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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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10 Years Forgotten

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10 Years Forgotten with your host JonEmery focuses on modern classics and indie standards from 2000–2010, the decade lost in the shuffle due to the Dawn of the Digital Age. TYF also explores the history of record stores in the Sacramento Valley – including why some are still open today –  along with the future of physical and digital music locally, regionally, and beyond.

Live Wednesday 3-5pm
Replays Saturday 5-7pm
DJ(s): 
JonEmery
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3rd Streaming

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Coined in 1957 by Brandeis University professor Gunther Schuller, “Third Stream” is a term used to describe the synthesis of classical and jazz. Join DJ Gary Chew to discover some Third Stream sounds for yourself. 

Live Monday 1-3pm
DJ(s): 
Gary Chew
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Sea Change Radio

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Sea Change Radio is a nationally syndicated program that covers the shift to social, environmental, and economic sustainability.

Live Friday 2:30-3pm
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Democracy Now!

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Hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now is an award-winning syndicated news program that gives voice to perspectives rarely heard in corporate-sponsored media, including independent journalists, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics, independent analysts, and ordinary people from around the world.

Live Friday 9-10am
Homepage URL: 
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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
Replays Sunday 12-2pm
DJ(s): 
Gil Medovoy
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Silver Nine Volt Heart for Sept. 14, 2023, starts with the great Link Wray

Thu, 09/14/2023 - 6:10pm | Rodriguez

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In today's Silver Nine Volt Heart you will hear the sounds of Link Wray, The Wailers, Nashville Honeymoon, and much more.

Wray's performance of "Apache" opens the show. Wray (1927-2005; photo shows cover of his The Pathway Sessions album) is in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, which says "If there is one musician with an overriding influence over all rock guitarists – from 1960s British rock to 1970s punk to 1980s hardcore to 1990s grunge – that musician is Link Wray. Every young rebel who has donned a leather jacket and slashed away at an electric guitar with loud, distorted abandon owes [him] a significant debt."

And once that song wraps up, well, DJ Rodriguez is only getting started.

Silver Nine Volt Heart playlist for 09/14/2023
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Davis Garden Show, Sept. 14, 2023

Thu, 09/14/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: El Niño update, harvest issues now, naked lady and spider lily bulbs, some southwestern natives for gardeners, food storage ideas, trees flowering out of season, Western redbud issues, and lawn-killing options.

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Praise Time with Preacher helps the good spirit shine through music

Wed, 09/13/2023 - 9:05am | kdrtradio

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“Movin’ On” by Grammy winners Jonny McReynolds and Mali Music (pictured) closes out this week’s Praise Time with Preacher, and it’s no hardship waiting ‘til the end of the show to hear it. DJ Preacher’s love for gospel shines throughout the whole program. The entire hour is a treat. The man knows the music.

Preacher -- his name, not his title -- wants to lift you up, too.

 “The aim of my show is to help you feel what I believe is inside of all of us, and that is a good spirit that drives us to be the very best people we can be. I hope through my music, I hope through my words, you can feel my spirit,” he says during today’s program. “We fall down, but we get up again. We will work together, we will be with one another, we will help each other, and get each other through these days.”

Tune your spirits up again with this week’s Praise Time with Preacher.

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Jazz After Dark, Sept. 12, 2023

Tue, 09/12/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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First we’ll hear some early Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, Jelly Roll Morton, Quintetto Ritmico di Milano, and Charlie Parker. Then we have a set from our featured artist, Chico Hamilton, followed by Duke Ellington, Ella again, Lee Morgan, Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete, Boogaloo Joe Jones, and Stan Getz.

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Independent and Local shows you the kind of talent we have around here

Tue, 09/12/2023 - 12:11pm | kdrtradio

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On Independent and Local, DJ Sam Hawk plays music performed by unsigned artists, and it’s hard to believe these musicians aren’t signed to a major record label. This week’s show includes songs by Hobby Horse, Lori Hawk, Elaine Davidson, Ruby Jay, Classic Q Band. Matt Jaffee, Wealth of Nations (a Davis band!, pictured), Mark Lemaire and Kevin Fagan.

Plus a couple others. Gotta leave some surprises. This is one fine hour.

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Balancing act: The First Amendment and extremist expression, on The News Cycle

Mon, 09/11/2023 - 12:00am | DHS Journalism Class

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This week The News Cycle talked to Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza, and UC Davis professors Garen Wintemute and Ashutosh Bhagwat, about the recent incident at the Mary L. Stephens public library, and its aftermath.

Interviews by Noah Meyer. Produced by Rowan Reising and Noah Meyer. Theme music by Daniel Ruiz-Jimenez.

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Torin Dunnavant of Tree Davis, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Sept. 8, 2023

Fri, 09/08/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Torin Dunnavant, executive director of Tree Davis, shows us how to keep our towns really "cool." Tree Davis has more than 13,000 witnesses standing guard around Yolo County (that's how many trees they have planted to date). Listen in today on Imagining Yolo Davis as he discusses its many programs, such as tribute trees, memorial groves, education programs, and so much more.

As Tree Davis says on its website, its mission is "to improve the health and resilience of our communities by enhancing and expanding climate-ready trees and landscapes through direct action, community engagement, and advocacy."

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 09/08/2023
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Davis Garden Show, Sept. 7, 2023

Thu, 09/07/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today: Easy house plants, house plants that are safe for cats, low shrubs for hot sunny areas, vines and flowers for shade, deciduous flowering shrubs, and lots of plant suggestions!

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Jazz After Dark, Sept. 5, 2023

Tue, 09/05/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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We have New Orleans jazz, bossa nova, and more tonight: Billie Holiday, Bunny Berigan (Danny Richards vocals), Georgie Auld & His Orchestra, New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, Benny Carter, Louis Armstrong, The 6 & 7/8ths String Band, Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers, Sweet Emma & Her Dixieland Boys, Johnny Hodges, João Gilberto & Milton Banana, Luiz Bonfá, Carlos Lyra & Quarteto de Oscar Castro Neves, Nara Leão, Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, and the Cannonball Adderley Quintet.

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Davisville, Sept. 4, 2023: Investors buy land for a ‘dream city’ next door to Yolo County

Mon, 09/04/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Fairfield Mayor Catherine Moy was among the first people a few years ago to draw attention to extensive and secretive land purchases in Solano County by Flannery Associates. Who the buyers are, and what they wanted, has now become much clearer thanks to reporting from The New York Times and other media — Flannery wants to build a green “dream city” from scratch on rural, arid land in southeastern Solano County, one of the least-populated parts of the greater Bay Area and Yolo County’s southwestern neighbor. The backers include some of the wealthiest people in America, with ties to Silicon Valley.

Today on Davisville, Moy criticizes the idea, says the opposition is large and growing, and chides the buyers for conceiving big plans involving Solano County while not engaging the people who live there. “I have literally had several hundred people [in Solano County] contact me,” she says, "and about 95, 96 percent want them to go away. For a number of reasons.”

After this interview was recorded, Flannery began saying more about its plans. This SFGATE article has details.

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