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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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Independent and Local

Independent and Local

Independent and Local is a music program featuring local unsigned artists and bands, including "Moments" — brief interviews with experts in the scientific, health, and artistic communities about interesting topics and current events. The main focus is music, along with a few outside-the-box ideas.

Live Wednesday 8-9pm
Replays Saturday 11pm-Sunday 12am
DJ(s): 
Sam Hawk
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Praise Time with Preacher

Praise Time with Preacher

The word "gospel" is derived for the old Anglo-Saxon word meaning “good message” or “good news." Host Preacher believes gospel music is powerful, whether the listener is or is not Christian — that everyone can enjoy listening to gospel because it is uplifting and inspiring, sung with passion and belief from the artist, touching all who hear it in a good and heartfelt way. The aim of Praise Time is to help listeners find what Preacher believes lives in everyone: a good spirit that drives us to be the best we can be.

Live Tuesday 4-5pm
Replays Sunday 7-8am
DJ(s): 
Preacher
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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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The Golden Road

​Join Wayne Hagan and take a musical journey down the Golden Road and explore the music of the Grateful Dead, its roots, and its many offshoots. Past DJs include Alligator, Lee Maddex, and Rod Moseanko. What a long strange trip!

Live Tuesday 2-4pm
Replays Sunday 8-10pm
DJ(s): 
Wayne Hagen
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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: 
Listening Lyrics on Facebook
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Davis Garden Show, Dec. 7, 2023

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

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Today's topics: why mandarins ripen earlier in colder climates, how to water new native plants, those living Christmas trees that some places are selling, reliable color in Chinese pistache, and more.

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The Pogues, 'If I Should Fall from Grace with God,' Album of the Week, Dec. 6, 2023

Wed, 12/06/2023 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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The Pogues' heart and soul was a very talented storteller and songwriter, Shane MacGowan (pictured). We lost him this week, so this week's Album of the Week is The Pogues' third album, If I Should Fall from Grace with God.

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Jazz After Dark, Dec. 5, 2023

Tue, 12/05/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show: Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson Trio & Gerry Mulligan with Bob Brookmeyer & Bill Evans, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Nat King Cole, Gabor Szabo, Herbie Mann, Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan, Shirley Horn, and Benny Carter.

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The News Cycle, Dec. 4, 2023: Looking ahead to college preparation

Mon, 12/04/2023 - 12:00am | DHS Journalism Class

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This week the News Cycle talks to Eda Chen about the career counseling and academic advice for highschoolers, and what that would look like for Davis high students. Gwynn Canfield investigates different ways students prepare for the Scholastic Assessment Test, or the SATs. Naneh Grigor debates whether or not it’s even worth it to take the test.

Podcast packages by Gwynn Canfield and Naneh Grigor. Interview by Rowan Reising. Produced by Rowan Reising. Music by Daniel Ruiz-Jimenez.

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(Divine) Dinner Bell Roundup (Heap) – Dec. 2, 2023

Sat, 12/02/2023 - 11:34am | Jess Goddésse

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Today on the Dinner Bell Roundup at 4 pm, Dug Deep & Jess Goddèsse saddle up to serve a truckload of swank, swingin' countrified sounds for you and your hounds. Eat your fill then pay your bill at KDRT.org/donate. :-)

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The Divine Electric Compost Intervention! – Dec. 1, 2023

Fri, 12/01/2023 - 5:17pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight at 6pm DJ Dug Deep will be joined by Jess Goddèsse as they combine their respective radio shows into a magnum opus, the Divine Electric Compost Intervention! Why would they attempt such a massive undertaking, I hear you ask? Well, it's fundraising time around the old community radio station, and we will be imploring listeners to make a donation and keep KDRT alive and well. You can donate a little sumpin sumpin yourself by going to KDRT.org. Should be a lot of fun and a lot of great music, so don't miss it!

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Odd Fellows Davis Lodge with Noble Grand Larry Guenther, Dec. 1, 2023

Fri, 12/01/2023 - 4:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week we have the pleasure of learning about the Odd Fellows, Davis Lodge. Lodge Noble Grand Larry Guenther explains the mission and opportunities offered by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows -- an amazing and unique group of concerned volunteers -- to help citizens of their community. According to the Odd Fellows Creed, members believe in the universal brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. Odd Fellowship is non-partisan, non-sectarian, and welcomes all people without regard to religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, and national origin.

The Davis Lodge has more than 80 committees working with its volunteers to make Davis a better community for all of us. Listen in as Larry does a great job of representing the Odd Fellows.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 12/01/2023
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Davis Garden Show, Nov. 30, 2023

Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: frost information, dealing with gophers, poinsettias and cyclamen and other winter color, Amaryllis and paperwhites, and more.

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Jeff Sanford of the Cartoon Jazz Orchestra on Silver Nine Volt Heart, Nov. 30, 2023

Wed, 11/29/2023 - 7:03pm | Diane Crumley

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Updated 12/1

For this week's show, Silver Nine Volt Heart host Rodriguez interviewed Jeff Sanford about his recent Cartoon Jazz Orchestra album, Playland at the Beach. This was as fun as it sounds!

Wildly creative cartoon soundtracks, heard on anything from the classic cartoons of the '40s and '50s with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to today's Anime, deliver an adventurous mash-up of classical, jazz, pop, folk, and everything in between. This music has a new home with Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Jazz Orchestra, a group of gifted, serious musicians who enjoy playing this zany, challenging music that swings like crazy.

Playland at the Beach was released by the Little Village Foundation, a California arts nonprofit that seeks to increase cross-cultural understanding by recording and producing underground artists whose music has not yet been discovered outside their community.

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Jazz After Dark, Nov. 28, 2023

Tue, 11/28/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Jazz classics tonight. We’ll hear from Art Tatum, Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller. Big Band by Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Lionel Hampton, and Artie Shaw, and Sidney Bechet. Vocals by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and the Horace Silver Quintet with Bill Henderson. Dave Brubeck’s Take Five, and then Lena Horne, and Mose Allison.

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