October 31st. 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 JCherry producer and host of VOICE of the CITY,Tuesday from 8-9PM, Showcasing live and local music, arts, and culture., Thanx for tuning in! 

At the Russell Library in Middletown, there's The offsite First Fridays Book Discussion meets to discuss Stephen King’s “Elevation” at the RaMa LuNa Center for Yoga at 7 pm. The library sponsors a Health Workshop Saturday morning on using gemstone crystals in a guided meditation, and on Sunday afternoon Sarada Nori will perform Indian Classical Dance at 2 pm. Consult the website calendar for more events geared to patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org

The Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore hosts  Roxanne Coady holds a conversation with Beck Dorey-Stein on Friday about her new memoir, “From the Corner of the Oval.” Kids’ events continue this week, including Story Time. Check the website for details. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com

Free events this week sponsored by Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts continue with a guided tour of Brendan Fernandes’ exhibition, “Inaction,” followed by dance performances by the artist and Charles Gowin, happen Saturday at the Zilkha Art Gallery. Cellist and singer/songwriter Melanie Hsu performs “a prayer for broken glass” Sunday at The Russell House. The Fall Senior Thesis Dance Concert takes place at the Patricelli ’92 Theater Friday and Saturday. Details at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa

In New Haven, at Café Nine, it’s Shake ‘n’ Vibrate. Friday at 5:00, the Nine’s weekly Friday live music Happy Hour features Joyce the Voice Catalano. Friday night,  Kinky Friedman’s and The Merry Kinkster Tour makes a stop at the Nine. Saturday’s Jazz Jam session is with Michael Coppola, and in the evening, you can catch Shame Penguin and Cardboard Dream House. The Sunday Buzz Matinée brings you Protex, The Live Ones, and Lefty and the Chief, and they finish out the weekend with The Schizophonics and Killer Kin. http://www.cafenine.com/

At the State House in New Haven on Thursday, you can dance away a goth and industrial Halloween with DJ’s Mordecai, R.I.C.H.A.R.D., and F. Esther. You can Party Out of Bounds on Friday at their Brit-Pop tribute night, and on Saturday it’s Calle Allenda, a puppet theatre production inspired by Frida Kahlo’s diary. www.statehousepresents.com

Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s,Thursday it’s Liviu’s Invitational. Carl Ricci and 706 Union Avenue make for a night of Blues, swing, and rock and roll on Friday and on Saturday you can catch singer/songwriter Latanya Farrell and her band. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/

Toad’s Place in New Haven presents a Halloween Backlight Glow Party on Thursday with action on two stages by Lucas Ketchian, Maxam, Rvm & Koke, and more. On Friday they headline Tribal Seeds, appearing with New Kingston and Tropidelic, and on Sunday Atreyu celebrates their 20th Anniversary Tour, appearing with Whitechapel, He is Legen d, and more. www.toadsplace.com

Back in Hartford, Thursday you can check out a Murder Mystery Tour at the Hanging Hills Brewing Company. It’s also Off the Record Indie Night at Little River Restoratives. The Hartford Fringe Festival concludes on Friday at the Carriage House Theater with performances by local and national artists, and Sensual Salsa Saturdays takes place at the Red Rock Tavern on Saturday. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/

Manic Presents on Friday, Hot Rod Circuit and their Sorry About Tomorrow Anniversary Show is in town, appearing with Anxious, The Split Coils, and Honch. White Reaper, The Nude Party, and Wombo will be at the Space on Sunday. They headline Gregory Alan Isakov at the College Street Music Hall on Thursday, appearing with Luke Sital-Singh. Pigeons Playing Ping-Pong, and Goose, will be at College Street on Saturday. You can catch Kishi Bashi and Cicada Rhythm at the Wall street Theater in Norwalk on Friday, and on Sunday they headline The Infamous Stringdusters at Wall Street. www.manicpresents.com

The Middletown Arts & Culture Office wants you to know that Kids can trick or treat at City Hall on Thursday, and on Friday it’s Family Craft Night at the Senior and Community Center. South Congregational Church announces a free Organ Concert Friday of works by Bach and Albinoni. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/

Infinity Hall Hartford brings you The Halloween Horror Picture Show on Thursday with West End Blend and Bella’s Bartok. The World Affairs Council of CT brings you former president of Mexico Vincente Fox on Friday for an intimate conversation. On Saturday, it’s classic rock ‘n’ roll with Get the Led Out, and on Sunday, they’ve got jazz and R & B with Ruben Sings Luther. At Infinity Norfolk, singer/songwriter Nick Lowe brings you solo acoustic pop and rock on Friday, and it’s more of the same on Saturday with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Marcia Ball takes the stage on Sunday to bring you more blues. www.infinityhall.com

