Good evening, it's Tuesday, November 19th. 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 joining us today!
Here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown hosts Laughter Yoga with
Dawn on Tuesday, followed by a Crystal Bowl Sound Healing. The Eric Mintel
Quartet brings jazz to The Buttonwood 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
On stage in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight/Tuesday, you
can catch The Barren Gods and Guest of Honor. Wednesday brings their monthly Words
& Music gathering, and on Thursday its 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. Café Nines Weekly Saturday afternoon 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/
Wednesday, The State House in New Haven hosts an evening of Ethiopian
funk with the Anbessa Orchestra and Nick DiMaria’s WiRED. They’ve got punk,
rock, Americana, and more on Thursday with Dust Hat, The Split Coils, and
Oberon Rose. 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, 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 Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore holds 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 tonight/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 calendar reminds us
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/
Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts presents The
Wesleyan Chamber Music Concert tonight (Tues) at Crowell Concert Hall. There’s
a graduate recital at Memorial Chapel this evening as well. 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 at Five, stay tuned for Wonderland with
DJ Cheshire Cat from 5:05-6pm.
From krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage, novelty to
New Romantic, punk to prog, Wonderland has a place for it.
From 6-8pm Bill Revill brings us Acoustic Blender, offering
an eclectic selection of new and older folk, Americana, bluegrass, blues and
other music that has a roots influence with a concert listing at 7pm and
frequent concert and festival ticket giveaways.
From 8-9 pm stay tuned for an hour of live and local arts
and culture with J-Cherry on Voice of the City!
at 9pm, stay tuned for (1,3,5) Femme Gems and
Jams with DJ Stevie Hick, spotlighting biographies of lesser known
historical female figures by curating mixtape that she might jam to.
from 10-11pm (1, 3, 5) take a Road Trip to a
different city each episode, with DJ G and DJ Vix, who cover new and rising
artists all from the same hometown. No gas money required.
at 11pm Not Ur Mom’s Tunes with DJ Amoroso and DJ MT SPEN
invite you join them for a plunge into a guest’s first musical influence: their
mom. with new moms covered each week!
from midnight-1am What’s Goin’ On? with DJ Sam offers a deep
dive into the career and their music of artists with songs that have under
1,000,000 plays.
at 1 Passing Thru with DJ Slimbo Clean take a musical
investigation into the spaces we inhabit and the ways we move through them--
down the street, across the country, and beyond
from 2-3am Louisiana Barn Dance brings us an hour of rootin
tooting Cajun and roots country sounds from Louisiana.
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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