Friday's Jive 04-13-18

Good afternoon, it's Friday, April 13th, and this is the Jive at Five - WESU's Daily community calendar and run down of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU 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. I'm Stephan Allison, host of River Valley Rhythms heard Thursdays at 4 pm here at WESU. Thanks for tuning in.

Now, here’s a rundown of some of what’s going on in the community this weekend.

Here in Middletown, tonight, RJ Ruotolo’s Jazz Workshop Quartet commands The Buttonwood Tree performance room and Saturday night Al Copley, who’s played with Room Full of Blues and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, brings in a night of boogie, blues, jump, and jazz piano. The Hearing Voices Network ­meets Monday mornings. Details @ buttonwood.org

At The Russell Library in Middletown Saturday morning, the Future Teachers Club of Middletown High School presents a Spring Program at 11, with crafts, stories, and hands-on projects. There are classes in Spanish and French for children Saturday morning too. The library is closed Sundays starting this month; they’ll resume in the fall. The next Reader's Theater presentation, "Doubt: a Parable," is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, and again at 7 p.m. on April 16, at the Durham Library. Details @ russelllibrary.org

At Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts. This week brings Graduate recitals, new gallery shows and year end concerts. The Spring Senior Thesis Dance Concert happens today and Saturday night at 8pm in the Patricelli '92 Theater.  The Kronos Quartet performance for this weekend at Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall is sold out. Details @ wesleyan.edu/cfa/

New Haven’s Café Nine Friday 5pm show features Laura Dowding and later, Go Kat Go! Presents: The Living Deads alongside Bloodshot Bill. The weekly Saturday afternoon jazz jam will be hosted by Gary Grippo and Friends and  Saturday night you’ll hear Grammy Award Winners the Lost Bayou Ramblers with guests, An Historic. Sunday afternoon, Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles featuring Eric "Roscoe" Ambel appear with Stefanie Austin and The Palomino Club. In the evening it’s the Sex Beat Dance Party with DJ Kid Congo Powers. Details @ cafenine.com

Manic Presents has Colter Wall and Ian Noe at The Space Ballroom tonight. Tonight Manic Presents and Premier Concerts present They Might Be Giants at The College St Music Hall. Manic has Men I Trust at The Space Ballroom Sunday night at 7pm. Details @ manicpresents.com

In Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s tonight it’s The Mike Casey Trio. On Saturday you can catch the Jay Collins Band. Details @ blackeyedsallys.com 

At Infinity Hall Hartford tonight Max Creek celebrates their 47th Creekiversary. Saturday The Trucks pay tribute to The Cars. Tonight at Infinity Norfolk, you can catch The Slambovian Circus of Dreams.  The Alpaca Gnomes is there Saturday and Sunday Sessions Live at Infinity Norfolk features Bernice Lewis. Details @ infinityhall.com

Here in Middletown, LaBoca hosts Cosmos Sunshine & the Butterfly Effect Saturday night. Details @ facebook.com/CityArtsOffice for info on this and more of what Middletown has to offer.

Cherry St. Station in Wallingford has Ryder, from Brooklyn, making their debut tonight along with Over The Line, All In All Out, & The Sadists! Saturday brings the Apostasy 15th anniversary with special guests VenomSpreader, The Aberration, Savage World, and Zombii. Details @ facebook.com/CherryStreetStation

WESU is hosting An Evening in Antarctica with Jonathan Chester today at 6:30pm at Wesleyan University’s Shanklin Hall, Room 107, located at 237 Church St. in Middletown. Chester has traveled to Antarctica on over forty expeditions as a professional photographer, author, filmmaker, and environmentalist, and his lecture will showcase his Antarctic photography, and its relation to global climate change. Details @ extremeimages.com.

Tonight at The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, you can catch a special performance of vignettes created by Anne Cubberly, Casey Grambo, and Rosanna Karabetsos in celebration of the special exhibition Gorey’s Worlds. Performers include Joey Batts, Studio 860, Sea Tea Improv, and Night Fall cast members.  This weekend brings the month Second Saturdays for Families event: Paper Theater Take the stage! where you can explore theatrical scenes in Gorey’s Worlds, then collaborate with a local artist to create a cross-hatched paper costume and participate in a paper puppetry workshop. Museum admission is free during Second Saturdays activities. Details @ thewadsworth.org

Tonight at 7 p.m. brings a rare opportunity to experience the internationally acclaimed Bread & Puppet Theater who will perform at First Church in Middletown for onenight only! After the performance Bread and Puppet will serve its famous free sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread and Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press –  will be for sale. The Bread and Puppet Practitioners-of-the-Pursuit-of-What String Band will welcome the public.  Admission by donation. Details @ breadandpuppet.org

The Unitarian Universalist Church in Meriden is holding a FUNdrasier concert featuring The Coffee Grinders, a Roots/Traditional Blues band with special guest Rocky Lawrence on Saturday, at 7pm. Details @ UUMeriden.org  or contact Donna at 203-237-1323

And, here's our rundown of cinema, off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues the dark comedy, The Party.  Today opens a run of the French film, Ismael’s Ghosts. Also begins a new afternoon movie, Foxtrot, about the emotional toll of active service on Israeli families.  Details & screening times @ realartways.org

It’s the annual April in Paris Film Festival to Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford. Tonight’s showing is the dark comedy The Death of Louis XIV. Saturday, it’s a dystopian animated tale of Paris in April and The Extraordinary World, and Sunday the film festival concludes with The French coming of age film Worst Case, We Get Married. Details & screening times @ cinestudio.org 

If you are looking for more information on the arts in Middletown, please visit the City's Facebook page at facebook.com/CityArtsOffice

And now let’s take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU and to be safe, it's best to check the WESU website for the up-to-date schedule.

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.

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