Good evening, it's Tuesday, January 15th. 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 Marianne O’Hare, Producer of Conversations on Healthcare
broadcast on Weds at 4:40, right before the jive at five.
Now, here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
Here in Middletown, at The Buttonwood Tree , there’s a Crystal Bowl Sound Healing this evening, and on Thursday at The Buttonwood, they bring you Shaking the Tree, a Gong and Sound Meditation. You’re invited to celebrate singer/songwriter Ashley Hamel’s CD release party and Open Jam on Friday for the release of her new wizard rock concept album. Patrons are encouraged to dress as a witch or wizard! There’s a Teen Open Mic at The Buttonwood Tree on Saturday afternoon. Saturday evening brings the 14th annual Composers and Improvisors Festival featuring Joe Fonda, Kevin Norton, and Taylor Ho Bynum. Poet and playwright William H Foster III takes the stage on Sunday to bring you “The Prodigals.” www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, tonight at Café Nine, Amanda Anne Platt &
The Honeycutters take the stage, appearing with Dogbite. There’s a Comedy Open
Mic on Wednesday hosted by Dan Rice and Shy, Fiction Kids, and SAP
are on the ticket for Thursday at Café Nine. The Friday 5pm Happy Hour showcase
features Vangie Durst, Lydia Arachnes, and Semaphora. The Friday night main
event at The features Wolf Harbor, Flight of Silence, and Dizzie Pocket. Café
Nine’s weekly Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with Tony Dioguardi &
Friends. Saturday night’s main event features Joey Wit and the Definition, Pale
Space, and Auguste & Alden. The Sunday Buzz Matinée brings you Sam Carlson,
Alex Burnet, Pat Dalton, and Danielle Capalbo, and the evening Blues Jam
features the George Lesiw Band. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, on Tuesday nights,
Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra brings you jazz, R&B, soul classics, and
more at Black-eyed Sally’s. Wednesday’s weekly community Blues Jam features
Peter Byron, and Thursday night at Café nine, it’s Liviu’s International with
special guests. Stax of Soul, a band dedicated to the music and artists of the
Stax record label, takes the stage Friday night. Saturday night at Café nine
there’s a fundraiser for the South Park Inn Medical Clinic, featuring UConn
Health’s house band The Remedies, and more. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Tonight Manic Presents brings WHY? Plays Alopecia, and
Tomberlin to the Space Ballroom in Hamden. Wednesday it’s Japanese Breakfast
and Hand Habits at the Ballroom. www.manicpresents.com
The Russell Library in Middletown hosts Scrabble Wednesday at
5 pm tomorrow night, and on Thursday the Job and Career Center offers Practice
Interviews with Craig Stowell starting at noon. Teens are invited to a Dear
Martin session Friday afternoon where they can write a letter to Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. The library will be closed Sunday and Monday for the King
holiday. Visit the website for kids’ events and details on offerings for
patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org
The Connecticut Science Center in Hartford invites you to
enjoy the Sock Skating Rink open daily throughout the month. Make Hartford
holds a free Open House Wednesday at 6:30 pm. Tim McDonald plays blues on
Thursday at the Spectra Wired Café starting at 5 pm. Enjoy more blues at 7 pm
with Ramblin’ Dan Stevens at the Hog River Brewing Company. Hartford
Underground offers a Swing Dance session at the Polish National Home of Hartford
Thursday at 8 pm. Little River Restoratives hosts an Off the Record Indie Night
Thursday at 9:30 pm. The Hartford Ballroom holds a Dance Social Friday at 8 pm
for dancers of all levels. And Strange Machines and Keepers of the Vibe perform
at the Arch Street Tavern Saturday at 9 pm. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/
Toad’s Place hosts a Rockin’ in a Winter Wonderland special
on Thursday with performers on the Main Stage and Lilly’s Pad, including
Auguste and Alden, Baystate, Bond Villian, Dandelyin, and much more. The
Prezence, a tribute to Led Zeppelin, takes the stage on Friday along with
Savile Row. On Saturday they headline Legion of Jerry, appearing with EGGY and
Dead Show. Sunday brings you King Tuff and The Infinite Smiles Tour, along with
Stonefield and Dust Hat. Full details at www.toadsplace.com
Middletown Arts & Culture Office that T-Rextasy,
Sit-take, Two Headed Girl, and Polkadogs will perform at the MAC 650 Gallery
& Co-Op on Thursday evening. There’s a Family Fun Night Friday at 6 pm at
the Woodrow Wilson Middle School with food, bounce houses, balloon artists,
music and more. The City Recreation Division hosts a Royal Tea Party for kids
Saturday at 10 am, and there’s a Cupcakes Cookies and Canvasses paint event at
10:30 am. Oddfellow’s Playhouse hosts a Teen Talent Search Saturday at 7 pm.
