Good evening, it's Monday, February 3rd. 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 Leith Johnson, host of The Light Fandango, heard every
1st, 3rd, and 5th Sunday of the month at 4 pm, where you'll hear uncommon songs
of the 1960s and 70s from across the musical genres. I hope you'll tune in.
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Now here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
The Buttonwood Tree in
Middletown holds an Anything Goes Open Mic and Moments of Gratitude tonight,
hosted by the Terri and Rob Duo. Laughter Yoga with Mylene is on Tuesday. Acoustic
Open Mic with Bob Gotta is on Thursday night, and the Story City Troupe is on
Friday. The Aligned With Source workshop happens Saturday morning,
followed by the All the Write Ways Workshop with Briana Una McGuckin. It’s bluegrass in the evening with Redwood Hill. You can view the current
exhibitions, “Were You Here” by Ryan Martin and “Blue Pearl” by Heather Cohen,
throughout the month. There will be a reception for the artists Saturday
afternoon. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, at Café Nine, Blue
Note Mondays features the Nick Blanchette Trio tonight. Carrie Nation and The
Speakeasy is the headliner tomorrow, appearing with Dr. Caterwauls Cadre of
Clairvoyant Claptraps. On Wednesday you can catch Comedy Open Mic with Dan Rice.
GA-20 and the Balkun Brothers are in the lineup for Thursday night. Friday’s
Happy Hour features Hatfield, and the late show’s got Home Body, Brain Bank,
and The Forest Room. The Saturday Jazz Jam Session is with Gary Grippo, followed
by Wayne Hancock and Roses Wild in the evening.. The Sunday Buzz matinée
features EG Vines and Bob Crelin. www.cafenine.com
At Black-Eyed Sally’s in
Hartford, their Jazz Mondays features the Simon White Quartet. Michael Palin’s
Other Orchestra will bring you jazz, R&B, and soul classics on Tuesday. The
Community Blues Jam on Wednesday is with Tommy Whalen, and Liviu’s Invitational
comes your way on Thursday. Singer/songwriter BRI takes the stage on Friday
night, and on Saturday you can enjoy Gracie
Curran and Her High Falutin’ Band. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Up in
Hartford, there’s Monday Night Jazz at the Arch Street Tavern. On
Wednesday, Center Church offers a Lunchtime Meditation at noon, it’s
Karaoke Night at The Russell, and The Bruce Gregori Quartet leads Wednesday
Jazz at The Half Door in the evening. On Thursday, the Webster has the Have
Mercy farewell tour and the Arch Street Tavern presents Mike and Mike hosting
an open mic. On Friday, Ray Harrington, Krystal Dyer, and Howie Mason are at
the Polish Nation Home for Pierogis and Punchlines. Also Friday, Rent Party: Funk Night with
On the Black Hand Side is at Kamora’s Cultural Corner, the Mark Twain House and Museum has the Mouth-Off with Chion Wolf, and there’s a tribute to Bob Marley
at the Arch Street Tavern. On Saturday, the Connecticut Kids Fair is at the
Convention Center, the Wadsworth Atheneum offers an afternoon with J. Hoberman,
and Wiki: The OFFIE Tour is at the Webster. Full details on these and more 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. On Friday, you can meet the jewelers of the Wesleyan POtters at a
reception at the studio and see Francesca Blanchard, Olive Tiger, and Addy Edward at the MAC
650 gallery on Friday. On Saturday, Family Valentines Day Fun is offered by the
Middletown Rec Department and Greg Sherrod is at La Boca. Details on these and
more at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
The Russell Library in
Middletown offers Black History Month Inspired Mask Making Tuesday afternoon,
and in the evening the
Racial Justice Book Group meets to discuss Nick Bellatoni’s “The Long Journeys Home.”
