Good evening, it's Monday, December 28th, and this is the
Jive at Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of night time
programming here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown, your station for NPR, Pacifica,
independent and local public affairs by day, and the best in free-form
community programming week-nights and weekends. Thanks for joining us! We hope
you holiday season has been a good one, so far!
I'm Maria Johnson, producer and host of Reasonably Catholic:
Keeping The Faith, which airs every first, third and fifth Tuesday, from 4 to
right before the Jive at Five. Tomorrow: our fourth annual Year in Review episode, in which I try to cram as many snippets from the two dozen-plus episodes of progressive Catholicism -- including a visit by Pope Francis -- into 55 minutes! Can't listen live? Find it archived at wesufm.org for two weeks or forever at reasonablycatholic.com.
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Now here's some of what’s happening in our area this week:
Here in Middletown, at the Buttonwood Tree, tonight you can
catch their weekly Moments of Gratitude meditation tonight at 7:45. That’s
followed by their weekly Anything Goes Open Mic. Signups are at 7:30pm. Otherwise, the buttonwood is closed this week
until Saturday morning, when they offer the Aligned with Source guided
meditation workshop from 10:30-noon. Later Saturday night, Pete LaMalfa &
His Washingtonians for an evening of Jazz www.buttonwood.org
.
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight you can catch Surf Rockers, Ice pick, with opening acts, The Clams, The Jaws, and The Palomino Brothers. Tomorrow (Tuesday) brings a bill featuring DEAD DONAH, Morus Alba, Ero & The Zeros, Blake Falcon & The Rudy Bagels. Wednesday, at Café Nine, it’s WORDS & MUSIC with Drained Glory, Dan Kalwhite, K. Ponzio, Craig Taylor, Stosh Mikita, Craig Gilbert, and the Cody Place Band. Thursday night, Café Nine offers a New Years Burlesque with Cabaret, Magic, Side-Show, Games, & Fun surprises! Friday’s Weekly Wind-down Happy Hour at 5 features Sean Conlon. Later Friday night, The Nine offers a double bill featuring WOODY PINES and Wise Old Moon. Saturday’s. Later, Saturday night it’s the Jazz Jam session is with Mike Coppola and Friends at 4:30. Later Saturday night brings the 4th Annual Beehive Holiday Blowout with CHRISTINE OHLMAN & REBEL MONTEZ and The GEORGE BAKER BAND. Sunday night at Café Nine, you can catch BIRTH OF FLOWER, The Gates of Ivory, and Disco Teen 66. www.cafenine.com
Also in New Haven, at Toad’s Place, tonight you can
catch a Night of Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence & friends. Wednesday night
at Toads Place you can catch BADFISH, A TRIBUTE TO SUBLIME, Inosoul, JG &
Friends, plus Bruce 3 and the Revenge. Thursday night at Toad’s place brings SHAKEDOWN’s
NEW YEAR’S EVE EXTRAVAGANZA, with Kazoo Crew Family Band, and Stoned in America.
Sat you can catch ZACH DEPUTY &
Roots of Creation. www.toadsplace.com
Up in Hartford, Black-eyed Sally’s continues it’s the usual
Jazz Mondays series at 8 pm tonight. Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8 pm, Michael
Palin’s Other Orchestra works out new material. Wednesday brings the long
running Black-eyed Sally’s weekly Community Blues Jam, hosted by Tim McDonald,
this week. Thursday, Sally’s presents a New Year’s Eve Celebration w/ The
Mighty Soul Drivers, with seating at 8:00 pm & later. Saturday night, Texas
Bluesman Lucky Peterson stops by Black-eyed Sally’s. www.blackeyedsallys.com
The CT Poetry Society Middletown Chapter holds its meetings
on the last Wednesday of every month. The meetings are open to the public and
take place at: 6 p.m. in Meeting Room 3
at Russell Library www.arts2go.org
Wednesday night, Manic Productions presents a bill
featuring Tri-State Era, The Most, Guest House, & Knife Garden for a night
of math rock and emo at Bar in New Haven on Wednesday. www.manicproductions.org.
The Middletown Scottish Country Dancers meet every Wednesday
at First Church on Court St. Call 860-347-0278 for details.
First Night Hartford is a family-friendly, alcohol-free New
Year's Eve party that celebrates the
arts, bringing together musicians, artists, performances groups and more at
various downtown venues. Find all the details at firstnighthartford.org
Infinity Hall brings
in the new year at their Norfolk venue with a performance by The Allman Neville
Pitchell Band with Special Guest Saagar Ace. At Infinity Hall Hartford, Tower
of Power plays 2 shows on NYE. The Cast
of Beatlemania comes to to the Infinity Hall Hartford stage on Saturday.
Details at www.infinityhall.com
An annual New Year's Eve Contra Dance starts at 8 p.m. and
winds down about 12:30 a.m. in the ballroom of the West Hartford Town Hall, 50
S. Main St. Bob Isaacs will call to the music of the Celtic Wild Notes. A
potluck is planned for 6:30. www.hcdance.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
Up in Hartford at Real Art Ways, through Dec 31, They continue
their run of Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict a documentary about the colorful
character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it. Also
showing through Thursday at Real Art Ways is Janis: Little Girl Blue in which Academy
Award-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil) delves into the life
of late rock legend Janis Joplin. Friday Real Art Ways begins a run of NOMA: My
Perfect Storm, A documentary about the celebrated chef René Redzepi, set
against the backdrop of the Copenhagen-based restaurant NOMA, named the Best
Restaurant in the World in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014. More info at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio will emerge from their annual
winter hiatus on Jan 6 with a run of MAcBeth! www.cinestudio.org
Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU: (note there
may be variations due to winter break for students at Wesleyan)
Right after the Jive, its Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry.
From 6-6:30 its Think Twice Radio reasserting the
"watchdog" role of the media by ramping up coverage of Connecticut
issues in a nonpartisan manner
Then at 6:30-8, it’s 75% Folk with Michael
Benson.
From 8-9:30 p.m. it’s Unfocused Folk with
Chip Austin offering Americana music from Nashville and around the world
including Folk, acoustic Country and roots-Rock from both emerging and veteran
artists.
Next up at 1 a.m. it’s an hour of Word on the Hill with DJ
Breej, providing a platform for silenced minorities on campus to discuss a
specific struggle and how it relates them to Wesleyan and beyond.
From 2 to 3 a.m. it’s Radio Roulette with DJ
McLeary who, with mom's record collection and WESU's vinyl vault,
explores an eclectic selection of music in the onsite library.
From 3 to 4 a.m. it’s Maximum Rock and Roll for a late night
dose of loud rock and roll!
BBC World news comes your way from 4 to 5 a.m., followed by Morning Edition from NPR.
BBC World news comes your way from 4 to 5 a.m., followed by Morning Edition from NPR.
That’s all for today’s Jive At Five. If you
missed anything, you can find the script online at wesufm.org/jive. And tune in each and
every weekday at 4:55 p.m. to hear about what’s going on in the community and
on the air right here at WESU 88.1 FM, a community service of Wesleyan
University since 1939.
And if you value WESU as a source for information and entertainment in your life, how about supporting the station with a donation? WESU depends on listener support for over a third of our annual budget and we need you to do your part to keep this community station on air! Please make a donation in support of community radio online at wesufm.org at your earliest convenience.
Thanks - Now stay tuned for afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry.
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