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Jazz classics coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark! It’s our spring fundraiser at KDRT, so please hit the link and donate to help fund KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM in Davis CA. Tonight’s lineup: Doris Day with Les Brown, The Vince Guaraldi Quartet, Billie Hoilday, Louis Prima, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane Quartet, Chet Baker, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck with Paul Desmond, Budd Johnson with Earl "Fatha" Hines, Gerry Mulligan, Dianne Reeves, Boots Randolph, Stanley Jordan.

Divine Intervention strikes this week with a special fundraiser edition, including some new releases from Combo Chimbita, Stubbleman, Craig Finn, Drahla... plus a not-so-obscure Vinyl Vespers hit. See the playlist and stream the show via the program page. Tune in next Monday at 7p Pacific for more Divine Intervention.

Spring has sprung!    KDRT 95.7fm is blooming, but could use a little mulch to keep those roots growing!    DONATE HERE 

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Davis Media Access (DMA) is the licensee of KDRT-LP, and we’ve launched our annual appeal!    Using media tools and hands-on technical training, DMA has provided capacity building in our community for 30 years.  As a media and technology center, a community gathering place, and a content distributor, DMA works with people from all walks of life to address issues and topics often ignored by mainstream media.

Special Fundraiser for KDRT at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen, Thursday June 20, 2019, starting at 8 p.m.

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Live music will entertain folks on Sophia's outdoor porch. Three awesome acts will help you enjoy your beer, all the while raising some needed funds for KDRT. KDRT prides itself in bringing local voices to the forefront. Stop by, take in the tunes, and “see” some great sounds. The lineup is Roger Kunkel, 8-8:30 p.m.; Calvin Handy/Hot Pursuit 8:45-9:45 p.m.; Didar Singh Khalsa 10-10:30 p.m.

The Davis Second Friday ArtAbout is in for a real treat at Armadillo Music (207 "F" Street, Davis, CA) this week. KDRT presents the band Brotherly Mud. These guys will charm you with their harmonies, enchant you with their music and instruments, thrill you with their stage presence and finally you will fall in love with them because all 4 are super dudes and human beings.

Brotherly Mud is as if the 60's and 70's folk tradition continued into the modern day, taking influence from today's songwriters while respecting yesterday's honesty.

With members graduating from the Berklee College of Music and the Musician's Institute, Brotherly Mud respects the art of musical creation through both an educational and deeply human lens.

Constantly working to be true to their artistic spirits, Brotherly Mud is currently touring with their original material all over the West Coast, with shows, radio interviews and the occasional secret performance.

Sumia Jackson recently appeared at The Palms with Jayme Stone's Folklife.  She will be appearing there with her own band on Friday May 10th.  That same morning, Sumia will drop by the KDRT studios for a live dirt with me - Folk Brother Bill - at 11AM.  With a driving groove and a smooth, open sound, fiddler and tunestress Sumaia Jackson is a quintessential modern West Coast fiddler. Jackson weaves together Old-Time, Bluegrass, Swing, and Celtic traditions with an easy virtuosity and melodic elegance.

Izaak Opatz joins us for the truly live POP UP show LIVE DIRT this Thursday May 9, 2019 at 11:30AM. Izaak will appear at the Palms Playhouse in Winters, CA  5/9/19

His songs teeter on the edge of sentimental-songwriter’y-sad-n-lonely crap. This is a very tough area for a songwriter to inhabit. Mainly because it’s so easy to get lumped in with the rest of the middle-aged losers down at the Applebee’s open mic (next to the airport). BUT IZAAK DOES IT SO WELL that you actually start making plans to visit Montana and you tell the wife you love her.

For those outside the listening area this show will be streamed live on www.kdrt.org

Coming up at 8 pm  tonight on Jazz After Dark! Some cool and soul jazz, featuring great duos and trios.

Ella Fitzgerald, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Sonny Clark, Dinah Washington, Art Pepper & Conte Candoli, Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker, George Shearing & The Montgomery Brothers, Sonny Stitt, Shirley Scott with Stanley Turrentine, Kai Winding, Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond, Mel Torme with George Shearing & Gerry Mulligan, Maria Helena Toledo & Luiz Bonfá, Luiz Bonfa with Oscar Castro Neves and Lalo Schifrin.

Replays Monday 11pm, Tuesday 12 midnight, Wednesday 10 pm

Broadcasting from 95.7 FM in Davis, CA and live streaming at https://kdrt.org/page/listen-now

Playlists and archives at https://kdrt.org/blogs/don-shor-0