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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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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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Song of Dinosaurs

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Songs of Dinosaurs presents songs from the prehistoric era: reptilian rhythms, lizard lyrics, triassic tones, and mammoth melodies with Professor A.

Live Friday 8-10pm
Replays Sunday 7:30-9:30pm
DJ(s): 
Professor A
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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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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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Live Tracks

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Live Tracks  frequently airs recordings from local performances here in Davis. LT began broadcasting on Sept. 30, 2004, and has produced 720 original episodes as of August 2024. Best experienced with a lava lamp, cool recreational beverage of choice, and a place to chill out. Peace.

Live Thursday 7-9pm
Replays Saturday 9-11pm
DJ(s): 
Jim Buchanan
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Davisville, Nov. 21, 2022: The annual movie show with Davis critic Derrick Bang

Mon, 11/21/2022 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Derrick Bang says he’s looking forward to seeing Steven Spielberg’s new movie, The Fabelmans, but hopes to pass on the modern-cannibals-in-love story, Bones and All. It’s time for our annual year-end movie talk with Derrick, and Davisville host Bill Buchanan begins by confessing he has seen only one movie in a theater this year. We also get Derrick’s take on some of 2022’s worst movies, some of its culturally significant ones, and how he keeps interested in movies after watching, reviewing and dissecting them since his days at the California Aggie in the 1970s.

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Davis Garden Show, Nov. 17, 2022

Thu, 11/17/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today: More about frosty mornings, the Sumo mandarin and other citrus, tomato successes and failures this summer, and additional information about coir.

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The Golden Road, Nov. 16, 2022: Dick's Picks 44 & 40

Wed, 11/16/2022 - 9:10pm | Wayne Hagen

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Last week we heard most of the June 23, 1990 show at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore. This week we finish this outstanding show. Then we’ll move to a month later (7/19) at Deer Creek Music Center in Noblesville, Ind., and finish with what we started on Oct. 5.

Join us. The Grateful Dead at their peak!

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Jazz After Dark, Nov. 15, 2022

Tue, 11/15/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Toe-tapping jazz tonight: Ken "Snakehips" Johnson, Gene Krupa, Stuff Smith, Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges, Sergio Mendes, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Hodges & Septet, Billy Taylor, Duke Ellington, Boots Randolph, Mongo Santamaria, New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, Louise Tobin with Peanuts Hucko, Zoot Sims, and Dal Richards & His Orchestra.

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Davis Garden Show, Nov. 10, 2022

Thu, 11/10/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On this week's program: Frost warnings, low chill peaches, herbs for our area, leaving the leaves, growing amaryllis bulbs, and more.

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The Folk Brothers for Nov. 9, 2022: Three Dads Walking for suicide awareness

Wed, 11/09/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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The Young'uns -- an a capella trio from northeast England -- have released "Three Dads Walking," a song  dedicated to three British fathers who all lost their daughters to suicide. Andy, Tim, and Mike (pictured here with Sean Cooney, Michael Hughes, and David Eagle of the Young'uns) started their campaign to raise awareness for suicide prevention. Suicide is the biggest cause of death for people under 35 in the United Kingdom. The Three Dads have been walking the length and breadth of the UK as part of their campaign.

The Folk Brothers playlist for 11/09/2022
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November 2022 local election show

Tue, 11/08/2022 - 9:40pm | Jeff Shaw

Listen to the archived show. Autumn Labbe-Renault and Don Shor check in with candidates and community leaders:

  • 7:32  Prerecorded interview with Yolo ACE Jesse Salinas
  • 7:38  Lucas Frerichs, Mayor of Davis
  • 7:45  Kelsey Fortune, District 1 City Council Candidate
  • 7:52  Bapu Vaitla, District 1 City Council Candidate
  • 8:05  Dan Carson, District 1 City Council Incumbent
  • 8:12  Joe DiNunzio, Incumbent, DJUSD Trustee, Area 3
  • 8:20  Hiram Jackson, Trustee-elect, DJUSD Area 1
  • 8:27  Elizabeth Moon, Trustee-elect, DJUSD Area 4
  • 8:40  Adam Morrill, District 4 City Council Candidate
  • 8:48  Gloria Partida, District 4 City Council Incumbent
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Jazz After Dark, Nov. 8, 2022

Tue, 11/08/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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We're commemorating  jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis and record producer Creed Taylor tonight.

We’ll hear Ramsey Lewis from the '60s and '70s and then in a duet with Nancy Wilson. From Creed Taylor’s CTI label, we’ll hear George Benson, Johnny Hammond, Hubert Laws, Chet Baker with Paul Desmond and Bob James, Grover Washington, Jr., and Ron Carter.

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Davisville, Nov. 7, 2022: Guaraldi’s popular Christmas classic goes deluxe

Mon, 11/07/2022 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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There’s a lot of magic in Vince Guaraldi’s music, especially A Charlie Brown Christmas. This fall Craft Recordings is releasing extended deluxe versions of the holiday classic, and we talk with three of the people involved: brothers Jason and Sean Mendelson, whose late father Lee Mendelson was the executive producer of the Peanuts holiday specials, and Davis author Derrick Bang, who wrote the expanded CD/LP’s liner notes.

We also talk about the soundtrack to It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, which Craft released in August.

Holiday music would be very different if Lee Mendelson hadn’t brought Guaraldi and Peanuts creator Charles Schulz together. We hear about how they met, talk about Guaraldi and the music — and Jason gamely recreates the moment when, as a kid, he was voicing Marcie in the Happy New Year, Charlie Brown TV special and the character gave Charlie Brown a smooch.

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Davis Garden Show, Nov. 3, 2022

Thu, 11/03/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today we talk about frost, the New Lawn, and more.

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