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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 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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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 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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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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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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First Electric Compost of 2024

Fri, 01/12/2024 - 5:43pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight (Jan. 12) at 6 p.m. PST on the Electric Compost Heap, we'll ease into the first show of the 2024. It's a cold and soon to be wet evening, so join us under the tarp in front of the radio while we check out recent tunes from Kurt Vile, Mick Harvey, and J Mascis. We'll have the fire going and a couple of blankets. Oh, and the official color of this evening's show is magenta! Hope you can join us.

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Davis Garden Show, Jan. 11, 2024

Thu, 01/11/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today: Pruning seminars, hedges and screens for privacy, clematis and other vines, collards, and much more.

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Jazz After Dark, Jan. 9, 2024

Tue, 01/09/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight’s show: Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra, Barney Kessel, Annie Ross & Zoot Sims (Russ Freeman piano), Lee Morgan & Clifford Jordan, Clifford Jordan, Herb Ellis & Stuff Smith, Ella Fitzgerald & The Marty Paich Orchestra, Dorothy Donegan, and Deodato.

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Davisville, Jan. 8, 2024: Catching up with Davis housing

Mon, 01/08/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Housing in Davis has kept evolving since we last talked about it on Davisville in summer 2022. The supply has grown, more new housing is in the works, and the city logged just 354 home sales in 2023, when in “a really strong year, [Davis will] get upwards of close to 600 home sales,” says Davis real estate broker Steve Boschken. Rising interest rates were a cause.

Today’s returning guests on Davisville are Steve; Kit Boschken, manager of Boschken Properties, which she co-owns with Steve; and their son James Boschken, a real estate agent and property manager who moved back to Davis from Texas a year ago. We talk about rents, prices, the G Street downtown apartment proposals, opting to live in Woodland, and a few interesting details from the market last year — like the three UC Davis seniors who moved from Davis to Sacramento, Kit says, because they had to be in Davis only two days a week and Sacramento had “more of a nightlife.”

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Pen Pals from 1933, on a special Imagining Yolo Davis, Jan. 5, 2024

Fri, 01/05/2024 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Today we have a special show with a playlist written by a 15-year-old (Jane Hutchens) in 1933. Jane lived in Bloomington, Ind., and was pen pals with my uncle Joop Pastoor in 1933 and 1934. Jane talked about herself and the music she loved. I do not have any letters Joop wrote to Jane. Joop was born in Holland in 1915 and died in Amsterdam 2013. He lived a long life. Not so for Jane, who was born in Indiana in 1918 but passed away from an illness in 1946. Listen to her letters and her playlist.

I end the show with a couple of songs by local musicians. Check the playlist.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 01/05/2024
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Divine Intervention – Jan. 5, 2024

Fri, 01/05/2024 - 10:20am | Jess Goddésse

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Don't miss the first Divine Intervention of 2024 starting at 6 p.m. sharp on Friday, Jan. 5! Tune in for new music from the likes of The Bevis Frond, The Paranoyds, The Saucy Jacks ... a few tracks from January's Goddess of the Month ... an RIP oddity ... a Vinyl Vespers track from Scandinavia ... only on KDRT 95.7 FM | KDRT.org.

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Davis Garden Show, Jan. 4, 2024

Thu, 01/04/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On today's show: Native plants in winter, young peach tree sapping, more on semi-dwarf rootstocks for fruit trees, a quick review of pruning Hybrid Tea roses, and more. 

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IMPLOSION -- 3 January 2024

Wed, 01/03/2024 - 11:00am | Nick Saloman

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Tune in at 5 p.m. Pacific for the first IMPLOSION of the new year. Hear tunes from the Nice, the Smithereens, Eclection, Snakefinger(!) and more, all brought to you by your musical host Nick Saloman, only on KDRT!

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Jazz After Dark, Jan. 2, 2024

Tue, 01/02/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show: Earl Bostic, Zoot Sims & Bob Brookmeyer, Frank Sinatra, Eddie Jefferson, Horace Parlan, Ray Bryan with Walter Booker Jr. & Freddie Waits, WDR Big Band Köln with Joe Williams and Milt Jackson, George Robert, Dal Richards & His Orchestra, and Ximo Tebar & the Ivam Jazz Ensemble.

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Happy 2024 and a hearty Thank You for your generous support of KDRT in 2023

Mon, 01/01/2024 - 7:57pm | Diane Crumley

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Davis Media Access staff, board, and all the KDRT volunteers are thrilled to report that the Fall 2023 Fundraiser exceeded our goal by close to 25 percent, and was our most successful KDRT fund drive to date! In its 19th year of broadcasting, our grassroots station relies on its very dedicated 30+ volunteer DJs and a supportive listener community.

 As 2024 begins, we're happy to be moving forward toward training several new programmers and getting out in the community for more in-person events. In case it slipped your mind, you can still show your support here. Thanks again!

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