The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown presents Story City Troupe on stage on Friday night, and on Saturday the Aligned With Source workshop happens at 10:30 am. Enjoy acoustic instrumentals and more in the evening with On The Trail Bluegrass. www.buttonwood.org

Cherry Street Station in Wallingford brings you Shadow, Epicdemia, and Matt Danger on Friday, and on Saturday you can celebrate Sarah’s Birthday Bash while donating shelf-stable food for Master’s Manna and enjoying performances by VRSA, Flapjack Attack, Solarburn, ZZZZZ (pronounced "Zeeee") and Static Inc. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

The Middletown Recreation Division sponsors a free hike at the Wadsworth Falls State Park Saturday at 10 am. E-mail beth@HealingNatureCT.com for information.

On Sunday night, WESU 80th anniversary celebrations continue with “Bringing Africa to American Public Radio”, a lecture by Banning Eyre, Wes Alumnus and producer of the international award winning Radio Program, AfroPop World Wide. This event is free and open to the public and happens at Wesleyans Public Affairs Center RM 001 at 6:30 pm  www.wesufm.org

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

Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” a celebration of the iconic vocal artist, and “Fantastic Fungi,” a documentary about the healing power of fungi, along with “Where’s My Roy Cohn,” a documentary about the political power broker who influenced Trump, through Thursday. Future openings include “Midnight Traveler” and “Parasite.” www.realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio continues their run of “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” through Thursday, and are also screening “Where’s My Roy Cohn” through the weekend. Their Exhibition On Screen series continues with the Sunday matinée of “Leonardo: The Works,” about da Vinci’s paintings and drawings, and they open a run of “Another Day of Life” Sunday evening, a film about the anarchy of warfare based on a Polish journalist’s memoir of Angola. 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 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, Karen Stein offers peace on air with her show, Imagine, bringing you a soulful mix of music from around world.  

From 8:00-10:0pm, stick around for Evening Jazz, with Bill Denert for 90 minutes of straight ahead jazz with some adventurous offshoots! 

From 9:30-11, we bring you books toujours with DJ Arctic Penguin. Taking books to another level. 

at 11 -  midnight, JAzzalicious Defniition with DJ Stocks’n’Socks and MC Magee strives to expose listeners to new artists, instruments, cultures, and genres that have been influenced by traditional jazz music. 

at midnight stay tuned for Middletown by Moonlight with DJ Monsoon Moon for a tour of rare and obscure albums from around the globe. 

From 1-2amLil Kugel presents isn’t life strange, offering a cross genre mix of songs that epitomize our pasts, define our present selves, and predict our futures.

at 2am stay tuned for the hour of slack from The Church of the Sudgenius. 

from 3-4am 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!

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five. Catch us each weekday at 4:55pm for this daily community calendar and run down of night time programming here on WESU Middletown, one of the nation’s first student owned and operated radio stations, celebrating 80 years of community service in 2019!

10-30-19 Jive

Good evening, it's Wednesday, October 30th. 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 Bill Denert, producer and host of Thursday night's Evening Jazz where "hearing is the best experience" and Connecticut's number 1 Washington Nationals fan! Let's bring a championship to DC!

At the Russell Library in Middletown, there's Scrabble Wednesday at 5pm.

The offsite First Fridays Book Discussion meets to discuss Stephen King’s “Elevation” at the RaMa LuNa Center for Yoga at 7 pm.

The library sponsors a Health Workshop Saturday morning on using gemstone crystals in a guided meditation, and on Sunday afternoon Sarada Nori will perform Indian Classical Dance at 2 pm. Consult the website calendar for more events geared to patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org

The Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore hosts a Teen NanoWriMo Kick-off event today/Wednesday with Rebecca Behrens, author of “The Disaster Days.” Roxanne Coady holds a conversation with Beck Dorey-Stein on Friday about her new memoir, “From the Corner of the Oval.” Kids’ events continue this week, including Story Time. Check the website for details. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com

Free events this week sponsored by Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts continue with a guided tour of Brendan Fernandes’ exhibition, “Inaction,” followed by dance performances by the artist and Charles Gowin, happen Saturday at the Zilkha Art Gallery. Cellist and singer/songwriter Melanie Hsu performs “a prayer for broken glass” Sunday at The Russell House. The Fall Senior Thesis Dance Concert takes place at the Patricelli ’92 Theater Friday and Saturday. Details at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa

In New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight/Wednesday there's the monthly Words & Music gathering and on Thursday it’s Shake ‘n’ Vibrate.

