Davisville

This program updates several of the best interview subjects on Davisville in 2009, and looks ahead to 2010. It includes updates from Cold Shot, two former editors of the Davis High School newspaper the Hub, Gene Parsons (former member of the Byrds), Cindy Burger of Grace in Action, Joy Cohan of the Davis Downtown Business Association, Newsbeat co-owner Terence Lott, and Davis journalist Jeff Hudson.

Gene Parsons, who has lived in Mendocino for years, played Davis in 1987 at the Palms when it was located in southeast Davis. The audience was small, but his playing was stellar, and in 2009 I asked him for an interview for Davisville. The original interview got deleted from the KDRT archives, so we played it again in late 2009. Parsons, one of two latter-day members of the band still alive--three original members are also still with us--discusses the band, his music, and--among other things--the scale steam engine he's building.

The Davis High School Madrigals, a choir that has won many awards, has existed more than 40 years. Like a lot of student programs in Davis, it relies on parents to do the backstage organizing, support and fund-raising that let the Madrigals focus on music. In 2009, two of these parents were Dianne and Arne Hyson -- Arne was the parent coordinator that year. They came by Davisville to discuss the choir, their job, and how it all comes together.