COVID-19 Community Report Episode 34: Speaking with Sara Gavin, Chief Behavioral Health Officer at CommuniCare Davis and Melanie Carr of Tuesday Table- Sep 1st, 2020

Tue, 09/01/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

This unparalleled time we're living through affects not only our physical health, but our mental health as well. Today I speak with Sara Gavin, LMFT/LPCC. She serves as Chief Behavioral Health Officer at CommuniCare Health Centers, overseeing a 100-person team of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder services in Yolo County,  and also sits on the Board of Directors of National Alliance for NAMI-Yolo. We'll speak about current mental health challenges, and what kinds of local resources are available.  In our second interview, I chat with Melanie Carr, a Davis resident who's been offering a "Tuesday Table" through the pandemic, a "take what you need" offering in one Davis neighborhood.

Davisville, Aug. 31, 2020: Changes in Davis homelessness since a year ago

Mon, 08/31/2020 - 6:10pm | Bill Buchanan

Ryan Collins and Paul Doroshov first appeared on Davisville in July 2019 to talk about homelessness in Davis (“Many homeless people in Davis are finding homes, but more people are becoming homeless”). Today we catch up with developments since then, including the Daytime Respite Center that opened on L Street in February, and the impact of the pandemic. Ryan works directly with homeless people in Davis as the homeless outreach services coordinator for the city, and Paul is deputy police chief for Davis.

Listening Lyrics Goes Classical, with Eunghee Cho, on Friday August 28, 2020

Thu, 08/27/2020 - 3:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

Born in Davis, Korean-American cellist Eunghee Cho earned second prize and the special award for Outstanding Chinese New Piece Performance at the Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China. He is principal cellist of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, artistic director of the Mellon Music Festival in Davis, and serves on the faculties of Middlesex Community College and Derby Academy.

He has been invited to perform at such international festivals as La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, Taos School of Music, Festival International d’Echternach, and Rencontres Franco Américaines de Musique Chambre. He is enrolled in New England Conservatory’s Doctor of Musical Arts Program under the guidance of distinguished pedagogue Laurence Lesser. (Photo by Chris Kitchen, used with permission of the Heifetz International Music Institute)

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COVID-19 Community Report Episode 33: Dr. Larissa May, Interim Yolo County Public Health Officer, on August 25, 2020

Tue, 08/25/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

This week's guest is Dr. Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MSHS, who began serving as Yolo County's public health officer this month. Dr. May is a professor of emergency medicine and a public health expert at UC Davis Health. She is a board-certified emergency physician, and her work often focuses on the epidemiology and management of infectious diseases, including best practices for diagnostic testing, outbreak response, and infection prevention. We'll discuss the COVID-19 pandemic at this moment in time, how we chart a course forward through school reopenings, testing, vaccine development, and more. Dr. May explains how Yolo County has increased its infrastructure for contact tracing; UC Davis is currently participating in a Phase 3 clinical vaccine trial as part of a worldwide study.

Jazz After Dark August 25 2020

Tue, 08/25/2020 - 10:02am | Don Shor

Jazz After Dark presents a special show tonight featuring artists and works from a new book: Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950 – 1970, by local author Derrick Bang.

We’ll hear performances by Henry Mancini, Alex North  and Jerry Goldsmith, Duke Ellington, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Laurie Johnson, Mundell Lowe, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones.

Featuring selections from The Pink Panther, A Streetcar Named Desire, Peter Gunn , Anatomy of a Murder, Satan in High Heels, Goldfinger, The Cincinnati Kid, Bullitt, and more.

For some, it will be a trip down memory lane; for younger listeners it’s a glimpse into the role of jazz in contemporary culture of the mid-20th century.

For more information about the book, just visit https://www.screenactionjazz.com/

Check out Bill Buchanan’s July 6 interview with Derrick Bang on Davisville on KDRT:

https://kdrt.org/audio/davisville-july-6-2020-bang%E2%80%99s-new-books-h...

