Good evening, it's Tuesday, January
28th. 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.
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Now here's some of what's happening
in our area this week:
At the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown
on Friday night, singer/songwriters Anne Marie Menta and Lauren Agnelli appear
in concert together. The Aligned With Source workshop happens Saturday morning,
followed by the All the Write Ways Workshop with Briana Una McGuckin. It’s
blues and more in the evening with Songwriters in the Round, when Cathy Kreger
and Caroline Doctorow perform. You can view the current exhibition, “Wildlife
in the Tree” by Elizabeth Ann McNalley, throughout the month. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, at Café Nine, Avi
Jacob is the headliner tonight/Tuesday, appearing with Among the Acres and S.G.
Carlson. On Wednesday you can catch Sargasso, Dex Dreams, and Emil Beckford.
The Mark Dipino Band, Cardboard Dreamhouse, the Mike Brandon Band, and more are
in the lineup for Thursday night. Friday’s Happy Hour features Bruce and
Loralee Crowder, and the late show’s got The Worst, Alethea, and Killer Kin.
The Saturday Jazz Jam Session is led by Michael Coppola & Friends, followed
by the Dirt Pile Family Band, Major Stars, and Tongue Depressor. The Sunday
Buzz matinée features Shandy Lawson, Calvin Decutlass, and Mike Rivers this
week. www.cafenine.com
At Black-Eyed Sally’s in Hartford,
Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra will bring you jazz, R&B, and soul classics
tonight/Tuesday. The Community Blues Jam on Wednesday is with Tim McDonald, and
Liviu’s Invitational comes your way on Thursday. The Grammy-nominated Chicago
blues legend Lurrie Bell takes the stage on Friday night, and on Saturday
you can enjoy another session with Grayson Hugh & The Moon Hawks. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Up in Hartford, the Public Library
offers a Health & Wellness Fair at their Camp Hill branch Wednesday at 11
am. Center Church offers a Lunchtime Meditation on Wednesday at noon, and it’s
Karaoke Night at The Russell. The Bruce Gregori Quartet leads Wednesday Jazz at
The Half Door Wednesday evening as well, followed by an open jam session.
The AG Horns are at the Arch Street
Tavern for BooYah! Wednesdays this week. The Wadsworth Atheneum offers a
gallery talk on Thursday at noon for their new Noguchi exhibition “Sesshū,” and
in the evening the Public Library opens a two-part workshop on the Japanese Art
of Decluttering and Organizing at their Barbour Branch.
YourParents performs bass music at
the Arch Street Tavern on Thursday night, and on Friday and Saturday you can
catch the comedy of Tracey Ashley at the Brew HaHa Comedy Club.
The Arch Street Tavern hosts Bearly
Dead on Friday night, and Shadow of Intent brings its Melancholy Winter Tour to
The Webster on Saturday. The Polish National Home hosts Krakow Karaoke on
Saturday, and at Arch Street you can catch Dissident with their Pearl Jam
tribute. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/
The Middletown Arts & Culture
Office reminds you that the Shakespearean Acting and Writing Plays classes, as
well as the Circobatics class, continue this week at Oddfellow’s Playhouse. The
GM Chorale offers an open rehearsal and audition on this evening/Tuesday in
Cromwell. Middlesex Community College invites you to an opening reception for
two art exhibitions Wednesday at 6 pm in the Pegasus Gallery on campus.
You can view Sydney Morris’ “Liquid Sky” photography exhibit, and David
Borawski’s multimedia exhibit, “Murder for a Jar of Red Rum.” www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
The Russell Library in Middletown
Job and Career center offers a workshop tonight/Tuesday on “Steering Your Way
Through the New Hiring Technologies.” The Racial Justice Book Group meets to
discuss Nick Bellatoni’s “The Long Journeys Home,” presented by the author.
