Good evening, it's Tuesday, November 5th. 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.
Here's a rundown of some of what's happening in our area
this week:
The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown holds a Laughter Yoga
session this (Tues) evening, and on Thursday there’s an Acoustic Open Mic with
Bob Gotta. It’s blues and bluegrass on Friday at The Buttonwood Tree with Rebecca
Roudman and her band, Dirty Cello. The Aligned with Source Workshop is on deck
Saturday morning, and in the evening you can catch the Frank Varela Jazz Trio.
Celebrate the late Roy Lisker on Sunday afternoon in a special event with
music, refreshments, and more featuring Neely Bruce and John Basinger. www.buttonwood.org
Free events this week sponsored by Wesleyan University’s
Center for the Arts begin on tonight with a conversation with the Taylor Mac
costume designer, Machine Dazzle, at the Ring Performing Arts Hall.
Performer/composer Alex Dea presents Compositions: The Secret of Overtones,
Wednesday at World Music Hall. On Thursday, there’s a panel discussion titled
Talk It Out: The Laramie Project – Centering Queer Voices: Documenting Trauma
and Resilience, at the Downey House Lounge, as well as a talk by poet and
cultural critic Lewis Hyde at the Zilkha Gallery. Performances of Inaction
occur at the Zilkha Gallery on Friday, and on Saturday they offer tours of the
exhibition. Details at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
The Wesleyan RJ Julia bookstore presents their Tuesday’s Local
Author Event features Young Adult/Fantasy writers, Mandi Lynn, M. Wednesday,
and Grant Miller. Tom Seigel is in the house on Thursday with his new novel,
“The Astronaut’s Son.” Kids’ events continue this week, including Story Time
and Cardinal Kids, as well as a celebration of the latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid
book on Tuesday afternoon. Check the website for details. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
In New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight/Tuesday Crunk Witch,
Hanuting Titans, and Shy take the stage. Wednesday night’s lineup features The
End of America, and the Oshima Brothers. On Thursday Café Nine presents Bangcreek
Puppies, O’K and the Night Crew, and the Jeff Wickun Band. Friday The Nine’s 5pm
Live Happy Hour set features Lynn Malavolti, followed by the Friday night main
event featuring The Lucky 5 and Alexa Rose. Café nine’s weekly Saturday afternoon
Jazz Jam session is at 4pm with Gary Grippo. Saturday night, you can catch Big
Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys and Soapbox Saints. The Sunday Buzz Matinée
brings you Year of the Fist and Warbats, and they finish out the weekend with
the Freddy Deboe Band. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, Michael Palin’s Other
Orchestra brings you jazz, R&B, soul classics, and more on Tuesdays.
Wednesday’s weekly Community Blues Jam is hosted by Tommy Whalen, and on
Thursday it’s Liviu’s Invitational. The Michael Cleary Band takes Sally’s stage
on Friday, and on Saturday singer/songwriter Grayson Hugh and his band, The
Moon Hawks, return with soul, roots rock, blues, and more. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Manic Presents brings Beach Slang, Mandala, and Mamma’s Boy
to the Space Ballroom tonight/Tuesday. Jake “The Snake” Roberts will be there
on Wednesday with his Dirty Details Tour. Jason Hawk Harris takes the Front
Room stage on Thursday, appearing with Stefanie Clark Harris, and on Friday,
Death Threat brings their Last Dayz 20th Anniversary show,
along with Billy Club Sandwich, World Demise, and more. They headline
Intercourse at The Space on Saturday, appearing with Chained to the Bottom of
the Ocean, and Gorge. Ani Defranco, along with Gracie and Rachel, comes to the
College Street Music Hall on Friday, and there’s Morning Show Saturday with
Laurie Berkner and her Greatest Hits Solo Tour. www.manicpresents.com
Infinity Hall Norfolk hosts an acoustic evening with folk
and country artist John Hiatt tonight/Tuesday. It’s funk and Southern rock on
Thursday with Trigger Hippy, and on Saturday enjoy bagpipes and more with
Celtica and their Pipes Rock tour. At Infinity Hartford, Peter Wolf starts off
a blues and rock weekend on Thursday, followed on Friday by Dana Fuchs, and
ending on Saturday with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. You can catch
more blues and Southern rock on Sunday with the North Mississippi Allstars and
their Up and Rolling tour. www.infinityhall.com
At the Russell Library in Middletown, there’s an Open House
Employment Information session on the 2020 census Wednesday at 4 pm, followed
by Scrabble. The Connecticut Poetry Society meets on Thursday evening to
continue their Poets on Poetry series with featured guest, Gwendolyn Brooks.
The Friends of the Library Book Sale happens on Friday and Saturday. The
library is closed Sunday and Monday for the holiday. 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
Wednesday, The State House in New Haven hosts a Happy Hour
Improv Comedy session featuring The Regicides. On Thursday the New Haven music
community comes together with the Ric Ocasek Tribute at The State House, and on
Friday it’s a night of Positive Vibes for the Culture. Lift returns to The
state house CT on Friday, appearing with Fixation, Spellrunner, and more. IT’s
Surf Rock Night on Sunday with Serf Blasters, 9th Wave, and The Clams. www.statehousepresents.com
Toad’s Place presents The Interrupters, Skinny Lister, and
Sharp/Shock on Thursday. On Friday they headline Legion of Jerry, appearing
with the Kazoo Crew Family Band, The Core, and more. On Sunday, Ghostemane
takes the stage with their Hiadica Tour, along with 2Teeth, Horus the
Astroneer, and ParvO. www.toadsplace.com
Cherry Street Station in Wallingford brings you Fleurs,
Ditch Boys, Dangerous Animals, and The New Neighbors on Friday. They present
The Defilement of the Northeast Metal Scene on Saturday with The Missing Inc.,
Disparager, Glass Divide, and more. On Sunday you can catch The Problem
Addicts, Rushmore, and Scooped Up. www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
The Middletown Arts & Culture Office invites you to a
premier performance of “New Every Morning” by the Greater Middletown Chorale
Sunday at 4 pm at the Middletown High School Performing Arts Center. This work
is by Connecticut composer Peter Niedmann, and there’s a pre-concert discussion
at 3:15 pm. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
The Middletown International Film Festival continues tonight/Tuesday
at the Russell Library with a screening of “Summer,” a Spanish film about a
six-year-old orphan reacting to her new home in the mountains. There’s a
post-film discussion with Professor Olga Sendra Ferrer. www.russelllibrary.org
Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues “Linda Ronstadt: The
Sound of My Voice,” a celebration of the iconic vocal artist; the documentary
“Fantastic Fungi”; and “Where’s My Roy Cohn,” about the political power broker
who influenced Trump, through Thursday. Future openings include “Midnight
Traveler” and “Parasite.”Details and screening times at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio continues their run of “Another
Day of Life,” about the anarchy of warfare based on a Polish journalist’s
memoir of Angola, through Wednesday. The matinée offering for Thursday and
Sunday is the National Theatre Live performance of “Hansard,” a devastating
portrait of the governing class. There’s a one-day screening of “Abe &
Phil’s Last Poker Game” on Thursday night, and on Friday they open a run of
“Mr. Klein,” an ultra-HD restoration of this French psychological thriller set
during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Full details at http://www.cinestudio.org
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!
No comments:
Post a Comment