Today on the Dinner Bell Roundup at 4 pm, Dug Deep & Jess Goddèsse saddle up to serve a truckload of swank, swingin' countrified sounds for you and your hounds. Eat your fill then pay your bill at KDRT.org/donate. :-)
Tonight at 6pm DJ Dug Deep will be joined by Jess Goddèsse as they combine their respective radio shows into a magnum opus, the Divine Electric Compost Intervention! Why would they attempt such a massive undertaking, I hear you ask? Well, it's fundraising time around the old community radio station, and we will be imploring listeners to make a donation and keep KDRT alive and well. You can donate a little sumpin sumpin yourself by going to KDRT.org. Should be a lot of fun and a lot of great music, so don't miss it!
This week we have the pleasure of learning about the Odd Fellows, Davis Lodge. Lodge Noble Grand Larry Guenther explains the mission and opportunities offered by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows -- an amazing and unique group of concerned volunteers -- to help citizens of their community. According to the Odd Fellows Creed, members believe in the universal brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. Odd Fellowship is non-partisan, non-sectarian, and welcomes all people without regard to religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, and national origin.
The Davis Lodge has more than 80 committees working with its volunteers to make Davis a better community for all of us. Listen in as Larry does a great job of representing the Odd Fellows.
Today's topics: frost information, dealing with gophers, poinsettias and cyclamen and other winter color, Amaryllis and paperwhites, and more.
Updated 12/1
For this week's show, Silver Nine Volt Heart host Rodriguez interviewed Jeff Sanford about his recent Cartoon Jazz Orchestra album, Playland at the Beach. This was as fun as it sounds!
Wildly creative cartoon soundtracks, heard on anything from the classic cartoons of the '40s and '50s with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to today's Anime, deliver an adventurous mash-up of classical, jazz, pop, folk, and everything in between. This music has a new home with Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Jazz Orchestra, a group of gifted, serious musicians who enjoy playing this zany, challenging music that swings like crazy.
Playland at the Beach was released by the Little Village Foundation, a California arts nonprofit that seeks to increase cross-cultural understanding by recording and producing underground artists whose music has not yet been discovered outside their community.
Jazz classics tonight. We’ll hear from Art Tatum, Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller. Big Band by Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Lionel Hampton, and Artie Shaw, and Sidney Bechet. Vocals by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and the Horace Silver Quintet with Bill Henderson. Dave Brubeck’s Take Five, and then Lena Horne, and Mose Allison.
Get yourself settled and turn off your phone, we're raising the curtain on our latest year-end movie show with Davis film critic Derrick Bang. We talk about the effects of this year's writers’ and actors’ strikes, streaming, some of the best and worst movies of 2023, and films he’s looking forward to — or not — during the next several weeks.
Derrick writes for the Davis Enterprise and his blog Derrick Bang on Film (the photo shows Derrick lurking behind a laptop displaying his blog).
updated Dec. 10
THANK YOU for supporting your local grassroots radio by donating to KDRT! Our DJs enjoyed visiting their colleagues' shows during on-air fundraising, and seeing many of you at the variety of live music events during the past two weeks. We're thrilled that your generosity so far has brought us to within 85 percent of our $7,000 goal. If it's slipped your mind, no worries, there's still time to donate.
Today's topics: new USDA zones, why you don’t like cilantro, November color in the garden from toyons and grapes, Liquidambars, lacewings on Tilias, saving tomato seeds, and a Thanksgiving essay.
This week host Pieter Pastoor is joined by Kelly Edwards to explore the Rolling Stones' 1973 release Goats Head Soup. Listen in as Kelly shares his thoughts on this record. After playing the entire album, we share a classic Jamaican goats head soup recipe. Much of the album was recorded in Jamaica.
