Free Form Jubilee: Celebrating WESU’s 80th Anniversary

Free Form Jubilee: Celebrating WESU’s 80th Anniversary
Sunday December 8^th at 6pm, 88.1FM WESU Middletown will conclude a yearlong celebration of Wesleyan University’s community and college radio station’s land mark 80^th anniversary.   

Hosted by DJ Jenny Doll of the weekly radio show, “Grand Central Station,” the Free Form Jubilee will rally together WESU listeners, staff, friends and family for a night of music, entertainment and community support. This event will celebrate and commemorate the community radio station’s eight-decade legacy of service through intimate performances and testimonials representative of some of the various listening communities that WESU serves.

Jazz musician/composer and educator, Professor Noah Baerman, will deliver a keynote address.  Special guest dignitaries and speakers include:  Mayor of Middletown Ben Florsheim, CT State Senator Mary Abrams, Cormac Chester WESU Public Affairs Director, and Clifton Watson, Director of the Jewett Center for Community Partnerships at Wesleyan University.

Musicians and performers include award-winning poet Kate Rushin; nationally acclaimed Americana musician Rani Arbo and family; producer of Afropop Worldwide Banning Eyre; composer, musician, and musical educator Noah Baerman; Wesleyan Rapper, Laszlo, legendary Middletown soul musicians Randy and Freddie Moses’, roots-reggae singer Don Minott; and the original singer from the 1960s girl groups The Hearts and The Jaynetts, Louise Murray!

The Free Form Jubilee: Celebrating WESU’s 80^th Anniversary will commence at 6pm at Wesleyan’s Daniel Family Commons on the third floor of the Usdan Student Center located at 45 Wyllys Ave. in Middletown, CT. Suggested admission is a donation in support of the WESU Winter Pledge Drive and/or a nonperishable food item donation for The Amazing Grace Food Pantry. No one will be turned away for a lack of funds.

This event is made possible in part through a grant from the Middletown Commission on the Arts with support from Wesleyan University’s Jewett Center for Community Partnerships and Center for the Arts.  

More information at www.wesufm.org