Friday at 5:00, the Nine’s weekly Friday live music Happy Hour features Joyce the Voice Catalano. Friday night,  Kinky Friedman’s and The Merry Kinkster Tour makes a stop at the Nine.

Saturday’s Jazz Jam session is with Michael Coppola, and in the evening, you can catch Shame Penguin and Cardboard Dream House. The Sunday Buzz Matinée brings you Protex, The Live Ones, and Lefty and the Chief, and they finish out the weekend with The Schizophonics and Killer Kin. http://www.cafenine.com/

At the State House in New Haven on Thursday, you can dance away a goth and industrial Halloween with DJ’s Mordecai, R.I.C.H.A.R.D., and F. Esther. You can Party Out of Bounds on Friday at their Brit-Pop tribute night, and on Saturday it’s Calle Allenda, a puppet theatre production inspired by Frida Kahlo’s diary. www.statehousepresents.com

Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, it's the Wednesday weekly Community Blues Jam hosted by Tim McDonald, and on Thursday it’s Liviu’s Invitational. Carl Ricci and 706 Union Avenue make for a night of Blues, swing, and rock and roll on Friday and on Saturday you can catch singer/songwriter Latanya Farrell and her band. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/

Toad’s Place in New Haven presents a Halloween Backlight Glow Party on Thursday with action on two stages by Lucas Ketchian, Maxam, Rvm & Koke, and more. On Friday they headline Tribal Seeds, appearing with New Kingston and Tropidelic, and on Sunday Atreyu celebrates their 20th Anniversary Tour, appearing with Whitechapel, He is Legen d, and more. www.toadsplace.com

Back in Hartford, It’s Karaoke Night at The Russell  tonight/Wednesday, and on Thursday you can check out a Murder Mystery Tour at the Hanging Hills Brewing Company. It’s also Off the Record Indie Night at Little River Restoratives. The Hartford Fringe Festival concludes on Friday at the Carriage House Theater with performances by local and national artists, and Sensual Salsa Saturdays takes place at the Red Rock Tavern on Saturday. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/

Manic Presents brings Katie Toupin and Grayson Foster to Space Ballroom in Hamden on tonight/Wednesday, and on Friday, Hot Rod Circuit and their Sorry About Tomorrow Anniversary Show is in town, appearing with Anxious, The Split Coils, and Honch. White Reaper, The Nude Party, and Wombo will be at the Space on Sunday. They headline Gregory Alan Isakov at the College Street Music Hall on Thursday, appearing with Luke Sital-Singh. Pigeons Playing Ping-Pong, and Goose, will be at College Street on Saturday. You can catch Kishi Bashi and Cicada Rhythm at the Wall street Theater in Norwalk on Friday, and on Sunday they headline The Infamous Stringdusters at Wall Street. www.manicpresents.com

The Middletown Arts & Culture Office wants you to know that Kids can trick or treat at City Hall on Thursday, and on Friday it’s Family Craft Night at the Senior and Community Center. South Congregational Church announces a free Organ Concert Friday of works by Bach and Albinoni. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/

Infinity Hall Hartford brings you The Halloween Horror Picture Show on Thursday with West End Blend and Bella’s Bartok. The World Affairs Council of CT brings you former president of Mexico Vincente Fox on Friday for an intimate conversation. On Saturday, it’s classic rock ‘n’ roll with Get the Led Out, and on Sunday, they’ve got jazz and R & B with Ruben Sings Luther. At Infinity Norfolk, singer/songwriter Nick Lowe brings you solo acoustic pop and rock on Friday, and it’s more of the same on Saturday with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Marcia Ball takes the stage on Sunday to bring you more blues. www.infinityhall.com

The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown presents Story City Troupe on stage on Friday night, and on Saturday the Aligned With Source workshop happens at 10:30 am. Enjoy acoustic instrumentals and more in the evening with On The Trail Bluegrass. www.buttonwood.org

Cherry Street Station in Wallingford brings you Shadow, Epicdemia, and Matt Danger on Friday, and on Saturday you can celebrate Sarah’s Birthday Bash while donating shelf-stable food for Master’s Manna and enjoying performances by VRSA, Flapjack Attack, Solarburn, ZZZZZ (pronounced "Zeeee") and Static Inc. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

The Middletown Recreation Division sponsors a free hike at the Wadsworth Falls State Park Saturday at 10 am. E-mail beth@HealingNatureCT.com for information.

