Good evening, it's Monday, October 28th.
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 20th 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/
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.
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