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KDRT 95.7 FM is grassroots radio from Davis, CA, airing an eclectic mix of music and public-affairs programming. A project of nonprofit Davis Media Access, KDRT streams worldwide via KDRT.org.

 

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Davis Garden Show

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Nursery pro Don Shor has been gardening and selling plants in Davis for more than three decades.

Join Don and co-host Lois Richter as they discuss and answer your questions on all things for the garden.

Submit a question (or a brag!) to DavisGardenShow@gmail.com 

Live Thursday 12-1pm
Replays Saturday 9-10am
DJ(s): 
Lois Richter, Don Shor
Homepage URL: 
Davis Garden Show on the Web
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Davisville

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Davis has interesting people, ideas, connections, and events. On Davisville, host Bill Buchanan presents stories that have some connection to Davis. The program has won 14 Excellence in Journalism awards from the San Francisco Press Club since 2018, plus a national Hometown Media Award for excellence from the Alliance for Community Media in 2024. Contact: davisville @ dcn.org

Live Monday 5:30-6pm
Replays Saturday 8:30-9am
DJ(s): 
Bill Buchanan
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Classical Excursions

Greg LaTraille

Classical radio programs often focus on well-known light classics and ignore challenging and imaginative masterworks, especially from the rich repertoire of 20th century music, which is very diverse. This results in listeners who are unaware of many wonderful works. Excursions will present short and longer works by famous as well as less known composers, with insightful commentary by a composer with years of experience in radio, classical marketing, and music education.

Live Friday 11am-1pm
DJ(s): 
Greg LaTraille
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Twang Thang

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Twang Thang features outlaw country old and new, showcasing the folks who sowed the harder-edged musical seeds for what we today call Americana, as well as the newer artists who continue the tunes and outlaw ethos forward. George Jones, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Lucinda Willimans, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakum, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Billie Jo Shaver ... Americana music didn't just show up one day — it has deep and varied country music roots. Twang Thang explores the originators, the newcomers, and the music that happened along the way!

Live Wednesday 7-9am
Replays Wednesday 9-11pm, Sunday 8-10am
DJ(s): 
DJ Dirk
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Divine Intervention (1st/3rd week) – The Electric Compost Heap (2nd/4th week)

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Divine Intervention with Jess Goddésse strikes the airwaves every 1st & 3rd Friday, bringing you an unholy assortment of rock, pop, punk, psych, funk, jazz, roots, and randomness across the decades plus brand new releases. For the truly devout, Vinyl Vespers, a celebration of record-store bargain bins, plus our Goddess of the Month featured artiste!

Live Friday 6-8pm
Replays Monday 9-11pm, Sunday 4-6pm
DJ(s): 
Jess Goddésse, Dug Deep
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Davis Garden Show, April 10, 2025

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today’s topics: success with tomatoes, fuchsias in the interior, cilantro, evening primrose question, and more.

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IMPLOSION – 9 April 2025

Wed, 04/09/2025 - 3:00pm | Nick Saloman

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Up next on IMPLOSION with the amazing Nick Saloman, music from Bulldog Breed, the Groundhogs, Harvey Mandel, Dave Van Ronk, Neil Young, the Everly Brothers, and many more. Listen up at 6 p.m. Pacific on KDRT 95.7 | KDRT.org — available thereafter on your favorite podcast apps!

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Jazz After Dark, April 8, 2025

Tue, 04/08/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight's show:

  • Mose Allison: The Seventh Son, Cabin In the Sky, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Dinner On the Ground
  • Miles Davis, It Ain't Necessarily So
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, It Ain't Necessarily So
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Don't Be That Way
  • Les McCann, The Truth
  • Eddie Harris, Exodus (Single Version)
  • Les McCann & Eddie Harris, You Got It in Your Soulness
  • Quincy Jones, Dead End
  • Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Compared to What
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Divine Intervention – April 4, 2025

Fri, 04/04/2025 - 4:04pm | Jess Goddésse

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Coming your way at 6 p.m. Pacific, it's Divine Intervention, bringing you recent releases from Courting, Freckle, Guided by Voices, Lambrini Girls, The Velveteers ... two tunes from April's Goddess of the Month ... and, yes, Vinyl Vespers! Don't miss it ... right here on KDRT 95.7 fm + KDRT.org + your favorite podcast apps.

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Why politicians alter the truth, on Listening Lyrics, April 4, 2025

Fri, 04/04/2025 - 3:50pm | Pieter Pastoor

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A great hour of songs reflecting the topic of "lying."

That's all that needs to be said.

Absorb it all.

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Davis Garden Show, April 3, 2025

Thu, 04/03/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today’s topics: systemics revisited, balanced fertilizers, replacing a front yard step by step, and more.

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IMPLOSION – 2 April 2025

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 5:00pm | Nick Saloman

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You won't want to miss Nick Saloman's IMPLOSION at 5 p.m. Pacific, with a swirl of sounds from the Adverts, the DKs, the Dickies... the Zephyrs, the Comedown, the Profile... right here on KDRT 95.7 + KDRT.org + your favorite podcast apps!

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In the Key of Folk, April 2, 2025

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 12:30pm | Karen Leyse

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This afternoon on In the Key of Folk, you'll listen to several tracks from newly released albums by Rees Shad, The Pairs, and by Alison Krauss & Union Station. Since it's April, the month in which we celebrate the Earth, you'll also hear some tracks that remind us of our one-and-only home's delights, as sung by Rita Hosking, Richard Shindell, and Nightingale. And there is even more, so tune in at 2 p.m. right here on KDRT.org or at KDRT, 95.7 FM!

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Jazz After Dark, April 1, 2025

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight's show:

  • Benny Goodman, Let's Dance
  • Chick Webb, I Ain't Got Nobody
  • John Coltrane w Dinah Washington, Fast Movin' Mama
  • Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana
  • Stuff Smith, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  • Johnny Hodges, Early Morning Rock
  • Clark Terry, C-Jam Blues
  • Cal Tjader,  Descarga Cubana
  • Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Stardust
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Fine and Mellow
  • Johnny Hodges & Gerry Mulligan, Back Beat
  • Abbey Lincoln, Throw It Away
  • Clark Terry and Bobby Brookmeyer, Bye Bye Blackbird
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Davisville, March 31, 2025: Tales of vanished Yolo County from 19th century painters

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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If you go this spring to the Gibson House, a 19th century mansion-turned-museum in Woodland, you can see portraits of people who lived in Yolo County in the 19th century. There are a lot of stories in those paintings, and in the painters, all of whom worked in Yolo County.

One of the six artists exhibited is Calthea Campbell Vivian, described as “one of the leading artists of the West” in her time. Another was an accomplished painter who couldn’t make a living at it, which ended his marriage … and his daughter became a famous opera singer in Britain. And her daughter, his granddaughter, became the youngest baroness in England.

Who are the people in the paintings? What did they want their portraits to tell us? What’s it like to stand in the rooms of this landmark house and look at them, looking back at us? We talk about all this today on Davisville with Sarah Bartlett, museum curator for the Yolo County Historical Collection, which is presenting “Picturing Yolo County exhibit: paintings by past local artists” through June 17.

Photo shows painting of 66-year-old Mary Blowers of Woodland, 1896, by Calthea Campbell Vivian

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