On Sunday night, WESU 80th anniversary celebrations continue with “Bringing Africa to American Public Radio”, a lecture by Banning Eyre, Wes Alumnus and producer of the international award winning Radio Program, AfroPop World Wide. This event is free and open to the public and happens at Wesleyans Public Affairs Center RM 001 at 6:30 pm  www.wesufm.org

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

Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” a celebration of the iconic vocal artist, and “Fantastic Fungi,” a documentary about the healing power of fungi, along with “Where’s My Roy Cohn,” a documentary about the political power broker who influenced Trump, through Thursday. Future openings include “Midnight Traveler” and “Parasite.” www.realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio continues their run of “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,”  through Thursday, and are also screening “Where’s My Roy Cohn” through the weekend. Their Exhibition On Screen series continues with the Sunday matinée of “Leonardo: The Works,” about da Vinci’s paintings and drawings, and they open a run of “Another Day of Life” Sunday evening, a film about the anarchy of warfare based on a Polish journalist’s memoir of Angola. http://www.cinestudio.org

The Middletown International Film Festival continues on Tuesday at the Russell Library with a screening of “Summer,” a Spanish film about a six-year-old orphan reacting to her new home in the mountains. There’s a post-film discussion with Professor Olga Sendra Ferrer. www.russelllibrary.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 The Latin Music Hour with Isabel.

From 6-6:30pm stay tuned for Growing Greener with Tom Christopher for 30 minutes of Gardening tips from leading experts in sustainable gardening practices.

At 6:30, stay tuned for Fusion Radio with James Fusion for 90 minutes of techno mixed live!

From 8-9:30 it's The Warehouse with Mike Nyce featuring the best of underground house music, mixed live for your listening pleasure.

And starting at 9:30 til 11pm, stay tuned for The Vault with DJ Anton Banks. Presenting listeners with the latest in hard techno, minimal, tech-house and leftfield mixed live. Featuring exclusive music from international artists.

And starting at 11 stay tuned for Splitting Hairs with Shake and Bake and McKenzie. A humorous musical discussion show dedicated to analyzing the lyrics of popular songs.

At Midnight, stick around for Noize in the Attic, Where Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You. Serving Connecticut it’s hard rock fix of classic Heavy Metal as well as the latest from the genre!

And at 3am third shift listeners can catch an encore presentation of our noontime broadcast of Democracy Now!

At 4am we kick off our daytime public affairs block with BBC World Report followed by morning edition from NPR at 5am.

Stay tuned each weekday, for the area’s most diverse mix of public affairs from Pacifica, NPR, and independent sources.

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five. Catch us each weekday at 4:55pm for this daily community calendar and run down of night time programming here on WESU Middletown, one of the nation’s first student owned and operated radio stations, celebrating 80 years of community service in 2019!

Thanx for listening! Now stay tuned for the Latin Music Hour!

Tues 10-29-19 Jive

Good evening, it's Tuesday, October 29th. 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, Thanks for joining us. Here's some of what's happening in our area this week:

At the Russell Library in Middletown,this evening, the Association of American University Women holds an open meeting. There’s an Open House Employment Information session on the 2020 census Wednesday at 4 pm, followed by Scrabble. The offsite First Fridays Book Discussion meets to discuss Stephen King’s “Elevation” at the RaMa LuNa Center for Yoga at 7 pm. They sponsor a Health Workshop Saturday morning on using gemstone crystals in a guided meditation, and on Sunday afternoon Sarada Nori will perform Indian Classical Dance at 2 pm. Consult the website calendar for more events geared to patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org

The Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore hosts an Open Mic this Tuesday evening, and on Wednesday there’s a Teen NanoWriMo Kick-off event with Rebecca Behrens, author of “The Disaster Days.” Roxanne Coady holds a conversation with Beck Dorey-Stein on Friday about her new memoir, “From the Corner of the Oval.” Kids’ events continue this week, including Story Time. Check the website for details. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com

Free events this week sponsored by Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts start on tonight (Tues) with a graduate recital by Max Gibson in Memorial Chapel. A guided tour of Brendan Fernandes’ exhibition, “Inaction,” followed by dance performances by the artist and Charles Gowin, happen Saturday at the Zilkha Art Gallery. Cellist and singer/songwriter Melanie Hsu performs “a prayer for broken glass” Sunday at The Russell House. The Fall Senior Thesis Dance Concert takes place at the Patricelli ’92 Theater Friday and Saturday. Details at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa 

