Good evening, it’s
Thursday, September 20th. 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.
I’m Charlotte Strange,
A DJ at WESU and currently co-host of an on-air slumber party, Silk Sheets.
Thanx for joining us!
Now here's some of
what's happening in our area this week:
Here in Middletown
tonight, Buttonwood Tree offers Shaking the Tree – Gong and Sound Meditation.
The Rosemary Minkler Trio performs original compositions and Jazz standards on The
Buttonwood Tree stage tomorrow night. Saturday evening, singer/songwriters
Cathy Kreger and Caroline Doctorow return to the Buttonwood Tree. Enjoy the art
exhibit of paintings by Janine Janaki through the month. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, Café
Nine brings you GREG FARLEY (Formerly of The Felice Brothers) tonight with
openers Pat Collins and Wolf Harbor. Friday, Café Nine’s Weekly Wind Down Happy
Hour features LYNN MALAVOLTE with PETER MENTA followed by the Friday night
triple bill featuring LYS GUILLORN & HER BAND, TINY OCEAN, and AUDIO JANE.
Saturday Café Nine’s weekly afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with The George Baker
Band at 4 pm. Saturday night Café Nine presents THE DOGMATICS, The Dents,
and Heap. "The Sunday Buzz" Matinee from Cygnus Radio features WILD
PONIES and RAY MASON. Then on Sunday eve, Café nine offers SHAKE 'N' VIBRATE
FEATURING a LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM SADGIRL. www.cafenine.com
Tonight at the Space Ballroom,
Manic presents Red Fang alongside Big Business and Dead Now. Friday Manic
brings a night of comedy to College St with Anthony Jeselnik: Funny Games and
Jacqueline Novak. Sunday Manic brings the Speak Up Storytelling’s “Now or
Never” event to the Space Ballroom. www.manicpresents.com
Up in Hartford at
Black-Eyed Sally’s tonight, it’s Liviu’s Jazz Invitational with special guests.
On Friday, you can catch a special show by Kim Wilson at Black-eyed Sally’s and
on Saturday DOUG DEMING & THE JEWEL TONES make for a night of Rocking
Blues. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At Toad’s Place in New
Haven GURU PRESENTS: WI-FI’S FUNERAL, with Zion, Billy Boat, TenzoTen, and more
tonight. DRAKE BELL takes the Toad’s stage on Friday with opening acts
Kira Kosarin, Ian Biggs, and Brett Cameron. www.toadsplace.com
At the Russell Library
in Middletown, tonight brings the next installation of Books & Brews to
Stubborn Beauty Brewery on Johnson St in Middletown at 6pm. Saturday at 1:30
brings Phoenix Performing Arts: Dancing for the Moon Festival to the Hubbard
Room and there’s a Teen Volunteer orientation Thursday at 6pm.
www.russelllibrary.org
Back here in
Middletown, Wesleyan’s Departments of Music and African American Studies and
are bringing the Grammy-nominated Haitian band Boukman Eksperyans to Middletown
tonight for an acoustic show and workshop at 7 pm in Downey House Lounge, 294
High Street. The concerts is part of a yearlong celebration of 50 years of
African American Studies at Wesleyan. Boukman Eksperyans draws from Vodou
rhythms, rock, and reggae, and they are Haiti's best known 'roots' band, known
for political protest and cultural activism... https://www.wesleyan.edu
Friday night at 7:30,
The Wesleyan Center for The Arts, Crackling with high-energy physicality,
Raphael Xavier's Point of Interest features a series of solos, duets, and
quintets set to his soundscape of beats, spoken word poetry, and musical
rhythms. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/
Infinity Hall in
Hartford brings The BoDeans to the stage this Friday night. LeAnn Rimes takes
the Infinity Hall Hartford stage on Sunday. Badfinger is at Infinity Hall
Norfolk on Friday night and legendary Blues and Soul Singer Betty Lavette
performs at Infinity Norfolk Saturday night. www.infinityhall.com
This evening, Wesleyan
RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown presents authors Murray Moss & Franklin
Getchell, on "Please Do Not Touch" A witty and revealing memoir of
the mid-1990s, when high design became art and there was no more exclusive club
for high design than MOSS. The bookstore also offers all ages family
story time every Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
This Saturday Cherry
Street Station in Wallingford presents Stompfest featuring more than six bands
including New Amsterdam Nobles, Dead Girls Don’t Lie, Downward Spiral, Torque,
Falling Further, Eyes of Theia, Devils inside, Hyperdrive, and more. at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
CT Agricultural Fair
season continues this weekend with the Guilford Fair at the Guilford
fairgrounds open Friday through Sunday offering a tractor parade, draft animal
contests, agricultural displays, food, a carnival midway and more.
www.ctagfairs.org
Now here's a rundown
of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art
Ways continues several film screenings through this evening. “We the
Animals,” a coming-of-age story about working-class Americans. Mountain offers
a portrait of some of the world's most formidable summits. The political
Thriller, Dark Money also plays through tonight as does 93 Queen, which follows
a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their
community by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New
York City. www.realartways.org
Tonight, Cinestudio
begins a run of The Incredibles 2.Sunday, Cinestudio begins a run of RBG, about
the life and legacy of Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg. http://www.cinestudio.org/
Here's the rundown of
tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown as we roll out our New Fall
Program Season:
Right after the Jive,
stay tuned for the Latin Music Hour with Isabel. Latin music from the 80's,
90's and early 2000's.
From 6 - 6:30 it's
Exits with DJ Sensability. An interview program in which we delve into stories
of self-removal. How do individuals respond to situations, big and small, that
test their will.
From 6:30 - 8 it's
Fusion Radio with James Fusion. The original... and still the best damn Techno
mix on the radio!
From 8 - 9:30 it's The
Warehouse with Mike Nyce. The best of underground house music mixed live for
your listening pleasure.
And from 9:30 to 11,
it's The Vault with Anton Banks, presenting listeners with the latest in hard
techno, minimal, tech-house and leftfield mixed live. Featuring exclusive music
from international artists.
From 11 - midnight
it's Dumpster Dive with Smelly. Punk, art pop and diy coming from a garbage
compacter near you.
from midnight to 1 it's Girls to the Front
with Aurora, Showcasing up and coming women artists, writers and producers of
music history who broke into the industry and paved the way for future
generations.
And from 1 - 2am it's
Motivation Nation with Dazzle and MT SPEN. Get amped. Join us for chill tunes,
good vibes and positive affirmations and quotes.
From 2 - 3am it's
Maximum Rock and Roll followed by Noize in the Attice from 3 - 4.
The BBC World News
comes on at 4 followed by Morning Edition from NPR at 5.
That's all for today's
Jive at Five. Join us every weekday at 4:55pm for a daily update of happenings
in central CT!.
Thanx for listening.
Now stay tuned for the Latin Music Hour!
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