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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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Old-Time Radio

Old Time Radio KDRT Davis California

Immerse yourself in programs from radio’s Golden Age.

Live Sunday 10:30pm-Monday 12am
DJ(s): 
Jim Buchanan
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Jazz After Dark

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Join jazz aficionado Don Shor as he explores the diverse and fascinating world of jazz. Jazz After Dark spans the gamut, from roots in boogie-woogie, blues, and ragtime through traditional and straight-ahead jazz, soul jazz, bossa nova, and more. 

Live Tuesday 8-9pm
Replays Wednesday 10-11pm
DJ(s): 
Don Shor
Homepage URL: 
Jazz After Dark on the Web (blog with playlists)
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The Golden Road

​Join Wayne Hagan and take a musical journey down the Golden Road and explore the music of the Grateful Dead, its roots, and its many offshoots. Past DJs include Alligator, Lee Maddex, and Rod Moseanko. What a long strange trip!

Live Tuesday 2-4pm
Replays Sunday 6-8pm
DJ(s): 
Wayne Hagen
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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 Tuesday 10-11pm
DJ(s): 
Frank aka Dr Doowop Fox, Doo Wop Dave
Homepage URL: 
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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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In the Key of Folk for Aug. 21, 2024

Wed, 08/21/2024 - 12:30pm | Karen Leyse

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This afternoon on In the Key of Folk, we'll start off with a set of pieces by contra dance musicians past and present. Then we'll move into more contemporary singer songwriters for a bit, and end with a variety of music from the Galicia and Asturias, the Celtic areas of Spain. 

Planned music includes Jamie Laval and Ashley Broder (Hoyer), Nightingale, Stringrays, San Miguel Fraser, Chatham County Line, John Gorka, Roseanne Cash, Faltriqueira, Riobó, Felpeyu, and Scotland's Tannahill Weavers. Come join us for an hour this afternoon,  2 p.m. Wednesday on KDRT.org.

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Jazz After Dark, Aug. 20, 2024

Tue, 08/20/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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We have a Duke Ellington retrospective tonight on Jazz After Dark with selections from 1928 to 1964, accompanied by Cootie Williams, Johnny Hodges, Barney Bigard and his Jazzopators, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, and more. The song list:

  • Stevedore Stomp
  • Diga Diga Doo
  • Watchin'
  • Stormy Weather
  • A Sailboat In The Moonlight
  • Sponge Cake And Spinach
  • Harmony in Harlem
  • Tulip or Turnip (Live at Newport)
  • Night and Day
  • Drop Me Off In Harlem
  • The Swingers Get the Blues, Too
  • In A Sentimental Mood
  • One O'Clock Jump
  • Tuxedo Junction
  • Caravan
  • Isfahan
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Electric Compost Heap -- Aug. 16, 2024

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 5:25pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight on the Electric Compost Heap on KDRT 95.7FM, we'll feature new tunes by CLOAKZ, KJ Olsen, and the The BellRays, who will be doing a swing up the west coast beginning in early September. We'll also spin a few songs of summer. Additionally, the official color of tonight's show is ... Rosey! Hope you can join us on KDRT.org!

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Listening Lyrics' Shazam list, Aug. 16, 2024

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week Listening Lyrics shares music from host Pieter Pastoor's Shazam list with music he has never heard before, music he had forgotten, or songs he just loves.

The musicians include Rita Hosking, The Pogues, Patti Smith, The J.B.'s, Billy Swan, Smog, Nat Lefkoff, Mohama Saz, The Gold Souls, and Tracy Bonham.

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Davis Garden Show, Aug. 15, 2024

Thu, 08/15/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On today's show: corn pollination, killing a lawn by not watering, walnut wood chips, peach pits splitting, starting fall veggies, spraying plants with vinegar and baking soda, and more.

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Jazz After Dark, Aug. 13, 2024

Tue, 08/13/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight's show:

  • Glenn Miller, Johnson Rag
  • Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra, Georgia On My Mind
  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, Solitude (78 RPM Version)
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
  • Bobby Darin, Mack The Knife
  • Nat King Cole, Let There Be Love
  • Erroll Garner, Misty
  • Miles Davis, Blue In Green
  • Ramsey Lewis, The Tennessee Waltz (Live)
  • Ramsey Lewis, I'll Wait For You
  • Budd Johnson, Bill Pemberton, Oliver Jackson & Earl "Fatha" Hines, Summertime
  • Astrud Gilberto, Agua De Beber (feat. Antônio Carlos Jobim)
  • Kenny Burrell, The Preacher
  • Paul Desmond, Modern Jazz Quartet, You Go to My Head
  • Ray Charles, Oh Bess, Where's My Bess
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100. That’s a wrap for Timeout Radio

Tue, 08/13/2024 - 1:47pm | Rohan

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In this 100th episode of Timeout Radio, we bring this show to a close as I highlight its journey over the past 4 years. It has been my privilege to produce and host a radio show that helped connect my community through good and tough times. Hear about how I launched Timeout Radio remotely in 2020 and developed the show's unique voice. A lot has happened in our world since then. Physical distances were magnified by pandemics, misinformation, social injustices, and climate change. And we were brought closer by science, technology, media, and sports. In our place of the week segment we traveled through the airwaves to over 80 places around the globe — from Antarctica to Zurich.

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Old time front porch music, on High Country Music Radio!

Tue, 08/13/2024 - 11:00am | David A. Reynolds

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From the front porch on High Country Music Radio today are Alison Brown with Steve Martin, Sierra Hull, Kaia Kater, Mississippi John Hurt, New Grass Revival, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, David Grier, the Slocan Ramblers, Doc Watson with David Holt, Etta Baker and Taj Mahal, Sister Sadie, and AJ Lee & Blue Summit.

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Davisville, Aug. 12, 2024: Through his prolific sketches, Pete Scully is conversing with Davis

Mon, 08/12/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Pete Scully, who moved to Davis from London, has been sketching scenes in Davis for most of two decades and counting. He’s not sketching for a salary — his job as chief administrative officer for the Department of Statistics at UC Davis covers that requirement — but as a way of conversing with his surroundings and capturing views that he enjoys and expects might change. He draws for himself but makes his work available on his website and on Instagram, X (ex-Twitter), and Flickr. Today on Davisville we talk about why and what he draws, and where this work might eventually reside. He’s creating a portrait of Davis in the first part of the 21st century.

This photo from his X (ex-Twitter) account shows one of his 21 drawings (so far) of the Varsity Theatre.

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Davis Garden Show, Aug. 8, 2024

Thu, 08/08/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: Brandy Boy tomato not setting fruit, compost tea, managing irrigation in raised planters, and more. Photo courtesy of Fred Hoffman.

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