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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.

 

OUR PROGRAMS

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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NextGen Talks

NextGen Talks  is a youth-driven program that offers a fresh perspective on state politics, featuring interviews with city officials and state leaders. Hosted by Jazmin Garcia, a high school junior with extensive experience in local government, the program highlights issues that matter most to young people, such as public safety, housing, and education. By focusing on the local actions that shape the future for youth, NextGen Talks aims to bridge the gap between young citizens and their city leaders, fostering a more engaged and informed community.

Live Friday 5-5:30pm
DJ(s): 
Jazmin Garcia
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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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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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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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Local bands are back live: Gold Souls, Boca Do Rio, Big Sticky Mess, and Adrian West, featured on Listening Lyrics

Fri, 10/29/2021 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Hooray! Slowly the local music scene is coming back to life.

This week (Oct. 29) on Listening Lyrics we feature the music of four local bands that have gigs this weekend: The Gold Souls (pictured), Boca Do Rio, Big Sticky Mess and The Adrian West Band. Also in the playlist are some tunes to bring this hour to one heck of a close.

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Live Tracks, Oct. 28, 2021: … or should we say, Terror Tracks?

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 9:10pm | Jim Buchanan

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Gather ‘round your device — better yet, find a set of 1960s stereo speakers, or even a cathedral radio lit by the warm orange glow of 1930s tube technology — and tune in for this year’s Halloween edition of Live Tracks.

We have treats for you: music, stories of spooky doings, and two skits from the Davis Tales of Terror Theatre Troupe, aired tonight for the first time anywhere.

Local moody music selections include a live recording of "She's Waiting" by Rita Hosking and Cousin Jack, and  selections from Bill Scholer's "Haunted Highway" album and Roger Kunkel's "Guitar Solo."

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Davis Garden Show, Oct. 28, 2021

Thu, 10/28/2021 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics include:

  • rainfall totals
  • fall planting
  • apples for California
  • fava beans
  • getting rid of bamboo

and more!

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The Folk Brothers for Oct. 27, 2021: The Clock Winds Down

Wed, 10/27/2021 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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This morning we debuted a new track, "Clock Winds Down," from Christy Moore's forthcoming album Flying Into Mystery. It's a dystopian take on the effects of climate change as penned by Seattle songwriter Jim Page. Also on today's show: a beautiful, new rendition of Kate McGarrigle's "Talk To Me Of Mendocino" from Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan, as well as new tracks from Dublin's Irish/Americana group I Draw Slow, Glasgow's Assynt, Nashville-based fiddler/realtor Christian Sedelmeyer, and San Francisco-based Noctamble. And much more!

The Folk Brothers playlist for 10/27/2021
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Jazz After Dark October 26 2021

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark, jazz from 1936 to 2013. We'll hear from Chu Berry, Benny Goodman (Helen Ward vocals), Billie Holiday, Jazz At the Philharmonic 1947, Eddie Lockjaw Davis With Paul Gonsalves, Artie Shaw, Sonny Clark, Anita O'Day, Gerry Mulligan, Joe Henderson, Billy Butler, and Jimmy Rosenberg.

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Lost, then found: Guitars of Jimmy Page, Smashing Pumpkins, Peter Frampton and The Guess Who, on Listening Lyrics

Fri, 10/22/2021 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Today on Listening Lyrics (Oct. 22) we have incredible stories of guitars that were lost or stolen for up to 45 years, and were then returned to their owners. These four stories involve Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Peter Frampton (Humble Pie), Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), and Randy Bachman ( Guess Who).

The photo shows Frampton and his guitar that was destroyed in a plane crash (or so he thought), and was returned to him 30 years later.

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Davis Garden Show, Oct. 21, 2021

Thu, 10/21/2021 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On today's program:

  • Water movement in soils
  • pruning roses (or not)

and more!

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The Folk Brothers for Oct. 20, 2021: Siccar Point

Wed, 10/20/2021 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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In summer 1788, geologist James Hutton sailed along the coast south of Edinburgh to Siccar Point, where outcropings of vertically-tilted gray slate were (and still are) overlain by nearly flat-lying red sandstone. A product of the Scottish Enlightment, Hutton correctly reasoned that it would be impossible to explain what he observed in the context of an Earth that was -- as then believed -- only 6,000 years old.

Hutton is considered the father of modern geology, and the first who proposed the concept of "deep time." On their new album, Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan tell the story of Siccar Point much more elegantly. Also on today's show, new music from Jason Isbell, Two Bird Stone, Adam Holmes, Martyn Joseph, Geoff Muldaur, and Norman Blake.

The Folk Brothers playlist for 10/20/2021
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Jazz After Dark October 19 2021

Tue, 10/19/2021 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: spanning the 1930s to the 1990s. We’ll hear from Fred Astaire, Charlie Christian, Count Basie, Erroll Garner, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins, Buster Bailey, Doris Day, Peter Appleyard Orchestra, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Gabor Szabo, George Benson with The McCoy Tyner Trio, and Lee Konitz & the Brazilian Band.

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Davisville, Oct. 18, 2021: The Return of Lord Blood-Rah … which sounds like a title for one of the movies he hosts

Mon, 10/18/2021 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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For Halloween this year, we have a return visit with the imaginatively named Lord Blood-Rah, host of Lord Blood-Rah’s Nerve-Wrackin’ Theatre on TV and Nerve-Wrackin’ Auditorium on radio. They're available in Davis on DCTV (channel 15 on Comcast, menu 99 on ATT U-Verse) or KDRT. Our guest, whose real name is Frank Wallace-Ailsworth, is a science-fiction/horror-show host in the tradition of Bob Wilkins and Elvira.

We talk about ... well, pretty much what you'd expect, such as classic radio, and movies from good to bad to charmingly stupid, plus what's in the “Venusian cocktail” created for one of his in-person showings at a movie palace in Orinda, and why anyone would watch a film like My Son, the Vampire. The story concerns a would-be vampire and his misguided robot. October is high season for stuff like this.

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