In the Key of Folk, April 23, 2025

Wed, 04/23/2025 - 1:00pm | Karen Leyse

April is Earth month and yesterday was Earth Day! Therefore, today In the Key of Folk honors mother earth with tracks that cover the good, bad, and little-known aspects of life on our planet. We'll cover tracks by Laurie Lewis, Rita Hosking, Dougie MacLean, and Alien Folklife, among others.

The second half of the hour will be devoted to a sample of favorite contra dance tunes in honor of the 39th Anniversary Contra Dance this Saturday night, put on by the Sacramento Country Dance Society. You'll hear tracks by The Free Raisins, Toss the Possum, the Syncopaths, and String Fire. Tune in at 2 this afternoon, and don't forget to put your dancing shoes on! Right here on KDRT 95.7 FM |  KDRT.org!

Jazz After Dark, April 22, 2025

Tue, 04/22/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

On tonight's show:

  • Clyde McCoy, Sugar Blues
  • New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Oh! Susannah, Dust Off That Old Piano
  • Coleman Hawkins & Buck Washington, On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • Sidney Bechet, Ce môssieu qui parle (This Gentleman Who Speaks)
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet, Somebody Loves Me
  • Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Tuxedo Junction
  • Art Farmer & Gigi Gryce, A Night At Tony's
  • Red Garland, If I Were a Bell (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Red Garland, The Very Thought of You (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Nat Adderley, Violets for Your Furs (feat. Wes Montgomery & Sam Jones)
  • Wynton Kelly, Skatin'
  • Dianne Reeves, Lullaby of Broadway
  • Stanley Turrentine, Salt Song

Divine Intervention – April 18, 2025

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 5:01pm | Jess Goddésse

Divine Intervention is ready with a brimming-over plate full of new music from Art D'Ecco, Cheekface, Craig Finn, Frog Eyes, Heaven, L.A. Witch, Mekons, Perfume Genius, Sharp Pins, Young Widows; plus some tracks from our Goddess of the Month, Cassandra Lewis; and an extra-special memorial Vinyl Vespers. Turn it up at 6 p.m. Pacific, right here on KDRT 95.7 FM + KDRT.org + your fave podcast platforms.

Jazz After Dark, April 15, 2025

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

On tonight’s show:

  • Benny Carter, All of Me
  • Erroll Garner Trio, I'll Remember April
  • Charlie Parker, K.C. Blues
  • Stan Getz, 'Round About Midnight
  • Ella Fitzgerald, From This Moment On
  • Oscar Peterson & Louis Armstrong, Moon Song
  • Blossom Dearie, Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
  • Buddy Greco, Fly Me to The Moon
  • Duke Ellington, All the Things You Are
  • Betty Roché, Day by Day
  • Yusef Lateef, Like It Is
  • Billy Butler, Satin Doll
  • Paul Desmond, Embarcadero

Davisville, April 14, 2025: As others fled Saigon 50 years ago, she stayed

Mon, 04/14/2025 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

You might have seen the famous photo of a U.S. helicopter incongruously perched atop the roof of a Saigon building, with people lined up on a sloping ladder, backlit by the sky, hoping to board. The image illustrates the final hours of the evacuation of U.S. citizens, South Vietnamese allies and others from what was then South Vietnam on the day its capital, Saigon, fell to the North Vietnamese army and its allies at the end of the Vietnam War.

When so many were scrambling to leave, a few Americans chose to stay. Claudia Krich, a retired teacher who lives in Davis, was among them. Her journal of the experience is the basis of her new book, Those Who Stayed / A Vietnam Diary. She went to Vietnam in 1973 to work in a medical relief program. On today’s Davisville she talks about why she stayed when Saigon surrendered, her experiences in Vietnam, and what she saw that day. She’ll talk about her experience at the Davis library at 6 p.m. April 30, exactly 50 years after the end of the war.

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