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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.

The Cerealist curates chilling broadcasts of loud + bizarre soundscapes from an ancient cave bellowing death metal from around the globe, with smoky stage lights on music from American, Swedish, and Norwegian shredders. Tune in every week for 30 brutal minutes of blast-beat heaven!

Live Wednesday 7:30-8pm

Replays Sunday 11:30pm-Monday 12am

DJ(s):

The Cerealist

Sonic Rehab

Join DJ Jojo Johanssen as he takes you for a two-hour ride through his eclectic tastes. Expect the unexpected, from jazz to electronica, latin to classic rock, pop, disco, soul, and much more. Ease into your week with some Sonic Rehab on Monday afternoons from 1-3 p.m. pacific time. Find the Sonic Rehab archive here: https://archive.org/details/@andrew_hird! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Drop Jojo a line at djjojo530@hotmail.com

Live Monday 1-3pm

Replays Wednesday 7-9am, Sunday 5-7pm

DJ(s):

Jojo Johanssen

Night Train Cocktail Lounge

A saloon of songs and sounds from back then, focusing on anything recorded between the 1890s and the 1970s. All forms of jazz, blues, rock, surf, garage, punk, country, folk, film-radio-television samples, speeches, comedy, and anything grabbed from the ages and put to cylinder, wax or tape, colliding on top each other.

Night Train Cocktail Lounge is produced live at WXOX-LP FM in Louisville, KY. All local material is edited, including times and dates, making each episode an evergreen episode. All episodes are FCC compliant.

Live Wednesday 9-10pm

Homepage URL:

Night Train Cocktail Lounge

Yolo Backyard Bulletin

Yolo Backyard Bulletin (YBB) seeks to address the ongoing demolition of local media by the communications/entertainment complex, which prioritizes profit maximization at the expense of local engagement and conversation. YBB features local news, commentary, music, gossip, and true stories from Yolo County, with the goal of rebuilding and restoring community communications in our public sphere, the lifeblood of democratic life.

Live Thursday 5-6pm

Replays Sunday 8-9am

DJ(s):

Jesse Drew

Homepage URL:

Yolo Backyard Bulletin

In the Key of Folk

In the Key of Folk with Karen Leyse offers music that will keep you humming or dancing along — perhaps both! The focus is on traditional and current folk music, Americana, and bluegrass, with Celtic, Nordic, and Spanish infusions — wherever Karen's travels and interests take her. In addition, the music of contra dance, an American Folk tradition that came with English and other settlers, will often be threaded through the hour. Don’t know it? Check it out.

Live Wednesday 2-3pm

Replays Tuesday 11am-12pm

DJ(s):

Karen Leyse

More programs ...

Ari Kohn shares his musical journey on Listening Lyrics, Aug. 8, 2025

Fri, 08/08/2025 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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From Portland, Ore., to the heart of New Orleans—Ari Kohn followed his musical compass all the way south. In New Orleans, he discovered that music isn’t just heard, it’s felt. It’s in the ground beneath your feet, in the way people move, even in the rain on your skin. And yes—the food plays right along.

This week on Listening Lyrics, Ari shares that journey. A Jazz Studies graduate from Tulane, Ari—known on stage as “Ariel”—brings a bold, warm sound on sax, flute, and vocals. Ari also performs with the band Brass Lightning. He will perform with J & The Causeways Sept. 19, 2025 at the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 08/08/2025

Davis Garden Show, Aug. 7, 2025

Thu, 08/07/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On today's show: powdery mildew, more irrigation discussions, ground cover for chickens, depth of planting for trees, potato problems, and more.

In the Key of Folk, Aug. 6, 2025

Wed, 08/06/2025 - 12:30pm | Karen Leyse

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Folk festivals are surely a place for good vibes! In line with that, today In the Key of Folk will feature several additional tracks from the Vancouver Folk Festival, along with some favorite oldies from Gordon Lightfoot, and more new album releases by Watchhouse, Jez Lowe, Janet Feld, and Christine Lavin. We'll end the hour with a few contra dance tracks to invigorate you for the day! Tune in today at 2 p.m. on KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis, CA & KDRT.org online.

