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KDRT 95.7 FM is grassroots radio from Davis, CA, airing an eclectic mix of music and public-affairs programming. A project of nonprofit Davis Media Access, KDRT streams worldwide via KDRT.org.

 

OUR PROGRAMS

The Golden Road

​Join Wayne Hagan and take a musical journey down the Golden Road and explore the music of the Grateful Dead, its roots, and its many offshoots. Past DJs include Alligator, Lee Maddex, and Rod Moseanko. What a long strange trip!

Live Tuesday 2-4pm
Replays Sunday 1-3pm
DJ(s): 
Wayne Hagen
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Taste, Talk and Whine: All about Wines

Taste Talk & Whine

Tune in for weekly discussions on topics related to wine making and wine enjoyment — plus occasional guests and engagement with listeners. Topics will span the spectrum from technical growing, making, and tasting to what we're drinking to the best places to find a bottle locally.

Live Tuesday 5:30-6pm
DJ(s): 
Nicole Salengo Lee, Tree Kilpatrick
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Roots, Shoots and Leaves

Roots, Shoots and Leaves' DJ Tree has a theory of music that involves a tree. Suffice it to say that it involves a trinity — an exploration of themes and connections among recording artists — and otherwise very few boundaries. Listen for music old and new, known and unknown. And if you listen long enough, you may experience some musical enlightenment. 

Live Tuesday 6-8pm
Replays Saturday 7-9pm
DJ(s): 
Tree Kilpatrick
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Education Beat

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KDRT is proud to air EdSource’s new show, Education Beat: Getting to the heart of California schools.

From EdSource: 

"Join us each week as we cover everything from preschool to college, bringing you the personal stories behind the headlines.   We want you to hear the voices that are too often drowned out in the broader conversation: parents, teachers, and the students themselves."

 

Live Monday 5:10-5:30pm
Homepage URL: 
A production of Ed Source
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Listening Lyrics

Listening Lyrics, Pieter Pastoor, KDRT
Welcome to an hour of LISTENING LYRICS. Right here on KDRT 95.7FM in Davis, California. Listening Lyrics is a genre free zone - we feature the artist. What makes them do their thing. Listen to the hope and satisfaction in their voices. Listen to what only commercial free community radio can bring you. Close your eyes - open your ears - relax your mind. Join host Pieter Pastoor as he sends color to your ears. Now lets enter, the mother of all that is music and lyrics and the human capability of producing art.
Live Friday 4-5pm
Replays Tuesday 10-11pm, Sunday 12-1pm
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
Homepage URL: 
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day on KDRT-LP

Fri, 01/14/2022 - 2:58pm | Jeff Shaw

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 17, tune into KDRT online or over the air to hear speeches from the Rev. King throughout the day: 7 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 12 p.m., 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. We hope listeners will enjoy reflecting on his powerful words.

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Davis Garden Show, Jan. 13, 2022

Thu, 01/13/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics include:

  • Some tomatoes to grow from seed
  • Fertilizing citrus
  • Grevilleas and Callistemons

and more!

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The Folk Brothers for Jan. 12, 2022: Live from Glasgow

Wed, 01/12/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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That is, Kris Drever will be live from Glasgow, Scotland, joined by a band including Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) who has been busy rehearsing for the livestream on Monday, Jan. 17. This morning we played the title track from Drever's 2014 release Mark the Hard Earth. We followed that with The Pogues' version of "Greenland Whale Fisheries," one of the songs Kris is working up for his online concert.

Also on today's show: old timey music from Molsky's Mountain Drifters, trans-European trad Celtic from Fourth Moon, the theme music by The East Pointers from New Zealand's Under The Vines TV mini-series, and much more!

The Folk Brothers playlist for 01/12/2022
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Jazz After Dark January 11 2022

Tue, 01/11/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Music from the 1930s, 40s and 50s: Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzy Gillespie, Connie Haines and Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, and Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson on vocals and then with Johnny Hodges. We’ll hear Lu Watters and Kid Ory, the King Cole Trio, Dinah Washington with John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, Anita O'Day, Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond, and the Billy Taylor Quartet.

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Davisville, Jan. 10, 2022: Catching up with Jonathan Edwards — the one from Davis

Mon, 01/10/2022 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Today we talk with Jonathan Edwards, a reporter for the Davis Enterprise a dozen years ago who joined the Washington Post last July after working for news outlets in Nebraska and Virginia. We talk about differences in reporting, objectivity, establishing credibility when audiences are polarized, and what he learned in Davis all those years ago.

He also has a good story about the experience of sharing his name with other people, including the North Carolina senator who ran for vice president in 2004, the current governor of Louisiana, the musician who created the hit song “Sunshine” in 1972, and the influential 18th century American revivalist preacher who wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. The title inspired an English teacher to have a little fun when handing classwork back to Jonathan at Davis High School.

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'Murder Most Foul,' by Bob Dylan -- an analysis, on Listening Lyrics, Jan. 7, 2022

Fri, 01/07/2022 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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On today's progam, Listening Lyrics plays "Murder Most Foul" and spends a little time analyzing the song. This is done by means of playing some of the music Dylan mentions in the song.

From Wikipedia: "Murder Most Foul" by Bob Dylan is the 10th and final track on his 39th studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020). It was released as the album's lead single on March 27, 2020, through Columbia Records. The song addresses the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in the context of the greater American political and cultural history.

The song, Dylan's first original music released since 2012, generated an enormous amount of commentary. At 16 minutes, 56 seconds, it is the longest song he has released, eclipsing 1997's "Highlands" by 25 seconds.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 01/07/2022
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Davis Garden Show, Jan. 6, 2022

Thu, 01/06/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On today's program:

  • Paperwhites old and new
  • Planting citrus
  • Low shrubs for a dry planting area

and more!

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The Folk Brothers for Jan. 5, 2022: Source To Sea

Wed, 01/05/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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Julie Fowlis' new digital EP "Source To Sea" comprises three songs she wrote for a new podcast of the same name. The cohosts -- Lee Cragie and Jenny Graham -- travelled the length of the rivers Dee, Tay, and Clyde by foot, mountain bike, and pack raft, recording their interactions with the natural world they encountered on their journies. For her tracks, Fowlis used prose from Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain, a memoir of time spent in the wilds of the Scottish highlands.

On today's show, we played "Silver In Blue," Fowlis' ode to the River Clyde, plus new tracks from TRU, Talisk, Matt Stevens, Robert Plant, and Allison Krauss. And much more!

The Folk Brothers playlist for 01/05/2022
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Jazz After Dark January 04 2022

Tue, 01/04/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Helen Humes, Shorty Rogers, Ella Fitzgerald, Teddy Wilson Trio & Gerry Mulligan with Bob Brookmeyer & Bill Evans, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Joni James, Roland Kirk, Dave Brubeck, and Al Di Meola.

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Appreciating the music musicians left us in 2021, on Listening Lyrics

Fri, 12/31/2021 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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We lost a lot of musicians in 2021. Let's listen and appreciate the gift of sound they left us.

Happy New Year all.

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