In New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight, they’re hosting a Tiki Halloween party with Los Straitjackets and The Zambonis. Wednesday brings Café Nine’s monthly Words & Music gathering and on Thursday it’s Shake ‘n’ Vibrate. Friday at 5:00, the Nine’s weekly Friday live music Happy Hour features Joyce the Voice Catalano. Friday night,  Kinky Friedman’s and The Merry Kinkster Tour makes a stop at the Nine. Saturday’s Jazz Jam session is with Michael Coppola, and in the evening, you can catch Shame Penguin and Cardboard Dream House. The Sunday Buzz Matinée brings you Protex, The Live Ones, and Lefty and the Chief, and they finish out the weekend with The Schizophonics and Killer Kin. http://www.cafenine.com/

The State House in New Haven hosts Table Tennis, starting at 5 pm tonight.  Thursday, you can dance away a goth and industrial Halloween with DJ’s Mordecai, R.I.C.H.A.R.D., and F. Esther. You can Party Out of Bounds on Friday at their Brit-Pop tribute night, and on Saturday it’s Calle Allenda, a puppet theatre production inspired by Frida Kahlo’s diary. www.statehousepresents.com

Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra brings you jazz, R&B, soul classics, and more on Tuesday. Wednesday’s weekly Community Blues Jam is hosted by Tim McDonald, and on Thursday it’s Liviu’s Invitational. Carl Ricci and 706 Union Avenue make for a night of Blues, swing, and rock and roll on Friday and on Saturday you can catch singer/songwriter Latanya Farrell and her band. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/

Tonight, Toad’s Place presents The Monster Mash in Lilly’s Pad, featuring Magnets for Maniacs, Arcadia Forsaken, The Loners Club, and more.T oad’s presents a Halloween Backlight Glow Party on Thursday with action on two stages by Lucas Ketchian, Maxam, Rvm & Koke, and more. On Friday they headline Tribal Seeds, appearing with New Kingston and Tropidelic, and on Sunday Atreyu celebrates their 20th Anniversary Tour, appearing with Whitechapel, He is Legen d, and more. www.toadsplace.com

Back in Hartford, It’s Karaoke Night at The Russell on Wednesday, and on Thursday you can check out a Murder Mystery Tour at the Hanging Hills Brewing Company. It’s also Off the Record Indie Night at Little River Restoratives. The Hartford Fringe Festival concludes on Friday at the Carriage House Theater with performances by local and national artists, and Sensual Salsa Saturdays takes place at the Red Rock Tavern on Saturday. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/

Manic Presents brings Katie Toupin and Grayson Foster to Space Ballroom in Hamden on Wednesday, and on Friday Hot Rod Circuit and their Sorry About Tomorrow Anniversary Show is in town, appearing with Anxious, The Split Coils, and Honch. White Reaper, The Nude Party, and Wombo will be at the Space on Sunday. They headline Gregory Alan Isakov at the College Street Music Hall on Thursday, appearing with Luke Sital-Singh. Pigeons Playing Ping-Pong, and Goose, will be at College Street on Saturday. You can catch Kishi Bashi and Cicada Rhythm at the Wall street Theater in Norwalk on Friday, and on Sunday they headline The Infamous Stringdusters at Wall Street. www.manicpresents.com

The Middletown Arts & Culture Office wants you to know that Kids can trick or treat at City Hall on Thursday, and on Friday it’s Family Craft Night at the Senior and Community Center. South Congregational Church announces a free Organ Concert Friday of works by Bach and Albinoni. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/ 

Infinity Hall Hartford brings you The Halloween Horror Picture Show on Thursday with West End Blend and Bella’s Bartok. The World Affairs Council of CT brings you former president of Mexico Vincente Fox on Friday for an intimate conversation. On Saturday, it’s classic rock ‘n’ roll with Get the Led Out, and on Sunday, they’ve got jazz and R & B with Ruben Sings Luther. At Infinity Norfolk, singer/songwriter Nick Lowe brings you solo acoustic pop and rock on Friday, and it’s more of the same on Saturday with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Marcia Ball takes the stage on Sunday to bring you more blues. www.infinityhall.com

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The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown presents Story City Troupe on stage on Friday night, and on Saturday the Aligned With Source workshop happens at 10:30 am. Enjoy acoustic instrumentals and more in the evening with On The Trail Bluegrass. www.buttonwood.org

Cherry Street Station in Wallingford brings you Shadow, Epicdemia, and Matt Danger on Friday, and on Saturday you can celebrate Sarah’s Birthday Bash while donating shelf-stable food for Master’s Manna and enjoying performances by VRSA, Flapjack Attack, Solarburn, and Static Inc. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

The Middletown Recreation Division sponsors a free hike at the Wadsworth Falls State Park Saturday at 10 am. E-mail beth@HealingNatureCT.com for information.

