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KDRT-LP 95.7 FM is a project of community media center Davis Media Access, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation serving Davis and beyond.. Each year, we raise more than $30,000 to support KDRT, local election coverage, and youth media projects. KDRT receives the bulk of this funding, making this station truly listener- and community-supported radio! Your donation to DMA helps to keep KDRT on the air, and the grassroots growing. Thank you!

About Us

KDRT is low-power grassroots radio located in Davis, California, airing an eclectic mix of music and public affairs programming, and building community by promoting dialogue, encouraging artistic expression, and acting as a forum for people who typically lack media access. Noncommercial radio KDRT 95.7 FM is a project of Davis Media Access (DMA.) DMA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Our mission reflects our values: localism, social equality, public participation, media literacy, diversity, and, of course, community media. Read more...

OUR PROGRAMS

Outta Style

Host Wayne Hagen presents a bit of musical mayhem that never goes Outta Style.

Live Wednesday 6-7pm

Replays Monday 8-9pm, Thursday 10-11pm

DJ(s):

Wayne Hagen

Meraki Radio

Meraki [may-rah-kee] (adjective) This is a word that modern Greeks often use to describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — when you put "something of yourself" into what you're doing, whatever it may be.

Meraki Radio tries to live up to the definition of this interesting word. Anyone who wants to get behind the mic and talk about meraki in their own life-- whether it be professional, historical, artistic, scientific, prolific or otherwise is encouraged to contact the show at kdrtmeraki@gmail.com.

Live Tuesday 12:30-1pm

Replays Friday 8-8:30am

DJ(s):

Alison B, Kate M

The Awesome Patrol Show

JOY Gentle Friends!!

Catch me FRIDAY afternoons {yay! Again!!} LIVE @ 2:30pm for your weekly installment of The Awesome Patrol Show - an hour of fresh tunes to wrap-up the week.

Think of it like a song "flight" of awesome sounds, ideas & feels ! I create the sets to feel reminiscent of old school mix-tapes, something I’ve never stopped making since I got my first double-tape deck in Jr.High. And on the last FRIDAY of each month, TAPS will be serving up 90 mins of booty-shaking HOUSE Vibes! #ShakeShakeFantastic!!!

Live Friday 2:30-4pm

Replays Monday 9:30-11pm, Sunday 7:30-9pm

DJ(s):

Sara TAPS

Homepage URL:

TAPS

Live Tracks

Live Tracks features a wide range of music, from early '60s rock and rockabilly, to folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz and beyond. The program frequently airs songs from local performances recorded here in Davis. Live Tracks began broadcasting on KDRT on Sept. 30, 2004, and has produced 625 unique programs as of July 2021. [To be honest, Live Tracks is rather odd. Just sayin'...]

Live Thursday 7-9pm

Replays Monday 1-3pm, Saturday 9-11pm

DJ(s):

Jim Buchanan

The Golden Road

Join Alligator and take a musical journey down the Golden Road and explore the music of the Grateful Dead, its roots and its many offshoots.

Live Sunday 5-7pm

Replays Friday 7-9pm

DJ(s):

Alligator

More programs ...

Masks, personas and music, on Listening Lyrics

Fri, 09/03/2021 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Covid started and we ended up wearing masks. I really never owned a mask before but now I have a box of them in the house and many more in my car. So of course I had to do a show on masks -- not only the type I have in my box, but the masks we wear to present ourselves to the world or to hide behind.

Great songs will take us on the musical journey of masks.

Davis Garden Show, Sept. 2, 2021, butterflies and hanging baskets

Thu, 09/02/2021 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Many, many questions this time! (Some carried over to the next show.)

Gardening for butterflies,

hanging baskets for coastal zones,

time to plant brassicas (cabbage-family) and a winter garden,

persimmon trees struggling to establish,

tomatoes that didn't do well, and more.

