Davisville, June 9, 2025: Veterans of Paul’s Place plan to build more Yolo homes for the homeless

Mon, 06/09/2025 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

Davis needs hundreds of additional homes for people with very low incomes, says Bill Pride during today’s Davisville, and other Yolo County cities have similar needs. As executive director of a new nonprofit, Yolo Community Builders, Pride wants to respond to that demand by building more tiny housing units throughout the county, inspired by the innovative Paul’s Place in Davis, for people who would otherwise be homeless.

Today we talk with Pride and Maria Ogrydziak, an accomplished architect who will design the new units. Pride is a former executive director of Davis Community Meals and Housing, which built and runs Paul's Place, a four-story building in central Davis that combines permanent housing, transitional housing, and various services to help people escape homelessness. Ogrydziak designed Paul's Place.

Other nonprofits would own and offer support services at the locations that Yolo Community Builders plans to develop. YCB is developing these partnerships with nonprofits, and Pride hopes to announce the first projects by the end of the year.

(Image, taken from Yolo Community Builders website, shows two tiny homes side by side)

Kyle Monhollen and Davis Music Fest XIII, on Listening Lyrics, June 6, 2025

Fri, 06/06/2025 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

Kyle Monhollen and his fearless battalion of volunteers are again storming Davis with a musical takeover of epic proportions. We’re talking about the Davis Music Fest with nearly 40 acts, seven venues, and more musical genres than in the Armadillo Music store record bins.

It all goes down June 20, 21, and 22.

Kyle joins us to share behind-the-scenes highlights, harrowing tales, and a few laughs about the heroic effort it takes to bring this sonic spectacle to life. Tune in—you might just hear how close we came to having a polka-punk fusion band headline. (Spoiler: too close.)

All the info, acts, venues, times and playlist available at www.davismusicfest.com

Laurie Lewis on the Yolo County Breakdown, June 6, 2025

Fri, 06/06/2025 - 8:52am | Rocky Outcrop

Legend of California bluegrass, Laurie Lewis joins Rocky Outcrop on this week's episode of The Yolo County Breakdown! Laurie is a two-time IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year, and she is a fiddle player, singer and songwriter who has had an immense influence on the traditional sounds that have come out of the Golden State over the last five decades.

Laurie will perform at the upcoming Father's Day Bluegrass Festival up in beautiful Grass Valley, Calif. This year marks the 50th anniversary of this festival, and as part of the celebration Laurie will be appearing with her band The Right Hands as well as alongside her partner of 50 years, Kathy Kallick, with whom she founded the Good Ol' Persons and trailblazed a place in the history of bluegrass music. Her latest album, Trees, is another beautiful and timeless contribution to the library of recorded bluegrass music that will surely endure the test of time.

In the Key of Folk, June 4, 2025

Wed, 06/04/2025 - 12:30pm | Karen Leyse

This is a week of new and recent releases for the most part. Join in the discoveries on In the Key of Folk at 2 p.m. today! They'll include the solo singing debut by Scottish piper Donald Lindsay, and tracks by Poor Man's Gambit, Rrinaco, The Faux Pas, Lisa Bastoni, and others. We'll also feature a track by Jaeger and Reid, who will be performing in Davis this weekend, along with another track from Kora Feder's excellent new album, Some Kind of Truth. Stay cool and find a place to tune in!

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Davis Music Fest with Kyle Monhollen, on Listening Lyrics, June 6

Mon, 06/02/2025 - 10:41am | Pieter Pastoor

The 13th annual Davis Music Fest kicks off June 20—and trust us, it's not just lucky number 13 for the organizers! This week on Listening Lyrics, we'll serve up a musical sampler platter featuring songs from the many artists rolling into town for the weekend. Think of it as a sneak preview with less walking and no cover charge.

With dozens of artists, venues, and genres on the menu, your ears are in for a feast.

Joining us is Kyle Monhollen—the man in the middle of this musical mayhem—who’ll dish on what it takes to pull off an event of this scale (spoiler: coffee and spreadsheets).

Tune in Friday at 4 p.m. and get a feel for the festival vibe. You might even walk away with a game plan for which venues to hit—and maybe a few new favorite bands to name-drop.

Sax in the studio on Listening Lyrics, May 30, 2025

Fri, 05/30/2025 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

Meet Harald Tollerup — Davis High School senior, jazz saxophonist, journalist, and a young man who treats the future like it's his personal playground (and he's already winning).

Harald dropped by the studio this week with a playlist he hand-picked himself. Now, I believe a playlist says a lot about a person — and Harald’s? It spoke volumes. It was creative, honest, and refreshingly original … just like the guy who made it.

Not only does Harald share the soundtrack of his world, he also brings out the sax and plays live — because why just talk about jazz when you can be jazz?

It’s one great hour of community radio — don’t miss it!

Listening Lyrics playlist for 05/30/2025
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