Good evening, it's Tuesday, December 29th, 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!
WESU depends on listener support for over a third of our
annual budget and we need our listeners to do their part to keep this community
station on air! With just over $500 still needed go to close out this
drive, your contribution right now can help us end this drive successfully
before the end of 2015. Plus we’re offering great thank you gifts. Donate
online at www.wesufm.org/pledge.
Now here's some of what’s happening in our area this week:
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight (Tues) you can
catch 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 nightr 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, tomorrow night (Wednesday),
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 their regular Tuesday
night Fare. At *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 Middletown Scottish Country Dancers meet every Wednesday
at First Church on Court St. Call 860-347-0278 for details.
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.
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
Back here in Middletown, at the Buttonwood Tree, is closed 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
.
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 rfom 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)
At
8pm it’s a hour of The Voice
of the CITY with J-Cherry, a
weekly show featuring live and local Connecticut arts and music.
From
9-10:30 it's Radio Obscura.
Joe McCarthy and Paco Winebox asked us to tell you that “You won't believe your
eyes” when you listen to their show.
From 10:30-11:30, DJ Malik 1 FAM stops by for an hour of underground
hip hop
From
11:30-12:30am, DJ Otto Nation offers a mix of funk soul and world
music.
From
12:30-2:30 Franco Liseo is in the house for a unique mix of vintage disco, funk
and Italian pop music!
From
2:30-3:30am RootsWorld Radio with Cliff Furnald explores music from
around the world.
At
3:30, Shortwave Report with Dan Roberts from Pacifica gives a
weekly review of news stories from around the world.
BBC World news
comes your way from 4 to 5am, 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, and you have yet to make pledge your support, how about helping us close out this drive. We only another $500 to end this long winded drive, Every dollar counts. You can help keep free form community programming alive and well at WESU. PLEASE Donate online at www.wesufm.org/pledge
Now stay tuned for three hours of Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill!
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