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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.

 

OUR PROGRAMS

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 on the first, third and occasional fifth Friday of the month.  

Live Friday 11am-1pm
Replays Sunday 9-11am
DJ(s): 
Greg LaTraille
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Divine Intervention (1st/3rd week) – The Electric Compost Heap (2nd/4th week)

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Divine Intervention with Jess Goddésse strikes on 1st & 3rd Fridays with an unholy assortment of rock, pop, punk, psych, funk, jazz, roots, and randomness across the decades plus brand new releases. For the truly devout, Vinyl Vespers, a celebration of record-store bargain bins, plus Goddess of the Month and Critter Corner!

Live Friday 6-8pm
Replays Monday 3-5pm
DJ(s): 
Jess Goddésse, Dug Deep
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Dashboard Diaries

Hop in for a trip through ever-changing musical landscapes, from familiar highways to roads less travelled. Dashboard Diaries host Ray K loves to share hand-picked tunes spanning broad styles of music, with a nod to the real, organic disc jockey-driven radio of his youth. It's all about the journey...

Live Thursday 3-5pm
Replays Wednesday 10am-12pm
DJ(s): 
RayK
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The Awesome Patrol Show

The Awesome Patrol Show for fresh tunes to boost your spirits with your host Sara TAPS. 

Live Wednesday 6-7:30pm
Replays Saturday 7:30-9pm
DJ(s): 
Sara TAPS
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Old-Time Radio

Old Time Radio KDRT Davis California

Immerse yourself in programs from radio’s Golden Age.

Live Sunday 10-11:30pm
DJ(s): 
Jim Buchanan
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Jazz After Dark, Aug. 8, 2023

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

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We have swing, big band, and more tonight on Jazz After Dark. We'll hear Duke Ellington, Bennie Moten, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Erskine Hawkins, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Ella Fitzgerald, Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, and Gerry Mulligan with Teddy Wilson.

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Davisville, Aug. 7, 2023: Insights from years of helping the homeless in Davis

Mon, 08/07/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Bill Pride is retiring this fall, and this is news because he has been really influential in addressing homelessness in Davis, at several levels. He started with Davis Community Meals and Housing 30 years ago as a volunteer with its Saturday meal program, and will leave this fall as its executive director. The nonprofit has helped create permanent supportive housing for the homeless in Davis, as well as transitional housing and other services to help people, and has grown along with the need — this photo shows Pride on the fourth floor of Paul’s Place, the DCMH project that opened four months ago on H Street.

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New music and Dolly Parton, the goddess for August, grace latest Divine Intervention

Sun, 08/06/2023 - 4:37pm | kdrtradio

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Hostèsse Jess Goddèsse is back with new music, Vinyl Vespers, and more — listen for your own enjoyment and at your own risk. ;-D

The latest program includes new music from Guided By Voices, Tech N9ne, Palehound, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Protomartyr, Feeble Little Horse, and our Goddess of the Month (pictured), Ms. Dolly Parton!

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The Folk Brothers is now Sometimes Folk

Thu, 08/03/2023 - 1:34pm | kdrtradio

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Bill Wagman has renamed his KDRT program, but doesn’t want anyone to forget his former co-host.

Bill co-hosted The Folk Brothers with Peter Schiffman each Wednesday at KDRT starting in September 2015 (the first show is still available in the archives!). And then this lovely run of programs ended, at least in that format, when Peter died in May 2023.

Bill is carrying on. The show is now called Sometimes Folk. Don’t read the name change as a turn away from folk music, Bill says. He might choose songs now and then that stray outside the mainstream — one of the things we do anyway here at KDRT — but as he says, “I can make an argument for a lot of music being folk.”

He says Peter’s influence continues to shape the program and the songs Bill chooses to play each week. Not that Bill is a novice about the music. He is known — among overseas musicians, even — for the house concerts he has hosted at his Davis home over the decades, and for his decades as a DJ at UC Davis station KDVS.

As long as Bill Wagman stays on the air, The Folk Brothers -> Sometimes Folk will continue to be a reliable hour of great music and community, and a bouquet of forget-me-nots on the table in memory of Peter Schiffman. Here’s the latest show.

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Davis Garden Show, Aug. 3, 2023

Thu, 08/03/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week: Watering natives when they're young, creeping Taiwan raspberry, holes in rose leaves, peach problems, and a discussion of mandarin varieties for a long season of harvest.

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Jazz After Dark, Aug. 1, 2023

Tue, 08/01/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight’s show: Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Zoot Sims & Bob Brookmeyer, Stanley Turrentine with Grant Green and Tommy Flanagan, Roy Eldridge, Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Jerry Fielding, Stan Getz with Kenny Barron, Etta James, and The Rosenberg Trio.

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Today’s Celtic Songlines brings you ‘wonderful Celtic fiddle energy’

Tue, 08/01/2023 - 1:25pm | kdrtradio

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Celtic Songlines launches its musical lineup for this week with a song from Dramagical, a brand-new release “inspired by nature and Scotland's magical otherworld” from fiddler Seán Heely (pictured).

Host Craig Reynolds follows up the song with more “wonderful Celtic fiddle energy,” and it's all ready for you now on this week’s show.

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Community Harvest of Davis, on Imagining Yolo Davis, July 28, 2023

Fri, 07/28/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Join us as John Aubert and co-founder Greg Gibs talk about the truly awesome Community Harvest of Davis, a nonprofit run by volunteers that harvests fruit from residential trees and donates it to agencies that feed people in need. Both guests are members of the group's board.

Community Harvest donates to Davis agencies, primarily the Short Term Emergency Aid Committee, with any excess going to the Yolo Food Bank and local churches. Its mission "is to provide food for people who need it, promote sustainable use of urban resources, and contribute to a stronger community." As of fall 2017, the charity had donated more than 250,000 pounds of fruit, and had a donor database of 200+ homes and more than 400 volunteers, including including members of 11 UC Davis service groups.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 07/28/2023
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Cowboy Tracks present songs from the big deep diverse wide open

Fri, 07/28/2023 - 3:11pm | kdrtradio

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Host Nancy Flagg titles her latest program “Big Country,” to convey “the wide open spaces and the breadth and the depth and diversity of our country.”

She plays a song by that name near the end, and starts this week’s Cowboy Tracks with a tune by cowboy musician Rod Taylor (pictured), “Bonita Canyon Drive.”

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Davis Garden Show, July 27, 2023

Thu, 07/27/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week's subjects include citrus for the Bay Area, July garden opportunities, gulf fritillary caterpillars and butterflies on passion flower vines, recommended tree lists, LInden trees, Arabian jasmine, low hedge suggestions, and more!

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