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Snag swell swag during KDRT's spring FUNdraiser!

Join us as we continue to celebrate our 20 years of community radio...

Donate here today!

Grab one of our special thank-you gifts, including:

Limited-edition blue-heron T-shirts on 100% blue-lavender cotton

Matching blue-heron totes on beige/natural heavy-weight cotton

NEW KDRT hats in two swell styles – trad trucker and soft cotton twill

Items are available separately or together in the BIG BUNDLE. Thanks so much for showing (and sharing) your support during fundraiser week!

Thanks for supporting the KDRT spring FUNdraiser!

We can't thank you enough for contributing to our Spring FUNdraiser! 

As a non-commercial community station, we depend on our volunteers and donors to bring you the local sounds you love. 

We also send thanks to local heroes  Armadillo Music and The Big Poppies for their steadfast support. 

If you haven't had a chance to donate yet, of course there's still time: KDRT.org/donate!

 

Celebrate KDRT during our Spring FUNdraiser!

Please help us continue to celebrate our 20th birthday:

Donate here today!

Grab one of our special thank-you gifts, including our NEW KDRT hats in two swell styles. Then join us on Wednesday, May 7, at Armadillo Music for an "extended play" edition of Suds & Sounds, featuring an extra hour of merry-making – 4 to 7 p.m. – with musical guests Max & Julian of the Big Poppies! Don't miss the FUN!
 

Fall FUNdraiser Thank YOU!

Thanks SO MUCH for supporting our Fall FUNdraiser. As a noncommercial community station, we depend on our volunteers and donors to bring you the sounds you savor. Thanks too to the venues and artists who supported the cause, including Alex Roth, Green Grass Snakes, Dave Nachmanoff, the 410s and Armadillo Music, Davis Odd Fellows, our Davis Manor neighbors, and Blue Note Brewing in Woodland. Haven't contributed yet? There's still time: kdrt.org/donate!

SF Press Club honors KDRT programs Timeout Radio, Davisville

We're fundraising this week to support programs like these. If you can help, please go to KDRT.org/donate. Thank you!

Three episodes of local programs created for Davis community radio station KDRT — two about sports, and one about the aftermath of a traumatic week in Davis — were honored Wednesday in the San Francisco Press Club’s 47th annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards.

Rohan Baxi (in left photo, at UC Berkeley), who graduated from Da Vinci High School in June and now attends the University of California at Berkeley, won second and third place in the noncommercial radio/podcast Sports Feature category for episodes titled “Fair Play,” about women’s sports and pay disparity from June 2024, and ”Rowing Stronger,” from July 2024.

Bill Buchanan (right photo, at the awards) placed second among noncommercial public affairs programs with small staffs for “Integrating a traumatic week into Davis,” an interview with Susan Cosio following three violent assaults, including two fatalities, in spring 2023. Cosio, a retired hospital chaplain, pastor and longtime resident of Davis, has spent most of her life helping people navigate crises. This episode also won a Hometown Media Award from the Foundation for the Alliance for Community Media this summer.

Celebrate 20 years of KDRT with our fall FUNdraiser!

Celebrate KDRT's 20th during our fall fundraiser, starting Mon., Dec. 2, with special thank-you gifts – including our new 20th Anniversary blue-heron T-shirt! Join us for these special gatherings:

  • Dec 8: Davis Manor Holiday Crafts Bazaar @ Duke & M St., 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
  • Dec 8: Holiday Vinyl Bazaar with the 410s @ Blue Note Brewing, 12-5 p.m.

Please show your support during fundraiser week at KDRT.org/donate!

KDRT Events Outlook – one-stop spot for live sounds

ICYMI, the KDRT Events Outlook airs daily at 12 noon and 6 p.m. to keep you current on all the latest live music events. If for some reason you are not glued to your speakers at those times, good news: Our events calendar is always here for you, online, just a click away. Look up above this blog feed and you'll see an Events tab in the orange menu bar. That's it — easy as pumpkin pie! We also do our darndest to keep you in the know via our Facebook & Instagram accounts — so let's connect. As always, if you'd like to submit an event, holler.

Davis voters elect Deos to council, approve two tax increases

Davis voters have elected Linda Deos (pictured) to the City Council, re-elected Lea Darrah to the Davis school board, and handily approved two tax measures to pay for city services and the Davis public library.

According to unofficial results available Wednesday morning on the Yolo County elections website:

• Deos won the council’s district 2 seat, the only contested council position this election, with about 52 percent of the vote. Victor Lagunes placed second with 27.3 percent, followed by Dillan Horton with 20.6 percent.

• Lea Darrah won re-election to the area 2 seat on the Davis Joint Unified School District board, receiving 72 percent to Elizabeth (Lizzy) Griffith's 28 percent.