Thurs, Jan 9 Jive

Good evening, it's Thursday, January 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 Maria Johnson, letting you know that I'll be coming out of my retirement from hosting Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith for one special episode, our annual Oscar roundup, featuring film critics Rand Richards Cooper and Richard Alleva. So mark your calendar for 4 p.m. Friday, Jan 24th, when we'll bat around the nominees for the Best Picture Oscar in time for you to see some of the movies before the February 9th telecast. You won't want to miss it!
A word about our fall/winter pledge drive here at WESU.

While WESU’s 80th anniversary year has come and gone, we still need you to help us successfully wrap things up. With over 70% of our funding goal met, we still need to raise over $6,000 in community support. So, if WESU means something to you and you are in a position to help, your donation will go a long way towards keeping community radio alive and well at WESU. If you tune in regularly and haven't supported WESU with a donation, please give what you can and check out our great thank you gifts online ww.wesufm.org/pledge .  Every dollar counts and we need to hear from you!

Now, here's some of what's happening in our area this week:

At the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown tomorrow, you can enjoy jazz standards, world music, and more with the acoustic ensemble Django’s Reserve. The Aligned With Source workshop happens Saturday morning, and on Saturday evening Sharkey and The Sparks take the Buttonwood Tree stage. There’s a Reiki Share with Eileen Anderson on Sunday and you can enjoy the new exhibition, “Wildlife in the Tree,” by Elizabeth Ann McNalley, throughout the month.  www.buttonwood.org

The Middletown Arts & Culture Office reminds you that the Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater Play Writing class starts this evening.  There’s a Cupcakes, Cookies & Canvases event tomorrow evening, also sponsored by the Recreation Division. Check the FB page for details. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/

In New Haven tonight, Cafe Nine headlines Janaesound. Tomorrow’s 5pm Happy Hour live music showcase features Pat Dalton, followed by the late show with Amy Rigby. The Nine’s Weekly Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with Gary Grippo this week, and Saturday evening, Every Branch, Sentiments, and Addy Edwards share a bill. The Sunday Buzz matinée will be an 85th Birthday Tribute to Elvis, and they finish out the weekend Sunday evening with Honeysuckle and The Moon Shells. www.cafenine.com

At Black-Eyed Sally’s in Hartford, Liviu’s Invitational comes your way tonight. It’s blues tomorrow at Black-eyed Sally’s with Ryan Hartt & The Blue Hearts, and on Saturday you can catch electric blues and classic rock with Jake Kulak and Lowdown, appearing with the Tom Forst Band.  http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/

At the Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore, Bob Shea offers a SaturdayKids Event session, with his new book, “Who Wet My Pants?” Check the website for details.  www.wesleyanrjjulia.com

The Russell Library in Middletown will be closed until 1 p.m.tomorrow  for staff development. Consult the website calendar for future events geared to all patrons, including help sessions for people who are home-insecure. www.russelllibrary.org

Infinity Hall Hartford brings you  Marc Cohn tonight performing rock, along with Mark Erelli. The 80’s rock tribute band Mullett takes the stage on Saturday. At Infinity Norfolk, they bring back Eaglemania, the  Eagles Tribute Band, on Saturday. Check the website for details.  www.infinityhall.com

Up in Hartford, Winterfest Hartford continues, with free skating at the east end of Bushnell Park all week. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/

Toad’s Place in New Haven holds another Blacklight Glow Party tomorrow with performances on two stages, and on Saturday they’ve got an Opus Birthday Blizzard Bash 2020 with EARTH, Dead by Wednesday, Black Tooth, and much more. www.toadsplace.com

The State House Cabaret in New Haven brings you pure rock ‘n’ roll tomorrow with The Let Loose and The Grand Par. There’s a Capricorn 90’s Hip Hop Bash on Saturday featuring Masta Ace, Dinco D, Key West Experience, and more. It’s a Hardcore Matinée on Sunday afternoon with Blind Justice, Downfall, Rain of Salvation, and more. www.statehousepresents.com

Cherry Street Station in Wallingford holds a Bad Ass Rock and Roll Show tomorrow with Immolators, Haunting Titans, and O’K and the Night Crew. On Saturday you can catch Intercourse, Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean, World Game, and SITH. Sunday’s performers include Fateless, Fear the Masses, Carpathia, and Crossing Rubicon. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues runs of “Parasite,” a modern Korean fairy tale, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” starring Tom Hanks as you-know-who, and “Harriet,” based on the life of iconic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman, through tonight. Opening tonight (Thurs) is Cunningham, a documentary tracing Merce Cunningham's artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery as a struggling dancer in postwar New York to his emergence as one of the world's most visionary choreographers. Upcoming openings include “Honey Boy” and “Burning Cane.” Check the website for details and screening times. www.realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio's Out Film CT Queer Thursdays offering tonight is “This Is Not Berlin,” a film about Mexico City in the mid-80’s. They’ve got a weekend run of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” starting tomorrow and their National Theatre Live matinée on Sunday is “Fleabag.” They start a run of “Pain and Glory,” about an aging director dealing with his doubts and physical ailments, on Sunday evening. 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 Homegrown with Rob DeRosa. Voted “Best Radio show” in the 2019 CTNOW Hartford reader’s poll,   Homegrown exclusively features Connecticut connected artists where listeners often enjoy pre-release material and in studio interviews with artists, and information about live shows in the area.

From 6:30-8pm, Karen Stein offers peace on air with her show, Imagine, bringing you a soulful mix of music from around the world. 

at 8:00 stick around for Evening Jazz, with Bill Denert for 90 minutes of straight ahead jazz with some adventurous offshoots!

From 9:30 to 10:30, it's Modern Jazz Today, from Pacifica

From 10:30 to 12:30, it's Uprfront Soul with Sanguine Fromage for two hours of funk and soul.

Then from 12:30 to 1, it's Deep Threes for 90 minutes of experimental music.

at 2am it's The Hour of Slack unti 3-4am when we’ll rebroadcast our noontime edition of Democracy Now! from Pacifica.
And finally, rounding out the night from 4-5am is the BBC World Report offering International news coverage and we kick off each weekday at 5am with Morning Edition from NPR.

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.

We’re doing our best to wrap up the WESU Fall/Winter pledge drive, and we need your support. With our 80th anniversary year in the rearview mirror and over $6,000 left to raise before we can end this fundraising effort, we need to hear from WESU listeners who’ve yet to step up to the plate with a donation. As a community radio station, we are glad to have your attention but we also need you to understand that there can be no community radio without listener support. We need your donation, no matter how big or how small, to keep the station going. Donate now online at wesufm.org/pledge. And thanks!

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.

Thanx for listening, now stay tuned for Homegrown with Rob DeRosa. Up next!