I'm Ben Michael, thanks
so much for joining us today and throughout the week and over the years! Be
careful out there on the roads!
It’s hard to believe
WESU’s 80th anniversary year is almost behind us. Your donation during our
holiday pledge drive helps preserve WESUs incredible 8 decade legacy of service
and keeps community radio alive, here in central CT. Please consider giving the
gift of WESU this holiday season! make your year-end contribution and check out
our great thank you gifts online at www.wesufm.org/pledge
Now, here's some of
what's happening in our area this week: given today’s icy weather please check
with venues before heading out on the roads. I will list the schedules as
originally planned.
The Buttonwood Tree in
Middletown was scheduled to have Lou Sorrentino’s Crystal Bowl Sound Healing
and There’s also a Gong Bath and Sound Healing Thursday evening. Please call
ahead about tonight’s event. Friday at
The Buttonwood Tree you can catch the
After The Fall in encore performance of their “Early Light” record release
show, featuring fusion and progressive rock. The Aligned With Source workshop
happens on Saturday morning, and the Ken Serio Jazz Trio takes the stage
Saturday 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, tonight/Tuesday, Sage Coals, Pleasure Beat, and Nathaniel Hintz are
scheduled to appear but you should check ahead. Wednesday the nine brings you
another session of Words & Music. It’s jazz on Thursday with Nick Di Maria
Wired, the Rosemary Minkler Trio, and chad browne-springer. You can Enjoy
Robbies’s Jam on Friday night with the John Spignesi Band, Not Here,
Shorebreak, and more. Tony Dioguardi and Friends are featured at Saturday’s afternoon
Jazz Jam session. Fate, Feldman &
Fox take the stage for the late show Saturday 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. It’s Karaoke Night at The Russell on Wednesday, and Off the Record
Indie Night at Little River Restoratives on Thursday. The Wadsworth Athenaeum
invites you to the CONNetic Dance fusion-style performance of Nutcracker Suite
& Spicy on Friday and Saturday. The city holds a Make Music Hartford:
Winter Edition event on Saturday 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, on Tuesday nights Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra brings you jazz,
R&B, soul classics, and more, Better check ahead about tonight’s show. Gene
Donaldson hosts the Black-eyed Sally’s Community Blues Jam on Wednesday, and on
Thursday there’s another session of Liviu’s Invitational. On Friday, Ed Peabody
and The Big Blue Thang take the stage, and on Saturday, 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/
You should call ahead
but Infinity Hall Norfolk is scheduled brings you a Christmas Show with The
Everly Brothers Experience tonight/Tuesday evening. You can catch bluegrass and
Americana with Jerry Douglas at Infinity Norfolk on Friday, and on Saturday
it’s celtic, folk, and world music with Eileen Ivers’ Joyful Christmas. At
Infinity Hartford, it’s pop and soul on Saturday with Javier Colon. www.infinityhall.com
The Wesleyan RJ Julia
bookstore hosts a Santa Story Time and Pajama Drive Saturday. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
The Middletown Arts
& Culture Office wants you to know that the Family Wellness Center holds a
Conversation Circle Wednesday at 4 pm. The Nick Di Maria Quartet performs live
jazz at Conspiracy in Middletown, Saturday night. Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
The Russell Library in
Middletown invites you to Scrabble Wednesday happening tomorrow and weekly at 5
pm. The Veterans Writing Group meets on Thursday afternoon, and there’s yoga in
the Hubbard Room on Saturday morning. Consult the website calendar for more
events geared to all patrons, including help sessions for people who are
home-insecure. www.russelllibrary.org
The State House Cabaret
in New Haven hosts Lush, a Living Room Vibe and Electro-Soul Dance Party on
Wednesday, with performances by Puma Simone and Star Kat. On Thursday it’s a
Latin dance night with A Party Called Pedro. There’s a Holiday Jam Friday night
with Neo-soul, R&B, jazz, and more, and they headline Mark C Daniel
Saturday 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 on Friday. On Saturday, 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 on Friday with Arcadia Forsaken,
All in All, Out in the Distance, and more. On Saturday, 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 on Saturday with Goose,
TalkPeck Soundsystem, and Doey Joey. They invite you to the Tip the Van Reunion
Show Saturday 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 continues three films through Thursday, including “Parasite,” a
pitch-black modern Korean fairytale; “Jojo Rabbit,” a WWII satire about a
lonely German boy whose mother is hiding a Jewish girl; and “The Two Popes,” an
intimate story of the modern-day struggle between Benedict and Francis. All run
through Thursday. Upcoming openings include “Honey Boy,” “Burning Cane,” and
“Cunningham.” Check the website for details and screening times. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s
Cinestudio continues their run of “63 Up” the latest in the series that follows
fourteen British children that began in 1964, through Thursday. On Friday they
open a weekend run of “Baraka,” a film of images across 24 countries and six
continents, that’s become a Cinestudio holiday alternative tradition. Sundays
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
Weather pending, 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, Blue Grass to BeBop, novelty to New Romantic, 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 9 pm Stay tuned for
a special backwards edition of the Test Patterns show.
From 10 – midnight its
all mixed up with Peter Bochan followed
by 3 hrs of radio from Louisiana
starting with Back Down
the Bayou for 2hrs of swamp rock funk and soul and then Louisiana Barn Dance
brings us an hour of 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.
Catch the Jive at Five
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!
For a complete schedule
of all our free-form and public affairs programming, visit our website wesufm.org.
We’re in the midst of
our fall pledge drive, and we need your support. With $15,000 left to go and
only two weeks left to raise it, we ask that you reflect on how WESU has
contributed to the quality of your life. Does the service we provide keep you
informed, entertained, or perhaps even enlightened? Do we bring you content you
cannot elsewhere? As a community radio station, these are our goals and we are
glad to have your ear, but there is no community radio without listener
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And thanks!
Be careful out there on the roads and Stay tuned, now, for
Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat, coming up next.
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