Good evening, it's Friday, October 18th. This is the Jive at Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of nighttime programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletow n. 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 Maria Johnson, thanks for listening!
Here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
Herein Middletown at the Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore, tomorrow afternoon Roberta Isleib speaks with Ang Pompano about his new mystery,” When It’s Time for Leaving.” www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
At the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, today kicks off their 30th anniversary celebration with their first-ever 30-hour Performance Marathon and fundraiser. For thirty hours, at three locations, today and tomorrow, The Buttonwood will offer live performances, refreshments, a silent auction, art displays, vintage photos and more at three locations. Today's performers include: House of Moses, Kate Rushin, Cathy Kreger, Kristen Graves, Kate Callahan, Lara Herscovitch and Ashley Hamel. Saturday’s events includes appearances by Buttonwood co-founder, Stephan Alison, Joe Flood, Laszlo Gardony, Brian O’Rourke, Bob Gotta, Carolyn Halsted, John BAsinger, Neely Bruce and Kitty Katherine. The events close out with a Gala event atop the Community Health Center. From all of us at WESU, Happy Birthday to the Buttonwood Tree, a real community treasure. Keep up the great work and here’s to 30 more years of making art history in Middletown! www.buttonwood.org
The City of Middletown Recreation Division sponsors Friday Night Bingo tonight at the Senior & Community Center, as well as Downtown Trick or Treat tomorrow, along with Fall Fest events on the South Green including a petting zoo, games, vendors, music, and more.
The Greater Middletown Chorale and First Congregational Church of Cheshire host a free performance of Soirées Musicales by the vocal chorale Alchemy tomorrow night.
The Nick Di Maria Quartet performs live jazz at Conspiracy tomorrow, and on Sunday they hold a Royal Tea with the Queens event while collecting donations for Middletown food banks. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
In New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight’s main event features Dale Watson and His Lonestars, along with Roses Wild. Café Nine’s Saturday Jazz Jam session tomorrow is with Tony DioGuardi and Friends, and later tomorrow night, they bring Rhett Miller and Elaina Kay to the stage. The Café Nine Sunday Buzz Matinée features Auguste and Alden with Wallace & Sasso. Sunday evening Avenir and The Outer Side take the stage. http://www.cafenine.com/
Tonight, The State House in New Haven presents Lightkeeper, Albino Redwood, Memory Celle, and more. It’s a Homecoming Show tomorrow at The State House featuring The Most, appearing with Standby, Nikita, and Elom. Sunday evening, The Quest Presents NRG (The Musical). www.statehousepresents.com
The Hartford Fringe Festival continues today with nine more days of theater, music, comedy and more performed by local and national artists at the Carriage House Theater.The GOAT Brew & Wine Fest happens tomorrow afternoon at Dunkin’ Donuts Park, and there’s a Discover Hartford Scavenger Hunt at the Hanging Hills Brewery. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/
In Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, you can dance the night away tonight with The Cartells, and tomorrow they’ve got the Hall High School Jazz Ensembles and a special guest band from Germany, performing with Grammy-nominated composer Pete McGuinness. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At the Russell Library in Middletown, the library will participate in tomorrow morning’s Downtown Trick or Treat in the children’s section, and tomorrow afternoon, their “Jazz Up Close: Composition as Storytelling” features drummer/composer Gerald Cleaver and his quartet. www.russelllibrary.org
Tonight Toad’s Place in New Haven presents the Earthgang Mirrorland Tour. www.toadsplace.com
Infinity Hall Norfolk hosts the Yonder Mountain String Band tonight. You can enjoy jazz with Steve Tyrell tomorrow, and on Sunday and Southern rock with JJ Grey and his Front Porch Sessions. Infinity Hall Hartford brings you Broken Arrow, a Tribute to Neil Young tonight, and on Sunday it’s jazz with the Delfeayo Marsalis Quintet, the West Hartford Jazz All Stars, and more for the Gifts of Music benefit concert to support music instruction in local schools. www.infinityhall.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford holds a psych/rock dance party tonight with Falconeer, Fiction, and Psychotic Reaction. Tomorrow you can catch Murderer’s Row, Kyle Trocolla & The Strangers, and Matt & The Marauders. Sunday’s lineup includes Pathogenic, My Missing Half, and Vaulted. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
Manic Presents brings In This Moment to the College Street Music Hall tonight and tomorrow they headline Thievery Corporation at College St. At the Space Ballroom in Hamden, Manic presents brings Altin Gün to the stage tonight, and Cimorelli takes the stage tomorrow for a 1 pm matinée show. They round out the weekend at the Space on Sunday with Lust For Youth. www.manicpresents.com
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,” as well as “Aquarela,” a cinematic journey about the raw power of water. Also continuing is “Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements,” a memoir about a deaf boy, his grandfather, and Beethoven. Also showing at Real Art ways is “The Peanut Butter Falcon,” about a young man with Down ’s syndrome with dreams of being a professional wrestler. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues a run of “Luce,” a psychological thriller about an adopted all-star high school athlete with a secret. Sunday’s National Theatre Live matinée film is Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and they also open a run of “Tel Aviv on Fire,” a comedy about a soap opera that eases Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Full details at http://www.cinestudio.org
Now here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown:
Right after the Jive, stay tuned for Wild Wild Live! with DJ Celiac and DJ Opal for a peek intoThe live music scene at Wesleyan..at 6:30, Its’ The Middletown Youth Radio Projectuntil 7pm when the Universal Sound Wave with Sista Queen T comes your way, offeringa wide range of music including soul, reggae, gospel, R&B, Latin, and blues.at 8:30 Grand Central Station with DJ Jenny Doll brings invites you to travel back in time for her swinging upbeat show filled with big band, jazz, swing and rockabilly, and music history!From 10-11pm (1,3,5) Train to Skaville with Brian Tomsic from Pacifica presents deep cuts from his collection of popular Jamaican music of the 60s and 70s.At 11pm Mentaltown with The Ultimate Emcee El Vee brings you Unsigned Local Hip Hop.at midnight, permanent Collection with Chris presents an hour of Non-toxic creative radio.at 1:30-3am OVERDRIVE with Clarence and Shantay Scott present a unique mix of urban contemporary, hip hop, and traditional gospel musict!from 3-5am ack Down the Bayou with Bill Boelens is an eclectic Louisiana roots music show from the Banana Plantation in Baton Rouge.And finally, from 5-6am the BBC World Report offers International news coverage.
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