Scrabble Wednesday is on the books at 5 pm. The First Friday Book Club meets at
the RaMa LuNa Center to discuss “City of Girls” by Elizabeth Gilbert. 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 artist talk with Matt Keegan
on Tuesday at the Zilkha Gallery. On Thursday, there’s an opening reception and
artist talk for “Temporarily Censored Home” by Guanyu (Gary) Xu at the
Mansfield Freeman Center. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/
The Wesleyan
RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown continues its Winter Reading Program: Light Up
Your Mind! this week, and check the website for Kids’ Event programs. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
The State
House in New Haven invites all musical, word and visual artists to an Open Mic
Night on Tuesday with Patrick Dalton. On Thursday, Mandala, Chousand, Shy, and
Fiction are on stage, and on Friday they’ve got Mick Foley and The Nice Day
Tour. On Saturday, they bring you Jay Critch Live. On Sunday, enjoy
Spotlights, Sperm Donor, and Glambat. www.statehousepresents.com
Manic
Presents is at the College Street Music Hall on Thursday with They Might Be
Giants. They headline The Wood Brothers and Kat Wright on Friday. At the Space
Ballroom in Hamden Tuesday, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Slaughter Beach, and Dog
are on the bill. www.manicpresents.com
Toad’s Place
brings you another Blacklight Glow Party on Friday. On Saturday, it’s the Original
College Dance Party, and Rapsody and more on stage on Sunday. www.toadsplace.com
Infinity Hall
Norfolk brings you Ryan Montbleau on Friday. At Infinity Hartford, you can
catch Big Eyed Phish on Friday and the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Roadshow with
Kevin Smith on Saturday. www.infinityhall.com
Now here's a rundown of cinema
off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways is
playing the 2020 Oscar-nominated short films through Thursday. Check the website for
details and screening times. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s
Cinestudio is showing “Dark Waters,” about an attorney who uncovers a
corporate crime with major environmental impact, through Wednesday. On
Thursday, they open "Queen & Slim," about two contemporary outlaws, and on
Sunday, they open the classic story of family relationships, “Tokyo Twilight.” Full
details at http://www.cinestudio.org
The Hartford Public Library highlights
Black History Month with a screening of
“Pushout,” a documentary on the
criminalization of Black girls in schools, on Tuesday at 5:30. Details at hartford.com/events
The third film in The Rockfall
Foundation’s The Elements: An Annual
Environmental Film Series is Artifishal,
about fish farming. It will be screened at Ring Family Performing Arts Hall on
the Wesleyan campus Tuesday. https://www.rockfallfoundation.org/
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM
Middletown:
Right after the jive, it’s Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry.
From classic bop to relevant new releases.
From 6-6:30pm Radical Radiowaves with DJ Oracle chronicles
the actions of the left locally and across the country.
From 6:30-8 pm, 75% Folk with Michael Benson offers a mix of
contemporary folk, blues, jazz and acoustic music, along with occasional live
interviews.
At 8 until 9:30 pm, it’s the Rumpus Room with Lord
Lewis. The best in vintage and contemporary funk, soul, jazz, reggae, dub, afro
and Latin dance floor grooves.
From 9:30 to 11 pm, The Jack Sullivan Show brings you music
from the 1950s & 1960's as well as live requests, TV trivia, and lot of
fun.
The oldies continue from 11-12:30 am, with Hits of the 60s
and 70s with Jimmy Z playing Billboard Hot 100 hits. Enjoy special features and
little known facts about the music and artists.
At 12:30 until 1:30am it’s Cloggin the Noggin with
DJ Oatneel. Every day is national something day. We clog your nog with facts
and know-how about the thing of the day.
From 1:30-2:30 am Breakfast of Champions with The Gonch asks, what would an album eat for breakfast? Music artists consume
in the making of new albums.
From 2:30-3:00am, Spoiler Alert Radio provides a
retrospective look at independent artists in filmmaking from across the globe.
From 3-4 am, stay tuned for a rebroadcast of the day’s
noontime episode of Democracy Now! from Pacifica.
Finally, rounding out the night from 4-5 am is the BBC World
Report with international news coverage and then we kick off each weekday at
5am with Morning Edition from NPR.
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 Afternoon Jazz with
Charles Henry coming up next.
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