On Sunday night, WESU 80th anniversary celebrations continue with “Bringing Africa to American Public Radio”, a lecture by Banning Eyre, Wes Alumnus and producer of the international award winning Radio Program, AfroPop World Wide. This event is free and open to the public and happens at Wesleyans Public Affairs Center RM 001 at 6:30 pm  www.wesufm.org

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

Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” a celebration of the iconic vocal artist, and “Fantastic Fungi,” a documentary about the healing power of fungi, along with “Where’s My Roy Cohn,” a documentary about the political power broker who influenced Trump, through Thursday. Future openings include “Midnight Traveler” and “Parasite.” www.realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio continues their run of “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,”  through Thursday, and are also screening “Where’s My Roy Cohn” through the weekend. Their Exhibition On Screen series continues with the Sunday matinée of “Leonardo: The Works,” about da Vinci’s paintings and drawings, and they open a run of “Another Day of Life” Sunday evening, a film about the anarchy of warfare based on a Polish journalist’s memoir of Angola. http://www.cinestudio.org

The Middletown International Film Festival continues on Tuesday at the Russell Library with a screening of “Summer,” a Spanish film about a six-year-old orphan reacting to her new home in the mountains. There’s a post-film discussion with Professor Olga Sendra Ferrer. www.russelllibrary.org

Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown:

Right after the Jive at Five, stay tuned for Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat from 5:05-6pm.

From krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage, novelty to New Romantic, punk to prog, Wonderland has a place for it.

From 6-8pm Bill Revill brings us Acoustic Blender, offering an eclectic selection of new and older folk, Americana, bluegrass, blues and other music that has a roots influence with a concert listing at 7pm and frequent concert and festival ticket giveaways. Tonight, Bill welcomes the cast of "Woody Sez - the Life and Music of Woody Guthrie" live in Studio B. The play is running at the Ivoryton Playhouse until November 10th". 

From 8-9 pm stay tuned for an hour of live and local arts and culture with J-Cherry on Voice of the City!

at 9pm, stay tuned for (1,3,5) Femme Gems and Jams with DJ Stevie Hick, spotlighting biographies of lesser known historical female figures by curating mixtape that she might jam to.

from 10-11pm (1, 3, 5) take a Road Trip to a different city each episode, with DJ G and DJ Vix, who cover new and rising artists all from the same hometown. No gas money required.

at 11pm Not Ur Mom’s Tunes with DJ Amoroso and DJ MT SPEN invite you join them for a plunge into a guest’s first musical influence: their mom. with new moms covered each week!

from midnight-1am What’s Goin’ On? with DJ Sam offers a deep dive into the career and their music of artists with songs that have under 1,000,000 plays.  

at 1 Passing Thru with DJ Slimbo Clean take a musical investigation into the spaces we inhabit and the ways we move through them-- down the street, across the country, and beyond

from 2-3am Louisiana Barn Dance brings us an hour of rootin tooting Cajun and roots country sounds from Louisiana.

at 3am third shift listeners can catch an encore presentation of our noontime broadcast of Democracy Now!

At 4am we kick of four daytime public affairs block with BBC World Report followed by morning edition from NPR.

Stay tuned each weekday, for the area’s most diverse mix of public affairs from Pacifica, NPR, and independent sources.

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five. Catch us each weekday at 4:55pm for this daily community calendar and run down of night time programming here on WESU Middletown, one of the nation’s first student owned and operated radio stations, celebrating 80 years of community service in 2019!

Monday 10-28-19 Jive

Good evening, it's Monday, October 28^th. 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, heard every 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sunday of the month at 4 pm, where you'll hear uncommon songs of the 1960s and 70s from across the musical genres. I’ll be on this Sunday, and I hope you'll tune in.

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

The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown holds an Anything Goes Open Mic tonight, hosted by Jacob Wiseman. Story City Troupe takes the stage on Friday night, and on Saturday the Aligned With Source workshop happens at 10:30 am. Enjoy acoustic instrumentals and more in the evening with On The Trail Bluegrass. www.buttonwood.org

In New Haven, at Café Nine, Manic Mondays brings you Katie Kim, and on Tuesday it’s a Tiki Halloween party with Los Straitjackets and The Zambonis. There’s another Words & Music session on Wednesday, and on Thursday they headline Shake ‘n’ Vibrate. Friday’s Happy Hour features Joyce the Voice, followed by the late show with Kinky Friedman and The Merry Kinkster Tour. Saturday’s Jazz Jam session is with Michael Coppola, and in the evening, you can catch Shame Penguin and Cardboard Dream House. The Sunday Buzz Matinée brings you Protex, The Live Ones, and Lefty and the Chief, and they finish out the weekend with The Schizophonics and Killer Kin. http://www.cafenine.com/

