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About Us

KDRT is low-power grassroots radio located in Davis, California, airing an eclectic mix of music and public affairs programming, and building community by promoting dialogue, encouraging artistic expression, and acting as a forum for people who typically lack media access. Noncommercial radio KDRT 95.7 FM is a project of Davis Media Access (DMA.) DMA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Our mission reflects our values: localism, social equality, public participation, media literacy, diversity, and, of course, community media. Read more...

OUR PROGRAMS

Davis Music Connections

Davis has a very unique musical scene — from the Mondavi Center’s formal performances to the local clubs where bands and upcoming artists hone their craft. Local and visiting musicians are captured by Jim Buchanan on our Live Tracks program. On Davis Music Connections, we play past Davis bands of note, along with those who are currently touring, taking a little bit of Davis to the rest of the world.

Live Tuesday 3-4pm

Replays Wednesday 2-3pm

DJ(s):

Ned, Connections Clyde

3rd Streaming

Coined in 1957 by Brandeis University professor Gunther Schuller, “Third Stream” is a term used to describe the synthesis of classical and jazz. Join DJ Gary Chew to discover some Third Stream sounds for yourself.

Live Tuesday 1-3pm

Replays Thursday 9-11pm, Saturday 7-9pm

DJ(s):

Gary Chew

Homepage URL:

Third Streaming

Sometimes Folk

Bill Wagman explores an eclectic range of music, including traditional folk of the British Isles and the U.S, contemporary singer/songwriters on both sides of the Atlantic, and American roots music and some of its lesser-known offshoots. Tune in for a great music mix!

Live Wednesday 10-11am

Replays Monday 3-4pm, Thursday 3-4pm

DJ(s):

Bill Wagman

Homepage URL:

Sometimes Folk

A Constant Grin

DJ Chris Mussen presents all things modern indie, from shoegaze to psychedelic, dream pop to space rock, lo-fi to indie folk. Whatever you prefer on your indie playlists, A Constant Grin is sure to keep you smiling.

Live Friday 2-2:30pm

Replays Monday 9-9:30pm, Saturday 11:30pm-Sunday 12am, Sunday 7-7:30pm

DJ(s):

Chris Mussen

Homepage URL:

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Independent and Local

Independent and Local is a music program featuring local unsigned artists and bands, including "Moments" — brief interviews with experts in the scientific, health, and artistic communities about interesting topics and current events. The main focus is music, along with a few outside-the-box ideas.

Live Monday 4-5pm

Replays Wednesday 3-4pm

DJ(s):

snldjhawk

More programs ...

Jeff Sanford of the Cartoon Jazz Orchestra on Silver Nine Volt Heart, Nov. 30, 2023

Wed, 11/29/2023 - 7:03pm | Diane Crumley

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Today (Nov. 30) at 4, Silver Nine Volt Heart host Rodriguez will interview Jeff Sanford about his recent Cartoon Jazz Orchestra album, Playland at the Beach. This show is going to be fun!

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.

Grassroots gratitude from KDRT: More great shows coming up

Sun, 11/26/2023 - 10:29pm | Diane Crumley

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Giving Tuesday has concluded -- thank you for your support! -- but the special events and programming we've planned as part of our annual Fall On-Air Fundraiser will continue all week. Please consider donating to KDRT to support your local grassroots radio.

Meanwhile, we invite you to come hang out with KDRT DJs, volunteers and other fans of local music at these great shows coming up:

November 30, According to Bazooka at Sudwerk Restaurant patio, 6-8 PM
December 7, The Green Grass Snakes perform the entire Beatles' Rubber Soul album at Davis Odd Fellows Hall, 7 PM
December 8, Anton Barbeau and Charming Disaster at Watermelon Music -- The Melon Ball, 8 PM (tickets cost $20)

Davis Garden Show November 30 2023

Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: frost information, dealing with gophers, poinsettias and cyclamen and other winter color, Amaryllis and paperwhites, and more.

Jazz After Dark, Nov. 28, 2023

Tue, 11/28/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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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.

Davisville, Nov. 27, 2023: The strikes, best and worst movies, and what’s ahead

Mon, 11/27/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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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).

Davis Garden Show, Nov. 23, 2023

Thu, 11/23/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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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.

Kelly Edwards dives into 'Goats Head Soup' by the Rolling Stones, on Album of the Week, Nov. 22, 2023

Wed, 11/22/2023 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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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.

This week on Celtic Songlines: The Shee, Salt House, Gerry O'Connor and a lot more

Wed, 11/22/2023 - 9:13am | kdrtradio

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This week's Celtic Songlines features fiddler Gerry O'Connor, Cherish the Ladies, Ian MacInnes, from Scotland The Shee (pictured), Ashley Davis, Anúna with Michael McGlynn, Martin Hayes with The Common Ground Ensemble, from the UK the band Salt House, The Furrow Collective, Runa and the trio Molloy, Brady & Peoples.

Jazz After Dark, Nov. 21, 2023

Tue, 11/21/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Swing and more tonight: Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Count Basie, Chick Webb (featuring Ella Fitzgerald), Frank Sinatra with Harry James and his Orchestra, Artie Shaw & His Orchestra, The Mills Brothers, Mel Tormé, Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Johnny Hodges, Anita O'Day, Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Cassandra Wilson.

Liane Moody and the many facets of STEAC, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Nov. 17, 2023

Fri, 11/17/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Today we sit down with Liane Moody, the executive director of the Short Term Emergency Aid Committee, who explains the three areas -- rent, food and bills -- where this Davis nonprofit helps our neighbors who need short-term assistance. This wonderful organization could not function without its many volunteers.

For example, here's more about its Food Project, whose mission is to help STEAC's food pantry "have a steady, reliable source of non-perishable food year-round by collecting food from community members every other month. While food drives are an invaluable and critical source of food, they provide only about 30 to 40% of our needs, and we often run short between these events."

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 11/17/2023

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