Scrabble Wednesday is on the books at 5 pm, and on Thursday the Mystery! book
group meets to discuss “Hollywood Homicide” by Kellye Garrett. Consult the
website calendar for future events geared to all patrons, including help
sessions for people who are home-insecure, and both group and individual
sessions from the Job and Career Center. www.russelllibrary.org
Wesleyan University’s Center for the
Arts invites you to an opening reception for the new Diane Simpson exhibition,
“Cardboard-Plus, 1977-1980,” at the Zilkha Gallery on this evening/Tuesday at
4:30 pm. “Hidden Volumes” will be performed at Olin Library on Saturday at
noon., and there’s a performance of “Living Tones” at 6 pm in the Smith Reading
Room. The Fred Simmons Duo performs on Sunday at 3 pm at The Russell House. You
can purchase tickets to the Connecticut premiere of “The Sound of Science”
performed by cellist Jeffrey Zeigler on Friday evening at Memorial Chapel. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/
The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in
Middletown holds an Open Mic Night this evening/Tuesday where you can read,
sing, perform, or present. Their Local Author series continues Wednesday with
Ioanna Opidee and her new book, “Waking Slow.” They host Jeffrey Colvin on
Sunday afternoon, presenting “Africaville.” The Light Up Your Mind!
program continues through the week, and check the website for Kids’ Event
programs including Family Story Time. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
The State House Cabaret in New Haven
invites all musical, word and visual artists to an Open Mic Night this
evening/Tuesday with Patrick Dalton. On Thursday, the Modern Love Collective
brings you a Dance Party, and on Friday you’re invited to an OOO UUU Wanna Rap?
Networking Event with special guest Yvng Swag. On Saturday, they bring you
Nikhil P Yerawadekar, Low Mentality, and the Fo. www.statehousepresents.com
Manic Presents is at the College
Street Music Hall this evening/Tuesday with Grace Potter and Devon Gilfillian.
They headline Rick Springfield at College Street on Friday, and on Saturday are
pleased to bring you Lettuce, and the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. At the Space
Ballroom in Hamden, they’ve got the Seratones, Thabisa, and Fernanda and the
Ephemeral on Friday. www.manicpresents.com
Toad’s Place brings you Rockin’ in a
Winter Wonderland on Thursday with performers on the Main Stage as well as
Lily’s Pad. www.toadsplace.com
Infinity Hall Norfolk brings you
blues and rock on Friday with Jack Broadbent. On Saturday, you can catch Broken
Arrow, a Tribute to Neil Young. It’s all rock on Saturday night when Infinity
Hartford brings The Smithereens to the stage with guest vocalist Robin Wilson. www.infinityhall.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford
hosts a Punk Rock celebration Friday with In The Distance, Devolve, Residual
Self, and more. Enjoy their Winter’s Eve on Saturday with spiked cocoa and
cider, and on Sunday it’s “Stupor Bowl” 2020 with pot luck offerings to enjoy
while watching the game. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
The Middetown Recreation Division is
sponsoring a guided walk along the Connecticut River Sunday at 10 am. E-mail Beth@BethLapin.com to register.
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, “Cunningham,” about the
legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham, “What She Said: The Art of Pauline
Kael,” a look at the The New Yorker movie critic, and “The Song of Names,” the
story of a Polish-Jewish prodigy in WWII Europe. Their annual screenings of
Oscar nominee shorts begin on Friday with Animation, Live Action, and
Documentary. Check the website for details and screening times. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio
continues their run of “Harriet”, about the iconic leader of the Underground
Railroad, through Wednesday. On Thursday they open “Ford vs Ferrari,” about the
Ford’s efforts to build a car to win the 24 Hours at LeMans. Sunday’s opening
is “Dark Waters,” about an attorney who uncovers a corporate crime with major
environmental impact. 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 at Five, stay
tuned for Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat from 5:05-6pm.
From krautrock to post-rock, grunge
to garage, blues 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 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 off our daytime
public affairs block with BBC World Report followed by morning edition from NPR
at 5am.
Stay tuned each weekday, for the
area’s most diverse mix of public affairs from Pacifica, NPR, and independent
sources.
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
Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat.
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