Good evening, it's Thursday, October 17th. 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 listening!
Here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
Herein Middletown at the Wesleyan RJ Julia
bookstore, Italian-American heritage is the topic on this evening (Thursday)
with authors Marco Rafalà and Juliet Grames presenting their new works. On
Saturday afternoon Roberta Isleib speaks with Ang Pompano about his new
mystery,” When It’s Time for Leaving.” Kids’ events continue this week and
include story time and sessions on Spanish, acting, and a visit with Beth
Vrabel on Wednesday about her new book, “The Humiliations of Pipi McGee.” www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
At the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, Friday kicks off their
30th anniversary celebration with their first-ever 30-hour Performance Marathon
and fundraiser. For thirty hours, at three locations, Friday and Saturday, The
Button will offer live performances, refreshments, a silent auction, art
displays, vintage photos and more at three locations. Friday’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 at the Senior & Community Center, as well as Downtown Trick or
Treat on Saturday, 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 on Saturday night.
The Nick Di Maria Quartet performs live jazz at Conspiracy
on Saturday, 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 (Thursday), they bring
you Tommy Sands. Friday, The Nine’s weekly Happy Hour live music set at 5pm,
features Dittymack. Friday night’s main event features Dale Watson
and His Lonestars, along with Roses Wild. Café Nine’s Saturday Jazz Jam session
is with Tony DioGuardi and Friends, and later Saturday 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 a
singer/songwriter showcase with host Marisol Credle, and on Friday you can
catch Lightkeeper, Albino Redwood, Memory Celle, and more. It’s a Homecoming
Show on Saturday 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 opens today with ten days of
theater, music, comedy and more performed by local and national artists at the
Carriage House Theater. It’s Off the Record Indie Night on Thursday at Little
River Restoratives. The GOAT Brew & Wine Fest happens Saturday 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, on Thursday nights, Liviu’s Invitational take the stage. You can
dance the night away on Friday with The Cartells, and on Saturday 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, at 6:30 pm this
evening (Thursday) the Connecticut Poetry Society presents a workshop, “Poets
on Poe try,” with a focus on the 13th century Persian poet Rumi.
The library will participate in Saturday morning’s Downtown
Trick or Treat in the children’s section, and Saturday afternoon, their “Jazz
Up Close: Composition as Storytelling” features drummer/composer Gerald Cleaver
and his quartet. www.russelllibrary.org
Tonight/Thursday, Toad’s Place headlines hard-hitting Hip
Hop MC Immortal Technique’s Middle Passage Tour, with support from with Chino
XL, Poison Pen, and more. Friday, Toad’s presents the Earthgang Mirrorland
Tour. www.toadsplace.com
Infinity Hall Norfolk hosts Karla Bonoff tonight/Thursday
and the Yonder Mountain String Band is in the house on Friday. You can enjoy
jazz with Steve Tyrell on Saturday, 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 on Friday, 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 Friday with Falconeer, Fiction, and Psychotic Reaction. On Saturday
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 on Friday, and on Saturday they headline Thievery Corporation at
College St. At the Space Ballroom in Hamden, Manic presents brings Altin Gün to
the stage on Friday, and Cimorelli takes the stage on Saturday 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
Tonight, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford begins 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 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
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM
Middletown:
Right after the Jive, stay tuned for Homegrown with Psychedelic Rick filling in for Rob DeRosa.
From 6:30-8pm, Karen Stein offers peace on air with her
show, Imagine, bringing you a soulful mix of music from around
world.
at 8:pm, 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. 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!
Stay tuned for homegrown with Psychedelic Rick, up next!
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