Good evening, it's Friday April 27th. 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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Here's some of what's going on in our area this weekend:
In New Haven, at Café Nine right starting at 5pm you can
catch an early set with Sean Conlon. Later tonight Marbin and Strawberry
Cheesesteak take the Café Nine stage. Saturday’s weekly afternoon Jazz Jam
Session is with the George Baker Band tomorrow and there’s an Album Release
Show Saturday night featuring Old Self, appearing with The Karma Kids, Big
Breakfast, and more. The Café Nine Sunday Buzz Matinee headlines Gina Sicilia,
and they round out the weekend with the George Lewis Band on Sunday night. http://www.cafenine.com/
At Toad’s place in New Haven tonight, Badfish pays Tribute
to Sublime. Sunday’s show features What So Not and the Beautiful Things World
Tour. www.toadsplace.com
Tonight at the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown brings an
opportunity to see Eliot Lewis of MTV’s “Live From Daryl’s House”. On Saturday
mornings at The Buttonwood Annaita Ghandi leads the Aligned with Source
workshop series. Tomorrow night comedian/storyteller/troubadour Don White
appears at The Buttonwood. On Sunday night the Buttonwood Tree host a community
sing-along to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the musical HAIR, in
conjunction with ArtFarm, Oddfellows Playhouse, and the Russell Library. Enjoy
the April art exhibit, Internal and External Landscapes, featuring the
photography of Don Logie. www.buttonwood.org
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight you can enjoy
blues and more with Kal David and Lauri Bono with The Real Deal. On Saturday
you can catch Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez. On Sunday five bands compete
in the CT Blues Society Band Challenge for an opportunity to represent CT in
Memphis. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Saturday The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown invites
you to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, with storytelling by 3 local
children’s book authors including Jeff Cohen at 10:30, C.W. Sparklet &
Melissa-Sue John at 12:30 and at 2:30pm:
Barbara Ciancimino and WESU’s own Bill Denert reading from his
children’s’ book series. Saturday evening, they hold an open discussion for
Philosophy Night. Register to connect with Connecticut Writing Groups on Sunday
at noon, and the Haddam Writers Group will share information at 3 pm. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
The Wesleyan Center for the Arts spotlights Spring Dance
Concert performance, “Echo,” at the Cross Street Dance Studio on tonight (Friday).
You can also hear the Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble tonight (Friday)
at Crowell Concert Hall. On Saturday, you can celebrate 100 years of Thelonious
Monk at Crowell Concert Hall with the T.S. Monk Sextet. On Sunday, they present
a Night of Music from China and Taiwan performed by the Chinese Music Ensemble
at World Music Hall. Details at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/
Manic Presents is at the Space Ballroom in Hamden with an
album release for Wess Meets West on tonight and on Saturday you can catch The
Alternate Routes and The Backyard Committee at The Space Ballroom. At the College Street Music Hall tonight
Manic presents Matt and Ki, Tokyo Police
Club, and Future Feats. www.manicpresents.com
At Infinity Hall in Hartford tonight they host Who’s Bad:
The World’s Only Sanctioned Tribute to Michael Jackson. On Saturday, they bring you funk, Latin and
pop with An Evening with Herb Alpert & Lani Hall. www.infinityhall.com
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford is hosting
special events through Sunday in conjunction with the Hartford YWCA in their
Stand Against Racism event. Details at www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org
Acclaimed Master Fingerstyle guitarist, Tim Farrell, will
give a free concert tonight at 6:30 in Middletown’s South Church
Sanctuary. Tim Farrell is both an entertainer
and a distinguished faculty member of The Conservatory in Doylestown, PA. 860-638-4510 for details.
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford sponsors their 37th
annual Fine Art &Flowers fundraiser throughout the weekend, starting today.
There’s an introduction to topiary lecture on Saturday at 2 pm. www.thewadsworth.org
Tonight, at 7 pm The Mac 650 Gallery & Artist Co-Op in
Middletown hosts a reception for We Paint Monsters, an art exhibit featuring
Brennan Freemantle, Alberto Buktatoo, and Brendon Savoy. https://www.facebook.com/mac650gallery/
Cherry St. Station in Wallingford brings you hardcore and
metal tonight with Downward Spiral, Vision Within, and more. On Saturday, it’s
Agony Kings, Fragmented, So Much Lost, and Down with Rent. Champs, and more. On
Sunday you can catch Good Game, In Angles, juo, and Hylda. Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
The Connecticut Gilbert & Sullivan Society sponsors a
Memorial Concert on Saturday at First Congregational Church in East Haddam at 2
pm to honor their late co-founder Leighton Phraner. Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts presents the
musical “A Chorus Line,” Saturday night at 7:30 pm. Details at www.hartford.com/events/
Baby Grand Jazz continues at the Hartford Public Library
Sunday at 2 pm with a performance by the Steve Kroon Latin Jazz Sextet .
