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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

Education Beat

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KDRT is proud to air EdSource’s program Education Beat, getting to the heart of California schools. From EdSource: "Join us each week as we cover everything from preschool to college, bringing you the personal stories behind the headlines.   We want you to hear the voices that are too often drowned out in the broader conversation: parents, teachers, and the students themselves."

Live Monday 5-5:30pm
Homepage URL: 
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Roots, Shoots and Leaves

Roots, Shoots and Leaves' DJ Tree has a theory of music that involves a tree. Suffice it to say that it involves a trinity — an exploration of themes and connections among recording artists — and otherwise very few boundaries. Listen for music old and new, known and unknown. And if you listen long enough, you may experience some musical enlightenment.

 

Live Tuesday 6-8pm
Replays Saturday 5-7pm
DJ(s): 
Tree Kilpatrick
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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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Eye on Sports

Eye On Sports is a talk radio show focused on local sports in the Sacramento/Davis area that occasionally covers National Sports. Hosts Chuck and Cody have been involved with sports both nationally and locally for more than 15 years and want to share their opinions and initiate discussion to the public through conversation and occasional outside interviews. This show will not be politically driven in anyway. The conversation will cover the results , local impact, business and psychology of sports.

Live Thursday 6-7pm
Replays Saturday 7-8am
DJ(s): 
Cody Westergaard, ChuckGarcia7
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Listening Lyrics

Listening Lyrics, Kurt.org, community radio

Welcome to an hour of Listening Lyrics, right here on KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis, California.

No musical passports required. Folk can sit next to funk, jazz can dance with rock, and a singer-songwriter might end up sharing a park bench with a reggae band. Listening Lyrics is your invitation to escape the noise of the day and enter a world of elaborate sounds, unexpected discoveries, and songs that have something to say.

This is the kind of journey only commercial-free community radio can provide.

So close your eyes. Open your ears. Relax your mind. Join me, Pieter Pastoor, as we send color to your ears and wander through the vast landscape of music and lyrics—the grand meeting place of rhythm, imagination, and the remarkable human ability to create art. Whether it's a whisper, a roar, a groove, or a melody you've never heard before, it all belongs here.

Remember: Real Music. Real Community. Real Good Music.

Live Friday 4-5pm
Replays Sunday 11am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
Homepage URL: 
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Silver Nine Volt Heart hosts its annual Independence Day extravaganza at 4-6 pm July 4th

Tue, 07/02/2024 - 11:11pm | Diane Crumley

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DJ Rodriguez loves to contribute to our holiday soundtracks and has crafted another 4th of July Special for you to enjoy at your celebration with family, friends, and freaks! Tune in Thursday July 4, 4-6 p.m. as Rodriguez cracks open his red, white and blue archives for a spirited 2-hour salute to honor our nation's birthday ....KDRT style!

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Jazz After Dark, July 2, 2024

Tue, 07/02/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight's show:

  • Billie Holiday, You're My Thrill
  • Stan Getz & J. J. Johnson with the Oscar Peterson Trio, My Funny Valentine
  • Sidney Bechet, Struttin' With Some Barbecue
  • Sidney Bechet, American Rhythm
  • Duke Ellington, Solitude
  • John Coltrane, After The Rain
  • Boots Randolph, Body and Soul
  • Billy Taylor, Capricious
  • Eddie Jefferson, A Crazy Romance (The Preacher)
  • Ella Fitzgerald & The Jimmy Jones Trio, It's Only a Paper Moon
  • Paul Gonsalves & Enrique Villegas, 05 - a. gone with the wind - b. tenderly - c. ramona
  • Dorothy Donegan, Makin' Whoopee I
  • Ramsey Lewis, Baby What You Want Me To Do
  • Helen Merrill, Anyplace I hang my hat is home
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Old time mountain music for your radio, this week on High Country Music

Tue, 07/02/2024 - 11:00am | David A. Reynolds

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Going back in time is this week's theme with selections from the film Cold Mountain with Jack White. Also featured is Tim Erikson, Dirk Powell, The Crooked Jades, Rising Appalachia, The Wood Brotheres, Three Tall Pines, Doc Watson, Clarence Ashley, gourd banjo with Adam Hurt, Elizabeth Cotton and Jake Blount.

