Good evening, it's Monday, November 11th.
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:
The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown holds an Anything
Goes Open Mic tonight, hosted by the Terri and Rob Duo. They’ve got Laughter
Yoga with Dawn on Tuesday, followed by a Crystal Bowl Sound Healing. The Eric
Mintel Quartet brings you jazz on Thursday, and on Friday you can catch more
jazz, both standards and originals, with the Mary DiPaola Trio. The Aligned
With Source workshop takes place Saturday morning, and in the evening enjoy
blues and more with guitarist and singer Tom “The Suit” Forst. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, at Café Nine, Manic Mondays headlines Nick
Jordan, appearing with Brett Cameron and Relli. On Tuesday, you can catch The
Barren Gods and Guest of Honor. It’s another session of Words & Music on
Wednesday, and on Thursday it’s American Elm, Brian Larney, and E.J. Nash. Friday’s
Happy Hour features DW Ditty, and later, Robert Gordon and The Bandidos take
the Café stage. Saturday’s Jazz Jam session is with the George Baker Band, and
in the evening they bring you the Madame Thalia’ Vaudeville Revue. The Sunday
Buzz Matinée features The Big Fat Combo and The Furors, and they round out the
weekend afterwards with Lula Wiles and The Moon Shells. http://www.cafenine.com/
The State House in New Haven
hosts an Open Mic with Patrick Dalton tonight, and on Wednesday it’s Ethiopian funk
with the Anbessa Orchestra and Nick DiMaria’s WiRED. Enjoy punk, rock,
Americana, and more on Thursday with Dust Hat, The Split Coils, and Oberon Rose,
and on Friday, Ceschi and Anonymous Inc play songs from Sans Soleil and Beyond.
Catch hardcore and punk on Saturday with Sheer Terror, Combust, Pummel, and
Savage World. www.statehousepresents.com
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, the Albert
Rivera Quartet 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 Gene Donaldson, and on
Thursday Rick Estrin and The Nightcats bring you blues and more with his
virtuoso harmonica. The Bruce Katz Band takes the stage on Friday with more
blues, and on Saturday you can catch Dissident, with their tribute to Pearl
Jam. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
The Hartford Jazz Orchestra is at
the Arch Street Tavern tonight, and Theater Works continues their two-week run
of “American Son” Tuesday evening. It’s karaoke night at The Russell on
Wednesday, and on Thursday it’s Off the Record Indie Night at Little River
Restoratives. The Mark Twain House presents Get a Clue Murder Mystery Tours on
Friday and Saturday evenings. The Knox Greenhouse holds their 9th
annual Harvest Market Saturday morning with food, gifts, live music, and more. The
Connecticut Historical Society invites you to join storyteller Matthew Dicks as
he launches his new book, “Twenty-One Truths About Love,” on Saturday evening.
Also on Saturday evening the Wadsworth Atheneum presents the New England Ballet
Collective’s inaugural performance. Full details on these and more at www.hartford.com/events/
The Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore holds
their Weekly Na NoWri Mo Write-In tonight at 6 pm. There’s a Teen NanoWriMo
session on Wednesday. They’re sponsoring Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Shubert Theater
in New Haven on Wednesday, presenting his new work, “The Water Dancer.” On Thursday, film historian Jeanine Basinger
will be in town with “The Movie Musical!”. On Saturday afternoon, Susan Jaques
presents “The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic
Obsession that Shaped an Empire.” Kids’ events continue this week, including
Story Time, Cardinal Kids, the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
Manic Presents brings Black
Marble, Automatic, and Reduction Plan to the Space Ballroom in Hamden on
Tuesday. They bring you Puss N Boots on Wednesday and Thursday, featuring Norah
Jones, Sasha Dobson, and Catherine Popper. They headline Mono on Friday,
appearing with Bell Witch. They’re at the College Street Music Hall on Friday
afternoon with the Dark Star Orchestra, and on Saturday they’re sponsoring the
Elm City Brew Festival, along with the music of Seth Adam and Eddie Seville. www.manicpresents.com
The Russell Library in Middletown sponsors “How to
Deal with Grief at the Holidays” on Wednesday afternoon, followed by Scrabble
at 5 pm, and a Meet the Charlie Cart presentation at 6 pm. The Veteran’s
Writing Group meets Thursday afternoon, and they sponsor a free chamber music
concert Saturday afternoon featuring Boston’s Ensemble Aubade. They’re offering
Yoga in the Hubbard Room on Sunday. Consult the website calendar for more
events, including sessions for those who are home-insecure, all geared to
patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org
The Middletown Arts & Culture
Office announces The Godfrey Memorial Library will be holding two genealogy research
help sessions on Wednesday. Middletown Works holds their monthly Conversation
Circle Thursday at 4 pm at the Family Wellness Center, with a special focus on
single parents. The Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater performances of Chekhov’s
“The Seagull” continue this Friday and Saturday. You can drop off new,
unwrapped toys at the Recreation Division office for the 68th annual
Bernie O’Rourke/Detroit Hunter Christmas Toy Drive or learn about how to apply
for the program. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
Free events this week sponsored
by Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts include a talk by architect Thomas
Kelley at the Zilkha Gallery on Tuesday afternoon who’ll discuss the ongoing
“Inaction” exhibition. The Wesleyan Chamber Music Concert happens Tuesday night
at Crowell Concert Hall, and there’s a graduate recital at Memorial Chapel.
