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ABOUT US

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.

 

OUR PROGRAMS

Cowboy Tracks

Join Nancy around the campfire to hear authentic Western roots music and cowboy poetry. Something deep in your soul will resonate to stories from the early wranglers, Mexican vaqueros, Old West adventurers, Silver Screen buckaroos, Western Swing bands, contemporary real cowboys, and all who appreciate wide open spaces, freedom, and the western lifestyle.

 

Live Wednesday 1-2pm
Replays Friday 7-8am
DJ(s): 
Nancy Flagg
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The Audio Ecotone

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"We have a tropical situation where there are thousands of 'species' of music around and they're all constantly cross-breeding and hybridizing. It's very exciting, but you can't keep up with it easily." -- Brian Eno

Live Friday 3-4pm
Replays Tuesday 7-8am, Saturday 6-7pm
DJ(s): 
Eddy Owt
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The Yolo County Breakdown

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Bluegrass, newgrass and beyond. From Bill Monroe to Billy Strings, the Yolo County Breakdown is a journey through acoustic string music ranging from the traditional to the cutting edge.

Live Friday 10-11am
Replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 5-6pm, Sunday 3-4pm
DJ(s): 
Rocky Outcrop
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Eye on Sports

Eye On Sports is a talk radio show focused on local sports in the Sacramento/Davis area that occasionally covers National Sports. Hosts Chuck and Cody have been involved with sports both nationally and locally for more than 15 years and want to share their opinions and initiate discussion to the public through conversation and occasional outside interviews. This show will not be politically driven in anyway. The conversation will cover the results , local impact, business and psychology of sports.

Live Thursday 6-7pm
Replays Friday 8-9am
DJ(s): 
Cody Westergaard, ChuckGarcia7
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Silver Nine Volt Heart

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Join your host Rodriguez as he swings the gate wide open for a cool musical trip featuring sounds from all points of the compass.  Being mindful that "everything connects to everything else," on Silver Nine Volt Heart  you will find the many colorful threads that make up the tapestry of recorded sound ... just click it on and let the music start. 

Live Thursday 4-6pm
Replays Friday 10pm-Saturday 12am, Saturday 2-4pm
DJ(s): 
Rodriguez
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Jazz After Dark, June 10, 2025

Tue, 06/10/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight's show:

  • Jimmy Dorsey with Spike Hughes and His Three Blind Mice, St. Louis Blues
  • Benny Goodman, Exactly Like You
  • Benny Goodman, Let's Dance
  • Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters, Jubilesta 
  • Lester Young & The Kansas City Six, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
  • Count Basie, Do You Wanna Jump, Children?
  • Anita O'Day, Watch the Birdie [Album Version]
  • Freddy Martin, Tonight We Love
  • Major Glenn Miller & The American Band Of The Allied Expeditionary Force, Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar
  • Dizzy Gillespie, Oop Bop Sh' Bam
  • Sidney Bechet, Old Stack O'Lee Blues
  • Artie Shaw, Stop and Go Mambo
  • Etta Jones,  Long Long Journey
  • Ahmad Jamal, - Raincheck
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Just One Of Those Things
  • The Don Ellis Orchestra, Alone
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Davisville, June 9, 2025: Veterans of Paul’s Place plan to build more Yolo homes for the homeless

Mon, 06/09/2025 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Davis needs hundreds of additional homes for people with very low incomes, says Bill Pride during today’s Davisville, and other Yolo County cities have similar needs. As executive director of a new nonprofit, Yolo Community Builders, Pride wants to respond to that demand by building more tiny housing units throughout the county, inspired by the innovative Paul’s Place in Davis, for people who would otherwise be homeless.

Today we talk with Pride and Maria Ogrydziak, an accomplished architect who will design the new units. Pride is a former executive director of Davis Community Meals and Housing, which built and runs Paul's Place, a four-story building in central Davis that combines permanent housing, transitional housing, and various services to help people escape homelessness. Ogrydziak designed Paul's Place.

Other nonprofits would own and offer support services at the locations that Yolo Community Builders plans to develop. YCB is developing these partnerships with nonprofits, and Pride hopes to announce the first projects by the end of the year.

(Image, taken from Yolo Community Builders website, shows two tiny homes side by side)

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Kyle Monhollen and Davis Music Fest XIII, on Listening Lyrics, June 6, 2025

Fri, 06/06/2025 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Kyle Monhollen and his fearless battalion of volunteers are again storming Davis with a musical takeover of epic proportions. We’re talking about the Davis Music Fest with nearly 40 acts, seven venues, and more musical genres than in the Armadillo Music store record bins.

