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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.

 

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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 Saturday 7-8am
DJ(s): 
Cody Westergaard, ChuckGarcia7
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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
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This Way Out

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This Way Out is an award-winning nationally syndicated show that gives voice to the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender movement. Fighting for LGBT equality and rights since 1988, the program shows no signs of slowing down!

Live Tuesday 11:30pm-Wednesday 12am
Homepage URL: 
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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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Live Tracks

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 LT began broadcasting on Sept. 30, 2004, and has produced 753 original programs by October 2025.  Join Jim on his quest to reach show number 777.  Peace.

Live Thursday 7-9pm
Replays Saturday 9-11pm
DJ(s): 
Jim Buchanan
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Old time bluegrass and Americana, this week on High Country Music Radio

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 11:00am | David A. Reynolds

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This week on High Country Music Radio are the Punch Brothers, Nora Brown, Late for the Train, Dom Flemons, Sister Sadie, Carling & Will, the Steep Canyon Rangers, The Honey Dewdrops, old school sounds with Ola Belle Reed, Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, Doc Watson and John Hartford.

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Davisville, May 13, 2024: Founding DJ for vanished Davis station in the ’70s, then an astronaut, now KDRT: Steve Robinson comes full circle

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Long before he flew four missions on the space shuttle, Steve Robinson was the first DJ of a now-vanished Davis commercial radio station, KYLO, in the late 1970s. Decades later, he’s a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Davis, and director of its Center for Space Flight Research — and he will soon return to local radio as occasional fill-in host for Rod Moseanko, host of the station’s Silver Nine Volt Heart. (The photo shows Steve, left, and Rod in the KDRT studio May 11.)

Today on Davisville we enjoy a serious conversation about space flight, plus hear Steve’s memories of KYLO — including what happened when he told listeners he was running out of records to play  — and learn what brought him to KDRT. After he returned Davis in 2012, Robinson said, “I was looking for some good radio,” and found it with Rod’s show. “I thought, ‘this kind of radio is still alive. It was very exciting to me.’ ”

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May 13 - 20: Support KDRT during Fundraising Week!

Sun, 05/12/2024 - 11:36am | Jeff Shaw

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Tune in May 13-20 and support your favorite station!   

We'll stay within the guardrails but pull out all the stops all week long. KDRT depends on your support to stay on the air and online, and we ask for your help just a couple times each year. Please visit kdrt.org/donate today to show your support!

Please also also join us at these fine events. Come on by, say hello, bring a friend! 

Friday May 17, 7-9p @ Delta of Venus: AMP Quintet with local jazz all-stars Tony Passarell, Alan Ernst, Mark Oi, Keith Cary, Jim Frink

Saturday May 18, 6-8p @ Sudwerk Brewing: Adrian West Band

Sunday May 19, 3-6p @ Berryessa Brewing: Misner & Smith

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Rumi Shimada live on Listening Lyrics, this Friday May 17 at 4 p.m.

Sun, 05/12/2024 - 11:20am | Pieter Pastoor

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Listening Lyrics is excited to announce that Rumi Shimada will be our guest this Friday, May 17, at 4.

He's a singer-songwriter from northern California, and released his self-produced album Audiofolds in August 2022. He recorded it in his bedroom studio. Shimada (who is by no means that great at any instrument) played all of the instruments on each of the album's 12 tracks, giving it a quirky, underdeveloped and juvenile sound that (fortunately) enhances and communicates the searching, mysterious, and uncertain feeling of the songs. 

Rumi is also putting together what promises to be a great day of music, The Pink Bandit Music Fest on Saturday, June 29, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. at the Cooper Amphitheater in Auburn, CA.

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The return of Alex Roth on Listening Lyrics, May 10, 2024

Fri, 05/10/2024 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Heads up. Before you listen, please note that the last 10 minutes or so of the broadcast we had some technical diffulties.

Alex Roth is an institution in Davis and Northern California. It's been a few years since I've heard him sing live, and boy, have I missed it. In this hour Alex plays a few tunes he has recently written. During the past few years he has spent a lot of time on many of the oceans of the world. He does this as he works for International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP).

On today's show Alex talks a bit about his work and creating new music, but mostly he sings his tunes. I was blown away by his guitar work, his voice, the lyrics, and of course the music. He's a very talented musician, but even more his joy as a human being shines through in this broadcast. I was lucky to catch him for his short stay in Davis.

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Divine Intervention – May 10, 2024

Fri, 05/10/2024 - 12:07pm | Jess Goddésse

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Divine Intervention is coming your way with new sounds from The Darts, Messr Chups, Metz, Ibibio Sound Machine, Redd Kross... Goddess of the Month Ms. Faye Adams... a Vinyl Vespers surprise... Join Jess Goddèsse at 6p Pacific, only on KDRT 95.7 FM  |  KDRT.org!

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Davis Garden Show, May 9, 2024

Thu, 05/09/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: start of watering season advice, potting soil vs. planting mix, phosphorus and plumeria flowering, labeling plants that are poisonous, rose galls, rose cuttings, roses in pots, and more.

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Jazz After Dark, May 7, 2024

Tue, 05/07/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On this episode:

  • Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra (Beiderbecke), Singin' The Blues
  • Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Red Norvo, Hank Jones, Sleepwalker Boogie
  • Art Pepper, Jazz Me Blues
  • Milt Jackson, Sermonette
  • Ron Carter, Eric Dolphy And Mal Waldron, Bass Duet
  • Machito with Cannonball Adderley, Congo Mulence
  • Dave Brubeck/Tony Bennett, That Old Black Magic
  • Ray Bryant(p), Walter Booker Jr.(b) & Freddie Waits(ds), Gotta Travel On
  • Ray Charles, Sidewinder
  • Joni James, Just One Of Those Things
  • Herbie Mann, Never Ending Song of Love (LP Version)
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines, Pretty Baby
  • The Crusaders, Double Bubble
  • Wynton Marsalis, New Orleans Bump
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Bluegrass sessions this week on High Country Music

Tue, 05/07/2024 - 11:00am | David A. Reynolds

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Today we have an hour-long old time and bluegrass session with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Old & In the Way, Uncle Tupelo, The Slocan Ramblers, Rising Appalachia, Putnam County Stringband, Three Tall Pines, The Infamous Stringdusters, Robert Earl Keen, Crying Uncle, Alisson Krauss & Union Station, and Jake Blount.

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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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