The State House in New Haven hosts an Open Mic with Steve Rodgers tonight, featuring Max Johns. Enjoy Table Tennis on Tuesday at 5 pm, and on Thursday you can dance away a goth and industrial Halloween with DJ’s Mordecai, R.I.C.H.A.R.D., and F. Esther. You can Party Out of Bounds on Friday at their Brit-Pop tribute night, and on Saturday it’s Calle Allenda, a puppet theatre production inspired by Frida Kahlo’s diary. www.statehousepresents.com

Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, the Leland Baker Trio is featured in their Jazz Mondays session tonight. Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra brings you jazz, R&B, soul classics, and more on Tuesday. Wednesday’s Community Blues Jam is hosted by Tim McDonald, and on Thursday it’s Liviu’s Invitational. It’s blues, swing, and rock and roll on Friday with Carl Ricci and 706 Union Avenue, and on Saturday you can catch singer/songwriter Latanya Farrell and her band. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/

The Hartford Jazz Orchestra is at the Arch Street Tavern tonight, and there’s a Kizomba Public Dance Session at Union Station. It’s Karaoke Night at The Russell on Wednesday, and on Thursday you can check out a Murder Mystery Tour at the Hanging Hills Brewing Company. It’s also Off the Record Indie Night at Little River Restoratives. The Hartford Fringe Festival concludes on Friday at the Carriage House Theater with performances by local and national artists, and Sensual Salsa Saturdays takes place at the Red Rock Tavern on Saturday. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/

At the Russell Library in Middletown, Mathew Duman discusses gargoyles and grotesques from ten American campuses tonight at 6 pm. Harriet Grayson presents a “How To” on grants for nonprofits on Tuesday morning, and in the evening the Association of American University Women holds an open meeting. There’s an Open House Employment Information session on the 2020 census Wednesday at 4 pm, followed by Scrabble. The offsite First Fridays Book Discussion meets to discuss Stephen King’s “Elevation” at the RaMa LuNa Center for Yoga at 7 pm. They sponsor a Health Workshop Saturday morning on using gemstone crystals in a guided meditation, and on Sunday afternoon Sarada Nori will perform Indian Classical Dance at 2 pm. Consult the website calendar for more events geared to patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org

Toad’s Place presents The Monster Mash on Tuesday in Lilly’s Pad, with Magnets for Maniacs, Arcadia Forsaken, The Loners Club, and more. It’s a Halloween Backlight Glow Party on Thursday with action on two stages by Lucas Ketchian, Maxam, Rvm & Koke, and more. On Friday they headline Tribal Seeds, appearing with New Kingston and Tropidelic, and on Sunday Atreyu celebrates their 20^th Anniversary Tour, appearing with Whitechapel, He is Legend, and more. www.toadsplace.com

The Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore hosts an Open Mic Tuesday evening, and on Wednesday there’s a Teen NanoWriMo Kick-off event with Rebecca Behrens, author of “The Disaster Days.” Roxanne Coady holds a conversation with Beck Dorey-Stein on Friday about her new memoir, “From the Corner of the Oval.” Kids’ events continue this week, including Story Time. Check the website for details. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com

Free events this week sponsored by Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts start on Tuesday with a graduate recital by Max Gibson in Memorial Chapel. A guided tour of Brendan Fernandes’ exhibition, “Inaction,” followed by dance performances by the artist and Charles Gowin, happen Saturday at the Zilkha Art Gallery. Cellist and singer/songwriter Melanie Hsu performs “a prayer for broken glass” Sunday at The Russell House. You’re invited to purchase tickets for the Fall Senior Thesis Dance Concert that takes place at the Patricelli ’92 Theater Friday and Saturday. Details at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa 

Manic Presents brings Katie Toupin and Grayson Foster to Space Ballroom in Hamden on Wednesday, and on Friday Hot Rod Circuit and their Sorry About Tomorrow Anniversary Show is in town, appearing with Anxious, The Split Coils, and Honch. White Reaper, The Nude Party, and Wombo will be at the Space on Sunday. They headline Gregory Alan Isakov at the College Street Music Hall on Thursday, appearing with Luke Sital-Singh. Pigeons Playing Ping-Pong, and Goose, will be at College Street on Saturday. You can catch Kishi Bashi and Cicada Rhythm at the Wall street Theater in Norwalk on Friday, and on Sunday they headline The Infamous Stringdusters at Wall Street. www.manicpresents.com

