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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.

 

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Davis Garden Show

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Nursery pro Don Shor has been gardening and selling plants in Davis for more than three decades.

Join Don and co-host Lois Richter as they discuss and answer your questions on all things for the garden.

Submit a question (or a brag!) to DavisGardenShow@gmail.com 

Live Thursday 12-1pm
Replays Saturday 9-10am
DJ(s): 
Lois Richter, Don Shor
Homepage URL: 
Davis Garden Show on the Web
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Classical Excursions

Greg LaTraille

Classical radio programs often focus on well-known light classics and ignore challenging and imaginative masterworks, especially from the rich repertoire of 20th century music, which is very diverse. This results in listeners who are unaware of many wonderful works. Excursions will present short and longer works by famous as well as less known composers, with insightful commentary by a composer with years of experience in radio, classical marketing, and music education.

Live Friday 11am-1pm
DJ(s): 
Greg LaTraille
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Divine Intervention (1st/3rd week) – The Electric Compost Heap (2nd/4th week)

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The Electric Compost Heap with Dug Deep fertlilizes the airwaves every 2nd & 4th Friday, digging through the delightful detritus of blues, soul, country, rock, reggae, jazz, funk, punk, psych, and more to concoct a rich, nutrient-dense musical humus. If there's a 5th Friday, Dug's here too. Dig it, Heapsters!

Live Friday 6-8pm
Replays Monday 9-11pm, Sunday 4-6pm
DJ(s): 
Jess Goddésse, Dug Deep
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The Cerealist

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The Cerealist curates chilling broadcasts of loud + bizarre soundscapes from an ancient cave bellowing death metal from around the globe, with smoky stage lights on music from American, Swedish, and Norwegian shredders. Tune in every week for 30 brutal minutes of blast-beat heaven!

Live Wednesday 7:30-8pm
DJ(s): 
The Cerealist
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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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Spring! The Audio Ecotone for March 21, 2025

Fri, 03/21/2025 - 12:44pm | Eddy Owt

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At 2:01 a.m. Pacific Time on March 20, the sun crossed the plane of the equator, marking the vernal equinox and the start of spring! Across the centuries and cultures, the vernal equinox and coming of spring has not only had practical meaning (time to start sowing seeds, coming of hay fever season, etc.), but has also naturally been imbued with including meaning and symbolism -- Rebirth, Rejuvenation, Renewal, Love, Youth and the Passing of Darkness. Couldn't we all use a little bit of that right now?

On today's Audio Ecotone, we will celebrate those themes and the coming of spring with music old and new from Elvis Presley, The Flaming Lips, Blossom Dearie, Cibo Matto, Caroline Polarchek and a few other surprises. Listen live at 3 p.m. Pacific on KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis or online at kdrt.org. The show will replay Saturday 3/22 at 6 p.m. and Tuesday 3/25 at 7 a.m.

You can leave your thoughts on the show or follow me: @eddy-owt.bsky.social.

Photo, by N. Kapellas, shows silver bush lupine, Grassland Garden at Ninos Parkway, Natomas

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Davis Garden Show, March 20, 2025

Thu, 03/20/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: beans and watermelons revisited, plants for shade including some roses, and much more.

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In the Key of Folk, March 19, 2025

Wed, 03/19/2025 - 12:30pm | Karen Leyse

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After a week with a lot of great music to be heard out and about locally, join In the Key of Folk, coming up, for an hour of musical reflections. We start off with a couple of tracks from the newly released album by Countercurrent, a duo from the Pacific Northwest. We'll also be covering new releases by hometown favorite Kora Feder, and by New Englanders Jean Rohe and Sean Kiely. We'll include tracks by Kalos, Paddy on the Binge, Mad Agnes, Evie Ladin, Tom Jutz and Eric Brace. Some of these singer-songwriters and musicians may not be that familiar to you -- give it a listen and enjoy! That's this afternoon, Wednesday, at 2 p.m. on KDRT.org!

