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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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High Country Music Radio

Bluegrass, country, blues, music

HIGH COUNTRY MUSIC 

Tune into High Country Music with host David Arthur Reynolds, for a celebration of bluegrass, old-time music and country blues. Spend an hour on the front porch with High Country Music as we follow the high lonesome sound of contemporary musicians and legendary roots artists, maintaining a vibrant connection to our folk and country songbook. 

Live Tuesday 11am-12pm
DJ(s): 
David A. Reynolds
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Sounds So Sweet

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Host Wayne Hagen takes a lively look at sweet sounds of jug band music, past and present.

Live Tuesday 1-2pm
Replays Sunday 11am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Wayne Hagen
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Crossing Continents

In this World Music show, Gil covers the Middle East, the Mediterranean region, North Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian sub continent, including traditional and contemporary musical styles. This is not a pop music show!

Live Monday 10am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Gil Medovoy
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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 Friday 11am-1pm
DJ(s): 
Greg LaTraille
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Song of Dinosaurs

Sound of Dinosaurs

Songs of Dinosaurs presents songs from the prehistoric era: reptilian rhythms, lizard lyrics, triassic tones, and mammoth melodies with Professor A.

Live Friday 8-10pm
Replays Sunday 7:30-9:30pm
DJ(s): 
Professor A
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Jazz After Dark, Aug. 29, 2023

Tue, 08/29/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Six longer pieces tonight: Artie Shaw, Tommy Flanagan, Art Pepper, Woody Shaw & Louis Hayes, Chet Baker with Jim Hall and Hubert Laws, and Lee Konitz and the Brazilian Band.

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Anton Barbeau plus summer songs on the latest Electric Compost Heap

Mon, 08/28/2023 - 8:04am | kdrtradio

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Electric Compost Heap airs live on Fridays, but thanks to the KDRT archives you can listen to the Aug. 25 program anytime for the next couple of weeks. This time out, DJ Dug Deep spins plenty of summer tunes -- fall isn't here yet, y' know -- plus a couple of tracks by Anton Barbeau, who just happened to be playing in Davis last Friday night at Delta of Venus. Dug also wants you to know that the official color of this week's program is magenta!

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Kate Laddish explains In Home Supportive Services and Democracy Winters

Fri, 08/25/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Kate Laddish has many interests and passions, and today she talks with us about two: Yolo County In Home Supportive Services, better known as IHSS, and Democracy Winters, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to preserving democracy.

Both organizations deserve a second look, and here is an opportunity as Kate shares her insights into both.

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Davis Garden Show, Aug. 24, 2023

Thu, 08/24/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On today's program: Brassicas we plant now, barriers for tree rats and squirrels, sphinx moths, tips for growing orchids, citrus that are ok in pots, and more.

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On this week’s Heart to Heart, Dr. G remembers the influential ‘Dr. Love’

Thu, 08/24/2023 - 11:14am | kdrtradio

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“Today I’d like to talk with you about someone who has been called the granddaddy of motivational speakers on television,” says Heart to Heart host Dr. Gitane. “At one time he had five of his books on the New York Times bestsellers list.”

On her program for this week, Dr. G invites listeners to learn more about “this fine person, who I had the pleasure of meeting, by the way, umpteen years ago” — Felice Leonardo Buscaglia, more commonly known as Leo Buscaglia, and also as “Dr. Love.”

Penguin Random House says his first book, Love (pictured), was a continual bestseller for more than 20 years.

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Celtic Songlines starts this week with a 16th century ballad by Kerfuffle

Wed, 08/23/2023 - 8:49am | kdrtradio

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On this week's Celtic Songlines you hear the band Kerfuffle, starting with the 16th century English ballad “Castleton Carol” from the band’s To The Ground album (pictured) of 2008, followed by Louise Mulcahy with a medley of jigs and reels, Drónán, the legendary Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionan, harpist/vocalist Mary O'Hara, the band Runa, a raven tune from Cuélebre, Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends, the all-star band Usher's Island and Arty McGlynn.

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Jazz After Dark, Aug. 22, 2023

Tue, 08/22/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Mellow sax and West Coast cool tonight: Sonny Clark, Duke Ellington with Johnny Hodges, Oliver Nelson (Jimmy Forrest sax), Roland Kirk, Benny Carter, Bill Evans Trio featuring Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, and Stanley Turrentine.

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Twang Thang brings you Greater Americana every Monday at 6

Tue, 08/22/2023 - 8:37am | kdrtradio

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“Americana music didn't just show up one day — the genre has evolved from deep and varied country music roots,” says Twang Thang host Dirk Brazil. The show “explores both the old and the new and a bunch of stuff from the in between.”

Like this week’s show, which starts with Joe Ely’s “Whenever Kindness Fails” from his 1992 album Love and Danger.

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Davisville, Aug. 21, 2023: Editor loves the Aggie, wants students to love it too as she changes it

Mon, 08/21/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Sonora Slater is the 2023-24 editor of the California Aggie, whose days as a printed newspaper for students at UC Davis are largely over. It prints 4,000 copies each Thursday during the academic year, and Slater says a lot end up in recycling bins, not in the hands of students. The Aggie has a larger presence online, but many of UC Davis’ 40,000 students don’t seem to know it exists.

Slater intends to change that. She wants to draw students back in, through new products — such as a 15-20 minute podcast twice a week, timed to fit students’ bike commutes — and a larger focus on stories that interest students, not only the journalists. Plus use of Instagram takeovers, use of social media for updating news, new events with student groups, maybe a caption contest ... she has a list. We talk about all this today on Davisville.

The photo shows Slater atop the Hutchison parking garage at UC Davis, a scene recreated on her tote bag.

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Davis Garden Show, Aug. 17, 2023

Thu, 08/17/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today we talk about seed potatoes, woolly aphids on apples, cottony cushion scale, correction to last week’s information about rose leaf pest and sawflies, careful use of pesticides, "balanced" fertilizers, and more.

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