District Elections: Explanation of City's forced switch

Mon, 09/30/2019 - 3:51pm | Lois Richter

 

On 3 October, Thursday at 1:00pm, "That's Life" host Lois Richter will interview Councilmember Dan Carson. He will explain about the CHANGE TO DISTRICT ELECTIONS. Both the history of why it happened and the complex process we are now in to finish setting things up.

There will be more public meetings, but things are happening VERY fast (because of the state-mandated 90-day timeframe) so if you are interested in elections, NOW is the time to pay attention!

If you have questions you would like me to pose to Dan, please email them to the show's new eddress -- KDRT.ThatsLife@gmail.com -- before 8:00 am Thursday.

"That's Life" broadcasts live at 1 pm Thursdays, re-plays @ 2pm Sundays.

David Jacobin Shares His Passion , Recorded on Sept 27th, 2019

Fri, 09/27/2019 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

Listen now as David Jacobin shares with us through his lyrics, music and conversation. David writes music to reflect the times, searching for beauty, joy, sadness and truth. He hopes that the songs he writes will help inspire people to create a better world for all it's inhabitants. Visit David at davidjacobin

 

Davisville, Sept. 23, 2019: Growing older in Yolo

Mon, 09/23/2019 - 6:10pm | Bill Buchanan

If you follow the news, you know that the population is aging and changing as more people live longer--and that baby boomers want more from their senior years than previous generations expected. Our guests today talk about the demographic trend and some of the effects we're already seeing in Davis and Yolo County: Christi Skibbins, executive director of Meals on Wheels in Yolo County, and Sheila Allen, executive director of the Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance.

High Country Music Radio Explores the Music of the Bristol Recordings, Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 11 a.m.

Sun, 09/22/2019 - 9:18am | David A. Reynolds

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High Country Music Radio

If you’re following the Ken Burn’s documentary “Country Music,” you’ll have heard about the Bristol recordings. In 1927 Ralph Peer, with the Victor Talking Machine Co., set up a temporary music studio in Bristol, Va., to record Appalachian musicians and their songs. The best-known artists emerging from the sessions are Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. Rusty Nail will explore the Bristol recordings, pairing an original recording with a more contemporary cover of that same song. One cover featured in this week's program includes Boz Scaggs with Duane Allman on guitar. The show will open with two songs highlighting families living and working in coal country. Not often associated with country music, Natalie Merchant contributes to the coal country song list, and provides beautiful and haunting vocals. 

"Big Ben" Huseby in the Studio - Recorded Sep 20th, 2019

Fri, 09/20/2019 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

Ben Huseby is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and entertainer, performing in genres that span country, blues, folk, traditional jazz, and modern pop. He performs as a solo loop artist under the moniker Big Ben, fronts the cover band Big Ben and the Brians on vocals and guitar, and fronts the traditional Dixieland band Big Ben and the Bay Area Ramblers on vocals and trombone.

Ben, a trombonist with the U.S. Air Force Band since 2011, has been stationed with the Band of the Golden West at Travis AFB since 2018. He has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Africa as an active-duty musician, and has performed countless times for ambassadors, international dignitaries, and civic and military leaders, including the president of Estonia and former President Obama.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Minot State University in North Dakota, and a master’s in music education from the prestigious Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music. Find him on Facebook @BigBenMusic, on Instagram @big.ben.music, or at www.bigbenmusic.net

Listening Lyrics playlist for 09/20/2019

Win General Admission Weekend Passes to Aftershock Festival 2019!

Fri, 09/20/2019 - 1:08pm | The Alchemist

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Aftershock Festival 2019

Tune into Reaper Radio on KDRT from 10 pm to Midnight Friday, Sept. 20th  for a chance to win a pair of general admission weekend passes to Aftershock 2019 - Oct. 11th -13th at Discovery Park, Sacramento.  Described as the largest rock/metal festival in California, it has sold out for the past few years, so this year they've expanded to a 3-day festival.  Listen tonight and KDRT DJ "The Alchemist" will announce this week's featured artist at the beginning of Reaper Radio. When you hear the featured artist, log onto the KDRT 95.7 FM Facebook page and enter the title of the song played. The first correct response will win the pair of weekend passes. More information about Aftershock here: https://bit.ly/2Xb7suD

Joel Daniel Shares His Music and Story. Recorded Sep 13th, 2019

Fri, 09/13/2019 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

Joel Daniel - listen in now 

Joel is a longtime resident of Davis, California.  In his twenties he started a band with his closest friends called Shayna and the Bulldog ("SatB") (https://shayna.bandcamp.com/), an Americana / Indie Rock band. They made two albums together and played hundreds of shows throughout the Western and Southwestern US.  

Somewhere along the way, Joel started a children's band called, The Hoots, (www.hootquarters.com).   For this project, he's written four albums of material, won countless awards - including: a Parent's Choice Award - sold many records, and played hundreds of shows.  Joel started producing an educational children's video series called, Hoot Quarters, starring an owl, who thinks he knows everything, but doesn't, and the The Hoots, who help said owl, Oliver, along the right path. 

Recently Joel started writing some new "grown up" music.  In the summer of 2019 he started to play these songs out in public.  They are the first songs he would consider to be solo songs - outside of The Hoots -that he has written and performed.  He hopes to record them in the coming months and play them out in a more band oriented context in the near future. 

Social Links:      https://www.facebook.com/joeldanielmusic

Jazz After Dark September 10 2019

Tue, 09/10/2019 - 6:57pm | Don Shor

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Coming up tonight at 8 pm on Jazz After Dark:

Nat King Cole, Erroll Garner, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Annie Ross, Jimmy Raney, Chico Hamilton, Nancy Wilson, Stan Getz, Stuff Smith, Claude Bolling Big Band, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Farmer, Eiji Kitamura.

Live 8 pm Tuesdays on KDRT-LP 95.7 FM in Davis, CA.

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

Playlists, archives, and RSS Feed here: https://kdrt.org/blogs/don-shor-0

 

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