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ABOUT US

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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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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Silver Nine Volt Heart

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Join your host Rodriguez as he swings the gate wide open for a cool musical trip featuring sounds from all points of the compass.  Being mindful that "everything connects to everything else," on Silver Nine Volt Heart  you will find the many colorful threads that make up the tapestry of recorded sound ... just click it on and let the music start. 

Live Thursday 4-6pm
Replays Friday 10pm-Saturday 12am, Saturday 2-4pm
DJ(s): 
Rodriguez
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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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Eye on Sports

Eye On Sports is a talk radio show focused on local sports in the Sacramento/Davis area that occasionally covers National Sports. Hosts Chuck and Cody have been involved with sports both nationally and locally for more than 15 years and want to share their opinions and initiate discussion to the public through conversation and occasional outside interviews. This show will not be politically driven in anyway. The conversation will cover the results , local impact, business and psychology of sports.

Live Thursday 6-7pm
Replays Friday 8-9am
DJ(s): 
Cody Westergaard, ChuckGarcia7
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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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Jazz After Dark October 11, 2016

Tue, 10/11/2016 - 7:31pm | Don Shor

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Jazz piano greats tonight! Plus Herbie Mann on flute, Toots on harmonica, George Barnes on guitar, and vocals by Diana Krall.

  • George Shearing; Nat King Cole
  • Red Garland
  • Bobby Timmons
  • Dave Brubeck
  • Herbie Mann
  • George Barnes Quartet
  • Herbie Hancock
  • Toots Thielemans
  • Dorothy Donegan
  • Diana Krall
  • Tigran Hamasyan
  • George Barnes Quartet
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'Divine Intervention' Strikes - M 10/10 7-9p PT

Mon, 10/10/2016 - 6:31pm | Jess Goddésse

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Snuff Garrett cover art

This week on Divine Intervention, we'll do the new music thang, with lots of rock and pop and maybe some punk and probably some r&b -- you know the drill. "Vinyl Vespers" will be a true surprise -- we have no idea if the pictured album is good, bad, an extreme version of either of those adjectives, or blandly somewhere in between. Yes, we could have educated ourselves about the artist, but hostesse Jess Goddesse likes to be (un)pleasantly surprised along with the audience, and so we'll all hear it together, probably for the first time on DI, unless you happen to be in the know on ol' Snuff. Tune in live, 7-9p Pacific. Want replays/playlists? Visit the program page.

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Get Involved: Attend Our Next Orientation, October 12

Mon, 10/10/2016 - 10:30am | Eunah

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Are you curious about community media? Interested in getting involved at KDRT-FM Grassroots Radio or Davis Community Television? You're in luck, because you're invited to our next orientation. Each and every month, we hold orientation meetings to answer your questions about broadcast and behind-the-scenes opportunities and internships at Davis Media Access, the home of KDRT and DCTV. So mark your calendars for October 12, 2016, and plan to attend! The fun starts at 6:30 p.m. To RSVP, visit DavisMedia.org.

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California Raptor Center volunteer interview on One Health Wildlife Talk (Fri 10/7 at noon)

Thu, 10/06/2016 - 9:52am | Eunah

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This month's segment of One Health Wildlife Talk will feature an interview with UC Davis gradute student Brittany Seibert who also volunteers at the California Raptor Center. As a 2016 Karen & Phil Drayer Fellowship Award recipient Brittany's research focused on chlamydial infections in birds of prey presented to rehabilitation facilities under the advisorship of Dr. Michelle Hawkins. Brittany will discuss her own specific experience working with the incredible birds of prey at the Center as well as the upcoming Fall Open House at the Raptor Center on Saturday, October 15.

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Jazz After Dark October 04, 2016

Tue, 10/04/2016 - 7:43pm | Don Shor

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Serving up some soul jazz, hard bop, mainstream, and more tonight.

  • Dianne Reeves
  • Oscar Peterson
  • Art Blakey | The Jazz Messengers
  • Cannonball Adderley & Ray Brown
  • Ruby Braff
  • Ruby Braff & George Barnes Quartet
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Jo Jones
  • Dylan Cramer
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Davisville, Oct. 3, 2016: The Death Café, in Davis

Mon, 10/03/2016 - 6:50pm | Bill Buchanan

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We all face it. It could do us some good to talk more about it. That’s the premise behind the Death Café, where people meet without a program, agenda, or speaker, to talk about death. The next Death Café in Davis is Nov. 6, and on today’s show we talk with two people organizing the event: Elizabeth Banks, senior minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis, and Kristi Dvorak, community outreach director of the Davis Cemetery District and Arboretum. 

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'Divine Intervention' Strikes - 10/3 7-9p PT

Mon, 10/03/2016 - 6:45pm | Jess Goddésse

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Love, Marriage & God cover art

Tune in to Divine Intervention for a random and rare mix of music -- much new, much rock and pop, mostly stellar... And then, of course, there'll be a blessedly short interlude for our "Vinyl Vespers" feature. This week's pick is pictured here. Let's hope Dr. Evans can give us some sound advice on "the most important institution in the home." Tune in live, 7-9p Pacific. Want replays/playlists? Visit the program page.

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The Lique Live on KDRT!

Fri, 09/30/2016 - 12:50pm | Dug Deep

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The Lique photo

Hip-hop/jazz/funk band The Lique (pronounced "leek") will be stopping by KDRT on Friday, Sept 30th, at 1:00 pm to talk with host Dug Deep about the recent release of their debut album, Democracy Manifest. They'll also tell us about some local shows they have lined up, including a performance Friday night at Harlow's in Sacramento.

The Lique hails from Las Vegas, but vocalist/poet Rasar Amani is a native of Sacramento who released 10 albums of hip-hop fused with social commentary and politics while living hereabouts. The Lique gives Rasar's image-filled lyrics a whole new dynamic, and the result is poignant, raucous, and always danceable. Tune in and hear for yourself.

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Bumptet visits Listening Lyrics on KDRT Friday 10/30/16 at 4:00PM

Thu, 09/29/2016 - 4:56pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Bumptet to appear on KDRT 95.7 Davis, CA

Groove masters The Bumptet  bring reckless sophistication to each performance with an improvisational, genre-bending approach to music. Their compositions range in style and complexity, moving from deep funk grooves to epic rock crescendos to intricate, fusion-esque lines and back again–with improvisation, forward motion, and an in-the-moment attitude as the only constants.

Drawing inspiration from the likes of John Scofield, MMW, Garaj Mahal, the Headhunters, and Phish, the Northern California quintet takes listeners on a spirited journey that must be seen live in order to fully appreciate the level of musicianship and soul they bring to every show.  But don’t expect to hear carbon copy renditions of their tunes on stage.  The Bumptet pride themselves on delivering high energy, improvised sets of funk music with skillfully adept execution (including the occasional foray into the jam band outer stratosphere!).

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Jazz After Dark September 27, 2016

Tue, 09/27/2016 - 7:43pm | Don Shor

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Jazz goes classical tonight! With Hubert Laws, Claude Bolling, and Bobby McFerrin with Yo Yo Ma. Some bossa nova with Jim Hall and Eriko Ishihara, rumba by Horace Silver. Ella’s live at Budapest, Steven Mayer does improvisations of Art Tatum, and Bobby Watson gives us some “post-Motown bop.” All on Jazz After Dark tonight.  

  • Rosemary Clooney With Bing Crosby
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Hubert Laws
  • Bobby Watson
  • Horace Silver
  • Bobby McFerrin with YoYoMa
  • Tommy Flanagan
  • Steven Mayer
  • Eriko Ishihara
  • Jim Hall
  • Claude Bolling

 

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