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The Divine Electric Compost Intervention! – Dec. 1, 2023

Tonight at 6pm DJ Dug Deep will be joined by Jess Goddèsse as they combine their respective radio shows into a magnum opus, the Divine Electric Compost Intervention! Why would they attempt such a massive undertaking, I hear you ask? Well, it's fundraising time around the old community radio station, and we will be imploring listeners to make a donation and keep KDRT alive and well. You can donate a little sumpin sumpin yourself by going to KDRT.org. Should be a lot of fun and a lot of great music, so don't miss it!

Jeff Sanford of the Cartoon Jazz Orchestra on Silver Nine Volt Heart, Nov. 30, 2023

Updated 12/1

For this week's show, Silver Nine Volt Heart host Rodriguez interviewed Jeff Sanford about his recent Cartoon Jazz Orchestra album, Playland at the Beach. This was as fun as it sounds!

Wildly creative cartoon soundtracks, heard on anything from the classic cartoons of the '40s and '50s with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to today's Anime, deliver an adventurous mash-up of classical, jazz, pop, folk, and everything in between. This music has a new home with Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Jazz Orchestra, a group of gifted, serious musicians who enjoy playing this zany, challenging music that swings like crazy.

Playland at the Beach was released by the Little Village Foundation, a California arts nonprofit that seeks to increase cross-cultural understanding by recording and producing underground artists whose music has not yet been discovered outside their community.

Grassroots gratitude from KDRT: Thank you all!

updated Dec. 10

THANK YOU for supporting your local grassroots radio by donating to KDRT! Our DJs enjoyed visiting their colleagues' shows during on-air fundraising, and seeing many of you at the variety of live music events during the past two weeks.  We're thrilled that your generosity so far has brought us to within 85 percent of our $7,000 goal. If it's slipped your mind, no worries, there's still time to donate.

This week on Celtic Songlines: The Shee, Salt House, Gerry O'Connor and a lot more

This week's Celtic Songlines features fiddler Gerry O'Connor, Cherish the Ladies, Ian MacInnes, from Scotland The Shee (pictured), Ashley Davis, Anúna with Michael McGlynn, Martin Hayes with The Common Ground Ensemble, from the UK the band Salt House, The Furrow Collective, Runa and the trio Molloy, Brady & Peoples.

Jake Mann live on KDRT

This afternoon at 3pm, DJ Dug Deep will be hosting formerly Davis-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Jake Mann live on the air on another edition of "Live Dirt". Jake's new release is Outta Mind A While on Crossbill Records. You can find it on Bandcamp. Jake is playing a solo set tomorrow night at Delta of Venus beginning at 7pm. Hope you can tune in today at 3.

Jake Mann live on KDRT

This afternoon at 3pm, DJ Dug Deep will be hosting formerly Davis-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Jake Mann live on the air on another edition of "Live Dirt". Jake's new release is Outta Mind A While on Crossbill Records. You can find it on Bandcamp. Jake is playing a solo set tomorrow night at Delta of Venus beginning at 7pm. Hope you can tune in today at 3.