There are cash prizes. And the Skating Rink in Harbor Park is open on weekends.
Check the website for full details, and for information on more upcoming events
and offerings. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
Infinity Hall Hartford brings you funk and jazz with Lettuce
on Friday. On Saturday, enjoy blues and more with Ronnie Earl & The
Broadcasters. At Infinity Norfolk, it’s KICK, the INXS tribute band experience,
on Friday. They feature the Robert Lotrek Trio on Sunday in the
Bistro. www.infinityhall.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford presents Rich Tobin’s
“(bleep) Cancer” Birthday Celebration Friday with No Honor Among Thieves, VRSA,
Soldiers of Solace, and Murder Monday. There’s a birthday celebration on
Saturday for Jeanne Anarchy and Knob, and you can catch Fear the Masses,
Stagger, Crossing Rubicon, and more. Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation
The Wesleyan Center for the Arts in Middletown announces
that their Youth Gamelan Ensemble classes start this Saturday at 10 am. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Emery Austin Smith and Orice Jenkins perform Sunday at 3 pm
in The Hartford Public Library Baby Grand Jazz series. www.hplct.org
Sunday also brings Pass The Guitar, A musicl evening to
benefit the shoreline soup kitchens and pantires featuring over 20 acts!
Highlights include Brute Force, The Carolans, Ebin Rose Trio, Post Traumatic Jazz
disorder, Sue Mead, Marie Pinnette Harper & Owens Hugh Birdsall, and more! The show happens onSunday starting at
4pm at the First Church of Christ, Congregational in Clinton, 860-514-7101 for
details.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central
Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues “Shoplifters,” a Golden
Globe-nominated Japanese film about a family of thieves and an abandoned child,
through Thursday. On Friday they open “Genesis 2.0,” a film about efforts to
bring the long-extinct woolly mammoth back to life. You’re invited to a free
Community Film Screening next Monday in celebration of Martin Luther King Day.
They offer three documentaries on the civil rights movement starting at 11 am.
Check the website for details and screening times. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues “Becoming Astrid,” a Swedish film about author Astrid Lundgren, the creator of Pippi Longstocking, through Wednesday. On Thursday they open “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” starring Melissa McCarthy as a fading celebrity biographer who slips into deception and forgery. The Sunday matinée Bolshoi Ballet selection is “La Bayadere,” and they open “The Hate U Give,” about a poor black girl attending a mostly white prep school, on Sunday, too. Full details and screening times will be at http://www.cinestudio.org/
The Tisane Euro-Asian Café hosts an LGBTQ Movie Night
Thursday at 11 pm at their Hartford location. And the Wadsworth Atheneum is
screening “From the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story,” Friday at 7 pm. It’s a
documentary about the life of this legendary blues harmonica player. Christ
Church Cathedral in Hartford hosts a Night Fall movie event Saturday at 6 pm.
Watch video of the 2018 event and enjoy refreshments and prizes along with a
post-film discussion with Night Fall creators. Details at www.hartford.com/events/
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM
Middletown:
Right after the jive at five stick around for Wonderland
with DJ Cheshire Cat - From krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage, novelty
to New Romantic, punk to prog, Wonderland has a place for it.
from 6-8pm Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill offers An
eclectic selection of new and older folk, Americana, bluegrass, blues and other
music with a roots influence plus a concert listing at 7pm and
frequent concert and festival ticket giveaways. On tonight’s show, Brown Paper
Sax, a saxophone ensemble, will be in the studio for a live performance!
at 8pm The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry is a weekly show
featuring live and local Connecticut arts and music.
from 9-10pm stay tuned for a real mind bender on The Test
Patterns Show
from 10- Midnight DJ Megnanimous and DJ Pig in the City show
signs that the students are returning to the airwaves after their winter break.
Franc is in the house with his dosco mix from midnight til
2am.
From 2-4am stay tuned for Upfront Soul with Sanguine fromage
from Pacifica for 2 hrs of funk, soul, and RnB.
Each weekday at 4am WESU kicks off our public affairs
programs with the BBC world report and followed by a mix of daily NPR and
weekly specialty programs from Pacifica.
That’s all for today’s jive at five stick around to go into
the rabbit hole with DJ Cheshire Cat up next on Wonderland!
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