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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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Jazz After Dark

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Join jazz aficionado Don Shor as he explores the diverse and fascinating world of jazz. Jazz After Dark spans the gamut, from roots in boogie-woogie, blues, and ragtime through traditional and straight-ahead jazz, soul jazz, bossa nova, and more. 

Live Tuesday 8-9pm
Replays Thursday 10-11pm
DJ(s): 
Don Shor
Homepage URL: 
Jazz After Dark on the Web (blog with playlists)
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In the Key of Folk

In the Key of Folk with Karen Leyse offers music that will keep you humming or dancing along — perhaps both! The focus is on traditional and current folk music, Americana, and bluegrass, with Celtic, Nordic, and Spanish infusions — wherever Karen's travels and interests take her. In addition, the music of contra dance, an American Folk tradition that came with English and other settlers, will often be threaded through the hour. Don’t know it? Check it out.

Live Wednesday 2-3pm
Replays Thursday 7-8am, Sunday 10-11am
DJ(s): 
Karen Leyse
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The News Cycle

The Davis Senior High School's Blue Devil Hub produce this weekly show for the Davis community. The show dives into issues relevant to students and residents. In addition to KDRT, you can find the show at bluedevilhub.com. It is broadcast on 95.7 KDRT at 8 AM on Mondays and noon on Tuesdays.

Live Monday 5-5:10pm
DJ(s): 
DHS Journalism Class
Homepage URL: 
Davis Hub
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3rd Streaming

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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 Monday 1-3pm
DJ(s): 
Gary Chew
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Davisville

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Davis has interesting people, ideas, connections, and events. On Davisville, host Bill Buchanan presents stories that have some connection to Davis. The program has won 14 Excellence in Journalism awards from the San Francisco Press Club since 2018, plus a national Hometown Media Award for excellence from the Alliance for Community Media in 2024. Contact: davisville @ dcn.org

Live Monday 5:30-6pm
Replays Saturday 8:30-9am
DJ(s): 
Bill Buchanan
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Jazz After Dark, April 30, 2024

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Classic jazz tonight:

  • Erskine Hawkins, After Hours
  • Count Basie, One O'Clock Jump
  • Benny Goodman (Helen Ward vocals), You Turned the Tables On Me
  • Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Jeru
  • Doris Day with Les Brown, Sentimental Journey
  • Doris Day, Makin' Whoopee
  • Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet, Mamblues
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Love For Sale
  • Art Pepper with Conte Candoli, Old Devil Moon
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines, Black Coffee
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges, I'm Beginning to See the Light
  • Abbey Lincoln, Brother Can You Spare A Dime
  • Stephane Grappelli & Barney Kessel, It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
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Davisville, April 29, 2024: Capitol Corridor’s plans include underpass from Olive Drive to Davis station, more trains

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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The Capitol Corridor trains that connect Davis with the Bay Area and Sacramento are evolving as the service recovers from the pandemic. The corridor is adding passenger cars and resuming a full weekday schedule this year, experimenting with a tap-on/tap-off payment system to eventually replace tickets, and proceeding with plans to change access in Davis so that passengers board from an expanded center platform reached via an underpass (or perhaps an overpass) from the parking lot and Olive Drive.

Longer term, the service plans to shift to hydrogen or possibly electric power for its trains. We talk about all this, as well as this year's ridership trends and efforts to improve their timekeeping, on Davisville with Rob Padgette, managing director of the service. Today’s program updates our conversation about the corridor from early 2022.

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Divine Intervention – April 26, 2024

Fri, 04/26/2024 - 5:42pm | Jess Goddésse

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Coming up at 6p Pacific, it's Divine Intervention – that random mix of rock/pop weirdness, including a Vinyl Vesper spin, a couple of tunes from our Goddess of the Month, and new music from Charming Disaster, Dog Party, Kid Congo... And no, it won't really be scary – no fear!

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Let's create music with Kunwoo Hong, on Listening Lyrics, April 26, 2024

Fri, 04/26/2024 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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My personal choice is to be around creative people. That of course does not only mean music, but today it does. I spent an hour with a jazz musician who is not only creative but also very articulate about his creative process.  Kunwoo Hong creates music on his laptop with a program called Note Flight. He plays piano, but his true love is percussion. Kunwoo spent the hour going through his process of creating a song along with some of his finished work. Listen and marvel at how we humans thrive on creativity.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 04/26/2024
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Davis Garden Show, April 25, 2024

Thu, 04/25/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: articles about easy gardening, roses for a school garden project, watering schedules for houseplants. repairing or replacing a damaged lawn, and more.

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Jazz After Dark, April 23, 2024

Tue, 04/23/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On this episode: we’ve got some '30s jazz first, Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing, and Lester Young. Then samba and bossa nova, with Stan Getz our featured artist, working with Gary McFarland, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and we’ll hear Paul Desmond and Walter Wanderley.

For the rest of the program, it’s Bill Evans, Pat Metheny, The Rosenberg Trio, Dianne Reeves with Fabrizio Bosso, Allen Toussaint, and Jim Hall.

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Where are they now? Hits from the past, on Listening Lyrics, April 19, 2024

Fri, 04/19/2024 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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In this hour we listen to some past one-hit (or more) wonders, and learn what happened to the singers and writers.

Check out the playlist. It is amazing how some of these songs became part of our musical heritage.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 04/19/2024
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Electric Compost Heap -- April 19, 2024

Fri, 04/19/2024 - 5:08pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight (April 19) in the Electric Compost Heap at 6 p.m. Pacific time, host Dug Deep will feature tunes from a few bands playing at this year's Davis Music Festival -- the schedule was just released and it has us pretty jacked up! I mean, just look at this lineup! Oh, and the official color of tonight's show is chartreuse! Yes indeed, hope you can tune in at KDRT.org.

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Davis Garden Show, April 18, 2024

Thu, 04/18/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: tomato time, marguerite problems, low water hedge choices, fireblight on Photinia, caterpillars on passion flower vines, ornamental sages, April flowers, clivias, and  more.

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Join us for Suds & Sounds – April 24, 2024

Wed, 04/17/2024 - 3:54pm | Jess Goddésse

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KDRT 95.7fm invites YOU to the official launch of Suds & Sounds at Armadillo Music in downtown Davis on Wednesday, April 24, 4 to 6 p.m. Meet K-DiRT friends and fans, listen to the music, and pick some vinyl to spin! Beverages will be available at the Bootleg Bar. Cheers!

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