Tonight (April 19) in the Electric Compost Heap at 6 p.m. Pacific time, host Dug Deep will feature tunes from a few bands playing at this year's Davis Music Festival -- the schedule was just released and it has us pretty jacked up! I mean, just look at this lineup! Oh, and the official color of tonight's show is chartreuse! Yes indeed, hope you can tune in at KDRT.org.
Today's topics: tomato time, marguerite problems, low water hedge choices, fireblight on Photinia, caterpillars on passion flower vines, ornamental sages, April flowers, clivias, and more.
KDRT 95.7fm invites YOU to the official launch of Suds & Sounds at Armadillo Music in downtown Davis on Wednesday, April 24, 4 to 6 p.m. Meet K-DiRT friends and fans, listen to the music, and pick some vinyl to spin! Beverages will be available at the Bootleg Bar. Cheers!
On tonight’s show:
KDRT participates in lots of events in and around Davis – and spring's busting out with opportunities to get out and about. We announce happenings on air daily via the Events Outlook – listen up at noon and 6 p.m.! We also post a full Events Outlook listing online – check it out, share it freely, submit your own event.
We have old-time and new time tunes and songs on this week's High Country Music, with Late for the Train, Town Mountain, John Hartford, Sierra Ferrell, the band Della Mae, Billy Strings, The Faux Paws, Sam Bush Jessica Malone, Ola Belle Reed and Doc Watson with Clarence Ashley.
In Harboring Happiness: 101 Ways to be Happy, author Dan Brook says happiness is worth pursuing despite all the awful things happening across the globe. He bases this on research and on what he has learned during his decades as an instructor and sociologist (he earned master’s and doctorate degrees in sociology from UC Davis in the 1990s).
So how do you become happier? You probably have to work at it. His suggestions range from “getting more experiences,” and feeling gratitude, to “being around people who make you happy” and converting the fear of missing out into the joy of missing out.
“I’m happy not because I ignore the problems of the world, but in spite of them,” he says. Work to fix what’s wrong, but “being miserable does not help solve those problems.” He elaborates on his ideas during today’s Davisville.
Anton Barbeau is an American psychedelic singer-songwriter and producer from Sacramento.
Barbeau is known for combining surreal lyrics with pop melodies and has been described as being in the songwriting tradition of Robyn Hitchcock, Syd Barrett, XTC, and The Beatles. His first CD, The Horse's Tongue, a collection of songs that had appeared on a number of self-released cassettes, won Sacramento's SAMMIE Award for Album of the Year in 1994.
Since then he has released more than twenty albums, a number of singles and EPs, several anthologies, and collaborations with many other artists.
Anton is joined in the studio with his wife Julia.
Oh, yes, it's almost time for Divine Intervention, a pleasant assault to the senses, with much new music in the indie-ish vein, including the latest from the Libertines, Phosphorescent, the Bevis Frond, the Old 97's, and even the Jesus & Mary Chain — plus April's Goddess of the Month and a Vinyl Vespers spin — yikes!
Tune in Friday, April 12, at 2:30 p.m. Pacific as Sideline Bluegrass Band joins DJ Rocky Outcrop in the KDRT studio for the latest edition of Live DiRT. Then see Sideline at 7 p.m. at Sudwerk Brewing – presented in part by your friends at KDRT 95.7 FM | KDRT.org!