The Middletown Arts & Culture Office announces an Idea Swap Wednesday at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, MA, where non-profits and touring artists meet to network and share ideas for touring projects. Kids can trick or treat at City Hall on Thursday, and on Friday it’s Family Craft Night at the Senior and Community Center. South Congregational Church announces a free Organ Concert Friday of works by Bach and Albinoni. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/ 

On Saturday, WESU’s 80^th Anniversary Oldies Show happens at Zandri’s Stillwood Inn in Wallingford. Enjoy three live acts and a delicious buffet all while helping us continue to bring the freeform music and public affairs programs you crave. Visit our website to more information and to purchase tickets. www.wesufm.org

Infinity Hall Hartford brings you The Halloween Horror Picture Show on Thursday with West End Blend and Bella’s Bartok. The World Affairs Council of CT brings you former president of Mexico Vincente Fox on Friday for an intimate conversation. On Saturday, it’s classic rock ‘n’ roll with Get the Led Out, and on Sunday, they’ve got jazz and R & B with Ruben Sings Luther. At Infinity Norfolk, singer/songwriter Nick Lowe brings you solo acoustic pop and rock on Friday, and it’s more of the same on Saturday with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Marcia Ball takes the stage on Sunday to bring you more blues. www.infinityhall.com

Cherry Street Station in Wallingford brings you Shadow, Epicdemia, and Matt Danger on Friday, and on Saturday you can celebrate Sarah’s Birthday Bash while donating shelf-stable food for Master’s Manna and enjoying performances by VRSA, Flapjack Attack, Solarburn, and Static Inc. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

The Middletown Recreation Division sponsors a free hike at the Wadsworth Falls State Park Saturday at 10 am. E-mail beth@HealingNatureCT.com for information.

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

Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” a celebration of the iconic vocal artist, and “Fantastic Fungi,” a documentary about the healing power of fungi, along with “Where’s My Roy Cohn,” a documentary about the political power broker who influenced Trump, through Thursday. Future openings include “Midnight Traveler” and “Parasite.” www.realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio continues their run of “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,”  through Thursday, and are also screening “Where’s My Roy Cohn” through the weekend. Their Exhibition On Screen series continues with the Sunday matinée of “Leonardo: The Works,” about da Vinci’s paintings and drawings, and they open a run of “Another Day of Life” Sunday evening, a film about the anarchy of warfare based on a Polish journalist’s memoir of Angola. http://www.cinestudio.org

The Middletown International Film Festival continues on Tuesday at the Russell Library with a screening of “Summer,” a Spanish film about a six-year-old orphan reacting to her new home in the mountains. There’s a post-film discussion with Professor Olga Sendra Ferrer. www.russelllibrary.org

Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown:

Right after the jive, it’s Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry. From classic bop to relevant new releases.

From 6-6:30pm Radical Radiowaves with DJ Oracle chronicles the actions of the left locally and across the country, to resist against our current system and to create something newer, freer and more liberating for us all.

From 6:30-8 pm, 75% Folk with Michael Benson offers a mix of contemporary folk, blues, jazz and acoustic music, along with occasional live interviews.

At 8 until 9:30 pm, Chip Austin is in the air chair for Unfocused Folk. Americana music from Nashville and around the world including folk, acoustic country and roots-rock from both emerging and veteran artists.

From 9:30 to 11 pm, The Jack Sullivan Show brings you music from the 1950s & 1960's as well as live requests, TV trivia, and lot of fun.

The oldies continue from 11-12:30 am, with Hits of the 60s and 70s with Jimmy Z playing Billboard Hot 100 hits. Win a WESU beverage mug on his weekly "Name That Tune" contest.

At 12:30 until 1:30 am it’s Influenza with DJ Jamsterdam and DJ Celiac. Dig into the origins, relationships, and influences of contemporary artists  to expose how they found their direction.

From 1:30-2:30am The Beatles: A Week in the Life with DJ McKenzie tells the story of The Beatles, their contemporaries, and the artists and songs that inspired them, a week at a time.

From 2:30-3:00am, Spoiler Alert Radio provides a retrospective look at independent artists in filmmaking: directors, cinematographers, composers, writers, and animators from across the globe.

From 3-4 am, stay tuned for a rebroadcast of the day’s noontime episode of Democracy Now! from Pacifica.

Finally, rounding out the night from 4-5 am is the BBC World Report with international news coverage and then we kick off each weekday at 5am with Morning Edition from NPR.

For a complete schedule of all our free-form and public affairs programming, visit our website wesufm.org.

That's all for today's Jive at Five. Join us weekdays at 4:55 for a daily rundown of area happenings and a rundown of evening programming on WESU Middletown!

Thanks for listening. Stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry coming up next.