Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Tues 11-19-19 Jive


Good evening, it's Tuesday, November 19th. 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 Ben Michael, Thanks for joining us today!

Here's some of what's happening in our area this week:
The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown hosts Laughter Yoga with Dawn on Tuesday, followed by a Crystal Bowl Sound Healing. The Eric Mintel Quartet brings jazz to The Buttonwood on Thursday, and on Friday you can catch more jazz, both standards and originals, with the Mary DiPaola Trio. The Aligned With Source workshop takes place Saturday morning, and in the evening enjoy blues and more with guitarist and singer Tom “The Suit” Forst. www.buttonwood.org

On stage in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight/Tuesday, you can catch The Barren Gods and Guest of Honor. Wednesday brings their monthly Words & Music gathering, and on Thursday its American Elm, Brian Larney, and E.J. Nash. Friday’s Happy Hour features DW Ditty, and later, Robert Gordon and The Bandidos take the Café stage. Café Nines Weekly Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam session is with the George Baker Band, and in the evening they bring you the Madame Thalia’ Vaudeville Revue. The Sunday Buzz Matinée features The Big Fat Combo and The Furors, and they round out the weekend afterwards with Lula Wiles and The Moon Shells. http://www.cafenine.com/  

Wednesday, The State House in New Haven hosts an evening of Ethiopian funk with the Anbessa Orchestra and Nick DiMaria’s WiRED. They’ve got punk, rock, Americana, and more on Thursday with Dust Hat, The Split Coils, and Oberon Rose. Friday, Ceschi and Anonymous Inc play songs from Sans Soleil and Beyond. Catch hardcore and punk on Saturday with Sheer Terror, Combust, Pummel, and Savage World. www.statehousepresents.com

Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra brings you jazz, R&B, soul classics, and more on Tuesday. Wednesday’s Community Blues Jam is hosted by Gene Donaldson, and on Thursday Rick Estrin and The Nightcats bring you blues and more with his virtuoso harmonica. The Bruce Katz Band takes the stage on Friday with more blues, and on Saturday you can catch Dissident, with their tribute to Pearl Jam. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/

The Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore holds a Teen NanoWriMo session on Wednesday. They’re sponsoring Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Shubert Theater in New Haven on Wednesday, presenting his new work, “The Water Dancer.”  On Thursday, film historian Jeanine Basinger will be in town with “The Movie Musical!”. On Saturday afternoon, Susan Jaques presents “The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession that Shaped an Empire.” Kids’ events continue this week, including Story Time, Cardinal Kids, the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com

Manic Presents brings Black Marble, Automatic, and Reduction Plan to the Space Ballroom in Hamden on tonight/Tuesday. They bring you Puss N Boots on Wednesday and Thursday, featuring Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson, and Catherine Popper. They headline Mono on Friday, appearing with Bell Witch. They’re at the College Street Music Hall on Friday afternoon with the Dark Star Orchestra, and on Saturday they’re sponsoring the Elm City Brew Festival, along with the music of Seth Adam and Eddie Seville. www.manicpresents.com

The Russell Library in Middletown sponsors “How to Deal with Grief at the Holidays” on Wednesday afternoon, followed by Scrabble at 5 pm, and a Meet the Charlie Cart presentation at 6 pm. The Veteran’s Writing Group meets Thursday afternoon, and they sponsor a free chamber music concert Saturday afternoon featuring Boston’s Ensemble Aubade. They’re offering Yoga in the Hubbard Room on Sunday. Consult the website calendar for more events, including sessions for those who are home-insecure, all geared to patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org

The Middletown Arts & Culture Office calendar reminds us The Godfrey Memorial Library will be holding two genealogy research help sessions on Wednesday. Middletown Works holds their monthly Conversation Circle Thursday at 4 pm at the Family Wellness Center, with a special focus on single parents. The Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater performances of Chekhov’s “The Seagull” continue this Friday and Saturday. You can drop off new, unwrapped toys at the Recreation Division office for the 68th annual Bernie O’Rourke/Detroit Hunter Christmas Toy Drive or learn about how to apply for the program. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/

Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts presents The Wesleyan Chamber Music Concert tonight (Tues) at Crowell Concert Hall. There’s a graduate recital at Memorial Chapel this evening as well. Cellist and visiting teacher Julie Ribchinsky is at Crowell Thursday at noon to perform and discuss “Bach and the Modern World,” and in the evening there’s an advanced Javanese gamelan concert at World Music Hall. Guided tours of the “Inaction” exhibition happen Saturday afternoon, and in the evening the Chinese Music Ensemble, Taiko Drumming Ensemble, and others perform Music from East Asia at Crowell Concert Hall. Splinter Reeds performs new works by Wesleyan composers Saturday night at World Music Hall, and on Sunday there’s a Worlds of Dance Concert performance at Crowell. You can also purchase tickets for the West African Drumming and Dance Concert happening at Crowell Concert Hall on Friday evening. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa 

Infinity Hall Norfolk brings you fusion and jazz with Spyro Gyra on Wednesday, and on Thursday you can enjoy bluegrass and folk with the Gibson Brothers, and Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley. They’ve got alternative rock, soul, and more on Saturday with Brother Joscephus and the Love Revolution. At Infinity Hartford, you can catch Americana and bluegrass on Friday with Railroad Earth, and on Saturday, David Clark’s “Songs in the Attic” perform highlights from Billy Joel’s Last Play at Shea. www.infinityhall.com

Toad’s Place presents Cannibal Corpse, Thy Art is Murder, and Perdition Temple on Thursday, and on Sunday they host Merkules with his Special Occasion Tour, appearing with Golden, Early Adopted, and Endr Won. www.toadsplace.com

Cherry Street Station in Wallingford brings you Sepsiss, Soldiers of Solace, Carried by VI, and more on Friday. On Saturday you can catch the Ditch Boys, The Prozacs, and Thyphoid Rosie. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

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

Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues the documentary “Fantastic Fungi;” “Where’s My Roy Cohn,” about the political power broker who influenced Trump; and “Light From Light,” a haunted house story with deep questions, all through Thursday. Details and screening times at www.realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio continues their run of “First Love,” a Japanese pulp fiction/comedy hybrid, through Wednesday. On Thursday they sponsor the free premier of the documentary “Eastern White Pine: The Tree Rooted in American History.” Friday’s weekend opening is “Ad Astra,” billed as the Apocalypse Now of space travel, and the Sunday matinée is the Royal Opera House production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” On Sunday evening they open “The Lighthouse,” about two men operating an isolated lighthouse in the 19th century. Details at http://www.cinestudio.org

The Wadsworth Atheneum continues their Food & Film series on Saturday with dinner and a screening of “Soul Food,” a story of family tension that erupts when their matriarch becomes ill. 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, stay tuned for Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat from 5:05-6pm.
From krautrock to post-rock, grunge to garage, novelty to New Romantic, punk to prog, Wonderland has a place for it.

From 6-8pm 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 with a concert listing at 7pm and frequent concert and festival ticket giveaways.

From 8-9 pm stay tuned for an hour of live and local arts and culture with J-Cherry on Voice of the City!

at 9pm, stay tuned for (1,3,5) Femme Gems and Jams with DJ Stevie Hick, spotlighting biographies of lesser known historical female figures by curating mixtape that she might jam to.

from 10-11pm (1, 3, 5) take a Road Trip to a different city each episode, with DJ G and DJ Vix, who cover new and rising artists all from the same hometown. No gas money required.

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 area’s 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!


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