Jazz After Dark August 18 2020

Tue, 08/18/2020 - 7:11pm | Don Shor

Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark! Some cool, some soul jazz, and more.

Ella Fitzgerald, Chico Hamilton, Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Paul Gonsalves Quartet, Art Tatum, Jimmy McGriff, Stan Getz with Jimmy Raney, Branford Marsalis

Broadcasts 8 pm Tuesdays on KDRT-LP 95.7 FM in Davis, CA. Replays Monday 11 pm.

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3rd Streaming Celebrates the Birthday of French Composer Claude DeBussy and His Impact on Classical Music and Jazz - Aug 18th, 2020

Tue, 08/18/2020 - 3:10pm | Gary Chew

Mid August always brings the date when Claude Debussy was born. As we're at 2020, that happened 158 years ago. Great Impressionistic music by this Frenchman has made a non-stop impact on classical music and jazz. Debussy's harmonies are heard often in those genres and sometimes in film scores as well.

Other composers on the list this week are Andre Previn, Eddie Sauter, Lowell Libermann, Dmitri Shostakovich, John Coltrane, Lennon and McCartney, and from two local musicians, Melissa Collard and Jacám Manricks. 3rd Streaming airs Tuesdays 1-3 PM and Thursdays 9:30-11:30 PM. Stream at kdrt.org

COVID-19 Community Report Episode 32: Da Vinci Junior High Teacher Leonie Pickett Speaks about Zoom Classrooms - Aug 18th, 2020

Tue, 08/18/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

This week we speak with Leonie Pickett, who teaches History, English, Geography and Leadership to 7th, 8th and 9th graders at Da Vinci Junior High in Davis. A parent of teens as well, she walks us through what the start of this most unusual school year looks like for her.  We hear about how teachers spent their summers preparing for teaching on Zoom again, how to best engage students, concerns about social development, and other pros and cons with this current mode of reaching students and parents.

Last week, I did an informal poll on Facebook, asking listeners who they'd like me to interview. I received an incredible number of responses, and one thing that emerged was the desire to hear more from everyday people: teachers, kids, parents, business owners. I will continue interviewing  leaders from our local institiutions and organizations, because I believe that's still important, but I've committed to bringing forth some of these other voices, as well.

Davisville, Aug. 17, 2020: The Palms, on indefinite hiatus, is ending its lease in Winters

Mon, 08/17/2020 - 6:10pm | Bill Buchanan

The Palms Playhouse, with no clear end to the pandemic in sight, has gone on indefinite hiatus and isn’t renewing its lease for the location in downtown Winters it has called home since moving from Davis in 2002. However, co-owners Nora Cary and Andrew Fridae are keeping the Palms going as an organization. On today’s Davisville we talk with Cary about the pandemic, the last concert they held on March 7, running a for-profit business with no profit, the magic of a good performance, some favorite moments since she and Fridae bought the Palms in 2016, and what might come next. (Photo shows Peter Case onstage at the Palms in July 2019)

Americana in The UK: Jason McNiff leads the Way, Friday, August 14, 2020

Wed, 08/12/2020 - 2:48pm | Pieter Pastoor

"Americana" is alive and well thanks to Jason McNiff, who hails from the coast of Southern England. Jason also introduced us to Sarah Gillispie, and we ended the interview playing one of her songs.

British troubadour Jason McNiff has made five albums which people call folk, or Americana, or alt country. There is an Englishness in his guitar playing, however, and you might think of Bert Jansch or Wizz Jones meeting John Prine & Townes Van Zandt. “McNiff’s quiet, intimate, fragile-sounding vocals draw you into his world," wrote Time Out in London, "an almost timeless place through which he drifts, a romantic loner, a dreamer, at home with the blues.” He is often touted as one of the UK’s most overlooked musical treasures, as a songwriter and fingerpicker.

His album April Cruel (Fledg’ling) was nominated for best album in the alt country category at the Independent Music Awards in 2011. A double CD anthology, Rain Dries Your Eyes, was issued in 2017. A new record made during lockdown will be coming soon.

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