Cellist and visiting teacher Julie Ribchinsky is at Crowell Thursday at noon to
perform and discuss “Bach and the Modern World,” and in the evening there’s an
advanced Javanese gamelan concert at World Music Hall. Guided tours of the
“Inaction” exhibition happen Saturday afternoon, and in the evening the Chinese
Music Ensemble, Taiko Drumming Ensemble, and others perform Music from East
Asia at Crowell Concert Hall. Splinter Reeds performs new works by Wesleyan
composers Saturday night at World Music Hall, and on Sunday there’s a Worlds of
Dance Concert performance at Crowell. You can also purchase tickets for the
West African Drumming and Dance Concert happening at Crowell Concert Hall on
Friday evening. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Infinity Hall Norfolk
brings you fusion and jazz with Spyro Gyra on Wednesday, and on Thursday you
can enjoy bluegrass and folk with the Gibson Brothers, and Rob Ickes & Trey
Hensley. They’ve got alternative rock, soul, and more on Saturday with Brother
Joscephus and the Love Revolution. At Infinity Hartford, you can catch
Americana and bluegrass on Friday with Railroad Earth, and on Saturday, David
Clark’s “Songs in the Attic” perform highlights from Billy Joel’s Last Play at
Shea. www.infinityhall.com
Toad’s Place presents
Cannibal Corpse, Thy Art is Murder, and Perdition Temple on Thursday, and on
Sunday they host Merkules with his Special Occasion Tour, appearing with
Golden, Early Adopted, and Endr Won. www.toadsplace.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford brings you Sepsiss,
Soldiers of Solace, Carried by VI, and more on Friday. On Saturday you can
catch the Ditch Boys, The Prozacs, and Thyphoid Rosie. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track
in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues the documentary “Fantastic
Fungi;” “Where’s My Roy Cohn,” about the political power broker who influenced
Trump; and “Light From Light,” a haunted house story with deep questions, all
through Thursday. Details and screening times at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio continues their run of “First
Love,” a Japanese pulp fiction/comedy hybrid, through Wednesday. On Thursday
they sponsor the free premier of the documentary “Eastern White Pine: The Tree
Rooted in American History.” Friday’s weekend opening is “Ad Astra,” billed as
the Apocalypse Now of space travel, and the Sunday matinée is the Royal Opera
House production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” On Sunday evening they open “The
Lighthouse,” about two men operating an isolated lighthouse in the 19th
century. Details at http://www.cinestudio.org
The Wadsworth Atheneum continues their Food & Film series on
Saturday with dinner and a screening of “Soul Food,” a story of family tension
that erupts when their matriarch becomes ill. www.hartford.com/events/
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.
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, it’s the Rumpus Room with
Lord Lewis. The best in vintage and contemporary funk, soul, jazz, reggae, dub,
afro and Latin dance floor grooves.
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 1:30am it’s Cloggin the Noggin
with DJ Oatneel. Every day is national something day. We clog your nog with
facts and know-how about the thing of the day.
From 1:30-2:30am Prominent Profiles with DJ
Elliot takes a look at an historic artist that has had a profound and lasting
influence on popular culture and current artists.
From 2:30-3:00am, Spoiler Alert Radio provides
a retrospective look at independent artists in filmmaking 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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