Good evening, it's Thursday, April 12th. 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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At the Russell Library in Middletown, tonight The Veteran’s Writing group meets at The Russell Library. Friday at 1pm, The Library will Screen 2001 A Space Oddyssey. For information about these and more activities at www.russelllibrary.org
tonight at 7:30pm in Middletown, you can catch The Vintage Players production of “Outside Mullingar” at Oddfellows Playhouse www.oddfellows.org for tickets ad information.
Here in Middletown, on Friday night, Rj Ruotolo’s Jazz Workshop Quartet takes the Buttonwood Tree Stage and Saturday night Al Copley, who’s played with Room Full of Blues and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, makes for a night of boogie, blues, jump, and Jazz piano. The Hearing Voices Network meets Monday mornings. www.buttonwood.org
Tonight Manic Presents Wolf Alice and The Big Pink at College St. They’ve got Colter Wall and Ian Noe at The Space Ballroom on Friday night. Friday night Manic presents and premier concerts present THey Might Be Giants at The College St Music Hall. Finally, closing out the weekend Manic has Men I Trust at The Space Ballroom Sunday night at 7pm. www.manicpresents.com
tonight at Infinity Hall Hartford, you can catch Frankie Justin w/ Plywood Cowboy. Friday night Max Creek celebrates their 47th Creekiversary at Infinity Hall Hartford. SaturdayThe Trucks pay tribute to The Cars. Thursday night at Infinity Hall Norfolk, The Artimus Pyle Band takes the stage. Friday at Infinity Norfolk, you can catch The Slambovian Circus of Dreams. The Alpaca Gnomes takes the infinity Hall Norfolk stage Saturday eve and Sunday Sessions Live at Infinity Norfolk features Bernice Lewis. www.infinityhall.com
In New Haven, at Café Nine this evening British Songwriter Bobby Long with opening act Nick DePuy. At 5pm Friday, LAURA DOWDING takes the stage and later Friday night, GO KAT GO! Presents: THE LIVING DEADS alongside BLOODSHOT BILL. Café Nine’s weekly Saturday afternoon jazz jam will be hosted by Gary Grippo and Friends at 4:30. Saturday night you can catch Grammy Award Winners LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS
with guests, An Historic. Sunday afternoon at 4pm, SARAH BORGES & THE BROKEN SINGLES FEAT. ERIC "ROSCOE" AMBEL take the stage with Stefanie Austin and The Palomino Club. Later, Sunday at 9pm it’s the Sex Beat Dance Party with DJ Kid Congo Powers. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, it's Liviu Pop’s Jazz Invitational on Thursday evenings with special guest artists. This Friday night, Sally’s presents The MIKE CASEY TRIO. On Saturday you can catch the JAY COLLINS BAND. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At Wesleyan’s Center for the arts. This week brings Graduate recitals, new gallery shows and year end concerts. Tonight. WesFest Concert II with Choir, Gamelan, Korean, and Taiko Drumming Ensembles happens on Thursday evening at 6pm in the World Music Hall. The Spring Senior Thesis Dance Concert happens Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 8pm in the Patricelli '92 Theater. The Kronos Quartet performance for this weekend at Wesleyan’s Crowell Concert Hall is sold out. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Back in Middletown, Laboca Saturday night Cosmos Sunshine & the Butterfly Effect w/s/g No Mind take the Laboca Stage. https://www.facebook.com/pg/CityArtsOffice/events/ for info on this and more of what Middletown has to offer.
Cherry St. Station in Wallingford offers loud music this Tonight with Wait and Shackle alonside The Refectory and Snowpiler. Ryder (from Bklyn, NY) makes their debut at Cherry Street Station on Friday April 13th along with OVER the LINE, All In All Out, & The Sadists! Saturday at Cherry St, brings the Apostasy 15th anniversary with special guests VenomSpreader, The Aberration, Savage World, and
WESU is hosting An Evening in Antarctica with Jonathan Chester this Friday, at 6:30pm at Wesleyan University’s Shanklin Hall, Room 107, located at 237 Church St. in Middletown. Jonathan has traveled to Antarctica on over forty expeditions as a professional photographer, author, filmmaker, and environmentalist, and his lecture will showcase his Antarctic photography, Antarctica in general, and its relation to global climate change. You can find more about Jonathan at his website www.extremeimages.com.
Friday night 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.www.thewadsworth.org
Friday night 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 ONE night 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. For more information on the event, please visit http://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. for tickets and information visit www.UUMeriden.org or contact Donna at 203-237-1323
The Connecticut Historical Society invites you to their ongoing exhibit, That’s Weird, of strange objects connected to our state’s material culture, happening every Saturday. Details at www.chs.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Through Thursday, Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues their afternoon movie run of A Fantastic Woman, about a waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, dealing with the death of her older boyfriend. Through Thursday Real Art Ways continues their run of Outside which follows a newly released ex-con navigating the personal and societal challenges that follow 20 years on the inside. In Cinemas Worldwide for One Night Only: this Thursday at Real Art Ways you can catch Distant Sky – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen. Thursday, Real Art Ways opens runs of French films, Ismael’s Ghosts and Back to Burgundy (Ce qui nous lie). Friday Real Art Ways begins a new afternoon movie, Foxtrot about the emotional toll of active service on Israeli families. www.realartways.org
Now here's what's on WESU tonight!
Right after the Jive at Five, Homegrown with Rob DeRosa presents Connecticut Connected music for a global audience.
from 6:30-8pm Imagine with Karen Stein Peace through music from around the world and around the block!
at 8:00pm Evening Jazz with Bill Denert offers a broad range of swing, bebop and avante garde Jazz with a sprinkling of new releases.
from 9:30-10:30pm Chris M is in the house for an hour of free form radio filling in for Everything Now with Chris and Al.
at 10:30 Spicy! Spicy! Hot! Hot! with Beizo Bish and Jew Chainzs present Scalding hot takes on a new area of pop culture each week, featuring topical tracks and a variety of dynamic guests.
from 11pm-midnight The American Empire with, Tootse Mutants An exploration of the influence of American cultural imperialism on foreign music, such as Korean Hip-Hop, Japanese Jazz, and Peruvian Punk and so much more.
At midnight Jazzalicious Definition with DJ Stocks’n’Socks and MC McGee takes you on a travel through the history of jazz, spotlighting a different artist, sub-genre, or time period each week.
1-2am (1,3,5) Road Trip with DJ G and Victoria Our show will feature local artists from different cities across the county. Each show will focus on one city and feature mostly alternative rock artists.
2-3am (1,3,5) Modern French Touch with Sam A look at France’s modern electro house scene, through the emergence of newly influential French touch labels.
3-4am The Hour of Slack from the Church of The Subgenius.
At 4am We bring you the BBC World Report and we kick of weekdays with Morning Edition from NPR From 5‑9am.
That’s all for today’s Jive at Five. Thanks for joining us and Stay tuned for a stiff does of Homegrown with Rob DeRosa, up next.
This week brings the annual April in Paris Film Festival to Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford.
Tonight’s showing is Black Girl, about the effects of racism on a young woman from a poor village in Senegal. Wednesday night Latest News From the Cosmos explores autism and the profound bond between mother and daughter. Thursday night at Cinestudio you can catch Fatima, bringing the life and challenges of a working class North Africa mother to screen. Friday night, The April in Paris Film Festival continues at Cinestudio with the dark comedy in 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 @ www.cinestudio.org
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown:
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