Tuesday 9-10-19 Jive

Good evening, it's Tuesday, September 10th. 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.

Here is some of what is happening in our area this week:

Tonight in Middletown, The Buttonwood Tree hosts a screening of “Rhythms of Life”, a documentary about the drum circle movement followed by a Director's talk and an actual drum circle. Friday from 8-
10pm, The Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio will play music ranging from New Orleans traditional
jazz, blues, Americana, and folk. www.buttonwood.org

On Tuesday nights, at Black Eyed Sally’s, Michael Palin’s 18-piece orchestra takes the stage. Wednesday, Black-Eyed Sally’s weekly Community Blues Jam will be hosted by Mark Nomad.  Liviu’s Invitational plays on Thursday. Friday , Mark Hummel’s Blues Survivors perform at Sally’s. Saturday night, Sally’s hosts Cosmos Sunshine & Righteous Continental from 8:30-11:30pm. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com

In New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight/Tuesday you can hear local grunge, alternative, and stoner rock band The New Neighbors. Wednesday night The Nine offers a Comedy Open Mic hosted by Dan Rice. Thursday, Dany Laj and the Looks will headline a bill including Dusty Hat. Friday’s weekly live music Happy Hour set is withJenny Parrott. Later Friday Night, Fernando Pinto presents Tex-Mex star Augie Meyers (Texas Tornados) & The Bandoleros along with Steve Mednick & Hard Road. Café Nine Weekly Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam session is with Garry Grippo and friends. Saturday night’s main event is the Ideat Village Rock Lottery Band Drawing which involves musicians being randomly grouped together for a one-off gig and will have three weeks to practice and return on October 4th and 5th to perform for their challenge. At 9pm Saturday night, Café Nine will host its 25th Anniversary Tribute to Pulp Fiction with Renegade Lounge. The Café Nine Sunday Matinee brings The Grand Par Lauren Michaud and they round out the weekend Sunday night with a bill featuring Dear Rabbit, Rickolous, An Historic, and Squalloscope  http://www.cafenine.com/

At The State House in New Haven tonight, you can catch LA’s psychedelic chicha band, La Chamba playing cumbia-rock from Peru along with the The Lost Tribe, and DJ Luis Luna. Wednesday night, Adult Swim star David Liebe Hart will headline, a bill featuring performances by Whatever Your Heart Desires, Fat Randy, and King Bongo. Thursday, the state house will present Michael Nau with Erin Durant, and S. G Carlson. Friday night The Statehouse features an assortment psychedelic, folk, Americana, and indie rock with The Go Rounds, The Right Offs, and Elison Jackson. www.statehousepresents.com

Back in Hartford on the West End Farmer’s Market continues through 7pm, What Trivia from 7-10pm. Wednesday night at the Arch Street Tavern brings Boo-Yah’s weekly Free Funk Wednesday event a. Friday, the Bushnell Park Beer Garden happens from 4-8pm. Later Friday night bring Improv Comedy to  the Sea Tea Comedy Theater. Friday and Saturday nights there will be Full Moon Hike at Riverside Park. Saturday the 24th Annual LEVAS Gospel Festival and Fair can be found as well as Hartford’s Pride Festival 2019 from 12:00pm-6pm. The Small State Great Beer event on Saturday features brews from various Connecticut breweries. The Red Rock Tavern will host its Sensual Salsa Saturdays. “ www.hartford.com/events

Tonight/Tues Manic Presents brings The Growlers with Pinky Pinky to the College Street Music Hall.
On Friday night, the College Street Music Hall will also have The Gypsy Kings featuring Nicolas
Reyes and Tonino Baliardo. At the Space Ballroom tomorrow night, Manic Presents Lucy Dacus shareing a bill with Quinn Christopherson, and Taylor Janzen. Friday night, Barns Courtney plays at the
Space Ballroom. Premiere CONCERTS AND MANIC PRESENTS bring Deerhunter + Dirty Projectors at to the Wall Street Theatre. Additionally, they’ve got Grace Vander Waal: Ur so beautiful Tour at the College Street Music Hall on Saturday www.manicpresents.com

The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore, hosts an evening event with Elissa Altman on her
book Motherland on Thursday and they will be having a tag sale on Saturday.
www.wesleyanrjjulia.com

Coming up this weekend, Wesleyan Potters is hosting a wire weaving class with Joy Raskin and
every Wednesday until October 23, they are also hosting a tapestry weaving class.
Tomorrow/Tues Evening GMChorale is hosting an open rehearsal and inviting all singers to
audition! www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/

Tonight,  Dweezil Zappa performs “Hot Rats & Other Hot Stuff” at Infinity Hall
Hartford. On Wednesday you can catch Jonny Lang, followed by Sister Hazel and
on Thursday and Friday, Boyfriend. At Infinity Norfolk, on Friday you can catch Ana Popovic and
on saturday, Albert Cummingson. www.infinityhall.com

Cherry Street Station in Wallingford hosts Anamorph on Thursday and on Friday, the Entierro
takes the stage. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

Here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

Hartford’s Real Art Ways is now showing 4 highly rated movies; David Crosby: Remember My
Name, Cold Case Hammarskjold, Mike Wallace is Here, and Honeyland offering one screening
of each movie every day through Thursday. www.realartways.org

Tomorrow, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford concludes their spotlight on The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Tonight they will offer a one-time screening of Live in Cinemas:
Margaret Atwood. On Thursday for their September Queer Film Thursday, Cinestudio will be showing
My Day of Mercy. http://www.cinestudio.org/

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Hers’ the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown as we work our way through our, brand new fall season:

Right after The Jive at Five,  stick around for nearly 3 hrs of  Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill brings us Acoustic Blender, offering an eclectic selection of new and older folk, Americana, bluegrass, blues and other music that has a roots influence. Plus a weekly concert listing at 7pm and frequent concert and festival ticket giveaways.

From 8-9 pm tonight Karen Stein, of “Imagine Radio”, fills in for J-Cherry’s Voice of the City!

at 9pm, stay tuned for The Guest List with DJ Lukey G and his weekly guest on a themed journey of playlist curation.

from 10-11pm The Classroom: Sports Edition with DJ Goose brings you  Wesleyan sports, world sports, debate, and callers.

at 11pm Not Ur Mom’s Tunes with DJ Amoroso and DJ MT SPEN invite you join them for a plunge into a guest’s first musical influence: their mom. with new moms covered each week!

from midnight-1am What’s Goin’ On? with DJ Sam offers a deep dive into the career and their music of artists with songs that have under 1,000,000 plays.  

at 1 Passing Thru with DJ Slimbo Clean take a musical investigation into the spaces we inhabit and the ways we move through them-- down the street, across the country, and beyond

from 2-3am Louisiana Barn Dance brings us an hour of rootin tooting Cajun and roots country sounds from Louisiana.

at 3am third shift listeners can catch an encore presentation of our noontime broadcast of Democracy Now!

At 4am we kick of four daytime public affairs block with BBC World Report followed by morning edition from NPR.

Stay tuned each weekday, for the areas most diverse mix of public affairs from Pacifica, NPR, and independent sources.

That’s all for today’s Jive at Five. Catch us each weekday at 4:55pm for this daily community calendar and run down of night time programming here on WESU Middletown, one of the nation’s first student owned and operated radio stations, celebrating 80 years of community service in 2019!

Stay tuned for a special 3hr edition of Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill, up next!