Details at www.hplct.org
Concora, the Connecticut Choral Artists, presents a
performance of Mozart’s Requiem Sunday at 4 pm at St. James Episcopal Church in
West Hartford. Details at www.concora.org
The Middletown Performing Arts Center hosts the GM Chorale
performing Giacomo Carissimi’s Baroque oratorio Jepthe Sunday at 4 pm at the
Center’s location at Middletown High School. www.gmchorale.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
Through the weekend, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in
Hartford is showing “Annihilation,” a sci-fi film about five biologists in an
Everglades-like jungle. The Sunday opening is “The Party,” a British drawing
room comedy. Check the website for full schedule and screening times. http://www.cinestudio.org
At Hartford’s Real Art Ways today they open “Little Pink
House,” a film about a woman fighting eminent domain in New London, and “Zama,”
a South American film about colonialism and one man’s destiny. Their Film 101
series offering is the 1984 film, “Blood Simple.” Check the website for details
and screening times at www.realartways.org
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM
Middletown:
Right after the Jive At Five from 5:05 to 6:30pm, it'll be
Wild Wild Live! with DJ Balsamic & DJ Pig in the City expounding on that
Wesleyan music scene.
And from 6:30-7pm catch the Middletown Youth Radio Project,
a weekly radio program featuring the thoughts, voices, creativity and talent of
the kids in the WESU neighborhood.
At 7 until 8:30pm we have the Universal Sound Wave with
Sista Queen T - offering a wide range of music including African, reggae,
gospel, R&B, Latin, and blues. Plus health, nutrition, and stress reduction
tips.
Next up until 10pm, we take it From the Otherside with
Rok-A-Dee where 60% of the show is love songs of different genre and the others
Reggae Dancehall, R&B, and new artiste.
Then from 10 to 11:30pm it's Strickly Off the Head where DJ
Cocomotion the Music Mixologist provides a live mixshow done on the fly or
freestyle, with no pre-planned mixes or blends - R&B, old school, hip hop,
rap and house.
Bridging the night to the morning hours, from 11:30pm to
12:30am you’ll have An A and a B with DJ N following the premise that every
band has its hits - and a multitude of unknown, hidden gems. Songs played per
band (70s-2000s rock) seek to highlight this dichotomy.
From 12:30am until 3am Saturday we go into serious OVERDRIVE
w/Clarence & Shantay Scott - offering the best urban contemporary, hip hop,
and traditional gospel music on the planet!
From 3 until 5am you are taken to Wonderland with DJ Cheshire
Cat, who has a song in his heart, a chemical imbalance in his head and a
musical library at his fingers. From krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage,
novelty to New Romantic, punk to prog, Wonderland has a place for it.
And we bring in the daylight from 5:00 to 6:00am with the
BBC World News - a daily
News roundup from the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Pacifica.
Staying on the other side of the big pond, from 6 to 7am
it’s
the
Celtic Café with Pat Laffan and Mark
Gallagher presenting traditional and contemporary music with a Celtic
connection.
And now that the coffee’s hot enjoy Caffé Italia from 7:00
to 8:00am, serving up a slice of Italy every Saturday morning. You don't have
to speak Italian to taste it: just relax, listen, and enjoy!
That’s all for today’s Jive At Five, tune in each and every
weekday at 4:55 pm to hear about what’s going on in the community and on the
air right here at 88.1 FM WESU, a community service of Wesleyan University
since 1939.
The Music behind today’s Jive At Five is the title track
from Talking Drums' Some Day Catch Some Day Down, re-issued and re-mastered as
a cd on the innova label in 2011. The original vinyl was released in 1987.
The written form for what you've heard on today’s Jive is
online at wesufm.org/jive
special thanks to Stephan
Is WESU as a source for information and entertainment in
your life? If you tune in regularly for music and perspectives you cannot find
elsewhere, please consider supporting the service we provide with a donation
today during our Spring pledge drive happening right now. Every dollar counts
and we need to hear from you! Check out our cool thank you gifts and make your
donation online at www.wesufm.org/pledge
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