Good evening, it's Thursday, October 10th. 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:
In New Haven at Café Nine tonight you can catch Peter Case and Shawn Taylor. Friday, Café Nine’s weekly live Happy Hour music set features Lynn Malavolti. Friday night’s Main event features 3 acts: The Stash!, Band, and Joey Wit and The Definition. Saturday’s Jazz Jam session is with Gary Grippo, followed later by Old Self & Nigel, Height Keech, Kwanduit, and more. The Sunday Buzz Matinée features John D’Amato, and a session with Jesse Gimbel rounds out the weekend. http://www.cafenine.com/
The State House in New Haven features tonight Vapors of Morphine and Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Captraps, on Friday it’s an 80’s/90’s Dance party with a focus on the ladies of the ‘80’s. Sunday afternoon with Legends, Beats & Grooves featuring Turntable demos, lectures, and serious hip hop culture. www.statehousepresents.com
Back in Hartford, The Butler McCook House and Garden holds Second Thursday Tours this week at 1 pm. Sensual Salsa Saturdays happens at the Red Rock Tavern at 9 pm. Full details on these events and more at www.hartford.com/events/
The Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore hosts NBA trainer Rob McClanaghan, who will talk with Mike Whalen on Thursday evening about his new offering, “Net Work.” Kids’ events continue this week and include story time and sessions on acting. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight’s it’s Liviu’s Invitational. The Joh D’Amato Blues Band takes the stage on Friday, and on Saturday you can catch the “King of the Hokum Blues,” Chris “Bad News” Barnes, along with Clarence Spady. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At the Space Ballroom, Manic Presents brings Mike Watt + The Missingmen, and on Friday they headline Earthless. It’s stand-up comedy on Saturday with Brian Posehn. www.manicpresents.com
At the Russell Library in Middletown, Books and Brews continues Thursday evening with a discussion of “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive,” at Stubborn Beauty Brewing. The Friends Book Sale happens Friday and Saturday this weekend. The library is closed next Monday for the federal holiday. Consult the website calendar for more events geared to patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org
The Middletown Arts & Culture Office wants you to know that Middletown WORKS holds a Community Café Thursday on the Middlesex Community College campus that includes Table Talks, a Marketplace, and refreshments. Wesleyan University’s Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns opens Friday at 3 pm with a presentation of “Understanding Russia: A Dramatic Return to the World Stage.” The Middletown Urban Farming Symposium takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Exley Science Center on the Wesleyan Campus, where you can learn more about community gardening and environmental justice. Middletown’s Climate Action Art Walk continues on Saturday and Sunday with a Community Conversation, art exhibitions, and more. And the Recreation Division hosts a Cupcakes, Cookies & Canvases paint session Saturday morning at the Senior & Community Center. You’re invited to the Connecticut Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s performance of the comic opera “Thespis” Saturday and Sunday at the Middletown High School Performing Arts Center. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts hosts Davesh Sineji on Thursday to the colloquium “Re-Sounding Islam—Marking Religious and Aesthetic Pluralism in the Historiography of South Indian Music. There’s also an Opening Reception for “Into the Image—Art in Miniature Across the Centuries,” at the Davison Art Center. The 43rd Navaratri Festival continues on Friday evening with a performance of Vocal Music from South India. On Saturday at 1 pm, there is a tour of Brendan Fernandes exhibition, “Inaction,” at the Zilkha Gallery, and at 4 pm Dr. Yashoda Thakore performs Courtesan Dance from South India at Crowell. Her performance is followed by a vegetarian feast, Bhojanam, at Beckham Hall, and in the evening you can see Grammy Award-nominated Amjad Ali Khan perform the Sarod Trilogy at Crowell Concert Hall. Details at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Toad’s Place holds an Autumn Music Fest on Thursday with performers on two stages. On Friday, they headline Max Creek, appearing with the John Spignesi Band. On Sunday you can catch Melvin Seals and JGB with special guest John Kadlecik. www.toadsplace.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford brings you Snow Burial, Coma Hole, and Gorge on Thursday, and on Friday they host Live and Local, a celebration of local performers including crossing Rubicon, Found Piece, and more. There’s a Skalloween Party on Saturday with The Hempsteadys, Smittix, So Long Liberty, and J Wahlburg. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown takes a break this week but invites you to a CD Release Party on Friday for singer/songwriter John Paradis and partner Mark Marindo’s “October Moon.” The Aligned with Source Workshop for Self-Awareness happens Saturday morning. www.buttonwood.org
Infinity Hall Hartford brings you Eaglemania, an Eagles Tribute Band, on Friday. On Saturday Infinity Hartford features Pav Daharia and Feteh Doe. At Infinity Norfolk you can catch Stanley Jordan playing Jimi on Friday, and on Saturday it’s rock with Willie Nile. Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones takes the Norfolk stage on Sunday. www.infinityhall.com
WESU is excited to bring acclaimed Hip-Hop artist, producer, activist, and scholar, Akua Naru back to Wesleyan in celebration of WESU’s 80th anniversary on Monday at 4:30 pm in Wesleyan’s Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life. You’ll experience an intimate conversation facilitated by Clifton Watson (PhD), Director of Wesleyan’s Jewett Center for Community Partnerships. The event happens and will be followed by a reception with light refreshments. It’s free and open to the public.
Sunday, The Cromwell Record Riot returns to The Red Lion Hotel in Cromwell with dozens of vendors from the northeast selling tons of records, cds, and music memorabilia. doors open from 9:30-3:30 https://www.recordriots.com/cromwell/
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 “Monos,” a survivalist saga of Latin American rebels. Both run through Thursday. Upcoming openings include “Midnight Traveler, and “Parasite.” Check the website for details and screening times. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford The Out Film Queer Thursdays selection this month is “Tucked,” about the friendship between a vulnerable young man and an octogenarian. The weekend offering is “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” about a modern woman who has everything but happiness. On Sunday they open a run of “Honeyland,” a documentary about bees. Full details at http://www.cinestudio.org
The Spooky Popcorn film series continues Thursday at Constitution Plaza in Hartford with a screening of “The Ring,” and Friday with “The Lost Boys.” Both showings are at 6:30 pm. 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, 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!
Stay tuned for a stiff dose of homegrown with Robbie DeRosa, up next!
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!
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