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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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Na Mele O Hawai'i

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Join host Beth Post as she features the unique sounds of Hawaiian music — from early icons of island music to today's innovators — exploring styles, the history of the genre, and revered songs and performers.

Live Thursday 1-3pm
Replays Saturday 10am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Beth Post
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Twang Thang

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Twang Thang features outlaw country old and new, showcasing the folks who sowed the harder-edged musical seeds for what we today call Americana, as well as the newer artists who continue the tunes and outlaw ethos forward. George Jones, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Lucinda Willimans, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakum, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Billie Jo Shaver ... Americana music didn't just show up one day — it has deep and varied country music roots. Twang Thang explores the originators, the newcomers, and the music that happened along the way!

Live Wednesday 7-9am
Replays Wednesday 9-11pm, Sunday 8-10am
DJ(s): 
DJ Dirk
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The Yolo County Breakdown

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Bluegrass, newgrass and beyond. From Bill Monroe to Billy Strings, the Yolo County Breakdown is a journey through acoustic string music ranging from the traditional to the cutting edge.

Live Friday 10-11am
Replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 5-6pm, Sunday 3-4pm
DJ(s): 
Rocky Outcrop
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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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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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Jazz After Dark December 18 2018

Tue, 12/18/2018 - 7:40pm | Don Shor

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Honoring Nancy Wilson on Jazz After Dark tonight, plus performances by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, Lucky Thompson, Bob Scobey's Frisco Band, Erroll Garner, Don Ellis, Mel Torme & George Shearing, Art Pepper, Tony Bennett, and Al Di Meola.

Photo, clockwise from upper left: Nancy Wilson, Mel Tormé, Art Pepper, Erroll Garner

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"Divine Intervention" Strikes - 2018 Year-End Special

Tue, 12/18/2018 - 5:10pm | Jess Goddésse

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Divine Intervention strikes once again on KDRT, closing the year with a musical sampling of 2018's best rock/pop/related/random releases, including new sounds from Otis Gibbs, Yowler, Derek Ted, Field Medic, Th’ Losin Streaks, and Perfume Genius, as well as a few—just a few—new so-called holiday tunes. See the playist and stream the show via the program page. Happy holidays and and a healthy new year to you!

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Davisville, Dec. 17, 2018: Doug Hatton is one of the Santas of Davis

Mon, 12/17/2018 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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Doug Hatton has appeared as Santa Claus at events in and around Davis for 22 years. On today’s Davisville he talks about the experience, what Davis kids ask for, the time a girl asked for an ATM for her room, how he manages expectations, and the enjoyment he gets from doing it all. Listening is important, he says, kids can sense if someone really wants to talk with them, and yes, his beard is real.

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The Cousins appear Live at Armadillo Music for 2nd Friday ArtAbout Friday December 14, 2018

Fri, 12/14/2018 - 6:25pm | Pieter Pastoor

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For Davis 2nd Friday Artabout on Friday December 14, 2018 at 6:30PM, KDRT and Armadillo Music hosts a live broadcast featuring Sacramento’s, The Cousins. Two family members with a passion for music. They cover a variety of well known (and not so well known! Let's face it, who doesn't love a deep track from time to time?)  This is set up to be a fun evening with familiar and sing along music.

..  If you can’t join in the fun at Armadillo Music, please join us live on KDRT 95.7 FM and KDRT.org.

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Jazz After Dark December 11 2018

Tue, 12/11/2018 - 7:43pm | Don Shor

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Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark! Five extended sets:

Artie Shaw --  Concerto for Clarinet [1940],

Cannonball Adderley Quintet --  This Here (live, 1959),

Chet Baker --  Portrait In Black and White (live, 1987),

Dorothy Donegan --  Things Ain't What They Used To Be (live, 1991),

Gabor Szabo --  Mizrab (live, 1972)

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Jazz After Dark December 04 2018

Tue, 12/04/2018 - 7:18pm | Don Shor

Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark: bebop and Brubeck with a twist of reggae! Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker's All-Stars, Frank Morgan & Gigi Gryce, Yusef Lateef, Ernestine Anderson, Frank Morgan, Big Miller & Tommy Banks, Monty Alexander, Dave Brubeck.

Replays Monday 11 pm, Tuesday midnight, Wednesday 10-11pm

 

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Davisville, Dec. 3, 2018: Robin Affrime helped build CommuniCare into a significant Yolo healthcare asset

Mon, 12/03/2018 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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CommuniCare, which began as the Davis Free Clinic in the 1970s, provides primary healthcare and related services to about 10 percent of Yolo County’s population. If people can’t pay, they still get care. How did a clinic that used to fit in a converted house downtown grow into a set of healthcare centers that are critically important to local healthcare? Robin Affrime is part of the answer. She was CEO of CommuniCare for 19 years until retiring this fall, after starting there as a volunteer 35 years ago. On today’s Davisville she talks about CommuniCare, what it does, how it grew, the role it plays in local healthcare, and offers her ideas on how she’d approach the perennial problem in U.S. healthcare: how to pay for it all.

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Juan Miranda in the studio, recorded on Nov 30th, 2018

Fri, 11/30/2018 - 5:05pm | Pieter Pastoor

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We covered a lot of topics with this very special guest.

Juan Miranda is a recent Ph.D. of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, with an emphasis in Performance Studies from the University of California, Davis, focusing in Spanish, Southern Cone and Latinx Literature, Cinema and Culture. He is a radio host for KDVS 90.3’s Correveydile (Every other Monday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.), an associate editor of the peer-reviewed journal Spanish and Portuguese Review, and an activist in various non-governmental institutions. In addition, he is a writer (including the plays ¡Mama! Grandes Funerales and The Karma of Fools), actor (La Fronteriza Theatre Company; La Poltrona; The Art Theater of Davis), and a performer in the Sammy award winning musical project group Bomba Fried Rice.

Juan and Listening Lyrics encourage you to read Julio Cortazar's book, "Todos los fuegos el fuego" (All Fires the Fire) (1966) as discussed on this broadcast.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 11/30/2018
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Jazz After Dark November 27 2018

Tue, 11/27/2018 - 7:51pm | Don Shor

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Traditional and mainstream jazz, old and new, 8 pm tonight on Jazz After Dark!

Gabor Szabo, Bix Beiderbecke & Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars, Sidney Bechet, Bob Scobey's Frisco Band, Billie & DeDe Pierce, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Claude Bolling Big Band, Zoot Sims, Bob Schultz & His Chicago Rhythm Kings, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Photo clockwise from upper left: Sidney Bechet, Billie & DeDe Pierce, Zoot Sims, Claude Bolling.

 

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Davisville, Nov. 26, 2018: Listening to a survivor, and the story, of Jonestown (repeat from 2014)

Mon, 11/26/2018 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

In August 2014, author Julia Scheeres and Thom Bogue spoke at the Avid Reader about her book, “A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown,” and his memories of the remote South American camp of the Peoples Temple where 918 people were killed or committed suicide one day in November 1978. Bogue, then a teenager and now mayor of Dixon, was one of the relatively few survivors. Scheeres’ critically praised book draws on previously unavailable recordings and records from the temple, which once had a major presence in San Francisco. They talk about it in this 2014 interview on Davisville.

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