Good evening, it's Friday, December 20th. This is the Jive at Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of nighttime programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown.
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Now, here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
Tonight at The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown you can catch the After The Fall's encore performance of their “Early Light” record release show, featuring fusion and progressive rock. The Aligned With Source workshop happens tomorrow morning, and the Ken Serio Jazz Trio takes the stage tomorrow night. Enjoy this month’s art exhibit that features Jenavieve Hawks’ mixed media works in “Art of Paradise.” www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, at Café Nine, you can Enjoy Robbies’s Jam tonight with the John Spignesi Band, Not Here, Shorebreak, and more. Tony Dioguardi and Friends are the featured performers at tomorrow’s afternoon Jazz Jam session. Fate, Feldman & Fox take the stage for the late show tomorrow night. There’s a Sunday Buzz Holiday Party with Bronson Rock and Roses Wild, and you can Shake “N” Vibrate the evening away with DJ B theT Jr. www.cafenine.com
Up in Hartford, the TheaterWorks production of “Christmas On The Rocks” is scheduled to continue through Sunday. The Wadsworth Athenaeum invites you to the CONNetic Dance fusion-style performance of Nutcracker Suite & Spicy tonight and tomorrow. The city holds a Make Music Hartford: Winter Edition event tomorrow starting at noon at Bushnell Park, with live jazz and a kazoo parade on ice and Sensual Salsa Saturdays happens at the Red Rock Tavern. Don’t forget that Winterfest Hartford at Bushnell Park continues, where you can skate for free seven days a week, or check out the Holiday Light Fantasia at Goodwin Park. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/
At Black-Eyed Sally’s in Hartford, tonight, Ed Peabody and The Big Blue Thang take the stage, and tomorrow, it’s XY Eli’s Annual Holiday Show, the Blues-Jazz Project featuring Matthew Holmes, and special guests Tony Davis and Savana ones. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At Infinity Norfolk, You can catch bluegrass and Americana with Jerry Douglas tonight, and tomorrow it’s Celtic, folk, and world music with Eileen Ivers’ Joyful Christmas. At Infinity Hartford, it’s pop and soul tomorrow with Javier Colon. www.infinityhall.com
A dedication concert for the Middletown High School Santo Fragilio Performing Arts Center will take place tomorrow at 7 p.m. at 200 LaRosa Lane. Fragilio was a former Music Teacher, MHS Band Director and Arts Consultant for the Middletown Public Schools since 1948. Fragilio died in 2017.
The Middletown Symphonic Band will be one of the main acts at the Annual Holiday Spectacular and will feature the Middletown High School Music Department and the Connecticut Trombone Christmas Ensemble. An assortment of concert fanfare such as fantasias & medleys will highlight the evening performance with holiday tunes such as "Joy To The World," "Deck The Halls," "Hark The Herald Angels Sing" and other holiday classics.
Admission is $10 and all proceeds will go to the MHS Music Department. Tickets may be purchased at the Middlesex Music Academy on Main Street, the MHS Music Department, sending an e-mail to symphony@mpsct.org or at the door.
The Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore hosts a Santa Story Time and Pajama Drive tomorrow. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
The Nick Di Maria Quartet performs live jazz at Conspiracy in Middletown, tomorrow night. Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
The Russell Library in Middletown invites to yoga in the Hubbard Room tomorrow morning. Consult the website calendar for more events geared to all patrons, including help sessions for people who are home-insecure. www.russelllibrary.org
At the State House Cabaret in New Haven there’s a Holiday Jam tonight with Neo-soul, R&B, jazz, and more, and they headline Mark C Daniel tomorrow night with Pope Joe, Hatfield, D. Cardillo, and much more. www.statehousepresents.com
Toad’s Place brings you their annual John Valby triple-X-Mas show tonight. Tomorrow, they headline Kung Fu, appearing with Strange Machines and The New Motif, for their 9th annual Toys for Tots fundraiser. www.toadsplace.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford hosts Metal Before Christmas tonight with Arcadia Forsaken, All in All, Out in the Distance, and more. Tomorrow, it’s a Clash of the Titans with Garbage Barge and Nasty Disaster A.D. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
Manic Presents hosts Goosmas VI at the Wall Street Theater in Norwalk tomorrow with Goose, TalkPeck Soundsystem, and Doey Joey. They invite you to the Tip the Van Reunion Show tomorrow at the Space Ballroom with We Are The Union, Skatune Network, and The Copacetics. www.manicpresents.com
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways upcoming openings are “Honey Boy,” “Burning Cane,” and “Cunningham.” Check the website for details and screening times. www.realartways.org
This evening, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford opens a weekend run of “Baraka,” a film of images across 24 countries and six continents, that’s become a Cinestudio holiday alternative tradition. Sunday's matinee is the Bolshoi Ballet performance of “The Nutcracker.” On Sunday they open a Christmas-week run of the 1947 classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” 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 an hour of special holiday programming.
until 7pm when the Universal Sound Wave with Sista Queen T comes your way, offering a wide range of music including soul, reggae, gospel, R&B, Latin, and blues.
at 8:30 Grand Central Station with DJ Jenny Doll invites you to travel back in time for her swinging upbeat show filled with big band, jazz, swing and rockabilly, and music history!
From 10-11pm (1,3,5) Train to Skaville with Brian Tomsic from Pacifica presents deep cuts from his collection of popular Jamaican music of the 60s and 70s.
At 11pm Mentaltown with The Ultimate Emcee El Vee brings you Unsigned Local Hip Hop.
at midnight, permanent Collection with Chris presents an hour of Non-toxic creative radio.
from 1:30-3am OVERDRIVE with Clarence and Shantay Scott present a unique mix of urban contemporary, hip hop, and traditional gospel music!
from 3-5am Back Down the Bayou with Bill Boelens is an eclectic Louisiana roots music show from the Banana Plantation in Baton Rouge.
And finally, from 5-6am the BBC World Report offers International news coverage.
Stay tuned for special holiday programming, up next!
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