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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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Technocult Radio

Technocult Radio KDRT Davis California

Technocult Radio, produced by UC Davis Technocultural Studies students, explores the intersection of cultural history and digital media.

Live Thursday 10-11am
DJ(s): 
jdrew
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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 3-4pm, Thursday 11pm-Friday 12am
DJ(s): 
Don Shor
Homepage URL: 
Jazz After Dark on the Web (blog with playlists)
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Heart to Heart

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Nothing brings greater rewards than a life filled with love and care for people and the world around us. With Heart to Heart, host "Dr. G" inspires and teaches listeners to live life richly and lightly. To ask a question on the show, call 1.530.792.1648 during the live broadcast. Check the Davis Enterprise to for guests and weekly topics.

Live Wednesday 12-1pm
DJ(s): 
Dr. Gitane
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Davisville

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Davis is full of interesting people, ideas, connections, and events. On Davisville, host Bill Buchanan presents stories from in and around town that involve the Davis community. The show is a three-time winner of Journalistic Excellence awards from the San Francisco Press Club.

Live Monday 5:30-6pm
Replays Friday 12:30-1pm, Saturday 8:30-9am
DJ(s): 
Bill Buchanan
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Cowboy Tracks

Join Nancy around the campfire to hear authentic western music and cowboy poetry. Something deep in your soul will resonate to stories from the early wranglers, Mexican vaqueros, old West adventurers, Silver Screen buckaroos, contemporary real cowboys, and all who appreciate wide open spaces, freedom, and the western lifestyle.

 

Live Friday 1-2pm
Replays Monday 7-8pm, Saturday 6-7pm
DJ(s): 
Nancy Flagg
Homepage URL: 
Cowboy Tracks
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Celtic Songlines - Feb 2, 2021 - Something Old/Something New

Tue, 02/02/2021 - 10:30am | David A. Reynolds

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This week's theme can be described as "something old and something new."

I hope you join me this week as Celtic Songlines features some amazing musicians such as Ireland's Beoga, Karan Casey & John Doyle, singer extraordinaire Niamh Parsons, from the UK the bands Flook, Salt House and Leveret. The piping of Martyn Bennet and, locally, Tempest alumni the Mullen Jones Project.

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Davisville, Feb. 1, 2021: How to reduce all that conflict we're feeling

Mon, 02/01/2021 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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We have a new president in the White House, but the conflicts that tear at the country haven’t gone away. To do more than separate into groups and shout at each other, we need to do a better job of addressing and resolving conflicts. On today’s Davisville Kara Hunter, executive director of the Yolo Conflict Resolution Center, talks about how to handle conflict, wherever we find it.

She believes the quantity of conflict might not have increased in recent years, but our exposure to it has. Also, people might have become more comfortable sharing their disdain, disappointment and disillusionment.

To address the prevalence of conflict, she’d start in three areas, which she discusses on the show. She’s optimistic that we can get a handle on the problem, but says we’ll need good leaders who demonstrate conflict management, and we’ll need to consider our “will” – when we’re confrontational, are we just venting? Or once that’s done, do we really want to see change?

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Joel Daniel Explains the DIMI Musicians Grant, with a Lot of Local Music: Aired Jan. 29, 2021

Fri, 01/29/2021 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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The Davis Independent Music Inititive and the City of Davis are proud to announce a grant for $6,500 this year for a band or artist to make a new original musical work. Details are in this article. Please share it around to your friends/networks, and consider applying yourselves!

This broadcast features Joel Daniel answering  your questions regarding this grant. Joel also sings one of his original tunes, and we play songs from local artists throughout the interview. (See playlist for details.)

Listening Lyrics playlist for 01/29/2021
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Pass the Mic: Natalia E Cortez - Graduate Researcher in Nutritional Biology

Tue, 01/26/2021 - 12:30pm | Alison B

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On this episode of Meraki Radio: Pass the Mic, we are joined by Natalia E Cortez, who is studying nutritional biology at the doctoral level at UC Davis. Natalia walks us through her college education in her native Mexico and in graduate school in New York, as well as her career working in cancer biology, and her current work evaluating dietary impacts of the ketogenic diet on pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Tune in for more!