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 5, 2025

Tue, 08/05/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight's show:

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Summertime
Major Glenn Miller & The American Band of The Allied Expeditionary Force, Caribbean Clipper
Dave Pike, cattin' latin
Count Basie and His Orchestra, Good Times Blues
Count Basie and His Orchestra, Blues in Hoss's Flat (feat. Waymon Reed, Jimmy Forrest & Al Grey)
Ella Fitzgerald & Tommy Flanagan, Night and Day
Marcos Valle, So Nice (Summer Samba) - Marcos Valle
Charlie Byrd, Favela
Jim Hall, Curacao Doloroso
The Hot Club Of San Francisco, Giselle - Waltz D'Entichement
Grover Washington Jr., Estate (Ess-tah-tay)

Davisville, Aug. 4, 2025: ‘I want him (Guaraldi) to become one of our Tchaikovskys’

Mon, 08/04/2025 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Vince Guaraldi’s music continues to have a wonderful afterlife, thanks to the successful recent releases of the Peanuts soundtracks that Guaraldi recorded before he died at 47 in 1976. Today we update the story with Derrick Bang, who wrote the book about the San Francisco jazz pianist and writes liner notes for the Peanuts soundtrack producers Jason and Sean Mendelson. Bang believes there’s likely more unreleased music to come even after the soundtracks series ends. Today on Davisville he also names an often-overlooked Guaraldi song that he says evokes a stroll in the rain as winningly as the composer’s Christmas song “Skating” evokes kids skating on a pond. We hear part of the song, “Rain, Rain Go Away,” which is nothing like the children’s nursery rhyme.

Bang underscores his belief in Guaraldi’s music and talent. “I want to do the best I can to make sure that his music lives into the 22nd century,” he says on today’s program. “I want him to become one of our Tchaikovskys.”

Illustration taken from the cover of The Charlie Brown Suite and Other Favorites CD (2003), which uses a drawing of Vince Guaraldi by Charles Schulz.

Live in the studio: Alex Roth and poet Claudia Kiefer, Sunday, Aug. 3, at 5 p.m.

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 6:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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We're excited to welcome back a familiar and much-loved voice to the KDRT studio — singer/songwriter Alex Roth, visiting Davis all the way from his new home in Germany. Alex has long been a beloved musician in Northern California — leading such fine bands as the West Nile Ramblers — and it's a real treat to have him back on the air with us.

Adding to the excitement, Alex is bringing along a special guest from Germany: poet Claudia Kiefer. Born in Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Claudia trained and worked as an economist and business analyst. She is an active member of the Heidelberg poets’ collective "Kamina" and has collaborated with the Literaturvilla Herrenhof (part of the Querfälltein festival) for readings and events. Many of her earlier works — both poetry and prose — were featured in anthologies, including the Friedrich Hölderlin anthology Ins Offene, published by Wunderhorn in 2020. Claudia's poetry often focuses on nature as a gateway to human emotion and inner life. She evokes the ordinary — clouds, birds, plants — but filters them through a poetic sensibility infused with a sense of subtle enchantment.

'Children of Sanchez' sets the tone this week on Listening Lyrics, Aug. 1, 2025

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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I usually say, never start a summary with an apology. But today, I’ll make an exception. I want to apologize for not properly introducing this week’s show at the beginning of the program.

That said, this week’s episode took a powerful turn. Ray Keck joined me for an hour of reflection on the tragic consequences of war—especially its toll on innocent children. The conversation was sparked by the news of Chuck Mangione’s passing. Listening to his album Children of Sanchez led us into this moving hour of reflection through music.

Here's the playlist.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 08/01/2025

Divine Intervention – Aug. 1, 2025

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 4:00pm | Jess Goddésse

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It's almost time for Divine Intervention, bringing you the latest releases from the Albinos, the Darts, Frankie & the Witch Fingers, Muck & the Mires, Turtle Skull ... fantastic classics from our Goddess of the Month, Fontella Bass ... a questionable Vinyl Vesper track ... plus sweet sounds to round out the show. Join Jess Goddésse at 6 p.m. Pacific here on KDRT 95.7 fm + KDRT.org + those podcast apps!

Davis Garden Show, July 31, 2025

Thu, 07/31/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On today’s show: managing an aging hedge, tomatilloes, oleander followup, Rudbeckia Goldsturm, and more.

In the Key of Folk, July 30, 2025

Wed, 07/30/2025 - 1:30pm | Karen Leyse

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Summertime is Festival Time, and today In the Key of Folk brings you a program just about straight from the Vancouver B.C. Folk Festival. We're starting off with a good-bye to Tom Lehrer. Then we're moving into festival land with tracks from the Nordic group, Víík, along with the Rumbaristas and Locarno, followed by such well-known singer-songwriters as Jake Xerces Fussell, Kris Drever, Watchhouse, and more singer-songwriters from the U.S. & Canada. So join us for some new voices from the happily independent Canadian provinces! 2 p.m. Wednesday on KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis, CA & KDRT.org online.

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