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Jazz After Dark, March 18, 2025

Tue, 03/18/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show:

  • Bix Beiderbecke, Copenhagen
  • Glenn Miller, Adios
  • Benny Goodman, Rose Room
  • Benny Goodman, Big John's Special
  • Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Fools Rush In
  • Doris Day and Les Brown, Sentimental Journey
  • Billie Holiday, What A Little Moonlight Can Do
  • Ella Fitzgerald, You're the Top
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Serenade in Blue
  • Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
  • Nat "King" Cole, Nature Boy
  • Kenny Burrell Octet, A String of Pearls
  • Dave Brubeck, Upstage Rumba
  • Clark Terry and Paul Gonsalves, Funky
  • Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill, Macarena
  • Clark Terry, Jam Session with Oscar Peterson, Misty
  • Dianne Reeves (with Clark Terry), I Hadn't Anyone ‘til You
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Davisville, March 17, 2025: Clean, cheaper than PG&E, resilient -- microgrid proposes big change in energy for new parts of Davis

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Advances in technology, say today’s guests on Davisville, make it possible to create a community microgrid in new parts of Davis that would deliver clean, resilient, solar-powered energy to its customers for less than Pacific Gas & Electric charges. To accomplish this, Davis would need to form a municipal utility, and a developer building on vacant land would need to sign on. If the community microgrid succeeds, the model could be repeated throughout the state.

Ari Halberstadt and Lorenzo Kristov, who have been working on the project, explain how it all would come together, including why the microgrid would have to serve new customers who aren't already served by PG&E.

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Rainbow City Park, in the studio on Listening Lyrics, March 14, 2025

Fri, 03/14/2025 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Well, that was a first! In 13 years of hosting Listening Lyrics, I have never—never—forgotten that I had a guest band scheduled. My plan was set, a themed show ready to roll… until I played my first scheduled set. And just like that, everything changed.

Enter Rainbow City Park.

This insanely talented indie-rock/dream pop band from Northern California took the studio by storm. Their sound is a beautiful collision of '90s alt-rock nostalgia and modern indie influences like Phoebe Bridgers, Diiv, and Pinegrove. Hailing from Sacramento, Davis, and San Francisco, they bring a raw, emotional depth to their music that’s impossible to ignore.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 03/14/2025
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The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour – March 13, 2025

Thu, 03/13/2025 - 6:15pm | Russ Tolman

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Coming up this evening on The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour, a fine selection of tunes from Gill Landry, Mayer Hawthorne, Nick Lowe, Theo Lawrence, and more. Listen up at 9 p.m. Pacific on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org — streaming thereafter on your favorite podcast application. :-)

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Davis Garden Show, March 13, 2025

Thu, 03/13/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: spring rains and disease issues, thrips on nectarines, small fruit trees for yards and school gardens, and more.

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Jazz After Dark, March 11, 2025

Tue, 03/11/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight's show:

  • Louis Armstrong, What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue
  • Gene Krupa and His Orchestra with Anita O’Day and Roy Eldridge, Let Me Off Uptown
  • Frank Sinatra, Stormy Weather
  • Art Pepper with Sonny Redd, These Foolish Things
  • Ahmad Jamal, Music! Music! Music!
  • James Clay, Pavanne
  • Stuff Smith, They Can't Take That Away from Me
  • Ella Fitzgerald, The Man I Love
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Over the Rainbow
  • Eubie Blake, Spanish Venus
  • Charlie Byrd, Saudade de Bahía
  • Gerry Mulligan, Walking Shoes
  • Cassandra Wilson, O Sole Mio Funk
  • New Orleans' Own the Dukes of Dixieland, Petite Fleur
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Divine Intervention – March 7, 2025

Fri, 03/07/2025 - 5:49pm | Jess Goddésse

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On this week's edition of Divine Intervention, hear the latest releases from Califone, Delivery, FACS, The Murder Capital, Prison, Black Viiolet, The Velveteers... two tunes from our Goddess of the Month, Dana Gillespie... a Vinyl Vespers track... Friday at 6 p.m. Pacific on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org... always streaming via your favorite podcast apps.

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