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Jazz After Dark - Jan 26, 2021 - The Classics

Tue, 01/26/2021 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Some jazz classics tonight on Jazz After Dark: Jimmy Knepper, Sonny Stitt (Cocktails for Two), Miles Davis (So What), Dave Brubeck (Take Five), Ella Fitzgerald (Misty), Duke Ellington (Blues in C), Gerry Mulligan (Manha de Carnaval and New Orleans), Al Haig (Never Let Me Go), Hubert Laws (Passacaglia in C), and George Benson (At the Mambo Inn). Jazz After Dark broadcasts at 8-9 PM Tuesdays and replays Monday evenings 11 PM. Look for us also on iTunes (you can listen to the live broadcast via their Radio link; just search for KDRT) or your favorite podcast site.  https://player.fm/featured/jazz

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COVID-19 Community Report - January 26th, 2021 - Lucas Frerichs

Tue, 01/26/2021 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Lucas Frerichs was my first interview on this program, which debuted March 17, 2020. Since then, he's been re-elected to the Davis City Council to represent District 3, and now serves as Vice Mayor.  It's never an easy job to help govern a city, but of course it's been endlessly complicated during a pandemic. This weekend Lucas and I got together over Zoom and in Episode 49, had a far-ranging conversation touching on virtual governance; testing in Davis; the uptick in cannabis tax revenue during the pandemic, as well as the overall financial situation facing municipalities; traffic, crime, and more. I'm sure we could have talked for hours, but I always appreciate the opportunity to sit down with our local elected officials and touch base about community issues through their lens. 

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Jenn Rogar Sings Her Story from a Mountain Top: the Interview, January 22, 2021

Fri, 01/22/2021 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Below is a short bio of Jenn Rogar - visit her at http://jennrogar.com for more information.

"I started singing as a child in my room growing up in Los Angeles (Van Nuys and Woodland Hills) to singers like Elton John, Helen Reddy and Julie Andrews. I put on plays in my garage that I wrote and performed in for my neighbors. In high school I played flute in the band and was too shy to sing. During the Karaoke craze I began to perform and also sang the title song on a CD put out by my church. I sang and performed with Monkey Business, a light-hearted singing telegram service in Sacramento in the late '80s. I have sung and performed in some fashion my whole life.

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That's Greg McPherson and Tree Davis

Thu, 01/21/2021 - 1:00pm | Lois Richter

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Trees are a passion for Greg McPherson.   He is a retired Research Forester with the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station in Davis, CA  and serves on the Board of Directors for the local nonprofit Tree Davis.

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Jazz After Dark Jan. 19, 2021 - Seven Extended Sets

Tue, 01/19/2021 - 8:00pm | Don Shor

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Seven extended sets on Jazz After Dark tonight. We’ll hear from the Buddy De Franco Quintet, Stan Getz, McCoy Tyner, Duke Ellington, Stanley Turrentine, Junior Mance, and George Robert. Jazz After Dark broadcasts locally at 8 pm Tuesdays on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM in Davis, CA and replays Monday 11 pm. Show page at https://kdrt.org/program/jazz-after-dark or look for us on iTunes (you can listen to the live broadcast via their Radio link; just search for KDRT) or your favorite podcast site.  https://player.fm/featured/jazz

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COVID-19 Community Report - Jan. 19th, 2021 - Speaking With Tree Davis

Tue, 01/19/2021 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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It's Episode 48, and time to check in with  Tree Davis.  As I've said many times during the course of this show, it's not just the pandemic we're dealing with, but the attendant mental and physical health challenges, and dramatic social/political and  economic concerns. As well, things like the climate crisis haven't just disappeared.

That last point became a fascinating talking point in my interview with Erin Donley Marineau this week. As Executive Director of Tree Davis, Erin ovesees an organization that plants trees and does enviromental stewardship in communities around Yolo County, not just Davis. In normal years, she says, 40 Saturdays each year are devoted to working with volunteers in various cities. Obviously that scale of work has not been possible during the pandemic.

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