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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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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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Davis Music Connections

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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 Monday 3-4pm
Replays Sunday 9:30-10:30pm
DJ(s): 
Ned, Connections Clyde
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Crossing Continents

In this World Music show, Gil covers the Middle East, the Mediterranean region, North Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian sub continent, including traditional and contemporary musical styles. This is not a pop music show!

Live Monday 10am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Gil Medovoy
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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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Independent and Local

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 Saturday 7-8am
DJ(s): 
Sam Hawk
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Twang Thang for Nov. 6, 2023: The incomparable Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters

Mon, 11/06/2023 - 8:10pm | DJ Dirk

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Happy Monday to you! We’ve finally made it to November, and what better way to kick off the month than the latest installment of It’s A Twang Thang? Today’s show comes from far and wide to bring you hot tracks from Billy Strings, Faron Young, Rufus Wainwright, Charles Wesley Godwin, Vince Herman, the incomparable Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters (pictured, from the band's website) and so many more!

Tune in live at 6 p.m. Pacific on your radio at KDRT 95.7 FM or online at KDRT.org, and make sure to subscribe to It’s A Twang Thang as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Overcast or your podcatcher of choice.

Twang Thang playlist for 11/06/2023
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The start of the Putah Creek Council with Carrie Shaw, Imagining Yolo Davis, Nov. 3, 2023

Fri, 11/03/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week on Imagining Yolo Davis we welcome Carrie Shaw. She and the other founding members of the Putah Creek Council show us what volunteers can achieve. Whether it's helping one individual, one tree, one pet -- or in this case, reviving a creek -- volunteers make a huge difference.

So listen in as Carrie describes the beginning of the council. We close the show with Creedence Clearwater's 1969 hit song "Green River," which is about Putah Creek.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 11/03/2023
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Davis Garden Show, Nov. 2, 2023

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week: How plants hibernate, growing watermelons and sweet potatoes, harvest updates (saffron, roselle …), spiders in the garden, and Don gets an unexpected visit from some young foxes during the taping.

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IMPLOSION - 1 November 2023

Wed, 11/01/2023 - 12:52pm | Nick Saloman

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Tune in at 5p Pacific for IMPLOSION! Hear a marvelous musical mix, including The Sorrows, The Steppes, The Red Squares, and The Writing on the Wall, presented only as Nick Saloman can, only on KDRT!

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Jazz After Dark, Oct. 31, 2023

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show: Earl Bostic, Chris Barber, Mundell Lowe, Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Art Pepper, Sonny Stitt, Lem Winchester & Ramsey Lewis Trio, Dave Pike, Eddie Jefferson, Cornell Dupree, Steven Mayer, The Spencer Wyatt BIg Band, and Ahmad Jamal  with Yusef Lateef.

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The News Cycle asks Davis High students: Is it OK for teenagers to go trick or treating?

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 9:26am | kdrtradio

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Are high schoolers too old to go trick or treating? On this week’s News Cycle, students from Davis High School’s Blue Devil Hub "dive into the spooky season":

 • Rowan Reising interviews Spanish teacher Carlos Diaz about Dia de los Muertos, and how he celebrates with his class

 • Marion Delarue reports on Halloween traditions

 • And Alessandra Trask investigates whether or not high schoolers are too old to trick-or-treat.

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Davisville, Oct. 30, 2023: Oobli, part of Davis food-tech evolution, sees sweet future in sweet proteins

Mon, 10/30/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Today’s Davisville involves Davis, food, the invention of new food products, and potentially good news for the environment, depending on how this idea develops.

The topic is sweet proteins, a sugar alternative probably new to most of us, and Oobli, a Davis company using these proteins to create sweet teas and chocolates that just went on the market. Our guest is the company’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Jason Ryder. He also teaches at UC Berkeley, where he earned a PhD in chemical engineering.

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Divine Intervention – Oct. 27, 2023

Sat, 10/28/2023 - 4:18pm | Jess Goddésse

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Did you miss last night's edition of Divine Intervention? Never fear! Replay & playlist are up, featuring very much new music plus Vinyl Vespers with Ronnie McDowell and our Goddess of Month for October 2023, Valaida Snow!

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Putah Creek Council's Phil Stevens shares its mission, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Oct. 27, 2023

Fri, 10/27/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Phil Stevens, executive director of the Putah Creek Council, joins us this week.

The council's mission is to support regional ecosystems through advocacy, education, and community-based stewardship. Its vision is to protect and restore natural resources in the Putah Creek bioregion for the benefit of the creek’s wildlife and the regional community.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 10/27/2023
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'Is It Alive? Tracks' brings out its annual Halloween show

Fri, 10/27/2023 - 8:51am | kdrtradio

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Dead Tracks.

It's Alive! It’s Alive! It’s Alive! Tracks.

Live Tracks That Head Off Into the Snow and Inexplicably Vanish.

It’s difficult to come up with a proper title for this week’s Live Tracks, the KDRT program nearly as old as that derelict house in the woods that has been empty for decades but where a faint light sometimes flickers in the attic window after midnight.

Songs, skits, Vincent Price recordings, atmospheric sounds ... as host Jim says, it’s one heck of a Halloween program. “Turn out the lights and grab a recreational beverage. A lava lamp is sweet, also.”

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