Davisville, Sept. 28, 2020: Davis housing, 6 months into the pandemic

On today’s Davisville we talk with Steve and Kit Boschken, Davis real estate experts and the owners of Boschken Properties, about the housing market in Davis this fall. Today's topics follow up our talk with Steve Boschken last May, and include apartment vacancies, the thin supply of homes for sale, rising home prices, the pandemic, unhealthy air from the wildfires, rents, buyers, trends, interest rates, lasting impacts, and not knowing when students will be able to resume in-person classes at UC Davis. Almost all UC Davis classes this fall are online, and could stay that way through the rest of the academic year.

Silver Nine Volt Heart Salutes Grassroots Radio Broadcasters on 16th Birthday for KDRT - Sep 24th, 2020

Welcome to the 145th edition of Silver Nine Volt Heart.  In this special broadcast - the 16th birthday of KDRT - you will hear the sounds from a wide-range of genres spanning from the jazz of Ella & Louis, Herb Alpert and Stan Getz,  to Americana, Folk, Country and beyond from Chris Hillman, Peter Rowan, Richard and Linda Thompson, to some of our beloved local bands like The Nickel Slots, Richie Lawrence and The Yolos, and Webster, Walton, Edwards.  The song selection for this show is based upon a sampling of what you might hear from our over 25 locally produced programs and the unique expertise of our local volunteer DJs.  Host Rodriguez also reads the words from over a dozen KDRT programmers who responded to an email this week asking them what it means to be involved with Davis' grassroots community radio.  

Davis Teen Broadcaster at KDRT Community Radio is Selected as National Points of Light Finalist

Davis Media Access (DMA) is pleased to announce that one of its youth participants has been selected as a finalist in the national Points of Light Foundation’s Youth Summit Pitch Contest, held Aug. 19, 2020.  The Summit brought together youth aged 13-18 from across the country to reflect on the challenges and opportunities presented by the new school year and the “new normal” during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Rohan Baxi, a 9th grade student from Da Vinci Junior High in Davis, CA pitched his project idea, “Timeout Radio: Building Teen Connection in a Time of Distance,” to the Foundation, and was selected as one of 10 finalists. The recognition comes with a $1,000 award to help further his project.

Jazz After Dark September 22 2020

Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark.

Tonight’s program is dedicated to Stanley Crouch, legendary jazz critic who died September 16, 2020, at the age of 74. He wrote for the New York Daily News and the Village Voice, collaborated with Ken Burns on his Jazz mini-series documentary, and co-founded Jazz at the Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis.

We’ll hear from three jazz artists that he respected:

Duke Ellington (shown above), who Crouch described as “the greatest of all jazz musicians” in his column Duke Ellington: Artist of the Century from December 1, 1999.

Charlie Parker: Crouch wrote Kansas City Lightning: the Rise and Times of Charlie Parker over a thirty year period. He described Parker as “the self-made creator of a vital and breathtakingly structured jazz vernacular and an anarchic man of dooming appetites.”

COVID-19 Community Report Episode 36: A Visit With UC Davis Chancellor Gary May - Sep 22nd, 2020

Today''s guest is UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May, who happens to be the most-requested interview from a poll of community members asked to suggest future guests. Some 24,000 UC Davis students are expected to be living here for the fall quarter, which starts Sept. 28, with the vast majority living in apartments and single-family homes in Davis and surrounding cities. What impact will this have on our COVID-19 numbers? How is the university managing its approach to COVID?

Celtic Songlines Celebrates Mabon and the Autumn Equinox - Sep 22nd, 2020

It is the time to celebrate Mabon, the Autumn Equinox, and honor the seasonal changes and celebrate the harvest. This is a time of giving thanks for the things we have, whether it is abundant crops or other blessings. It's a time of plenty, of gratitude, and of sharing our abundance with those less fortunate. 

This week's program will feature artists Lisa Thiel, Lúnasa, Malinky, Jenna Greene, Libana, two selections from the just released album "Wrackline" by Folkworks: Fay Hield, Omnia, the Afro-Celt Sound System, FAUN and Northern Ireland's Déanta.

Jazz After Dark September 15 2020

Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark! Count Basie, Erroll Garner, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, The Don Ellis Orchestra, Paul Desmond Quartet, Bob Brookmeyer Small Band, Ramsey Lewis, Houston Person, and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen with Mulgrew Miller.

Jazz After Dark broadcasts 8 pm Tuesdays on KDRT-LP 95.7 FM in Davis, CA. Replays Monday 11 pm.

Live-streaming at https://kdrt.org/page/listen-now

Show page here: https://kdrt.org/program/jazz-after-dark

Link to tonight's program: https://kdrt.org/audio/jazz-after-dark-800pm-sep-15th-2020

(Music shows are archived for two weeks).

Look for us on iTunes (you can listen to the live broadcast via their Radio link; just search for KDRT) or your favorite podcast site.

https://player.fm/featured/jazz

Celtic Songlines Episode 3: From Scotland, Hungary, Ireland and Beyond - Sep 15th, 2020

On this week's program: Phillip Boulding's music featuring his hammered dulcimer, Old Blind Dogs from Scotland, Dervish, An Dochas, Kate Rusby Fay Hield, from Hungary The Moon & The Nightspirit, Celtic super group The Gloaming, Borun's Ghost, Dublin's Lankum and  Altan.  Altan will be streaming their first live concert since March on September 25th via their facebook page.  From the Sunday Tribune, Dublin: “The appeal of Altan centres on the fact that they see no differences or divisions in music. As such, they have managed to cross the all-important cultural barriers between folk and world and rock music.”

Davisville, Sept. 14, 2020: Learn how psychedelic pedal steel and sweet harmonies helped mix country with rock ’n’ roll

So, what’s your opinion of the Eagles? The band, not the team. How about Emmylou Harris, the unusual pedal steel of the Flying Burrito Brothers, or the pop twang of the Beatles’ “Rocky Raccoon”? If any of this resonates with you, or even simply makes you curious, then today’s guest might interest you: Larry Lobre, a retired administrator at UC Davis, a musician, and an instructor whose next class for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Davis in October presents “The Origins and Development of Country Rock Music.” We talk about the genre, what it offers, OLLI, The Flying Burrito Brothers'Gilded Palace of Sin, and the time Merle Haggard, his backseat full of 45 records, drove in to a Signal gas station where Larry was working in Oildale.

Estelle California Shares Her Music and Vision on Listening Lyrics, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020

Estelle California is a singer/songwriter born in France. She started playing the piano when she was 5 and went on to study saxophone. Later, she was formally trained in opera. Her current life is a far cry from her childhood in France, where she suffered physical and mental abuse, and lived in an environment where she saw many people being discriminated against.

Estelle is a passionate artist, musician, writer, and activist dedicated to shining the light of resilience and bringing forth social healing throughout the world. Her single "Black is the True Light" has garnered significant media attention and resonated with people all over the globe.