Good evening, it's Wednesday,
October 9th. 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 hope you'll tune in.
Now, here's some of
what's happening in our area this week:
In New Haven at Café Nine
tonight you can catch Hosemen, Glass Divide, and Condition Zero, and on
Thursday they bring you 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 Tuareg women guitarists from Niger tonight with Les Filles De
Illighadad, Headroom is the opening act. The Statehouse brings you Vapors of
Morphine and Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Captraps on Thursday, and 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 Community Blues Jam is hosted by Phil Diorio, and
tomorrow 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, Scrabble Wednesday is on right now, followed by a workshop on
Google Drive. 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 continues the run of the late Robert Altman’s “Nashville,” a restored version of this 1975 story blending music, politics, and cultural satire, through Wednesday. 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 Middletown
International Film Festival continues tonight/Tuesday at Chapman Hall on the
Middlesex Community College campus with a screening of “Capernaum,” the story
of a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for giving him life. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
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
at Five, stick around for an hour of latin music from the 80’s, 90’s, and early
2000’s with Isabel Calione, to hear all different kinds of music from the latin
world!
next up at 6pm, stay
tuned for a half hour of Growing Greener with Thomas Greener, featuring
weekly interviews with the leading experts on working in partnership with
Nature in the garden, some important stuff right there.
From 6:30-8 pm tune in
for Fusion Radio with James Fusion featuring the original and still the best
damn Techno mix on Radio.
From 8-9:30 pm stay
tuned for ‘The Warehouse’ with Mike Nyce where you can hear the best in
underground house music mixed live for all your listening pleasures.
At the half hour mark
from 9:30 to 10 PM, stay tuned for Look What I Made, a program about various
creator’s on Wesleyan’s campus, in which students talk about themselves and
their creations.
from 10-11pm It’s
Windy City Sounds with MC Carthy and DJ Moore Life bringing you An
episodic look at different eras and genres of the Chicago music scene,
featuring discussion of the artists and songs from two Chicago natives.
Following at 11pm Splitting
Hairs, A humorous musical discussion show dedicated to analyzing the
lyrics of popular songs, and finding their inconsistencies and comical
meanings.
from midnight-1am Maximum Rock and Roll Radio from Pacifica, Featuring the best in DIY
punk, garage, and hardcore rock and roll.
For a 2 hour slot from
1 am to 3 am 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!
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!
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