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Davisville, July 1, 2024: Guaraldi time is here, 2nd edition

Mon, 07/01/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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“Vince is always pulling splinters from his fingers, driven in when he claws at the wooden baseboard, behind the keys,” wrote Bay Area music critic Ralph Gleason, as quoted in Davis author Derrick Bang’s newly revised book Vince Guaraldi at the Piano. The splinters came from Guaraldi’s intense playing, Bang says, nearly nonstop performing, and the worn quality of the pianos he played in clubs.

Guaraldi, the Bay Area jazz musician known most for his Peanuts soundtracks and the song “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” died in 1976 but is arguably more popular than ever, Bang says. Two recent signs: This month's latest archival release of music from a Peanuts special, It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, and Bang’s updated book, which he will talk about 6:30 p.m. July 11 at the Avid Reader in Davis. On today’s Davisville we learn more about the music, new stories Bang heard while updating his book, and the baffling review Guaraldi received from the California Aggie the last time he played in Davis.

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Replay of Favorite songs and the power they evoke, from Listening Lyrics, Aug. 12, 2022

Fri, 06/28/2024 - 11:24am | admin

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Asking someone to select their top 20 songs is difficult, and picking just one is impossible. But that's what we have today: one favorite song from each of several people, along with the reasons it's their favorite. I left the genres open.

Music is a mystery that touches us on so many levels at so many different times. It can make us happy, sad, or melancholy. Or maybe we're drawn to the music itself, or to the lyrics; or for many of us a song offers a look back in time that allows us to relive a past moment.

On today's show, we play songs chosen by Karin Pastoor Husebosch, Carol Hess, Rod Rodriguez, Preacher, Ed Branam, John Caroll, Jeanne Pastoor, and me, Pieter Pastoor. Listen to the stories and be moved by the power of music.

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Davis Garden Show, June 27, 2024

Thu, 06/27/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: gardenias in pots, mildew and other tree diseases, July flowers for hot sun, lace bug on toyon, and more.

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Join us for Suds & Sounds – June 26!

Tue, 06/25/2024 - 7:07pm | Jess Goddésse

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Please join KDRT for Suds & Sounds at Armadillo Music, 207 F St. in downtown Davis, on Wednesday, June 26, 4 to 6 p.m. Meet K-DiRT friends and fans, grab a sticker & a new T-shirt, pick some vinyl to spin...! Beverages will be available at the Bootleg Bar. This gathering repeats every month on the last Wednesday — mark you calendars!

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Jazz After Dark, June 25, 2024

Tue, 06/25/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s episode:

  • Earl Bostic, C Jam Blues
  • Glenn Miller, Td's Boogie Woogie
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb and His Orchestra, You Showed Me the Way
  • Artie Shaw, That Old Feeeling
  • Benny Goodman, Runnin' Wild
  • Erroll Garner, On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • Helen Forrest/Harry James, Skylark
  • Les Brown, Leap Frog
  • Nat King Cole, (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
  • Terry Pollard and Her Septet, The Man I Love
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, The Mooche
  • Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, O Pato
  • Count Basie & Joe Williams, Alright, Okay, You Win
  • Toots Thielemans, Indian Nuts
  • Shirley Horn, Forget Me
  • Diana Krall and Stanley Turrentine, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
  • Jim Cox (The Majestic soundtrack), Boogie Woogie Stomp
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Old time, blues and honky tonkin' on High Country Music Radio, June 25, 2024

Tue, 06/25/2024 - 11:00am | David A. Reynolds

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This week's High Country features the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with selections from Will the Circle be Unbroken, the New Grass Revival, Brit Taylor, Chris Thomas King, The Stanley Brothers, Hank Williams Sr., The Faux Paws, Town Mountain, Billy Strings, John Hartford, bluesman Henry Thomas and Old & In The Way.

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Divine Intervention – June 21, 2024

Fri, 06/21/2024 - 5:29pm | Jess Goddésse

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Divine Intervention is back to soothe your aching soul with the sounds of DMF favorites Milly, Reckling, Plum Skin, and Milk for the Angry... with new music from SF's Aluminum, Swiftumz, and Kelley Stoltz... with our Vinyl Vespers feature and some old faves you've maybe forgotten... with all this and MORE. Tune in at 6p Pacific on KDRT 95.7fm | KDRT.org.

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