It all goes down June 20, 21, and 22.

Kyle joins us to share behind-the-scenes highlights, harrowing tales, and a few laughs about the heroic effort it takes to bring this sonic spectacle to life. Tune in—you might just hear how close we came to having a polka-punk fusion band headline. (Spoiler: too close.)

All the info, acts, venues, times and playlist available at www.davismusicfest.com

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Laurie Lewis on the Yolo County Breakdown, June 6, 2025

Fri, 06/06/2025 - 8:52am | Rocky Outcrop

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Legend of California bluegrass, Laurie Lewis joins Rocky Outcrop on this week's episode of The Yolo County Breakdown! Laurie is a two-time IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year, and she is a fiddle player, singer and songwriter who has had an immense influence on the traditional sounds that have come out of the Golden State over the last five decades.

Laurie will perform at the upcoming Father's Day Bluegrass Festival up in beautiful Grass Valley, Calif. This year marks the 50th anniversary of this festival, and as part of the celebration Laurie will be appearing with her band The Right Hands as well as alongside her partner of 50 years, Kathy Kallick, with whom she founded the Good Ol' Persons and trailblazed a place in the history of bluegrass music. Her latest album, Trees, is another beautiful and timeless contribution to the library of recorded bluegrass music that will surely endure the test of time.

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Davis Garden Show, June 5, 2025

Thu, 06/05/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On today’s show: apriums, plums, seeds to plant now, successive plantings, cucumbers, watering, recent garden problems, and more.

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IMPLOSION – 4 June 2025

Wed, 06/04/2025 - 4:00pm | Nick Saloman

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Nick Saloman brings you the grooviest tunes this week on IMPLOSION, including tracks from the Monkees, the Moody Blues, the Other Mothers, and the Peanut Butter Conspiracy! Don't miss the fun starting at 8 p.m. Pacific on your favorite freeform station, KDRT 95.7 fm + KDRT.org + those podcast platforms!

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In the Key of Folk, June 4, 2025

Wed, 06/04/2025 - 12:30pm | Karen Leyse

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This is a week of new and recent releases for the most part. Join in the discoveries on In the Key of Folk at 2 p.m. today! They'll include the solo singing debut by Scottish piper Donald Lindsay, and tracks by Poor Man's Gambit, Rrinaco, The Faux Pas, Lisa Bastoni, and others. We'll also feature a track by Jaeger and Reid, who will be performing in Davis this weekend, along with another track from Kora Feder's excellent new album, Some Kind of Truth. Stay cool and find a place to tune in!

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Jazz After Dark, June 3, 2025

Tue, 06/03/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Coming up tonight:

  • Erroll Garner,
  • Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan
  • Charlie Shavers & Coleman Hawkins
  • Art Blakey
  • Oscar Peterson
  • Stuff Smith, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio
  • Illinois Jacquet
  • Eddie Harris
  • Claude Bolling & Alexandre Lagoya
  • Chuck Mangione
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Davis Music Fest with Kyle Monhollen, on Listening Lyrics, June 6

Mon, 06/02/2025 - 10:41am | Pieter Pastoor

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The 13th annual Davis Music Fest kicks off June 20—and trust us, it's not just lucky number 13 for the organizers! This week on Listening Lyrics, we'll serve up a musical sampler platter featuring songs from the many artists rolling into town for the weekend. Think of it as a sneak preview with less walking and no cover charge.

With dozens of artists, venues, and genres on the menu, your ears are in for a feast.

Joining us is Kyle Monhollen—the man in the middle of this musical mayhem—who’ll dish on what it takes to pull off an event of this scale (spoiler: coffee and spreadsheets).

Tune in Friday at 4 p.m. and get a feel for the festival vibe. You might even walk away with a game plan for which venues to hit—and maybe a few new favorite bands to name-drop.

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Electric Compost Heap -- May 30, 2025

Fri, 05/30/2025 - 5:32pm | Dug Deep

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Hey you all -- Check out the Electric Compost Heap tonight -- host Dug Deep will feature some new things from Horsegirl, The Residents, and LA LOM. We'll also remember Rick Derringer, who passed earlier this week at age 77 -- No RocknRoll Hoochie Coo, though, so don't worry. Hope you can join us.

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