To send in questions, brags, comments, or commendations; write to Don Shor and Lois Richter at DavisGardenShow@gmail.com

That's Life with David Hosley

Thu, 09/02/2021 - 11:00am | Lois Richter

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David Hosley had led a very full life. Lois could have interviewed him about many many different things and filled up a show -- his long media career (starting at age 12!), being a renowned investigative reporter, teaching at various colleges and universities, UC administration, managing LOTS of radio and tv stations, producing six documentaries, training journalists in ethics, heading non-profits, talking about the history of migration into California and the challenges of life in the San Joaquin valley, and sharing thoughts on community, economy, social assumptions, and why people work after retirement. As I say, we COULD have filled up an hour on any of those. Instead, because we met working together on a project of the Davis Genealogy Club, we started with family history and went from there.

Album of the Week, Sept. 1, 2021: Paul Simon's Songs from The Capeman

Wed, 09/01/2021 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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The Capeman is a musical play with music by Paul Simon, and book and lyrics by Simon and Derek Walcott, based on the life of convicted murderer Salvador Agrón. The play opened at the Marquis Theatre in 1998 to poor reviews and ran for 68 performances. A blend of doo-wop, gospel, and Latin music, it received Tony Award nominations for Best Original Score, Best Orchestrations and Best Scenic Design. Renoly Santiago received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical. Ednita Nazario won the Theater World Award for her performance.

The Folk Brothers for Sept. 1, 2021: Musical happenings at Ruhstaller Farm

Wed, 09/01/2021 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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In the first half of the show, we featured new music from Watchhouse, I See Hawks In LA, Big Red Machine and Dean Owens, as well as a classic track from The Young Tradition. The morality tale "Lyke Wake Dirge" is the subject of the most recent episode of the innovative podcast "Old Tunes Fresh Takes."

Then we spoke with Joe and Pamela Gregg Craven about their efforts to help (re)foster community through the musical events they have been organizing at Ruhstaller, a new hop farm in Dixon. Currently the Cravens are bringing music to Ruhstaller on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays -- see the farm's upcoming events.

The Folk Brothers playlist for 09/01/2021

Jazz After Dark August 31 2021

Tue, 08/31/2021 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: melodies by Cole Porter, performed by Ella Fitzgerald, Sidney Bechet, Artie Shaw, King Cole Trio, Benny Carter & Oscar Peterson Trio, Maynard Ferguson, Dorothy Donegan, Coleman Hawkins, Erroll Garner, Al Hirt, Mose Allison, Oscar Peterson, Bireli Lagrene, and Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli.

The music of kissing, this week on Listening Lyrics

Fri, 08/27/2021 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Themusic of the kiss, kissing in tunes, why do we kiss

Why do we kiss? Let's explore this with the aid of some mighty fine tunes, on the latest edition (Aug. 27) of Listening Lyrics.

Davis Garden Show, Aug. 26, 2021, Tropical Questions

Thu, 08/26/2021 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today we have more information about watering in a drought, plus:

Citrus greening in San Diego
What is a cycad?
Cool season vegetables

and more.

[Lois was on vacation, so Don wrote this terse description.]

[Photo is of a cycad with its reproductive "cone" sprouting.]

The Folk Brothers for Aug. 25, 2021: The Irish-Americana connection

Wed, 08/25/2021 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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The Irish (and British) love for Americana music (i.e. North American country, folk, and blues) has deep roots, stretching back to waves of immigration in the 18th and 19th centuries. Young Cork-based singer-songwriter John Blek (pictured here) recorded his 2019 album "Thistle and Thorn" in studios in Clonakilty, Ireland as well as Lousiville, Ky. The latter sessions -- which featured co-vocals from Joan Shelly -- produced the song "The Body," featured on today's show.

And Don Everly -- who died this week at 84 -- and his brother Phil were beloved on those shamrock shores: we also featured their version of "Rose Connolly" (aka "Down In The Willow Garden") as recorded for the great 1991 BBC box set "Bringing It All Back Home."

Also on today's show: new music from Amanda Anne Platt and The Honeycutters, Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke, A.J. Lee and Joaquin Cooder. And much more!

The Folk Brothers playlist for 08/25/2021

Jazz After Dark August 24 2021

Tue, 08/24/2021 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark it’s 1930s swing, and then a vocal set: Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman; Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Doris Day, Buddy Greco, Ella Fitzgerald, Eiji Kitamura and Cedar Walton.

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