Good evening, it's Friday May 17th, 2019. 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. So far we’ve reached 25 % of our Spring Pledge goal,
which means we have only heard from one out of every four donors we need to
step up to the plate to raise the money need to keep WESU on air.
If you’ve yet to make a donation to help us close out our
Spring Pledge Drive, I hope you’ll consider becoming more than a listener by
taking that next step to become radioactive. We still need to raise nearly $20K
before we can wrap it up so please donate today at www.wesufm.org.pledge
Now here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
Here in Middletown, at The Buttonwood Tree, Sky Alan and
HannaH bring their jam/reggae hybrid to the buttonwood tree. The Aligned with
Source Workshop happens Saturday morning, and there’s a Teen Open Mic Saturday
afternoon. Storyteller and chanteuse Devorah Davis back at the Buttonwood on
Saturday night with A Few Good Men: Let’s Do It Again. www.buttonwood.org
In New Haven, Café Nine’s weekly 5pm Happy Hour show
features Dittymack, and the Friday night main event headlines Matthew Milia,
appearing with S.G. Carlson, Closebye, and more. The Nine’s weekly
Saturday Afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with Tony Dioguardi & Friends.
Saturday night The Right Offs, The Eric Ducoff Band, and Streamline share a
Café Nine Bill. The Sunday Matinée is A Toast to the Piano Man, and they round
out the weekend with Yarrow, Taking Meds, Bitch Fit, and Althea. http://www.cafenine.com/
Also in New Haven tonight, at The State House, you can catch
dance music from Mexico City with Siete Catorce, DJ moong!rl, and
Bushy_Forest00. They’re offering Americana, rock, and more on Saturday with Pat
Stone and the Dirty Boots, Will Leet, and the Brian Dolzani
Band. www.statehousepresents.com
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight’, you can
catch drummer Jonathan Barber, and the LB3 Band takes the stage on Saturday
night. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
In Hamden tonight, Manic Presents Kevin Devine and John K
Samson, along with Shannen Moser at The Space Ballroom. The Hold Steady and The
Dream Syndicate will be at the Space Ballroom on Saturday. At the
College Street Music Hall, Manic presents MGMT and Warpaint tonight and on
Saturday they bring you Johnnyswim: The Moonlight Tour, appearing with
Beoga. www.manicpresents.com
Middletown Arts & Culture Office wants you to know that
the Middletown The Recreation Division brings you Friday Night BINGO at 5:30,
and a Family Tie Die Workshop Saturday morning, both at the Senior Center. You
can learn about German Immigration Prior to the Revolutionary War at the
Godfrey Memorial Library on Saturday morning. The Mezzo Grille hosts The Zoo on
Sunday on their outdoor stage. Check the website for locations and times, along
with details on more events happening this week. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
You can learn more about Iceland tonight at 7pm at The
Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown, when Tory Bilski presents her new
memoir, “Wild Horses of the Summer Sun.” www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
At Infinity Hall in Hartford, legendary Saxophonist Maceo
Parker performs funk and jazz tonight, and there’s more folk on Saturday with
Aztec Two-Step 2.0 featuring Rex Fowler & Friends. Sunday Julian Marley
takes the stage. Pat Metheny plays Infinity Norfolk this weekend as well
on Friday and Saturday. www.infinityhall.com
Up in Hartford, The Friday Night Music series at the
Hartford Flavor Company brings you Illuminous, POSSM, You’re Not Listening and
More. Enjoy Sensual Salsa Saturdays at the Red Rock Tavern Saturday night, and
you can hear New England folk musicians on Sunday at the Hanging Hills Brewing
Company session of Americana Afternoons. Full details at www.hartford.com/events/
Toad’s Place brings you another Backlight Glow Party
tonight/Friday with performances on two stages, and on Sunday they headline
Jamaican Dance Hall sensation Spragga Benz, appearing with Jada kingdom, Kemar
Highcon, and K’Coneil. www.toadsplace.com
Tonight, Cherry Street Station in Wallingford features Crossing
Rubicon, Bloodlline Theory, Casting Shadows, and more. Saturday’s headliners
are Virus Of Ideals, My Missing Half, Khasm, and Vivisepulture. They round out
the weekend on Sunday with Cloven Hoof, Seax, Mourn The Light, and
Entierro. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
Saturday at 7pm, First Church in Middletown presents a free Staged
reading performance of Julius Lester’s novel, “Day of Tears,” based on the
largest slave auction in American history. Call 860-346-6657 for details.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues “Amazing Grace,” an
Aretha Franklin documentary with a never-before-seen performance footage from
1972. RAW also continues screenings Opening tonight/Friday is “Little Woods,” a
drama about two women in a small Western town, and “Iyengar: The Man, Yoga and
the Student’s Journey.” Check the website for details and screening
times. www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio, in Hartford, is showing “Gloria
Bell,” a romantic comedy about an older woman re-entering the dating scene.
Full details and screening times will be at http://www.cinestudio.org/
Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1
Right after the Jive, stay tuned for Wild Wild Live! with
Babe and Beth.
Next up from 6:00-, it’s the Middletown Youth Radio Project
From 6:30-7pm, catch What’s In A Song? With Shiva.
From 7-8:30pm, its Universal Sound Wave with Sista Queen T.,
for a wide range of music including African, reggae, gospel, R&B, Latin,
and blues. Plus health, nutrition, and stress reduction tips.
From 8:30-10pm it’s Grand Central Station with DJ Jenny
Doll, inviting you to travel back in time to the 1940's and 1950's with a
swinging upbeat show filled with big band, jazz, swing and rockabilly.
At 10 until 11:30pm, Russell Fills in for Chris M’s P Permanent
Collection for an hour of creative Non-toxic radio.
Following Permanent Collection from 11:30pm-12:30am, An A
and a B with DJ N. spotlights the unknown, hidden gems along with the songs a
band is well known for.
From 12:30-3am, stay tuned for 2.5 hrs of African
underground dance music w DJ Loxion!
Rounding out the evening and swinging into the morning from
3-5am is Back Down the Bayou.
As we work to build the momentum of the WESU Spring pledge drive, we ask that you reflect on how WESU has contributed to the quality of your life. Does the service we provide keep you informed, entertained, or perhaps even enlightened? Do we bring you content you cannot elsewhere? As a community radio station, these are our goals and we are glad to have your ear. WESU depends on listener support from folks like you to keep the station going and I hope we can count on your support to help keep WESU going for another 80 years! Donate online at www.wesufm.org/pledge
That's all for today's Jive at Five. Join us weekdays at
4:55 for a daily rundown of area happenings a rundown of evening programming on
WESU Middletown!
Thanks for listening and have a great weekend! stay tuned
for Wild Wild Live, up next!
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