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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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Listening Lyrics

Listening Lyrics, Pieter Pastoor, KDRT
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 11am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
Homepage URL: 
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Monday Morning Show

The Monday Morning Show with DJ Ned brings variety to morning drive with a mix of music (depending on Ned's mood), production pieces, discussion of current events, occasional guests, general musings on life in Davis, and Ned goofing off 100% of the time.

Live Monday 7-9am
DJ(s): 
Ned
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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 on the first, third and occasional fifth Friday of the month.  

Live Friday 11am-1pm
Replays Sunday 9-11am
DJ(s): 
Greg LaTraille
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Education Beat

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KDRT is proud to air EdSource’s new show, Education Beat: Getting to the heart of California schools.

From EdSource: 

"Join us each week as we cover everything from preschool to college, bringing you the personal stories behind the headlines.   We want you to hear the voices that are too often drowned out in the broader conversation: parents, teachers, and the students themselves."

Live Monday 5:10-5:30pm
Homepage URL: 
A production of Ed Source
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Praise Time with Preacher

Praise Time with Preacher

The word "gospel" is derived for the old Anglo-Saxon word meaning “good message” or “good news." Host Preacher believes gospel music is powerful, whether the listener is or is not Christian — that everyone can enjoy listening to gospel because it is uplifting and inspiring, sung with passion and belief from the artist, touching all who hear it in a good and heartfelt way. The aim of Praise Time is to help listeners find what Preacher believes lives in everyone: a good spirit that drives us to be the best we can be.

Live Tuesday 4-5pm
Replays Sunday 7-8am
DJ(s): 
Preacher
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Electric Compost Heap -- May 3, 2024

Fri, 05/03/2024 - 3:45pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight (Friday May 3) on the Electric Compost Heap on KDRT 95.7FM, we'll feature some new tunes from Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders, Richard Thompson, and Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds! We'll also spin a number from the Sam Chase and the Untraditional, who will be appearing at Sudwerk Brewing Co. tomorrow evening (May 4) courtesy of the Davis Live Music Collective. The official color of tonight's show is Magenta! Hope you can join us on KDRT.org.

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Davis Garden Show, May 2, 2024

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: spring diseases, hardening seedlings for transplanting, the Peggy Martin rose, lygus bugs, birds that eat bugs, and more.

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Thank you for the outpouring of support for our grassroots radio KDRT!

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 3:33am | Diane Crumley

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Yesterday on Big Day of Giving 2024 close to 130 local nonprofits participated in BDOG, including our "mothership" Davis Media Access. Regionwide, a total of 826 nonprofits came together and the $100 million mark was surpassed in total since the area's first giving event 12 years ago. We too broke our record this year surpassing our biggest goal ever! We are extremely grateful for your support and hope to thank you in-person this spring as we are out in the community with live broadcasts from Davis Pride June 1 and from the first two days at the Davis Music Fest June 14-16. Your support on BDOG2024 goes a long way toward implementing these efforts and is greatly appreciated!

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Jazz After Dark, April 30, 2024

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Classic jazz tonight:

  • Erskine Hawkins, After Hours
  • Count Basie, One O'Clock Jump
  • Benny Goodman (Helen Ward vocals), You Turned the Tables On Me
  • Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Jeru
  • Doris Day with Les Brown, Sentimental Journey
  • Doris Day, Makin' Whoopee
  • Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet, Mamblues
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Love For Sale
  • Art Pepper with Conte Candoli, Old Devil Moon
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines, Black Coffee
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges, I'm Beginning to See the Light
  • Abbey Lincoln, Brother Can You Spare A Dime
  • Stephane Grappelli & Barney Kessel, It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
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Davisville, April 29, 2024: Capitol Corridor’s plans include underpass from Olive Drive to Davis station, more trains

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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The Capitol Corridor trains that connect Davis with the Bay Area and Sacramento are evolving as the service recovers from the pandemic. The corridor is adding passenger cars and resuming a full weekday schedule this year, experimenting with a tap-on/tap-off payment system to eventually replace tickets, and proceeding with plans to change access in Davis so that passengers board from an expanded center platform reached via an underpass (or perhaps an overpass) from the parking lot and Olive Drive.

Longer term, the service plans to shift to hydrogen or possibly electric power for its trains. We talk about all this, as well as this year's ridership trends and efforts to improve their timekeeping, on Davisville with Rob Padgette, managing director of the service. Today’s program updates our conversation about the corridor from early 2022.

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Divine Intervention – April 26, 2024

Fri, 04/26/2024 - 5:42pm | Jess Goddésse

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Coming up at 6p Pacific, it's Divine Intervention – that random mix of rock/pop weirdness, including a Vinyl Vesper spin, a couple of tunes from our Goddess of the Month, and new music from Charming Disaster, Dog Party, Kid Congo... And no, it won't really be scary – no fear!

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Let's create music with Kunwoo Hong, on Listening Lyrics, April 26, 2024

Fri, 04/26/2024 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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My personal choice is to be around creative people. That of course does not only mean music, but today it does. I spent an hour with a jazz musician who is not only creative but also very articulate about his creative process.  Kunwoo Hong creates music on his laptop with a program called Note Flight. He plays piano, but his true love is percussion. Kunwoo spent the hour going through his process of creating a song along with some of his finished work. Listen and marvel at how we humans thrive on creativity.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 04/26/2024
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Davis Garden Show, April 25, 2024

Thu, 04/25/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: articles about easy gardening, roses for a school garden project, watering schedules for houseplants. repairing or replacing a damaged lawn, and more.

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Jazz After Dark, April 23, 2024

Tue, 04/23/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On this episode: we’ve got some '30s jazz first, Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing, and Lester Young. Then samba and bossa nova, with Stan Getz our featured artist, working with Gary McFarland, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and we’ll hear Paul Desmond and Walter Wanderley.

For the rest of the program, it’s Bill Evans, Pat Metheny, The Rosenberg Trio, Dianne Reeves with Fabrizio Bosso, Allen Toussaint, and Jim Hall.

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Where are they now? Hits from the past, on Listening Lyrics, April 19, 2024

Fri, 04/19/2024 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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In this hour we listen to some past one-hit (or more) wonders, and learn what happened to the singers and writers.

Check out the playlist. It is amazing how some of these songs became part of our musical heritage.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 04/19/2024
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