In the Key of Folk, April 2, 2025

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 12:30pm | Karen Leyse

This afternoon on In the Key of Folk, you'll listen to several tracks from newly released albums by Rees Shad, The Pairs, and by Alison Krauss & Union Station. Since it's April, the month in which we celebrate the Earth, you'll also hear some tracks that remind us of our one-and-only home's delights, as sung by Rita Hosking, Richard Shindell, and Nightingale. And there is even more, so tune in at 2 p.m. right here on KDRT.org or at KDRT, 95.7 FM!

Jazz After Dark, April 1, 2025

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

On tonight's show:

  • Benny Goodman, Let's Dance
  • Chick Webb, I Ain't Got Nobody
  • John Coltrane w Dinah Washington, Fast Movin' Mama
  • Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana
  • Stuff Smith, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  • Johnny Hodges, Early Morning Rock
  • Clark Terry, C-Jam Blues
  • Cal Tjader,  Descarga Cubana
  • Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson, Stardust
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Fine and Mellow
  • Johnny Hodges & Gerry Mulligan, Back Beat
  • Abbey Lincoln, Throw It Away
  • Clark Terry and Bobby Brookmeyer, Bye Bye Blackbird

Davisville, March 31, 2025: Tales of vanished Yolo County from 19th century painters

Mon, 03/31/2025 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

If you go this spring to the Gibson House, a 19th century mansion-turned-museum in Woodland, you can see portraits of people who lived in Yolo County in the 19th century. There are a lot of stories in those paintings, and in the painters, all of whom worked in Yolo County.

One of the six artists exhibited is Calthea Campbell Vivian, described as “one of the leading artists of the West” in her time. Another was an accomplished painter who couldn’t make a living at it, which ended his marriage … and his daughter became a famous opera singer in Britain. And her daughter, his granddaughter, became the youngest baroness in England.

Who are the people in the paintings? What did they want their portraits to tell us? What’s it like to stand in the rooms of this landmark house and look at them, looking back at us? We talk about all this today on Davisville with Sarah Bartlett, museum curator for the Yolo County Historical Collection, which is presenting “Picturing Yolo County exhibit: paintings by past local artists” through June 17.

Photo shows painting of 66-year-old Mary Blowers of Woodland, 1896, by Calthea Campbell Vivian

IMPLOSION – 26 March 2025

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 4:30pm | Nick Saloman

The extraordinary Nick Saloman returns from a triumphant Bevis Frond tour to bring us a brand new edition of IMPLOSION! Tune in at 5 p.m. Pacific for tunes from Them, Floating Bridge, Beautiful Daze, Love Sculpture plus tales of touring and more, right here on your favorite community station — KDRT 95.7 FM  | KDRT.org — and wherever you get your podcasts. Cheers!

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