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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.

 

OUR PROGRAMS

The Shortwave Report

The Shortwave Report is a weekly review of global news stories recorded via shortwave radio. 

Live Tuesday 5-5:30pm
Homepage URL: 
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Na Mele O Hawai'i

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Join host Beth Post as she features the unique sounds of Hawaiian music — from early icons of island music to today's innovators — exploring styles, the history of the genre, and revered songs and performers.

Live Thursday 1-3pm
Replays Saturday 11am-1pm
DJ(s): 
Beth Post
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Mapping Healthcare

Mapping Healthcare is a radio show and podcast where a medic with a map explores ways in which people around the globe make the world of healthcare better and what we can learn from them. The host is a physician, medical educator, and researcher who leads programs to help people access high-quality healthcare and stay healthy. All past episodes are archived below. Find Mapping Healthcare on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Live Friday 5:30-6pm
Replays Saturday 8-8:30am
DJ(s): 
Dr. Shaikh
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Hello Davis!

Hello Davis!

Hello Davis! spotlights the people and organizations that help define the character of our town. Each week, one of the follow local community organizations hosts the program in rotation, interviewing guests connected to their work — sharing stories, highlighting their programs, and offering a closer look at how they serve Davis. 

Live Wednesday 5:30-6pm
Replays Wednesday 11:30pm-Thursday 12am
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
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The Audio Ecotone

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Join Eddy Owt as he explores the rich genre diversity, cross-breeding, and hybridizing in the back waters and tributaries of the past 100 years of music: rock, jazz, pop, r&b, soul, country, ska, electronica, J-Pop/C-Pop/K-Pop, afrobeat, and much more.

"We have a tropical situation where there are thousands of 'species' of music around and they're all constantly cross-breeding and hybridizing. It's very exciting, but you can't keep up with it easily." -- Brian Eno

Live Friday 3-4pm
Replays Thursday 10-11am, Sunday 4-5pm
DJ(s): 
Eddy Owt
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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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In the Key of Folk for Aug. 7, 2024

Wed, 08/07/2024 - 1:00pm | Karen Leyse

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This afternoon the 2 p.m. program, In the Key of Folk, includes music by Aoife O'Donovan and Hawktail, Anna Tivel, One for the Foxes, The Crannua Collective, Karan Casey, Amber Cross, Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson, Shawn Hess, I See Hawks in La, and former and current contra dance musicians Jamie Lavall, and The Figments. Come join in for a melodic afternoon of traditional and "new traditional" folk, some waltzes, and contemporary singer-songwriter offerings.

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Jazz After Dark, Aug. 6, 2024

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show:

  • King Cole Trio, Baby, Baby, All the Time
  • Django Reinhardt, Manoir de mes Rêves
  • Django Reinhardt, Brazil
  • Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalves, Daylight Express
  • Sonny Clark, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
  • Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster, Fajista (Master Take)
  • Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster, Blues in B Flat
  • Vince Guaraldi, Blues for Peanuts
  • Vince Guaraldi, Jitterbug Waltz
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Sweet and Slow
  • Dianne Reeves, Who's Minding the Store?
  • Dianne Reeves, When I Fall In Love (Instrumental)
  • Diana Krall, 'Deed I Do
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