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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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Silver Nine Volt Heart

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Join your host Rodriguez as he swings the gate wide open for a cool musical trip featuring sounds from all points of the compass.  Being mindful that "everything connects to everything else," on Silver Nine Volt Heart  you will find the many colorful threads that make up the tapestry of recorded sound ... just click it on and let the music start. 

Live Tuesday 7-9am
Replays Saturday 3-5pm
DJ(s): 
Rodriguez
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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
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The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour

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Russ hoists anchor and sails the sonic seas near and far to discover and recover pleasingly eclectic, genre-defying musical nuggets new and old, fresh and classic. Russ will attempt to amaze with his smooth segues.

Live Thursday 9-10pm
Replays Friday 7-8am
DJ(s): 
Russ Tolman
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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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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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Davisville, July 24, 2023: Living in Davis, reporting from Ukraine for NBC

Mon, 07/24/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Ukraine is far from Davis, but we reduce the distance today on Davisville by talking with Vince Sturla (pictured in the KDRT studio), a producer for the NBC News program Dateline who has lived in Davis for years. He went to Ukraine last fall to report on the war with Russia, and tells us what he saw.

“These are tough, tough, tough people,” he says. “I was there in November. It was snowing, it was cold, and these relentless missile strikes had really had an impact as far as taking out the electrical infrastructure across the country. [In Kyiv,] folks were typically without power for 20 hours a day. That’s light, electricity, everything.

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Pamela Cohen shares the story of the Purple Tree Cafe, on Imagining Yolo Davis, July 21, 2023

Fri, 07/21/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Pamela Cohen, founder and board member of Purple Tree Cafe, shares the story of the Davis nonprofit on the latest Imagining Yolo Davis.
Purple Tree Café creates community-based employment for people with disabilities and brings people with and without disabilities together through food, art, and music. It offers handcrafted vegan and wheat-free baked goods, and organic iced tea and other beverages, at the Davis Farmers Market and other events, often serving from its signature bicycle-driven coffee cart -- an icon in bike-friendly Davis.
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That's Life returns with a new series about one of the most important things in Davis: trees

Fri, 07/21/2023 - 9:53am | kdrtradio

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That’s Life has returned, and host Lois Richter has chosen an apt subject for Davis and especially for this time of year: trees. This week’s program is part 1 of 2 or 3 on the topic, or, as she says, “as many as it takes.”

Her guest is Don Shor, who co-hosts the Davis Garden Show with Lois every week. He owns Redwood Barn Nursery and is a member of the board of Tree Davis.

Among other things, Lois and Don talk about some noteworthy feats of volunteerism, like Tree Davis' staff hand-watering 200 newly planted oak trees along Russell Boulevard west of Arthur (see photo)  for the trees' first three summers. Don adds, "that's 200 of 1,000 trees, roughly, that we're doing that for throughout the city."

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Silver Nine Volt Heart for July 20, 2023: Filling in for Rod

Thu, 07/20/2023 - 6:10pm | Rodriguez

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It was an honor this week to fill the seat normally held for Rod. I tried to stay true to the vision of Silver Nine Volt Heart.

In a wonderful mix (or thread) of music, I have included some local artists: Boot Juice (with a new single), Adrian West (and his amazing electronic fiddle), Nat Lefkoff ( a tribute song to his late grandmother) and Jim Fowler (a tongue-in-cheek music journey about his daily commute).

Thank you, Rod.

Pieter Pastoor

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Davis Garden Show, July 20, 2023

Thu, 07/20/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today we talk about planting in summer, summer-flowering trees, evergreen trees, and more.

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Latest Album of the Week presents ‘root music at its finest’

Thu, 07/20/2023 - 9:09am | kdrtradio

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Album of the Week explores a variety of music, one LP (CD, 8-track, whatever we've got) at a time. This week’s host, Frank Fox, brings you O Brother, the Story Continues, the sequel to the soundtrack for the 2002 movie O Brother Where Art Thou.

“This is roots music at its finest,” Frank says.

Frank hosts The Wild Fox Party  each week on KDRT. You might also know him from Frankie and The Fabletones … which by the way if you haven’t heard them perform Heidi Bekebrede’s “The Davis Song,” well, what are you doing for the next few minutes?

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Music for a heat wave, on this week's Celtic Songlines

Tue, 07/18/2023 - 6:05pm | kdrtradio

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This week's playlist forCeltic Songlines contains a few titles chosen with our current heat wave in mind: "Glass of Water" and "Sunny Spells."

In today's program you'll also hear: Téada (in photo, and arriving soon on the West Coast), Charmas, Clannad, U.K. bands Salt House and Moore-Moss-Rutter, Irish vocalist Nuala Kennedy, Ghizela Rowe with a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's poetry, Bob & Carol Pegg, Shide & Acorn, Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy, the band Solas, and Vincey Keehan.

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Jazz After Dark, July 18, 2023

Tue, 07/18/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Longer sets tonight: we’ll hear Ella Fitzgerald, Cannonball Adderley, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Shirley Scott with Stanley Turrentine, Ben Webster, Earl "Fatha" Hines, and Gerry Mulligan.

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Golden Road presents what might be 'the best Grateful Dead show ever'

Sun, 07/16/2023 - 5:31pm | kdrtradio

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This week on The Golden Road, the Grateful Dead on stage 45 years ago, July 8, 1978, at Red Rocks, Colorado.

Show host Wayne Hagan asks, Is this the best Grateful Dead show ever? Listen and tell us what you think.

 

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Live Tracks goes all-vinyl for this week’s show

Fri, 07/14/2023 - 9:10am | kdrtradio

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Jim is playing vinyl tonight on Live Tracks.

The experience is “complete[ly] analog if you’re listening on July 13 to the airwaves,” he says. “If you’re listening to the replays, it got digitized so that it could get replayed for you. Still pretty darn cool.

“I’ll be going to some very famous live recordings from around the country, from the 1940s, ‘50s, and possibly even the ‘60s.” Plus Beatles history, stories, a little trivia. And lots of music. Take it away, Henry Mancini.

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