Tony Morales joins us this week to share his experiences as both a recipient and a leader of Empower Yolo. Tony discusses the benefits and results of this all-important program.
On today's program: Rain, more rain, and spring diseases. Photinia hedges and fireblight. Low shrub alternatives. Our March bloom calendar, and another front yard veggie garden!
Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) -- one of the leading lights of the British folk revival of the '50s -- was among many things a singer, a song collector, an actor, a radio presenter, and a prodigious songwriter. This morning we celebrate the latter with contributions from Pete Morton, Seth Lakeman, Christy Moore, Johnny Cash, as well as the great man himself.
Tonight’s show: Oscar Aleman, Fats Waller with Jack Teagarden & Eddie Condon, Julie London, Dave Brubeck, Freddie Gambrell, Benny Carter with Ben Webster & Barney Bigard, Jimmy Smith & Lalo Schifrin, Frank Strozier, Oscar Peterson, Stanley Turrentine, Dianne Reeves, and Cornell Dupree.
This week’s show is 1 of the all-timers, with hot tracks from Lacy J Dalton, Darrell Scott, Charley Crockett, Brennen Leigh, the incomparable Hayes Carll, and so many more.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, known for both talent and self-effacing humor, will play at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in Davis on April 28. This week on Davisville, founder George Hinchliffe and creative producer/performer Leisa Rea talk about the music and why the orchestra came together in the first place.
“We’re a strange kind of musical juggernaut,” Rea says, “and we seem to delight people all over the world, no matter what the culture, no matter whether there’s a language barrier or not. Somehow the ukulele is the people’s instrument.”
Among other things, we talk about tuning, their choice of songs, ukes as kindling, and Hinchliffe’s friendly encounter with George Harrison of the Beatles. A typical Ukes concert, Rea and Hinchliffe say, “is a sort of white-knuckle shopping-cart dash through just about every musical genre.”
Today's program has an investigation into why the curriculum of English classes needs to introduce new books. Also today: how the school schedule could compromise students' learning, what a day living on the farm is like, and the differences between small and big colleges.
Packages by Lucas Liu, Noah Meyer, Naneh Grigor, and Alex Miyamoto
This edition of Live Tracks commemorates the party thrown when the host was 10,000 days old, 40 years ago this week.
Live Tracks didn't exist for another three decades, but its spirit was alive and well that night. Lava lamps were lit, cool recreational beverages of choice were in good supply, and this week you can hear the soundtrack.
Some songs even have the pops and crackle of well-loved vintage vinyl.
(The photo shows our host in the KDRT studio, on or about day 21,941.)
On today's program: A quick overview of weed management, fixing a thin lawn, Oklahoma redbuds and other small trees, and more.
Tonight’s show: the music of George and Ira Gershwin. First George Gershwin himself, then Benny Goodman, Helen Merrill, Mel Tormé with Marty Paich, Julie London, Miles Davis, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, the Vince Guaraldi Trio, Stan Getz, Art Pepper & Bill Perkins, Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Joe Pass, Dianne Reeves, and Marian McPartland with Gene Harris.
