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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...

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Outta Style

Outta Style KDRT Davis California

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
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The Folk Brothers

The Folk Brothers—Bill and Peter—explore an eclectic range of music, including traditional folk of the British Isles and the U.S, contemporary singer/songwriters on both sides of the Atlantic, and American roots music and some of its lesser-known offshoots. Tune in for a great music mix served with just a shake of sibling rivalry.

Live Wednesday 10-11am
Replays Monday 3-4pm, Thursday 3-4pm
DJ(s): 
Peter Schiffman, Bill Wagman
Homepage URL: 
The Folk Brothers
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Listening Lyrics

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Welcome to an hour of LISTENING LYRICS. Right here on KDRT 95.7FM in Davis, California. Listening Lyrics is a genre free zone - we feature the artist. What makes them do their thing. Listen to the hope and satisfaction in their voices. Listen to what only commercial free community radio can bring you. Close your eyes - open your ears - relax your mind. Join host Pieter Pastoor as he sends color to your ears. Now lets enter, the mother of all that is music and lyrics and the human capability of producing art.
Live Friday 4-5pm
Replays Sunday 1-2pm
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
Homepage URL: 
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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
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The Wild Fox Party

WILD FOX RADIO PARTY

Tune in for a wide variety of roots music, including doo-wop, gospel, jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll, Latin, African, and hillbilly/country bluegrass, from the early 1920s to contemporary times. The Wild Fox Party focuses on vocal groups , small-group ensembles, and outstanding vocalists and instrumentalists who never or hardly ever get heard. The music provides a forum for learning about history and diverse cultures, and it does so through the exposure of music as art highlighting points in time that will last forever via the medium of audio recordings.

Live Tuesday 10-11am
Replays Wednesday 2-3pm, Sunday 2-3pm
DJ(s): 
Frank aka Dr Doowop Fox, doowopdave
Homepage URL: 
DrDoowop
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The meaning of pop music, on Listening Lyrics, March 18, 2022

Fri, 03/18/2022 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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On this show we dive into pop  music -- its definition, and examples of a whole bunch of current and past pop hits.

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Davis Garden Show, March 17, 2022

Thu, 03/17/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today we revisit some garden myths, talk about soil mycorrhizae, and more.

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The Folk Brothers for March 16, 2022: Whales are folks too

Wed, 03/16/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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Brother Bill is back from Baja, where he spent a week petting baby blue whales ... awww. And he brought in a bunch of whale songs this morning from the likes of Tom Lewis, Country Joe McDonald, Tom Pacheco, and other fishy folkies. We also have Molly Tuttle singing about her grampa's farm, I Draw Slow singing about the coming apocalypse, and Black 47 with Finbar Furey singing about Father Mychal Judge, the first official fatality of 9/11.

The Folk Brothers playlist for 03/16/2022
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Jazz After Dark March 15 2022

Tue, 03/15/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Harlan Leonard, Art Tatum with  Benny Carter and Louis Bellson, Ruby Braff, Oscar Peterson Trio, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra with  Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughan, Art Farmer, Bobby Militello with the Brubeck family, and Perico Sambeat.

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This year's Soup's On will benefit Davis Media Access -- save the date, April 21, 2022

Sat, 03/12/2022 - 2:19pm | Diane Crumley

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Since its inception in 2004, Don Saylor’s Soup’s On event has raised more than $300,000 and increased community awareness for many worthy causes in Yolo County. In 2022, its final year, Soup's On will benefit Davis Media Access and will feature the live music of MUMBO GUMBO.

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Davis Garden Show, March 10, 2022

Thu, 03/10/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week's subjects include:

  •   When to "set out" vegetable seedlings
  •   Reviewing 2021 veg garden results
  •   March garden calendar

and more!

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The Folk Brothers for March 9, 2022: Transatlantic sounds old and new

Wed, 03/09/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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On their debut album in 1968, a group of kids from the suburbs of north London covered a Richard Farina song about a city in Nevada. During the pandemic, a singer-songwriter from Edinburgh teamed up with musicians from Tucson. Sometime in between, a guitarist/mandolinist from Nashville became a founding member of a band of transatlantic musicians who play the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow every winter. Find out who they all are on today's show.

The Folk Brothers playlist for 03/09/2022
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Jazz After Dark March 08 2022

Tue, 03/08/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark, jazz from 1940 to 1992: Artie Shaw, The Delta Rhythm Boys, Joe Guy And Thelonius Monk, Nat King Cole, Milt Jackson with Ray Charles, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans, Toots Thielemans, Ella Fitzgerald, Gabor Szabo, Eddie Harris, and Stan Getz with Kenny Barron.

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Davisville, March 7, 2022: How live music is returning to Davis

Mon, 03/07/2022 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Live music is music, obviously, but it’s also culture, a reason to get together with friends, part of the economy—and this spring, as in-person performances continue to resume in Davis, it’s another marker of how the Covid pandemic is easing. Knock on wood.

Today we talk with Danny Tomasello, who’s part of the Davis Music Fest, and musicians Sam Misner and Megan Smith about the hodgepodge return of local concerts, what might have changed for keeps during the pandemic, this June’s Fest, and the need for someone to write about local music the way that Wendy Weitzel writes about local businesses and restaurants.

(The photo shows Misner and Smith onstage at Berryessa Brewing in Winters in February 2020, right before the pandemic hit.)

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Kevin Welch of Boca do Rio and the meaning of a grant, on Listening Lyrics, March 4, 2022

Fri, 03/04/2022 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Boca do Rio was the second band to be awarded the annual Davis Independent Music Initiative (DIMI) grant, in 2021. The committee that awarded it included the 2020 winner, Davis musician Joel Daniel of the Hoots, reported the Sacramento News and Review in July 2021: "The grant is part of an annual effort to boost Davis’s music scene by providing one local band with funding. Daniel’s hope is that it offers musicians who might otherwise seek a career in Sacramento or the Bay Area the support they need to foster their talents closer to home." Applications for the 2022 grant are due by April 1.

We wrap up this show playing a Led Zeppelin song as interpreted by the Alex Jenkins Trio. Here is an All About Jazz review of their newest album, Tri-Cycle, from 2021.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 03/04/2022
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